Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Art Drake Author: David Sedaris Genre: Non Fiction, Humor, Memoir, Essays, Short Stories 387 pages, published November 3, 2020 Reading Format: Audiobook on Overdrive Summary The Best of Me is retrospective compilation of Humorist David Sedaris’ stories and essays from the past twenty-five years. Quotes “A Dutch parent has a decidedly […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Michael McCullough Genre: Non Fiction, Psychology, Sociology, Public Policy 368 pages, published May 12, 2020 Reading Format: Book Summary In The Kindness of Strangers, psychologist Michael McCullough explores the issue of why human beings are altruistic. He first looks at this question through an evolutionary lens and then traces the […]
Rating: ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Blake Pierce Genre: Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Mystery 199 pages, published November 13, 2018 Reading Format: Audiobook on Hoopla Summary In The Perfect Wife, after 29 year old criminal profiler in training and newly married Jessie Hunt moves to Orange County, the intrigue begins. Her husband Kyle insists they join an […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Ainissa Ramirez Genre: Non Fiction, Science, History 328 pages, published April 7, 2020 Reading Format: Book Summary In The Alchemy of Us, scientist Ainissa Ramirez explores a variety of different materials (e.g. steel, carbon, silicon, glass, copper) and the impact that inventions using those materials have had on human beings. […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Darla Schueth and Sue Deans Author: Isabel Wilkerson Genre: Nonfiction, History, Cultural 622 pages, published September 7, 2010 Reading Format: Audiobook Summary The Warmth of Other Suns tells the story of the decades-long migration of six million black Americans who fled Jim Crow South in search of a better life and […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Anthony Horowitz Genre: Fiction, Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Suspense 608 pages, published November 10, 2020 Reading Format: Book Summary In Moonflower Murders, best selling author and creator of Foyle’s War and Midsomer Murders Anthony Hororwitz picks up where his mystery Magpie Murders left off. As with Magpie Murders, Moonflower Murders cleverly […]
Rating: ☆☆☆ Recommended by: Jennifer Lum Author: Charles Yu Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Cultural 273 pages, published January 28, 2020 Reading Format: Audiobook on Overdrive Summary In Interior Chinatown, author Charles Yu explores the roles played by Chinese Americans over the last 150 years and touches on issues of race, pop culture, immigration, and assimilation. […]
Rating: ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Don A. Moore Genre: Non Fiction, Self Improvement, Psychology, Business 272 pages, published May 5, 2020 Reading Format: Audiobook on Overdrive Summary Perfectly Confident is written by Don Moore, an expert on the psychology of decision making at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, and examines the importance of confidence while […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Dan Ariely Genre: Non Fiction, Psychology, Self Improvement 400 pages, published February 19, 2008 Reading Format: Book Summary In Predictably Irrational, MIT behavioral economist Dan Ariely looks at situations where people act irrationally. Among other interesting questions, he asks: Why do our headaches persist after taking a one-cent aspirin but […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Kristy Shen and Bryce Leung Genre: Non Fiction, Personal Finance, Economics, Self Improvement 336 pages, published July 9, 2019 Reading Format: Book Summary Quit Like a Millionaire is part memoir, part handbook on how to retire early. Written by husband and wife Kristy Shen and Bryce Leung, the two explain […]