Rating: ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Ian McEwan Genre: Fiction 263 pages, published November 2, 1999 Reading Format: E-Book Summary Stephen Lewis, a successful writer of children’s books, must deal with the unthinkable when his only child, three-year-old Kate, is snatched from him in a supermarket. The tragedy breaks up his marriage to Julie and […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Sebastian Barry Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Western 259 pages, published January 24, 2017 Reading Format: Audio Book on Hoopla Summary Days Without End is a western set in the middle of the 1800’s, during the American Indian and Civil Wars. It is narrated by seventeen year old Thomas McNulty […]
Rating: ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: M.R. Carey Genre: Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Young Adult 392 pages, published May 2, 2017 Reading Format: Audio Book on Overdrive Summary The Boy on the Bridge is the second book in the Hungry Plague series (a prequel to the first which was The Girl With All the Gifts) and takes […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Michael Koss Author: Anthony Horowitz Genre: Fiction, Crime, Suspense, Mystery 285 pages, published December 9, 2014 Reading Format: Book Summary Moriarty is author Anthony Horowitz’s second entry into the Sherlock Holmes genre, following up on The House of Silk. The books are not related and even have different characters. Notably, […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Robert Galbraith (aka J.K. Rowling) Genre: Fiction, Crime, Mystery, Thriller 455 pages, published June 24, 2014 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary The second in J.K. Rowling’s Cormoran Strike’s detective series (the first was The Cuckoo’s Calling which I really enjoyed), The Silkworm picks up where the first book left […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Philippa Gregory Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction 528 pages, published August 8, 2017 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary The Last Tudor tells the stories of three Grey sisters: Jane, Katherine and Mary. The great-granddaughter of Henry VII through his younger daughter Mary Tudor, Jane was a first cousin once removed […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Anthony Horowitz Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Crime 294 pages, published November, 2011 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary For the first time in its 125 year history, the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate authorized the talented Anthony Horowitz to write a new Sherlock Holmes novel. The result is The House of Silk […]
Rating: ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Summer Youngs Author: Peter Moskowitz Genre: Non-Fiction, History, Sociology, Public Policy 272 pages, published March 7, 2017 Reading Format: Book Summary In How to Kill a City, author Peter Moskowitz examines the issue of gentrification through the lens of four cities: New Orleans, Detroit, San Francisco, and New York. Moskowitz […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Mary Doria Russell Genre: Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Theology 431 pages, published September 8, 1997 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary In the year 2019, we find proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post picks up exquisite singing from a planet that will come to be known as Rakhat. […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: M.R. Carey Genre: Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Horror 460 pages, published June 19, 2014 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary The Girl with all the Gifts is set in a bleak future after most of humanity has succumbed to a pathogenic fungus that has turned most people into “hungries” who […]