Tag: religion
Hani and Ishi’s Guide to Fake Dating by Adiba Jaigirdar
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2022/07/01/hani-and-ishis-guide-to-fake-dating-by-adiba-jaigirdar/
Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating manages to be light and romantic, while simultaneously dealing with the issues and perspective of a culture that rarely sees the light of day in Western storytelling. The dual-perspective plot follows two Bengali (one Indian, one Bangladeshi)...
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...
Ice Cold
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2010/08/31/ice-cold/
Title: Ice Cold Author: Tess Gerritsen Publisher: Random House, June 2010 Summary: Ice Cold is Tess Gerritsen’s newest novel featuring medical examiner Dr. Maura Isles and her friend, FBI agent Jane Rizzoli. While on a ski trip, Maura and her friends become stranded in Wyoming. There...
Amandine
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2010/07/11/amandine/
Title: Amandine Author: Marlena de Blasi Publisher: Random House, May 2010 Summary: Amandine is the first novel written by Marlena de Blasi, an author known for her memoir writing. The story is captivating and the author’s writing is simply beautiful, filled with sense details and...
Adam
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2008/07/14/adam/
Title: Adam Author: Ted Dekker Summary: FBI agent Daniel Clarke is obsessed with finding the serial killer known as Eve. Eve has killed at least 16 women and shows no sign of stopping. Daniel’s obsession has already cost him his marriage and now it...
Broken Angel
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2008/06/23/broken-angel/
Title: Broken Angel Author: Sigmund Brouwer Summary: Set in a Christian dystopia, in the not-so-far-off future, Broken Angel is the story of religious fundamentalism gone horribly wrong. Caitlin has grown up in Appalachia, an independent country within the United States run by fanatics who have...
Blasphemy
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2008/01/16/blasphemy/
Title: Blasphemy Author: Douglas Preston Summary: Nobel-prizing scientist and merry gang of whiz colleagues go off the deep end, experiment with the world’s largest supercollider computer housed on sacred native land, encounter operational difficulties, and the race to the “end” involves life and death issues....