Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Suann MacIsaac Author: Gary Krist Genre: Nonfiction, History, Crime 432 pages, published October 28, 2014 Reading Format: Audio Book on Hoopla Summary Empire of Sin tells the story of New Orleans in the early 20th century, immersing the reader in a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Ruth Ware Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Crime, Thriller 357 pages, published April 16, 2019 Reading Format: Book Summary The Woman in Cabin 10 is a thriller that takes place in the constrained confines of a high end luxury yacht that has set sail on the North Sea. Lo Blacklock, a journalist […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: John Tamny Genre: Nonfiction, Business 256 pages, published May 7, 2018 Reading Format: Book Summary The End of Work, by free market economist John Tamny, is a very optimistic treatise on the future of work in the United States and around the world. Tamny rejects the doomsday predictions that automization […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Pam Dupont Author: Delia Owens Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction 384 pages, published August 14, 2018 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Where the Crawdads Sing tells the story of Kya Clark who was abandoned by her parents in the early 1960’s and left to fend for herself in the backwaters of Barkley […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: J.K. Rowling Genre: Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult 341 pages, published July 2, 1999 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is book two in the classic Harry Potter series. Once again escaping his mean muggle relatives, Harry is delighted to be back at Hogwarts with […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Meris Delli-Bovi Author: Walter Kempowski Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction 384 pages, published July 2006 Reading Format: Book Summary All for Nothing takes place in Germany during the end of World War II when everything is falling apart. The Russian army is advancing and Germans are fleeing the occupied territories in cars […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Nancy Sissom Author: V.S. Alexander Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction, World War II 323 pages, published January 30, 2018 Reading Format: Audio Book on Hoopla Summary In early 1943 Germany, a teenaged Magda Ritter is sent to live with her relatives in Bavaria. Living in deprivation as a result of the second […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Tiffany Haddish Genre: Non Fiction, Memoir, Humor 288 pages, published December 5, 2017 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary The Last Black Unicorn is the memoir of comedian Tiffany Haddish. Known as a stand-up comedian, actress, and star of Girls Trip, Haddish shares the ups and downs of her life from […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Doris Kearns Goodwin Genre: Non Fiction, Biography, Politics, History 916 pages, published September 26, 2006 Reading Format: Audio Book on Overdrive Summary Written by acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals showcases the political genius of Abraham Lincoln. The book focuses on Lincoln’s appointment of former rivals for the […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Louise Penny Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Crime 402 pages, published May 22, 2012 Reading Format: Book Summary Still Life is the first book to feature Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surêté du Québec. He is called in investigate the suspicious death of Jane Neal in the rural village of Three […]