Tag: 2015 Releases
Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
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Title: The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend Author: Katarina Bivald Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark, June 2015 Summary/Review: If you are looking for a heartwarming, charming and cozy read, that involves a small town bookstore, this is the book for you! Amy from Broken Wheel, Iowa...
Did You Ever Have a Family?
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Title: Did You Ever Have a Family? Author: Bill Clegg Publisher: Gallery/Scout, September 2015 Summary/Review: Bill Clegg’s devastatingly beautiful fiction debut is portrait of a community in the aftermath of an unspeakable tragedy. June Reid, the broken woman at the epicenter of the novel,...
Pretty Girls
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Title: Pretty Girls Author: Karin Slaughter Publisher: William Morrow, September 2015 *This book contains graphic descriptions of violence, particularly sexual violence against women, so be warned.* Summary/Review: I found this novel a somewhat interesting read because it describes good, bad, and even horrible relationships,...
Girl in the Dark
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2015/11/19/girl-in-the-dark/
Title: Girl in the Dark Author: Anna Lindsey Publisher: Doubleday, 2015 Summary/review: This is the story of a young woman who finds herself becoming sensitive to the glow of her computer screen at work. Her condition worsens to the point where she cannot tolerate...
Reunion of Ghosts
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Title: A Reunion of Ghosts Author: Judith Claire Mitchell Publisher: Harper, March 2015 Summary/Review: This book is an absolute perfect balance of humor and sadness, hope and despair, blessing and curse, past and present, reason and insanity. The story of the Alter sisters and...
Murder House
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2015/10/18/murder-house/
Title: THE MURDER HOUSE Author: James Patterson Publisher: Little Brown and Company, 2015 Summary/Review: I know what you’re thinking: not another James Patterson book, he writes one every other month! I felt the same way until I read Murder House – it draws you...
Pirate Hunters
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2015/09/03/pirate-hunters/
Title: Pirate Hunters Author: Robert Kurson Publisher: Random House, 2015 Summary/Review: This is the second book written by Robert Kurson about underwater treasure-hunting and salvage. His first, “Shadow Divers” was about the discovery of a World War II German submarine off the...
My Sunshine Away
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Title: My Sunshine Away Author: M.O Walsh Publisher: Penguin, 2015 Summary/Review: I really enjoyed this book for a lot of reasons, I have to say the first is because it starts off with the act which is the foundation for the book. There is...
Night Sister
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2015/07/22/night-sister/
Title: The Night Sister Author: Jennifer McMahon Publisher: Doubleday, August 2015 Summary/Review: “Do you believe in monsters?” You might after reading the creepy new novel by Jennifer McMahon. And by creepy I mean awesome. Growing up in and around the decrepit Tower Motel in...
Delicious Foods
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Title: Delicious Foods Author: James Hannaham Publisher: Little Brown & Company, March 2015 Summary/Review: The story begins with Eddie, who has recently escaped a mysterious company called Delicious Foods. His mother, Darlene, is still working there. Eddie has no hands, he’s estranged from his...