Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Ken Follett Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Foreign 913 pages, published September 15, 2020 Reading Format: Audiobook on Overdrive Summary The Evening and the Morning is a prequel to Ken Follett’s very popular Pillars of the Earth series which center on life in the medieval town of Kingsbridge, England. Set in […]
Rating: ☆☆ Recommended by: Boulder Librarian Author: Jenni Fagan Genre: Fiction, Dystopia 310 pages, published March 24, 2018 Reading Format: Book Summary The Sunlight Pilgrims is set in a futuristic 2020 and imagines the world in a new ice age. Rather than head south as many others are doing, a grieving Dylan heads north to […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Max Tegmark Genre: Non Fiction, Science, Public Policy 364 pages, published August 29, 2017 Reading Format: e-Book on Overdrive Summary In Life 3.0, MIT professor Max Tegmark makes a strong case that we are on the precipice of tremendous technological changes that will impact every aspect of life on our […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Boulder Librarian Author: Rose Tremain Genre: Fiction, Foreign 273 pages, published October 18, 2010 Reading Format: Book Summary Trespass tells the story of the competing interests over an isolated stone farmhouse, the Mas Lunel, in southern France. The owner, Aramon has let his life devolve into squalor as punishment for his […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Benjamin Alire Sáenz Genre: Fiction, Young Adult 359 pages, published February 21, 2012 Reading Format: Audiobook on Overdrive Summary Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe tells the story of teenage friends Aristotle,an angry teen with a brother in prison, and Dante, the loner child of a professor […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Darla Scheuth and Sue Deans Author: Dolly Chugh Genre: Non Fiction, Public Policy, Sociology 325 pages, published September 4, 2018 Reading Format: Audiobook on Hoopla Summary In The Person You Mean to Be, social psychologist Dolly Chugh discusses her approach to confronting difficult issues including sexism, racism, inequality, and injustice in […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Michael Shellenberger Genre: Non Fiction, Environmental, Public Policy 272 pages, published June 23, 2020 Reading Format: Audiobook on Overdrive Summary In Apocalypse Never, longtime environmentalist Michael Shellenberger addresses the alarmism surrounding climate change and other environmentalist issues. Responding to these claims and the rising anxiety, including among adolescents, Shellenberger decided […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Amy Chua, Jed Rubenfeld Genre: Non Fiction, Race, Ethnicity, Public Policy 336 pages, published February 14, 2014 Reading Format: Book Summary In The Triple Package, Yale Law School professors Amy Chua (aka the Tiger Mom) and husband Jed Rubenfeld set forth their thesis that certain cultural groups in America that […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Arundhati Roy Genre: Fiction, Foreign 340 pages, published 1997 Reading Format: Book Summary The God of Small Things takes place in Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, in 1969. It tells the story of an Indian family, young mother Ammu, her twins Rahel and Esthappen, the blind grandmother, Mammachi, […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Diane Keaton Genre: Non Fiction, Memoir, Entertainment 338 pages, published November 15, 2011 Reading Format: Book Summary In her memoir Then Again, actress Diane Keaton alternates between her life and the life of her mother Dorothy Hall, much of which comes from her mother’s lifelong journals. The two share a […]