Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Lisa Stock Author: Jonas Jonasson Genre: Fiction, Humor, Foreign, Historical Fiction 384 pages, published September 11, 2012 Reading Format: Book Summary As he prepares to celebrate his 100th birthday, Allan Karlsson does the unexpected. Still in his slippers, he steps out of his nursing home window and into an incredible […]
Rating: ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Heather Ringoen Author: Charlie Lovett Genre: Historical Fiction, Mystery, Fiction 355 pages, published January 1, 2013 Reading Format: Book Summary The Bookman’s Tale opens in 1995 in Hay-on-Wye, England. Newly widowed antiquarian bookseller Peter Byerly is perusing old books in a local shop when he discovers a mysterious portrait from […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Melissa Byers Author: David Sedaris Genre: Non-Fiction, Essays, Memoir, Humor 275 pages, published April 23, 2013 Reading Format: Book Summary An eclectic collection of essays from David Sedaris, an eminent humorist, which cover different eras in his life, from his time as a child in swim competitions fruitlessly trying to […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Mitch Albom Genre: Historical Fiction, Music, Fiction 512 pages, published November 10, 2012 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary With a focus on the music scene starting in the 1940’s and a touch of magical realism, Mitch Albom tells the epic story of Frankie Presto, the greatest guitar player […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Stephen King Genre: Fiction, Crime, Suspense, Thriller 431 pages, published June 2, 2015 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Finders Keepers is the second book in Stephen King’s Bill Hodges Triology (the first is Mr. Mercedes and the third is End of Watch) and the name of Bill Hodges’ […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Lisa Goldberg Author: Helen MacDonald Genre: Non Fiction, Memoir, Animals 300 pages, published March 3, 2015 Reading Format: Book Summary Written by Helen MacDonald after her father’s sudden, devastating death, H is for Hawk is two books in one. An account of MacDonald’s training of a vicious predator goshawk whom […]
Rating: ☆ Recommended by: Author: Paul Beatty Genre: Fiction, Humor 289 pages, published March 3, 2015 Reading Format: Book Summary Born in the “agrarian ghetto” of Dickens—on the outskirts of Los Angeles, the narrator of The Sellout tells of his upbringing by a single father who exposed him to racially charged psychological studies. […]
Rating: ☆☆ Recommended by: Pam Dupont Author: Ellen Marie Wiseman Genre: Historical Fiction, Fiction. Mystery 368 pages, published December 31, 2013 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Ten years ago, Izzy Stone’s mother fatally shot her father while he slept. Devastated by her mother’s apparent insanity, Izzy, now seventeen, refuses to visit her in prison. […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney Genre: Fiction 368 pages, published March 22, 2016 Reading Format: Book Summary The Nest follows the four dysfunctional siblings in the Plumb family who are thrown a curve ball when “the nest,” the name given to their sizable expected inheritance, is substantially reduced to pay […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Boulder Public Library Librarian Author: Sue Monk Kidd Genre: Historical Fiction, Fiction, History 384 pages, published January 7, 2014 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary The Invention of Wings, which is based on real people, tells the story of two girls in early nineteenth century Charleston. Hetty “Handful” Grimke is a […]