Tag: Psychology
Forgetting Time
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2016/11/07/forgetting-time/
Title: The Forgetting Time Author: Sharon Guskin Publisher: Flatiron Books, February 2016 Summary/Review: A gripping and dramatic novel about holding on to – and letting go of – memories. Janie is doing her best to raise her son Noah as a single mom, but...
Delicious Foods
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2015/04/26/delicious-foods/
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...
Help for the Haunted
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2013/10/31/help-for-the-haunted/
Title: Help for the Haunted Author: John Searles Publisher: William Morrow, Sep. 2013 Summary/Review: Since I am not a fan of ghost stories, I was reluctant to read a book titled “Help for the Haunted” for worry that I would not sleep afterward, but...
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...
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...
Defending Jacob
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2012/09/06/defending-jacob/
Title: Defending Jacob Author: William Landay Publisher: Delacorte Press, 2012 Summary/Review: Andy Barber has been a well-respected assistant district attorney in Massachusetts for many years until his 14-year-old son Jacob is accused of killing former classmate Ben Rifkin. As the community presumes Jacob’s guilt...
The Nobodies Album
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2010/08/13/the-nobodies-album/
Title: The Nobodies Album Author: Carolyn Parkhurst Publisher: Knopf, June 2010 Summary: Writer Octavia Frost and her son Milo had a game they used to play together when he was a young boy. He’d ask “have you ever heard the Beatles version of I’ve Been...
The Interpretation of Murder
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2010/08/05/the-interpretation-of-murder/
Title: The Interpretation of Murder Author: Jed Rubenfeld Publisher: Picador, May 2007 Summary: The year is 1909 and Sigmund Freud has arrived in the United States with his protégé Carl Jung for a series of lectures at Clark University. The same day of Freud’s arrival...
Columbine
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2009/06/09/columbine/
Title: Columbine Author: Dave Cullen Summary: On April 20, 1999, two boys entered their high school and proceeded to unleash the most unforgettable school shooting of the modern era. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were troubled outcasts in black trench coats, picked on by jocks...