Tag: adventure
2024 Adult Reading Challenge! June
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2024/06/25/2024-adult-reading-challenge-june/
Adults! Welcome to year 3 of our year-long reading challenge. Explore different genres, discover new authors and be entered to win prizes. To complete the challenge, read just one book in each category by midnight on December 31st, 2024. Earn bigger prizes by reading...
2022 Adult Reading Challenge! April
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2022/04/01/2022-adult-reading-challenge-april/
DISCOVER DIFFERENT GENRES! FIND NEW AUTHORS! WIN PRIZES! Join us for a fun book challenge throughout 2022! Sign up and keep track via Beanstack. If you’ve participated in any of our recent summer or winter reading challenges, you’re all set to go...
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...
The Next Thing on my List
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2012/09/27/the-next-thing-on-my-list/
Title: The Next Thing on My List Author: Jill Smolinski Publisher: Shaye Areheart Books, Inc. 2007 Review/Summary: If you are looking for light-read with a good story, look no further than The Next Thing on My List. Meet June Parker, single, in her mid-thirties,...
The Dog Stars
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2012/09/20/the-dog-stars/
Title: The Dog Stars Author: Peter Heller Publisher: Knopf, August 2012 Summary/Review: After a pandemic kills 99% of the population, a survivor tries to find some hope for the future. Hig, along with his dog Jasper and fellow survivor Bangley, is living on a...
Don’t Ever Get Old
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2012/08/30/dont-ever-get-old/
Title: Don’t Ever Get Old Author: Daniel Friedman Publisher: St. Martin’s Press, 2012 Summary/Review: “Old age is not for sissies”, “Old age isn’t so bad – when you consider the alternative”, (and the more optimistic) “every day I wake up on this side of...
Hiking Through
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2012/08/15/340-2/
Title: “Hiking Through: One Man’s Journey to Peace and Freedom on the Appalachian Trail” Author: Paul Stutzman Publisher: Revell, A Division of Baker Publishing Group, Grand Rapids, Michigan- 2012 Summary: All his life, Paul Stutzman dreamed of hiking the length of the Appalachian Trail...
Crazy for the Storm
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2009/04/27/crazy-for-the-storm/
Title: Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival Author: Norman Ollestad Publisher: Ecco Press. May 2009 Summary: I did not expect to like this book as much as I did. Granted, I am an extreme adventure reader junkie, but I was not expecting to...
A Pearl in the Storm
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2009/01/28/a-pearl-in-the-storm/
Title: A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean Author: Tori Murden McClure Publisher: Harper Collins, April 2009 Summary: Sometimes when you start a book by a new author it is important to give the story...
The White Mary
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2008/08/06/the-white-mary/
Title: The White Mary Author: Kira Salak Summary: After all the buzz about this book I thought I would have liked it much more than I did. The writing was very good and the descriptions of the jungle travel are very vivid, but the story...