Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Anthony Everitt Genre: Non Fiction, Foreign, History 512 pages, published December 6, 2016 Reading Format: on Hoopla Summary The Rise of Athens is a comprehensive overview of the rise of the tiny city-state of Athens in ancient Greece to become one of history’s most influential civilizations, inspiring Alexander the […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Jennifer Keishin Armstrong Genre: Non Fiction, Cultural, Biography, History 336 pages, published May 7, 2013 Reading Format: Audiobook on Hoopla Summary Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted chronicles the making and impact of the classic and groundbreaking The Mary Tyler Moore Show, from the perspective of the producers, writers, […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Ruth Ware Genre: Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Mystery 337 pages, published August 6, 2019 Reading Format: Audiobook Summary A modern day retelling of the classic “The Turn of the Screw.” After Rowan Caine is hired to work in the beautiful Scottish Highlands as a nanny in a position that seems too […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Matt Haig Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy 352 pages, published June 11, 2019 Reading Format: Audiobook on Overdrive Summary Tom Hazard has a extremely rare medical condition that does not allow him to age like the rest of us. While he looks 41 years old, he was […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Frank and Lisanne Author: William Alexander Genre: Non Fiction, Humor, Memoir, Environment, Food, Nature 304 pages, published March 2, 2007 Reading Format: Book Summary Bill Alexander writes about his struggles to create an ideal garden on the acreage that comes with a house he and his wife buy in the Hudson […]
Rating: ☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Michael Chabon Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Crime, Historical Fiction 131 pages, published November 2005 Reading Format: Book Summary After finishing this hard to follow book, I’m not really sure what it is about. The characters include Linus Steinman, nine years old and mute, who has escaped from Nazi Germany with his […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Bill Perkins Genre: Non Fiction, Personal Finance, Happiness, Self Improvement, Business, Psychology, Economics 240 pages, published July 28, 2020 Reading Format: Book Summary The premise of Die with Zero is that too many people save all of their lives for their retirement and that by the time they retire they […]
Rating: ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Andrea Lee Genre: Fiction, Foreign, Race 288 pages, published March 23, 2021 Reading Format: Audiobook on Overdrive Summary Red Island House tells the story of Shay, an African American Literature Professor from Berkley, and her older, Italian husband Senna. Senna builds Shay an idyllic beach house on the island of […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Ruth Ware Genre: Fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Crime, Mystery, Foreign 372 pages, published September 8, 2020 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Getting snowed in at a mountain chalet in the Swiss Alps is just the beginning of the problems facing the membes of the tech company Snoops who are there for […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: V.E. Schwab Genre: Fiction, Romance, Fantasy 442 pages, published October 6, 2020 Reading Format: Audiobook on Overdrive Summary The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue tells the story of Addie LaRue, a French woman who makes a deal with the devil in 1714 to avoid an unwanted arranged marriage. She strikes […]