Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Terra McKinnish Author: Alan Drew Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Foreign 288 pages, published February 5, 2008 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary In a small town outside Istanbul, Sinan Basioglu, a devout Kurdish Muslim, and his wife, Nilüfer, are preparing to celebrate their nine-year-old son Ismail’s coming-of-age ceremony. Their fifteen-year-old daughter, […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Katy Fassett Author: Bill Browder Genre: Non-Fiction, Memoir, History, Foreign, Politics, Business 380 pages, published February 3, 2015 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Red Notice is a real-life political thriller memoir written by American businessman Bill Browder who made multi-millions investing in Russia in the early days after the Berlin […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Tracy Kidder Genre: Non-Fiction, Biography, Medicine, Public Policy 333 pages, published August 31, 2004 Reading Format: e-Book on Overdrive Summary Mountains Beyond Mountains is a biography of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Harvard educated doctor whose life’s mission is a quest to improve the health of the world’s impoverished people, […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Noah Hawley Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller 320 pages, published March 20, 2012 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary The Good Father tells the story of Dr. Paul Allen, the Chief of Rheumatology at Columbia Presbyterian, who has young twin boys from his happy second marriage and Danny, a wayward, somewhat […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: James O’Reilley (Editor) Genre: Non Fiction, Travel, Humor, Anthology, Short Stories 488 pages, published January 30, 2002 Reading Format: e-Book on Hoopla Summary Quotes My Take I read Travelers’ Tales Thailand while visiting Bangkok and Phuket and the book really enhanced my experience. The stories are […]
Rating: ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Lisanne and Frank Author: Tom Robbins Genre: Fiction, Humor 386 pages, published January 5, 2002 Reading Format: Book Summary Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas, by irreverent author Tom Robbins, takes place in the 1980’s and follows the journey of the beautiful, young stockbroker Gwen Mati as she responds to a […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Paula Hawkins Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Suspense 368 pages, published May 2, 2017 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Summary: Into the Water is a mystery/thriller by Paula Hawkins, author of the wildly successful The Girl on the Train. This book tells the stories of different women, from the days […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Heather Ringoen Author: Colson Whitehead Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction 306 pages, published August 2, 2016 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary The Underground Railroad tells the story of Cora and other slaves as they suffer through the brutalities of slavery in the South and dream of freedom. When Caesar, a recent […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: John Burdett Genre: Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Foreign 317 pages, published June 3, 2003 Reading Format: Book Summary Bangkok Eight is a mystery/thriller set in District Eight of modern day Thailand. When a charismatic Marine sergeant is murdered under a Bangkok bridge inside a bolted-shut Mercedes Benz, two of the […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Kay Lynn Hartmann Author: Lisa Wingate Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction 342 pages, published June 6, 2017 Reading Format: Book Summary Before We Were Yours follows the stories of two families, separated by several generations that intertwine as a result of the actions of a nefarious children’s adoption home. The first […]