Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Author: Dave Kerpen Genre: Non-Fiction, Business, Self Improvement, Psychology 288 pages, March15, 2016 Reading Format: Book Summary In The Art of People, author Dave Kerpen provides straightforward, sensible advice in pithy chapters laced with relevant anecdotes. His focus is on building relationships and truly understanding and connecting with your colleagues, customers, and […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Nancy Sissom Author: Elizabeth Wein Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction, World War II 353 pages, published May 15, 2012 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary On October 11th, 1943, a British plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. It is piloted by English Maddie (code name Kitty Hawk) after her best friend and spy […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Julie Horowitz Author: Ann Patchett Genre: Fiction, Foreign 353 pages, published June 7, 2011 Reading Format: Audio Book on Hoopla Summary State of Wonder chronicles the journey of Dr. Marina Singh into the insect-infested Amazon jungle in attempt to find out what happened to her longtime professional colleague Anders Eckman. […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Author: George Saunders Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction 343 pages, published February 14, 2017 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Set in a graveyard during a single night in February 1862 and narrated by a variety of characters stuck in a limbo type existence, Lincoln in the Bardo is a unique literary experience. It […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Author: Dan Harris Genre: Non-Fiction, Self-Improvement, Happiness, Psychology, Memoir, Philosophy 256 pages, published March 11, 2014 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary 10% Happier chronicles journalist Dan Harris’ journey of self discovery after having a nationally televised panic attack on Good Morning America. Harris explores the worlds of neuroscience, meditation, and network news […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Gretchen Rubin Authors: Suzann Pileggi Pawelski, James O. Pawelski Genre: Non-Fiction, Psychology, Self Improvement, Happiness 343 pages, published January 16, 2018 Reading Format: Book Summary Happy Together is written by Suzann Pileggi Pawelski and James O. Pawelski, a husband and wife team who specialize in the field of Positive Psychology. […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Scott Nelson Author: Sonia Shah Genre: Non-Fiction, Science, Health, Medicine, History, Public Policy 288 pages, published February 16, 2016 Reading Format: Book Summary Pandemic recounts the history of pandemics in the world with particular focus on the nature and spread of cholera, Ebola, SARS and AIDS. It then explores the […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Author: Nina George Genre: Fiction, Romance, Foreign 392 pages, published June 23, 2015 Reading Format: Book Summary In The Little Paris Bookshop, we hear the story of Monsieur Jean Perdu who operates an unusual bookstore on floating barge on the Seine River in Paris. Perdu, who calls himself a literary apothecary, has […]
Rating: ☆☆1/2 Author: Sherman Alexie Genre: Non-Fiction, Memoir 457 pages, published June 13, 2017 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me is the book that well known Native American author Sherman Alexie wrote after his mother’s death. As he reveals in the book, he had a complicated relationship […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆1/2 Author: Yuval Noah Harari Genre: Non-Fiction, History, Anthropology, Science, Philosophy 443 pages, published 2011 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary In Sapiens, Dr. Yuval Noah Harari tells the story of the whole of human history, from the very first humans to walk the earth to the breakthroughs of the Cognitive, Agricultural and Scientific […]