Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Helen Hoang Genre: Fiction, Romance 336 pages, published June 5, 2018 Reading Format: Audio Book on Overdrive Summary The Kiss Quotient tells the story of an unlikely romance between Stella Lane, a beautiful Economist with Asperger’s, and Michael Phan, a male escort with a heart of gold and a talent […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Stephen King Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Suspense 561 pages, published May 22, 2018 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary When an eleven-year-old boy’s violated corpse is found in a town park, all the evidence, from eyewitnesses to fingerprints to DNA, point to Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: A.S.A. Harrison Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Suspense 326 pages, published June 25, 2013 Reading Format: Book Summary The Silent Wife is a psychological thriller about a marriage that is at risk and how far one woman will go to keep what she believes to be rightfully hers. Quotes “Life has […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Clare Telleen Author: Kate Atkinson Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Foreign 332 pages, published November 1, 1999 Reading Format: Book Summary Behind the Scenes at the Museum is Kate Atkinson’s debut novel, a story of family heartbreak and happiness. Ruby Lennox begins narrating her life at the moment of conception, and from […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Nancy Sissom Author: Nathan Hill Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction 640 pages, published August 30, 2016 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary The Nix is a wide ranging, humorous novel about a son, the mother who left him as a child, and how his search to uncover the secrets of her life leads […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Stephen King Genre: Fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Fantasy, Novella 146 pages, published October 30, 2018 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary In Elevation, Stephen King tells a supernatural story about Scott Carey, an ordinary man who has steadily been losing weight but whose appearance hasn’t changed. Scott weighs the same in his […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Lisa Stock Author: Nadia Bolz-Weber Genre: Non Fiction, Memoir, Theology, Christian 204 pages, published September 10, 2013 Reading Format: Book Summary Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint is a memoir by Nadia Bolz-Weber, a Lutheran Pastor who started the Church of All Sinners and Saints in Denver […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Tara Westover Genre: Non Fiction, Memoir 334 pages, published February 20, 2018 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Educated is a memoir by Tara Westover, a remarkable woman who grew up in large family from a very small town in Idaho. Her parents were Mormon survivalists and believed that public education […]
Rating: ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Chad Stamm Author: Dan Jurafsky Genre: Non Fiction, Food, Linguistics 272 pages, published September 15, 2014 Reading Format: Audio Book on Hoopla Summary In The Language of Food, linguist Dan Jurafsky (who specializes in food linguistics), offers up a smorgasbord of food/linguistic topics including menus, dinner courses, the use of different […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Katy Fassett Author: J.B. West, Mary Lynn Kotz Genre: Non Fiction, History, Memoir, Biography 398 pages, published June 21, 2016 Reading Format: Book Summary Upstairs at the White House is a behind the scenes chronicle of the first families during the Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Nixon administrations told by Head […]