Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Laurel and Warner Andrews Author: Ana Fabiano Genre: Non-Fiction, Travel, History 304 pages, published September 22, 2009 Reading Format: Book Summary The Rioja is a region in northern Spain which produces some of the world’s best wines. The Wine Region of the Rioja takes you on a journey through the […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Diane Ackerman Genre: Non-Fiction, History, Biography, Animals, World War II 368 pages, published September 17, 2007 Reading Format: Book Summary The Zookeeper’s Wife opens in 1939 with an examination of the idyllic life led by Jan and Antonina Zabinski, the zookeepers who run the Warsaw Zoo and also live […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Ann Patchett Genre: Fiction 322 pages, published September 13, 2016 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Commonwealth opens on a Sunday afternoon in Southern California at the christening party for Franny Keating. Bert Cousins shows up uninvited, kisses Franny’s mother Beverly and setting into motion the termination of his […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Michael Lewis Genre: Non-Fiction, Psychology, Biography, Economics, History, Public Policy 362 pages, published December 6, 2016 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary The Undoing Project highlights the research performed by Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky which focused on undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers […]
Rating: ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Heather Lende Genre: Non-Fiction, Memoir, Advice, Happiness 176 pages, published April 28, 2015 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Find the Good is written by Heather Lend, an obituary writer from a small town in Alaska, and conveys her thoughts on how to live a meaningful, well-lived life. Her […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Jess Walter Genre: Fiction, Satire, Humor 304 pages, published September 22, 2009 Reading Format: Book Summary The Financial Lives of the Poets tells the story of Matt Prior, who gave up his business journalist job to start a blog called Poetfolio which conveyed financial news in the form […]
Rating: ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Stephanie Meyer Genre: Fiction, Romance, Thriller 512 pages, published November 8, 2016 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary The Chemist by Stephenie Meyer of Twilight fame is an action/adventure tale that tells the story of Alex, an ex CIA agent and torturer specializing in chemical cocktails to make her […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Chris Cleave Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction 266 pages, published February 16, 2010 Reading Format: Book Summary Little Bee follows the stories of two very different women. Little Bee is the name of a teenage girl from Nigeria who manages to sneak her way into England only to be […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Katy Fassett Author: J.D. Vance Genre: Memoir, Sociology, Public Policy 272 pages, published June 28, 2016 Reading Format: Book Summary Hillbilly Elegy is a memoir by J.D. Vance, a former Marine and Yale Law School Graduate, about his childhood growing up in a poor Appalachian town. While for the most […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: C.S. Lewis Genre: Christian, Theology, Non-Fiction 176 pages, published 1940 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary For centuries people have tried to answer the existential question: If God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow human beings to suffer pain? And why do animals suffer when they neither […]