Rating: ☆☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Michael Koss Author: Anthony Horowitz Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Crime, Thriller, Suspense 496 pages, published June 6, 2017 Reading Format: Book Summary When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway’s latest mystery novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Ann Hood Genre: Fiction, Romance 358 pages, published August 9, 2016 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary After her 25 year marriage has fallen apart when her husband leaves her for another woman and with her two grown children pursuing their own lives outside of the country, Ava is at […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Amor Towles Genre: Historical Fiction, Fiction 335 pages, published July 26, 2011 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary On the last night of 1937, boarding house roommates and friends Katey Kontent and Eve Ross are at a Greenwich Village jazz bar when they meet Tinker Grey, a handsome banker with […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Sue Deans and Darla Schueth Author: David M. Oshinsky Genre: Non-Fiction, History, Science, Medicine, Public Policy 342 pages, published September 1, 2006 Reading Format: Book Summary In Polio: An American Story, Historian David Oshinsky tells the gripping story of a world terrorized by polio and the intense effort to find […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Boulder Librarian Author: Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling) Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Crime, Thriller, Suspense 455 pages, published April 30, 2013 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary While The Cuckoo’s Calling, a murder mystery and book one of a series featuring private detective Cormoran Strike, lists the author as Robert Galbraith, that is […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Jason Zweig Genre: Non-Fiction, Personal Finance, Psychology, Economics 352 pages, published August 1, 2007 Reading Format: Book Summary Your Money and Your Brain explores what happens inside our brains when we think about money? The answer is quite a lot, actually, and some of it isn’t good for our […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Jennifer Weiner Genre: Fiction 400 pages, published July 12, 2011 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary The lives of four very different women intertwine in unexpected ways in Then Came You. Each woman has a problem: Princeton senior Jules Wildgren needs money to help her dad with one final shot […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Robin Sloan Genre: Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery 288 pages, published October 2, 2012 Reading Format: Audiobook on Hoopla Summary The Great Recession finds protagonist Clay Jannon working in the San Francisco bookshop known as Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore. Clay soon discovers that there is more to Mr. Penumbra and his […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Heather Bohart Author: Jennifer Ryan Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction, World War II 371 pages, published February 14, 2017 Reading Format: E-Book on Overdrive Summary The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir is set during the early days of The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet II in the bucolic village of Chilbury, […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: JL Collins Genre: Non-Fiction, Personal Finance, Self Improvement, Economics 288 pages, published June 17, 2016 Reading Format: Book Summary Legendary Blogger JL Collins has written an easy to understand (but not simplistic) book about personal finance, money and investing that grew out of a series of letters to his […]