Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Angela Toppel Author: Stephen Covey Genre: Non-Fiction, Self-Improvement Info: 380 pages, published August 15, 1989 Reading Format: Audio Book Summary Steven Covey has devised a list of seven habits that will transform your life: Habit 1 Be Proactive. This means taking responsibility for your life. You can’t keep blaming everything on […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Daniel Gilbert Genre: Non-Fiction, Self-Improvement, Happiness Info: 336 pages, published January 1, 2006 Format: Book Summary Gilbert’s central thesis is that, through perception and cognitive biases, people imagine the future poorly, in particular what will make them happy. He argues that imagination fails in three ways: (1) Imagination tends to […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Lisa Goldberg Author: Michael Punke Genre: Non-Fiction, History, Western Info: 272 pages, published June 10, 2002 Format: Audio Book on Hoopla Summary Based on a true incident of heroism in the history of the American West, The Revenant tells the story of Hugh Glass, a Philadelphia-born adventurer and frontiersman. Glass goes […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Aileen and Grace Schwab Author: Erin Morgenstern Genre: Fiction, Fantasy Info: 516 pages, published September 13, 2011 Format: Book Summary The Night Circus is a surrealistic fairy tale set near Victorian London in a wandering magical circus that is open only from sunset to sunrise. Le Cirque des Rêves, the Circus […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Jonathan Franzen Genre: Fiction Info: 608 pages, published September 1, 2015 Format: Audio Book Summary Purity is the name of the book’s title character, who is also known as Pip. When we first meet Pip she is living in a crowded Oakland house under the burden of colossal college debt. […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Lisa Goldberg Author: Gretchen Rubin Genre: Non-Fiction, Self-Improvement, Happiness Info: 320 pages, published March 17, 2015 Format: Book Summary Creating positive habits is a key to leading a happy life. Habits “are the invisible architecture of daily life,” and “if we change our habits, we change our lives.” In Better than […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Tina Hirshland Author: Kate Atkinson Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction, World War II Info: 560 pages, published March 14, 2013 Format: Audio Book Summary Every time Ursula Todd dies, she is born again. Each successive life is an iteration on the last, and we see how Ursula’s choices affect her, those around her, and the […]