Tag: survival
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...
The Hatching
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2016/05/01/the-hatching/
Title: The Hatching Author: Ezekiel Boone Publisher: Atria, 7/2016 Summary/Review: Would you prefer death by a swarm of flesh eating spiders, or death by an exploding spider egg sac laid within your body? It seems like those might be your only choices, unless you...
The Martian
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2015/12/20/the-martian/
Title: The Martian Author: Andy Weir Publisher: Crown Publishing Group, 2011 Summary/Review: To understand why you will enjoy this novel let’s start with the author. Andy Weir was hired as a computer programmer for a national laboratory at age 15. He is a self-described...
Station Eleven
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2014/05/18/station-eleven/
Title: Station Eleven Author: Emily St. John Mandel Publisher: Knopf, September 2014 Summary/Review: The Georgia Flu has swept the globe, wiping out 99% of the world’s population. With them went everything that had been taken for granted: technology, medicine, and electricity to name a...
All the Light we Cannot See
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2014/02/08/all-the-light-we-cannot-see/
Title: All the Light We Cannot See Author: Anthony Doerr Publisher: Scribner, May 2014 Summary/Review: It is 1934 and Marie-Laure is just 6 years old when she loses her sight. Her father, the principle locksmith for the National Museum of Natural History in Paris,...
NOS4A2
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2013/11/14/nos4a2/
Title: NOS4A2 Author: Joe Hill Publisher: Harper Collins, 2013 Summary/Review: This story begins with a very young Victoria McQueen, a bike, and her encounter with a magic bridge. We are then introduced to a man named Bing Partridge who befriends a monstrous, evil, and...
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...
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...
Age of Miracles
https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/blog/2012/09/01/age-of-miracles/
Title: The Age of Miracles Author: Karen Thompson Walker Publisher: Random House, 2012 Summary/Review: Julia is only eleven years old when the earth’s rotation begins to slow. “The Slowing” as it comes to be called, adds minutes to the days and nights. Scientists have...
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...