This is the true story of Bob Rowe. Bob was a lawyer who had worked hard to live the american dream in the 1970s. He was happily married to his wife Mary and the two of them started a family. Bobby was there first son and Christopher was born two years later. Christopher was born [...]
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Julie and Julia by Julie Powell
I actually went to see this movie before reading the book. I had heard good things about it and actually enjoyed the movie quite a bit. So when I ran across a copy of Julie and Julia at the library I picked it up. This was a quick read for me…but I have to be [...]
Under the Bridge by Rebecca Godfrey
Under the Bridge is a true story of a murder that took place in Victoria Island, Canada in 1997. The victim was Reena Virk, a 14-year old who had been having trouble fitting in with her classmates and getting along with her family. Reena had been looking to fit in with a group of girls [...]
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
This is the true story told my a young man who recounts how he became a child solider and eventually was rescued from that life. Ishmael Beah was twelve years old when war broke out in Sierre Leone. Ishmael had gone with his brother and some friends to a neighboring town and tried to make [...]
Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich
I have enjoyed all of the books that I’ve read by Ben Mezrich so I was excited to see that he had a new book out. He typically writes about exceptional college students who are able to use their intelligence to beat the system (Vegas, the Nikkei) and become very wealthy at a young age. [...]
Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
Tracy Kidder writes about an exceptional young man who escaped the horrors of genocide in Burundi and Rwanda in 1993 and 1994 only to spend the next ten years working hard to pick up where his life left off and return to make his home in Burundi a better place. Deo was a third year [...]
Born To Run by Christopher McDougall
As a past runner, this book was fascinating. If you are not interested in athletics, specifically running, it may not be the best book for you. However, if you are, I found it hard to put down. I had heard about Born To Run before Christmas and when I went home one of my family [...]
As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised As A Girl by John Colapinto
I was a psychology major in college who had often heard the nature vs. nurture debate. When I heard about As Nature Made Him I was very interested in this true life story. It is a heartbreaking life story of two identical twin boys who were taken to be circumcised when they were seven-months old. [...]
If You Really Loved Me by Ann Rule
This was an interesting True Crime story, a little different than the serial killer books that I’ve read by Ann Rule before. If You Really Loved Me is the story of a family. The family is a bit unconventional consisting of David Brown, his 23-year old wife Linda, Linda’s 17-year old sister Patti and David’s [...]
The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo by Paula Huntley
The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo is the journal that Paula Huntley kept when she and her husband moved from San Francisco to Prishtina, Kosovo in 2000, right after much of the conflict ended in Kosovo. Paula’s husband was going to work on the legal system and bring it up to par. Paula wanted to [...]
