Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Stephen King and Richard T. Chizmar Genre: Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery, Novella 171 pages, published May 16, 2017 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Gwendy Peterson is your typical thirteen year old girl from the small town of Castle Rock, Maine. It is 1974 and Gwendy is not happy with the […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Philip Pullman Genre: Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult 464 pages, published October 19, 2017 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary When Malcolm Polstead, a young teenage boy who works in his father’s inn on the banks of the river Thames, finds a secret message inquiring about a dangerous substance called Dust, […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Christopher Funk Author: Milton and Rose Friedman Genre: Non-Fiction, Economics, Public Policy, Business, Politics 368 pages, published September 1980 Reading Format: Book Summary Free to Choose is the seminal work by Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman and his wife Rose about the power of free markets. As economists, they write about […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Viktor E. Frankl Genre: Non Fiction, Memoir, Psychology, Philosophy, History 184 pages, published 1946 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl’s memoir is a classic depiction of his life and survival in a series of Nazi death camps. Frankl lost his parents, brother, and pregnant wife to the […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Rene Denfeld Genre: Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Crime, Suspense 256 pages, published September 5, 2017 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Three years after five year old Madison Culver disappeared without a trace in a snow filled Oregon forest while her family was choosing a Christmas tree, the authorities believe she […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Frederik Backman Genre: Fiction 432 pages, published September, 2016 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Beartown is the name of a small town in Sweden (although it could be anywhere with cold weather that is surrounded by forest) that has seen better days. The one thing Beartown has going for […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Marianne Boeke Author: Ray Bradbury Genre: Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopia 175 pages, published October 1953 Reading Format: Audio Book on Hoopla Summary Ray Bradbury’s science fiction classic Fahrenheight 451 is set in a dystopian future where books are verboten because the powers that be deem them to make people unhappy. […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Dan Buettner Genre: Non-Fiction, Happiness, Self Improvement, Public Policy, Health 253 pages, published October 3, 2017 Reading Format: Book Summary Having previously explored the Blue Zones of the world (those places around the world where people live the longest lives), author and researcher Dan Buettner turns his focus to […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Gretchen Rubin Genre: Non-Fiction, Memoir, Happiness, Self Improvement 301 pages, published December 29, 2009 Reading Format: Book Summary The genesis of The Happiness Project was author Gretchen Rubin’s epiphany that she was happy with her life, but perhaps not as happy as she could be. This led her to […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Michael Koss Author: Anne-Marie O’Connor Genre: Non Fiction, Foreign, History, Art, Biography 370 pages, published February 7, 2012 Reading Format: Book Summary The Lady in Gold tells the true story behind Austrian artist Gustav Klimt’s portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, known as the Austrian Mona Lisa. The first part of the […]