Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Isabelle Allende Genre: Fiction, Foreign 336 pages, published January 21, 2020 Reading Format: Audiobook on Overdrive Summary A Long Petal of the Sea opens in Spain during the late 1930s. The country is in the throes of the Spanish Civil War. After General Franco and the Fascists overthrow the government, […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Natalie Jenner Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction 309 pages, published May 26, 2020 Reading Format: Audiobook on Overdrive Summary The Jane Austen Society takes place in the small village of Chawton, England (the final home of Jane Austen), just after the Second World War. An unlikely group that includes the local […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Elizabeth Strout Genre: Fiction 320 pages, published Matrch 26, 2013 Reading Format: Book Summary The Burgess Boys tells the story of siblings Jim, Bob and Susan Burgess, Susan’s son Zach, Bob’s ex-wife Pam and Jim’s wife Helen. Every member of the Burgess family has grown up under the shadow of […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Matt Haig Genre: Fiction 288 pages, published September 29, 2020 Reading Format: Audiobook Summary After contemplating ending her life, protagonist Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library with her former school librarian Mrs. Elm. In this supernatural place where the bookshelves go on forever, Nora can pick a book […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Heather Ringoen Author: Matthew McConaughey Genre: Non Fiction, Memoir 308 pages, published October 20, 2020 Reading Format: e-book Summary In Greenlights, Matthew McConaughey tells his life story in an unconventional manner and includes poems, drawings, photos and other material from his 35 years of diaries. His theme is that life gives […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Sam Harris Genre: Non Fiction, Science, Psychology, Religion, Politics, Race 444 pages, published 2013 Reading Format: Audiobook on Overdrive Summary Sam Harris (neuroscientist, philosopher, and best-selling author) is a very smart guy who has been studying some of the most important questions confronting humanity. In Making Sense, we hear his […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Ann Napolitano Genre: Fiction 340 pages, published January 6, 2020 Reading Format: Book Summary When a flight from Newark to Los Angeles crashes in Colorado, twelve year old Edward Adler survives while all of the other 183 passengers and crew perish. Instead of relocating to LA with his parents and […]
Rating: ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Terra McKinish Author: Charlotte McConaghy Genre: Fiction, Environment 256 pages, published August 4, 2020 Reading Format: Book Summary Migrations chronicles the life and adventures of bird specialist Franny Stone who leaves behind everything to trek to Greenland so that she can follow the last Arctic terns in the world on what […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Tana French Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Foreign, Crime 451 pages, published October 6, 2020 Reading Format: Audiobook on Overdrive Summary The Searcher tells the story of retired detective Cal Hooper moves from Chicago to a remote village in rural Ireland with the intention to fix up the broken down cottage […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Dervla McTiernan Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, Foreign 377 pages, published March 7, 2019 Reading Format: Audiobook on Hoopla Summary The Scholar is book #2 in Dervla McTiernan’s Cormac Reilly series. It opens with Reilly’s girlfriend Emma stumbling across a hit and run victim in the early morning outside of […]