Rating: ☆☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Shelby Steele Genre: Non Fiction, History, Race, 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: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Lucy Foley Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, Crime 406 pages, published January 24, 2019 Reading Format: Audiobook on Hoopla Summary The Hunting Party is set in a remote luxury estate in the Scottish Highlands. A group of friends from Oxford choose this locale for their annual New Year’s reunion/vacation together. […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Greg Jenner Genre: Non Fiction, History, Science, Anthropology, Humor 368 pages, published January 29, 2016 Reading Format: Book Summary A Million Years in a Day has an interesting premise. Author and Historian Greg Jenner follows an average person from the beginning of a typical day to the end. At each […]
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Elizabeth Strout Genre: Fiction 193 pages, published January 12, 2016 Reading Format: Book Summary While Lucy Barton, the titular protagaonist, is in a New York City hospital recovering slowly from an confounding infection following an appendectomy, her mother, to whom she hasn’t spoken for many years, comes to visit and […]
Rating: ☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Sylvain Neuvel Genre: Fiction, Science Fiction, Novella 108 pages, published March 1, 2019 Reading Format: Book Summary The Test is a short novella that takes place in the not to distant future of the UK. Idir, an immigrant from Iran, is taking the 25 question British Citizenship Test. If he […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Jason Riley Genre: Non Fiction, Biography, Economics, Politics, Public Policy 301 pages, published May 25, 2021 Reading Format: E-Book on Overdrive Summary Maverick is a biography by the Wall Street Journal’s Jason Riley of conservative economist and prolific author Thomas Sowell. Growing up without a mother or father, barely subsisting […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆1/2 Recommended by: Author: Lucy Foley Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Suspense, Crime 330 pages, published June 2, 2020 Reading Format: Audiobook Summary The characters in The Guest List are referred to as the bride, the plus one, the best man, the wedding planner, and the bridesmaid. They are all gathered on a small island […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Isabelle Allende Genre: Fiction, Foreign 336 pages, published January 21, 2020 Reading Format: Audiobook on Overdrive Summary A Long Petal of the Sea opens in Spain during the late 1930s. The country is in the throes of the Spanish Civil War. After General Franco and the Fascists overthrow the government, […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Natalie Jenner Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction 309 pages, published May 26, 2020 Reading Format: Audiobook on Overdrive Summary The Jane Austen Society takes place in the small village of Chawton, England (the final home of Jane Austen), just after the Second World War. An unlikely group that includes the local […]
Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Recommended by: Author: Elizabeth Strout Genre: Fiction 320 pages, published Matrch 26, 2013 Reading Format: Book Summary The Burgess Boys tells the story of siblings Jim, Bob and Susan Burgess, Susan’s son Zach, Bob’s ex-wife Pam and Jim’s wife Helen. Every member of the Burgess family has grown up under the shadow of […]