View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Homeplace: A Southern Town, a Country Legend, and the Last Days of a Mountaintop Honky-Tonk

by John Lingan

Published: 2018-07-17

Hardcover: 272 pages

0 members reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

An intimate account of country music, social change, and a vanishing way of life as a Shenandoah town collides with the twenty-first century Winchester, Virginia is an emblematic American town. When John Lingan first traveled there, it was to seek out Jim McCoy: local honky-tonk owner and ...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley, as Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom

by Adam Fisher

Published: 2018-07-10

Hardcover: 512 pages

0 members reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

A candid, colorful, and comprehensive oral history that reveals the secrets of Silicon Valley -- from the origins of Apple and Atari to the present day clashes of Google and Facebook, and all the start-ups and disruptions that happened along the way.Rarely has one economy asserted itself a...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Memoirs of a Polar Bear

by Yoko Tawada

Published: 2016-11-08

Paperback: 288 pages

0 members reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

The Memoirs of a Polar Bear stars three generations of talented writers and performers?who happen to be polar bearsThe Memoirs of a Polar Bear has in spades what Rivka Galchen hailed in the New Yorker as “Yoko Tawada’s magnificent strangeness”?Tawada is an author like no other. Th...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done

by Jon Acuff

Published: 2017-09-12

Hardcover: 208 pages

0 members reading this now
1 club reading this now
0 members have read this book

Year after year, readers pulled me aside at events and said, “I’ve never had a problem starting. I’ve started a million things, but I never finish them. Why can’t I finish?According to studies, 92 percent of New Year’s resolutions fail. You’ve practically got a better shot at g...

View Reading GUide

* * * * Inspiring,
Adventurous

Be the first to rate this book!

Heads of the Colored People: Stories

by Nafissa Thompson-Spires

Published: 2018-04-10

Hardcover: 224 pages

3 members reading this now
3 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction and Kirkus Prize FinalistCalling to mind the best works of Paul Beatty and Junot Díaz, this collection of moving, timely, and darkly funny stories examines the concept of black identity in this so-called post-racial era.A stunning new ta...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Loving Our Enemies: Reflections on the Hardest Commandment

by Jim Forest

Published: 2014-09-10

Paperback: 160 pages

0 members reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

Not everything Jesus taught must be regarded as a commandment. Counsels on voluntary poverty or celibacy, for instance, have been seen as an option for a small minority of Christ’s followers. The same cannot be said about the love of enemies. This does not fall in the “if you would be perfect”...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Justice League/Power Rangers (Jla (Justice League of America))

by Tom Taylor

Published: 2017-12-12

Hardcover: 160 pages

0 members reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

It’s team-up time! Two of pop culture’s greatest teams collide in the graphic novel you thought you’d never see in JUSTICE LEAGUE/POWER RANGERS! The Justice League have never met heroes like these teenagers with attitude before!   When a teleporter accident brings the Mighty Morphin...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

The Kings of Big Spring: God, Oil, and One Family's Search for the American Dream

by Bryan Mealer

Published: 2018-02-06

Hardcover: 384 pages

0 members reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

"Think of it as a Texas version of Hillbilly Elegy."? Bryan Burrough, New York Times bestselling author of THE BIG RICH and BARBARIANS AT THE GATE"Bryan Mealer has given us a brilliant, and brilliantly entertaining, portrayal of family, and a bursting-at-the-seams chunk of America in the b...

View Reading GUide

Not yet rated

Be the first to rate this book!

Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley

by Corey Pein

Published: 2018-04-24

Hardcover: 320 pages

0 members reading this now
0 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

A scathing, sardonic exploration of Silicon Valley tech culture, laying bare the greed, hubris, and retrograde politics of an industry that aspires to radically transform society for its own benefitAt the height of the startup boom, journalist Corey Pein set out for Silicon Valley with lit...

View Reading GUide

* * * * Addictive,
Adventurous,
Interesting

1 club review

Review This book

The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

by Kirk Wallace Johnson

Published: 2018-04-24

Hardcover: 320 pages

0 members reading this now
35 clubs reading this now
0 members have read this book

Recommended to book clubs by 1 of 1 members

As heard on NPR's This American Life“Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air“One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever.” —Christian Science Monito...