#Book-Reviews
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Book Review: This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune
Fortune brings a fun summer read that will appeal to fans of Christina Lauren or Abby Jimenez. Fortune’s latest book, This Summer Will Be Different, published May 7, 2024, is available on Amazon in paperback, hardcover, Kindle, and audiobook formats, as well as at your local library through the Libby App. The audiobook is narrated… Continue reading
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Book Review: Three Sisters by Heater Morris
Three Sisters, the last in the Tattooist of Auschwitz series, was published on October 5, 2021, and is available on Amazon in paperback, hardcover, Kindle, or audiobook formats, as well as at your local library through the Libby App. The audiobook is narrated by Finty Williams, who mimics Morris’ clinical writing style in her narration,… Continue reading
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Book Review: One Day by David Nicholls
Nicholl’s book, published June 15, 2010, with the audiobook released on July 13, 2010, is available on Amazon in paperback, hardcover, Kindle, or audiobook formats, as well as at your local library through the Libby App. The audiobook narrated by Anna Bentinck delivers the author’s vision of a romance spanning over twenty years between two… Continue reading
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Book Review: Cilka’s Journey by Heather Morris
In Morris’s follow-up novel of the The Tattoosist of Auschwitz she makes it clear that while the story is based on actual events in Cecília Kováčová ‘Cilka Klein’ life, it still a novel of fiction weaving together facts and reportage with experiences of women survivors of the Holocaust and the experiences of women sent to… Continue reading
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Book Review: The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
Morris’s debut as an author provides readers with the memoir of Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew forcibly transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in April 1942, and how his perseverance kept him and others alive during the atrocities and horrors surrounding them. The book is available on Amazon in paperback, hardcover, Kindle, and audiobook formats, as well as… Continue reading
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Book Review: Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life by Gary John Bishop
This personal development title is available on Amazon in paperback, hardcover, Kindle, and audiobook formats, as well as at your local library through the Libby App. The audiobook is narrated by the author, his Scottish accent adding nuance to the material, somehow making it resonate more deeply with listeners without requiring any emphasis. Continue reading
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Book Review: The Night We Lost Him By Laura Dave
This title is available on Amazon in paperback, hardcover, Kindle, or audiobook formats. It’s also available at your local library through the Libby App. The audiobook, published September 17, 2024, is narrated by Julia Whelan. Publishers describe the book as a combination of soulful suspense and evocative family drama, labeling it a thriller and a… Continue reading
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Book Review: Unf*ck Your Brain: Using Science to Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs, and Triggers by Faith G. Harper, PhD, LPC-S, ACS, CAN
Harper’s self-help book is available on Amazon in paperback, hardcopy, Kindle, and audiobook, or at your local library through the Libby App. The audiobook is narrated by the author, although someone should have warned her that the sound quality is poor and offers disturbing echoes similar to being recorded in a restroom stall. Also, yes,… Continue reading
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Book Review: The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory
In this debut novel, Guillory starts strong with an original meet-cute scene when the main characters, Alexa Monroe and Drew Nichols, get trapped in a broken-down elevator and share some soft cheese with crackers, engaging in witty banter and flirtatious looks. By the end of the encounter, Drew has Alexa agreeing to be his fake… Continue reading
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