Tag: 2013 Releases
Mistress
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2013/09/29/mistress/
Title: Mistress Author: James Patterson Publisher: Little Brown, 2013 Summary/Review: I know what you’re thinking: “another book by Patterson”. It seems like he writes one a month!!! The way I look at it is he is helping out other authors who are co-writing...
The Last Original Wife
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2013/09/22/the-last-original-wife/
Title: The Last Original Wife Author: Dorothea Benton Frank Publisher: William Morrow, 2013 Summary/Review: If you are looking for a book that has a little romance, a lot of humor and takes you to Charleston, South Carolina then this book is for you. Leslie...
Lexicon
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2013/09/16/lexicon/
Title: Lexicon Author: Max Barry Publisher: Penguin Press, 2013 Summary/Review: “Sticks and Stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me” is basically a big, fat lie in the world of Max Barry’s Lexicon. If a Poet tells you to go...
World’s Strongest Librarian
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2013/09/05/526-2/
Title: The World’s Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette’s, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family Author: Josh Hanagarne Publisher: Gotham Books, 2013 Summary/Review: Josh Hanagarne is not your average librarian. He’s a 6’7”strongman, who lives each day battling with Tourette Syndrome. What started...
Let Me Go
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2013/08/24/let-me-go/
Title: Let Me Go Author: Chelsea Cain Publisher: St. Marten’s Press, 2013 Summary/Review: “Let Me Go” is the sixth book by Chelsea Cain featuring Detective Archie Sheridan, journalist Susan Ward, and Psychiatrist Gretchen Lowell. Gretchen was a consultant for the Portland police on a...
Salt, Sugar, Fat
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2013/08/10/salt-sugar-fat/
Title: Salt, Sugar, Fat Author: Michael Moss. Publisher: Random House, 2013 Summary/Review: The most striking aspect of this brilliant investigative book is the seeming ease with which household name food manufacturing and marketing corporations manipulate the public into purchasing and consuming more and more foods...
Poppet
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2013/08/01/poppet/
Title: Poppet Author: Mo Hayder Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press, May 2013 Summary/Review: A thriller set in and around a psychiatric hospital? Creepy cover? Sign me up! Mo Hayder has outdone herself with her newest Jack Caffery thriller, Poppet. Psychiatric nurse AJ LeGrande believes that...
When She Came Home
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2013/07/18/when-she-came-home/
Title: When she came home Author: Drusilla Campbell Publisher: Grand Central Publishing, 2013 Summary/Review: Francine (Frankie) Byrne Tennyson stunned her family when she decided to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps. Frankie is a 25 year old married woman with a baby who is...
Dad is fat
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2013/07/06/475-2/
Title: DAD IS FAT Author: Jim Gaffigan Publisher: Crown, May 2013 Summary/Review: Anyone who has children, has been a child or knows anyone with children will love this book. Jim Gaffigan, a stand-up comedian best known for his riffs on Hot Pockets, has written...
Chanel Bonfire
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2013/04/25/chanel-bonfire/
Title: Chanel Bonfire Author: Wendy Lawless Publisher: Gallery Books, 2013 Summary/Review: Growing up with an alcoholic, narcissistic, and mentally ill mother was by no means easy for Wendy and her younger sister Robin. Keeping the severe dysfunction hidden behind closed doors was even harder....