A Herculean Task. A Homeric Performance. I picked this up on sale back in 2014 and yes, it’s taken me this long to actually listen. I admit I was put off; at the beginning Professor Vandiver sounds a little dry, a tad dour. Don’t make the same mistake. While she is an acute scholar, the […]
By the man who helped invent the red-hot management process known as “Scrum”, Scrum unveils what is wrong with the way we currently do work, and how a simple set of principles, applied in exactly the right sequence, can accelerate productivity and quality as much as 1,200 percent. Scrum (which gets its name from the […]
A 2020 Audie winner – best female narrator A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! Audiobook performed by Marin Ireland. “I can’t believe how good this book is…. It’s wholly original. It’s also perfect…. Wilson writes with such a light touch…. The brilliance of the novel [is] that it distracts you with these […]
Addiction is a problem that affects everyone – even if we haven’t experienced addiction ourselves, we all know someone who has. Unfortunately many sources of information about addiction seem inaccessible or irrelevant because they present vague or false science, they present accurate science in an excessively complicated way, or they are more moralistic than informative. […]
Fans of The Passage and The Stand will love this What did you love best about The Last Tribe? The remarkable and vivid characters. What other book might you compare The Last Tribe to and why? The Passage by Justin Cronin and The Stand by Stephen King. The Last Tribe is a well written… Have […]
That’s the way to do it! When I was in high school, I caught a late night showing of Mike Nichol’s 1966 film adaptation of Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” I knew nothing about the play or the film, but Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were starring. They’d had a tempestuous, headline-grabbing relationship […]
After working one of the worst mass killings in U.S. history, Scarpetta returns home to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Exhausted and ill, she’s recovering at home when she receives an unsettling call. The body of a young woman has been discovered on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s rugby field. The victim, a graduate student named Gail Shipman, […]
The sixth Lisbeth Salander story in the Millennium Series – the crime-fiction phenomenon that has sold more than 90 million copies worldwide. Mikael Blomkvist is trying to reach Lisbeth Salander – the fierce, unstoppable girl with the dragon tattoo. He needs her help unraveling the identity of a man who died with Blomkvist’s phone number […]
New York Times best-seller. A seaside town helps one young woman reclaim the light after darkness in an uplifting novel from number-one New York Times best-selling author Debbie Macomber. “Romantic, warm, and a breeze to read – one of Macomber’s best.” (Kirkus Reviews) Annie Marlow has been through the worst. Rocked by tragedy, she heads […]
Number one best-selling authors Preston & Child bring the true story of the ill-fated Donner Party to new life in a thrilling blend of archaeology, history, murder, and suspense. Nora Kelly, a young curator at the Santa Fe Institute of Archaeology, is approached by historian Clive Benton with a once-in-a-lifetime proposal: to lead a team […]
