Tag: 2012 Releases
Breed, Chase Novak
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2014/01/25/breed-chase-novak/
Title: Breed Author: Chase Novak Publisher: Mulholland Books, 2012 Summary/Review: Desperate to have a child of their own, a New York couple travels to Slovenia for a radical procedure which has horrifying results. Alex and Leslie Twisden have tried just about everything to conceive...
The Swerve
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2013/07/27/the-swerve/
Title: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern Author: Stephen Greenblatt (narrated by Edoardo Ballerini) Publisher: WW Norton, 2012 Summary/Review: Stephen Greenblatt (Ph.D. Yale) is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University and is a historian. His most recent book ,winner of the 2012...
What Dies in Summer
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2013/04/03/what-dies-in-summer/
Title: What Dies in Summer Author: Tom Wright Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co, 2012 Summary/Review: This is a debut novel that is packed with so much emotion and surprises you won’t be able to put it down. The story is narrated by one of...
My Mother Was Nuts
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2013/03/27/my-mother-was-nuts/
Title: My Mother Was Nuts: A Memoir Author: Penny Marshall Publisher: Brilliance Audio, 2012 Summary/Review: Penny Marshall reminisces about growing up in the Bronx, where she spent most of her time in her mother’s dance studio. She talks about her accidental introduction into acting...
The Fear Index
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2013/02/14/the-fear-index/
Title: The Fear Index Author: Robert Harris Publisher: Knopf, 2012 Summary/Review: If you like to read about the stock market,financial markets worldwide, and are concerned about the gyrations in the markets caused by computers using mathematical formulas for lightning fast trades (Remember the flash...
Yankee Miracles
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2013/02/07/yankee-miracles/
Title: Yankee Miracles: Life with the Boss and the Bronx Bombers Author: Ray Negron and Sally Cook Publisher: Liveright, 2012 Summary/Review: If you read this book, not only will you learn the incredible story of Ray Negron who was “nabbed” by former Yankee owner...
Canada
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2013/01/31/canada/
Title: Canada Author: Richard Ford Publisher: Ecco , May 2012 Summary/Review: Dell (the narrator) and Berner Parsons are ordinary fifteen year old twins living a somewhat isolated life with their parents in Montana circa 1956. Their father has failed at a number of ventures...
Harold Fry
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2013/01/17/harold-fry/
Title: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry Author: Rachel Joyce Publisher: Random House, 2012 Review/Summary: Harold Frye, recently retired, lives in a small English village with his wife, Maureen, who seems irritated by almost everything he does. They have settled into a mundane existence....
Light Between Oceans
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2012/12/14/light-between-oceans/
Title: Light Between Oceans Author: M.L. Stedman Publisher: Scribner, July 2012 Summary/Review: After surviving four years of war on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia and takes a position as lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock. Although the island is completely isolated, a...
Forgotten
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2012/12/01/forgotten/
Title: Forgotten: A Novel Author: Catherine McKenzie Publisher: William Morrow, An imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, 2012 Summary/Review: Emma Tupper’s mother passed away and leaves her a round trip ticket to Africa. Emma promised her dying mother that she would take the trip and...