Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith Genre: Non Fiction, History, Art, Biography 976 pages, published October 18, 2011 Reading Format: Audiobook on Hoopla Summary Van Gogh, The Life is an incredibly detailed, exhaustive look at the life of Impressionist Vincent Van Gogh from his birth to his early death at […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Stephanie Schroeder Author: Fredrik Backman Genre: Fiction 341 pages, published September 8, 2020 Reading Format: E-book Summary In Anxious People, a bank robber walks into an apartment open house after failing to actually rob the bank and holds an unlikely mix of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Thomas Sowell Genre: Non Fiction, Cultural, Public Policy, Economics 192 pages, published March 20, 2018 Reading Format: Book Summary In Discrimination and Disparities, Thomas Sowell, famed economist and senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, explains why one-factor explanations of economic outcome differences as discrimination, exploitation or genetics are misleading […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Drue Emerson Author: Bill Bishop Genre: Non Fiction, History, Politics, Public Policy 384 pages, published May 7, 2008 Reading Format: E-Book on Hoopla Summary The Big Sort is a social science look at the reasons why America has become so culturally and politically divided. In the past several decades, we have […]
Rating: ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Melody Warnick Genre: Non Fiction, Self Improvement 308 pages, published June 21, 2016 Reading Format: Audiobook on Hoopla Summary In This Is Where You Belong, author Melody Warnick explores ways and methods to love your new hometown. She herself had already moved multiple times when her husband’s new job landed […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Nick Reader Author: Dave Rubin Genre: Non Fiction, Memoir, Politics, Public Policy 256 pages, published April 28, 2020 Reading Format: Book Summary In his first book, host of the political talk show The Rubin Report, Dave Rubin writes about his political oddessey from an unquestioning left winger to a free thinking […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Nick Reader Author: Alice Beth Stuckey Genre: Non Fiction, Memoir, Christian, Self Improvement 228 pages, published August 11, 2020 Reading Format: Book Summary In You’re Not Enough, mother, Christian, and conservative thought leader Alice Beth Stuckey questions the narrative that to be happy, fulfilled and successful all you need to do […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Shelby Steele Genre: Non Fiction, History, Cultural, Public Policy, Politics 208 pages, published February 24, 2015 Reading Format: Book Summary In Shame, Shelby Steele (a Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the grandson of a slave) writes about the roots […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Tom Wheelwright Genre: Non Fiction, Business, Self Improvement 282 pages, published April 2, 2019 Reading Format: Book Summary Tax-Free Wealth is about tax planning concepts and how to use tax laws to your benefit. Author Tom Wheelwright explains how the tax laws work and how they are designed to reduce […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Ted Cruz Genre: Non Fiction, Law, Public Policy, Politics, Memoir 271 pages, published September 29, 2020 Reading Format: Book Summary In One Vote Away, Senator (and former Supreme Court litigator as Texas Solicitor General) Ted Cruz writes about seminal Constitutional law cases before the Supreme Court and how the decision […]