Author: John Steinbeck Publisher: Covici Friede, 1937 Genre: Classic Fiction My Rating: A Summary: Four different stories, centered around a young boy named Jody, make up this book. The stories are set on a ranch in Salinas Valley, California during the early twentieth-century. Jody is an only child and the ranch is isolated, so it’s [...]
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I belong to two book clubs and, between the two of them, last month turned out to be a Jeannette Walls month. There was no consultation; it just happened that each club picked one of her books. The first pick was The Glass Castle, published in 2005. This is the author’s memoir outlining her erratic [...] Author: Lisa Lutz Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2007 Genre: Mystery My Rating: B+ Summary (from the author’s website): Isabel Spellman, the uncompromising—okay, obstinate—twenty-eight year-old San Francisco private eye in Lisa Lutz’s riotous debut novel, THE SPELLMAN FILES has her share of problems. And those problems all happen to be named Spellman.Her parents, Albert and Olivia, [...] Author: Stewart O’Nan Publisher: Penguin, 2008 Format: Audiobook, Narrated by Jonathan Davis My Rating: A Summary (from the publisher): The Red Lobster perched in the far corner of a run-down New England mall hasn’t been making its numbers and headquarters has pulled the plug. But manager Manny DeLeon still needs to navigate a tricky last shift [...] Author: Dorothy Gilman Publisher: Ballantine Books, 2001 Genre: Mystery Format: Audio, read by Barbara Rosenblat Summary from publisher: After facing down hijackers on a flight to the Middle East and saving the lives of the passengers on board, a young American woman steps off the plane in Damascus in a blaze of celebrity and disappears. [...] |
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