Adult Books Reviews

The Naked Don’t Fear the Water by Matthieu Aikins In Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Matthieu Aikins’ riveting and transporting non-fiction book, he narrates how he and Omar, his Afghan driver and […]

Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller Chip War is an illuminating account of how everything depends on chips: armed drones, data centers, automobiles, […]

Permanent Record by Edward Snowden “Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about […]

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell “I’d give anything to get my hands on that […]

Learning America: One Woman’s Fight for Educational Justice for Refugee Children by Luma Mufleh Founding director of the nonprofit Fugees Family, an organization devoted to educational justice for refugee and […]

The Guide by Peter Heller The sublime depiction of Colorado’s majestic natural beauty and wilderness, a luxury fishing lodge known as Kingfisher Lodge, a gorgeous famous singer, inexplicable curious occurrences, and […]

The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive by Lucy Adlington “Thousands of people were forced to work in sewing workshops set up in ghettos […]

The Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFede On September 11, 2001, “more than 250 aircraft, carrying 43,895 people, were diverted to fifteen Canadian airports from Vancouver in the […]

The White Darkness by David Grann This is a riveting true account of Henry Worsley’s monumental pilgrimage to Antarctica, following in the footsteps of the journey taken by his hero, […]

The Spymaster of Baghdad: A True Story of Bravery, Family, and Patriotism in the Battle Against ISIS by Margaret Coker “…my aim with this book is to recalibrate Iraq’s history […]