[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟1/2 A fascinating and exhaustively-researched narrative on the lives and accomplishments of three men - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Theodore Roosevelt, and Roald Amundsen - whose leadership, vision, decisions and drive propelled them to complete two historically “bold undertakings” each, in total completing six projects of global and persistent…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 1/2 An absolutely riveting ride, from start to finish. With its ominous pacing, vivid characterization, and alarmingly-charged plot, the author achieves an intensity of menace and foreboding that never lets up. Dealing with infamous events that took place, for the most part, in the year 1965, situated…
Food That Tastes Like Home [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟1/2 In this beautifully illustrated homage to his Korean-American roots, food writer and columnist Eric Kim leads us through a delightful tour of Korean cooking covering all the bases - from quick and easy TV Dinners, to Pantry Meals, Stews, Rice (the bedrock…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟1/2 Not for the faint of heart, this exhaustively researched, beautifully presented historical analysis on a very complex and controversial subject is rich with detail and incredibly compelling. If “un-attractiveness” can be “linked” as one factor that may contribute to criminality, can corrective surgery be demonstrated to play…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟+ The first thing that hits you when you open this spectacularly beautiful cookbook is COLOR! Bursting with vibrancy, personality, style, Mexican scenery, and oh yes, gorgeous food, the illustrations in this book are a smorgasbord of delight - as are the recipes that follow. This cookbook, the…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 A tragic, and yet ultimately hopeful memoir, about love and loss and finding a way to move forward, - a tug at the heart-strings and gentle reminder that out of collapse comes growth and new beginnings. Donna is a middle-aged mother, with a high-powered corporate sales career,…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 1/2 Meticulously researched and likely one of the most factually rich true crime novels I have had the pleasure to read, this tragically terrible story, written by the step-sister of a young woman, Stephanie Kupchynsky, who disappeared mysteriously on July 31, 1991 from her apartment in Greece,…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 1/2 This poignant and thoughtful memoir challenged as much as it compelled me. It’s hard to look death directly in the eye, especially when it’s encroaching, with terrifying intensity, on the time that is left for a shy and sensitive seventeen year-old. Jody White, unexplainably and suddenly…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This absolutely beautiful book would be as at home on display on a coffee table as it would be bedside reading - as long as it is easily accessible when planning your next bird-friendly garden. Packed with full color photos of plants and birds that are vibrant…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is an absolutely gorgeous book with so many beautiful recipes it's hard to know where to start when planning your next Indian meal. Written by an Indian-American internal medicine physician, the recipes presented are rooted in the native Gujarati foods of his youth, adapted from more…