Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Lisa Goldberg Author: Nate Blakeslee Genre: Nonfiction, Animals, Nature, Science, History, Environment 320 pages, published August, 2018 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary American Wolf follows the story of Rick McIntyre, a park ranger in the Lamar Valley of Yellowstone National Park, who spends all of his time studying and teaching about […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Steve Atlee Author: Salman Rushdie Genre: Fiction, Fantasy 416 pages, published September 3, 2019 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Quichotte is a modern day take on Don Quixote. In it, spy thriller writer Sam DuChamp creates the character of Quichotte, a befuddled salesman obsessed with television, who falls impossibly in love […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Terra McKinnish Author: Gregory Blake Smith Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction 580 pages, published July 11, 2018 Reading Format: Book Summary Like its title, The Maze at Windermere takes the reader on a maze like journey through multiple time periods in the same area of Newport, Rhode Island. We follow the romantic […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Ben Emerson Author: Steve Cavanagh Genre: Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Crime 356 pages, published January 30, 2018 Reading Format: Book Summary As the front of the book Thirteen announces, “the serial killer isn’t on trial. He’s on the jury…” That’s the premise of this thriller. When Hollywood star Robert Solomon is charged […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: J.K. Rowling Genre: Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult 435 pages, published May 1, 2004 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Harry Potter is a third year student at Hogwarts and faces a new round of danger. Chief among his worries is the escape of Sirius Black from Azkaban prison. Black, who was […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Daniel Markovits Genre: Nonfiction, Education, Sociology, Economics, Public Policy 448 pages, published September 10, 2019 Reading Format: Book Summary The thesis of The Meritocracy Trap by Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits is that our current meritocratic society is ill serving both the winners and losers. The losers who inhabit the […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Jennifer Niven Genre: Fiction, Young Adult, Romance 378 pages, published January 6, 2015 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary All the Bright Places begins when two teenagers, Theodore Finch and Violet Markey, meet on the ledge of the bell tower at their school where one or both of them is contemplating […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Malcolm Gladwell Genre: Nonfiction, Psychology, Sociology, Science 400 pages, published September 10, 2019 Reading Format: e-Book on Overdrive Summary In July 2015, a young black woman named Sandra Bland was pulled over for a minor traffic violation in rural Texas. Minutes later she was arrested and jailed. Three days later, […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Mark Levin Author: Robert A. Lawson, Benjamin Powell Genre: Nonfiction, Economics, History, Politics 224 pages, published July 30, 2019 Reading Format: Book Summary In Socialism Sucks, economists Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell travel to many of the world’s Socialist countries (think Venezula, Cuba and North Korea rather than Sweden and Denmark […]
Rating: ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Lisa Goldberg Author: Tommy Orange Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction 294 pages, published June 5, 2018 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary There There is a story of twelve characters, all of whom are traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to […]