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What Alice Forgot

https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2016/04/21/what-alice-forgot/
Title:  What Alice Forgot Author:  Liane Moriarty Publisher:  Amy Einhorn Books, 2011; Penguin Audio, 2011 Summary/Review:  After taking a tumble off a spinning bike and being knocked unconscious, Alice Love awakes thinking it’s 1998 and that she’s 29 expecting her first child. What a...

The Martian

https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2015/12/20/the-martian/
Title: The Martian Author: Andy Weir Publisher: Crown Publishing Group, 2011 Summary/Review: To understand why you will enjoy this novel let’s start with the author. Andy Weir was hired as a computer programmer for a national laboratory at age 15. He is a self-described...

Peach Keeper

https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2014/04/27/peach-keeper/
Title: The Peach Keeper Author: Sarah Addison Allen Publisher: Bantam Books, 2011 Summary/Review: Ever since Willa Jackson moved back to her Southern hometown of Walls of Water she has chosen to lead a quiet life away from society’s rich townspeople and the disgrace of...

One On One

https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2012/11/18/one-on-one/
Title: One on One:  Behind the Scenes with the Greats in the Game Author: John Feinstein Publisher: Little, Brown, & Company 2011 Summary/Review: I don’t know how I keep encountering books like this one. John Feinstein, the incredibly successful sports columnist and author, takes...

Dangerous Instincts

https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2012/10/14/dangerous-instincts/
Title: Dangerous Instincts: How Gut Feelings Betray Us. (Fear Can’t Help You. An FBI Profiler Can) Author: Mary Ellen O’Toole, Ph.D. Publisher: Penguin, 2011 Summary/Review: The author knows her business.  She is a retired FBI profiler and has seen and interviewed violent criminals of...

Going Home

https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2012/10/10/going-home/
Title: Going Home: Finding Peace When Pets Die Author: Jonathan Katz Publisher:  Villard Books, 2011  Summary/Review: Jonathan Katz is famous for his many books on dogs and life on Bedlam Farm – he’s written seven novels and twelve works of non-fiction.  But he’d never...