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When Life Drops a Coconut on Your Head…

A Las Vegas comic billed as “The Man of a Thousand Voices,” Lonny Day has built his career around impressions, especially a dead-on imitation of the President. Then the President is assassinated, Lonny’s signature act becomes unthinkable and almost everything else in his life starts coming apart. His wife, Doris,…
BookTrib
September 16, 2026
MiscellanyRecommended

Poetry That Finds the Holy in the Hard Places

Laura Wifler came to poetry late and, by her own account, reluctantly. For much of her life, she thought the form was obscure, overly complicated ... and simply not for her. Then, while homeschooling her children, she encountered poems that were clear without being simplistic, beautiful without requiring a decoder…
BookTrib
September 15, 2026
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Finding Light in the Shadows of Memory

From the Cyclops Cave is a memoir written by Don Schofield where an American poet, long settled in Greece, rents a house on the island of Kýthnos that the locals call "the Cyclops Cave." Alone there for three summers and two Easters in '92, '93 and '94, gazing out at…
BookTrib
September 14, 2026
Author Spotlight

Meet the H.A.K. Heroes Helping Kids Feel Understood and Empowered

Inspired by three very special real-life animals, Stevie Hill’s H.A.K. Heroes Series uses adventures to help young readers better understand ADHD, autism and anxiety. Featuring Hercules the mini pig, King the Dalmatian and Archi the French Bulldog, the series celebrates the powerful bond between children and animals while emphasizing empathy,…
BookTrib
September 11, 2026
FictionRecommended

A Haunted Gettysburg Novel

Most Civil War novels about Gettysburg focus on the battle itself. Jeff Janoda’s Season of Life begins where many of them end: with the dead sprawled in the fields, the wounded packed into churches and barns, farms stripped bare, and civilians trying to piece together whatever can be salvaged after…
BookTrib
September 10, 2026
Podcasts

Bookaholic Podcast — Her Husband Left Her for a Man!

The Bookaholic Podcast is the ultimate audio haven for passionate readers, curious minds, and unapologetic book lovers. Hosted by Deirdre Pippins, each episode dives into the world of storytelling through author interviews, genre spotlights, literary trends, and honest book chats that feed your reading addiction. No matter the genre, there’s…
BookTrib
September 10, 2026
FictionRecommended

The Machinery of Survival in Malta’s Darkest Hours

By early 1942, Malta was in trouble. The small British-held island sat directly across Axis supply routes to North Africa, which made it strategically valuable and an obvious target. Bombing had intensified. Food, fuel and aircraft were in short supply. And every ship that managed to reach the island had…
BookTrib
September 9, 2026
FictionRecommended

The Devastation of Disappearing in Plain Sight

Live for Me, Nkem, is a book about depression that pulls you inside a mind that is quietly shutting down. Nneka Oluoha's debut is an emotionally honest portrait of maternal depression and it braids that portrait into a richly rendered Nigerian American family. Nkem Ezenwa has the life immigrant parents…
BookTrib
September 9, 2026
FictionRecommended

The Strange Business of Free Will

John Merlan thinks he is nearing the end of things: his career is sputtering out (no thanks to his employer), his heart will not keep a steady rhythm, and most of his oldest friends are gone, save one. What remains is the question of what to do with the freedom…
BookTrib
September 8, 2026
NonfictionRecommended

The Unlikely Making of a World Series MVP

There's a moment early in Just Enough where David Eckstein is running through the dark backroads of Warren, Rhode Island, in the middle of a 0-for-27 slump, wondering if the Red Sox front office was right about him all along and that he was never cut out for the big…
BookTrib
September 8, 2026
Miscellany

Focus in on the New Fiction to Prioritize This Month

Consolidate your fall TBR with September’s exciting slate of new + notable fiction, selected for maximum reading enjoyment: Contemporary conversation-starters: Taipei Story by R. F. KuangThe Birthing Tree by Amanda PetersAvalon, Rise by Madeline ffitchUntamed Coast by Kevin C. Morris Immersive + impeccably written historical novels: The Chinese Lady by…
BookTrib
September 4, 2026