Rating: ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Liane Moriarity Genre: Fiction 415 pages, published July 26, 2016 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary With their two little girls, Sam and Clementine appear to have an idyllic life. Sam has just started a new dream job and cellist Clementine is preparing for the audition of a lifetime. […]
Rating: ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Susan Orlean Genre: Non-Fiction, Biography, History, Animals 336 pages, published September 27, 2011 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary This book is a biography of Rin Tin Tin, the iconic star of movies and television, and his owner Lee Duncan and is a quintessentially Twentieth Century American tale. Duncan […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Boulder Public Library Librarian Author: Louise Erdrich Genre: Historical Fiction, Fiction 388 pages, published February 4, 2003 Reading Format: Book Summary The Master Butchers Singing Club focuses on the intertwined lives of Fidelis Waldvogel, a World War I German Sniper and master butcher who emigrates to North Dakota after the […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Boulder Public Library Librarian Author: Herman Koch Genre: Fiction, Suspense 292 pages, published February 12, 2013 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Set in an exclusive, high priced Amsterdam restaurant, The Dinner starts off with the polite conversation of two couples. However, the empty words hide a terrible conflict and, with […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Marianne Boeke Author: Judith Guest Genre: Fiction 263 pages, published October 28, 1982 Reading Format: Book Summary Ordinary People is set in upper class town of Lake Forest, Illinois during the 1970s and tells the story of the Jarrett family, parents Calvin and Beth and their son Conrad. Before the […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Ian McEwan Genre: Fiction, Suspense 197 pages, published September 13, 2016 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Trudy and Claude are having an affair and plotting to murder Trudy’s husband who also happens to be Claude’s brother. However, there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month old resident […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Heather Bohart Author: Lianne Moriarty Genre: Fiction, Romance 476 pages, published 2009 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary As the book opens, Alice Love is twenty-nine, head over heels in love with her husband and pregnant with her first child. When Alice is admitted to the hospital after hitting her head […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Boulder Librarian Author: Harriet Lane Genre: Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Mystery 272 pages, published January 6, 2015 Reading Format: Book Summary Emma and Nina, the two main characters in Her, appear to have very little in common. As a relatively new mother, Emma is isolated and exhausted. She has mixed emotions […]
Rating: ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Julie Horowitz Author: Lily King Genre: Historical Fiction, Anthropology 256 pages, published June 3, 2015 Reading Format: Book Summary Euphoria is the story of three anthropologists in 1933 New Guinea who find themselves caught in a passionate love triangle. English Anthropologist Andrew Bankson has been alone in the field for […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Ryan Holiday Genre: Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Psychology, Self-Improvement 226 pages, published June 14, 2016 Reading Format: Book Summary In his book Ego is the Enemy, Ryan Holiday demonstrates how the primary obstruction to a full, successful life is not the outside world, but rather our ego. In addition to […]