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BookTribJune 2, 2026
F. N. Knight's The First Cycle is an ambitious, richly imagined science-fantasy epic that announces the arrival of a writer with a bold vision.
BookTribJune 2, 2026
Books are my passion, so it is really special that I get to promote them for my job.
BookTribJune 1, 2026
In a culture marked by chronic worry, overthinking and fear, Dawn Isler Cox believes anxiety often reveals something deeper than difficult circumstances — it exposes what we truly believe about God.
BookTribMay 28, 2026
Wayne Williams' Grab Another Gear is a motivating guide to living with intention rather than drifting through life on autopilot.
BookTribMay 28, 2026
Children often understand the world through color long before they can explain it in words. Brightness feels like joy. Grayness feels like sadness. A rainbow can suggest possibility and hope. In Lili & The Tree of Magical Colors, Rosalba Segovia uses that simple, child-friendly language of color to tell a…
BookTribMay 27, 2026
James Chesterton’s Ashes of the Republic is a chilling political thriller that fuses technological dystopia with spiritual symbolism, exploring how power reshapes democracy, morality and personal identity in an age of corporate surveillance and authoritarian drift. Set against the beauty of Sedona’s red deserts, the novel follows characters trapped between…
BookTribMay 27, 2026
Looking to venture into new waters this summer? Well, you’re in luck – because we’ve got the guide to introduce readers to a whole new pool of bookish options. Expand your genres of choice with book recs that will complement your reading tastes instead of challenging them entirely. For romance…
BookTribMay 27, 2026
Some thrillers begin with a crime scene. Dawn Before Darkness begins with a woman trying to end a relationship without angering the man on the other end of the phone. That choice — careful, almost ordinary — tells readers exactly what kind of danger Liz Lazarus is interested in. Not…
BookTribMay 26, 2026
BookTrib is proud to present to our readers the Writers, Ink podcast, a show about the business of writing. J.K. Rowling was nearly homeless when she wrote the first Harry Potter book. Stephen King penned Carrie on a small desk wedged between a washer and dryer. James Patterson worked in advertising and…
BookTribMay 26, 2026
In this powerful memoir, Lyn Barrett recounts her journey through Dissociative Identity Disorder, revealing how a family crisis unearthed her long-buried childhood trauma. Crazy: Reclaiming Life from the Shadow of Traumatic Memory is a story of resilience and transformation — the reclaiming of a life once fragmented by trauma.
BookTribMay 21, 2026
Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a literary podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio and video interviews with authors. With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he…
BookTribMay 21, 2026
What is the soul? Joseph L. Bensinger begins Energy Fields with that old, almost unanswerable question, then refuses to keep it in one category. The soul, in his telling, is not only a religious idea, a poetic image or a problem for consciousness studies. It is a pattern — a…
BookTribMay 20, 2026
A. H. Lewis doesn’t speak about fantasy as escapism. In this conversation, the author of The Empires of Durajan reflects on the questions that shaped his life long before they shaped his fiction: questions about belief, surrender, identity, power and the people history forgets. Drawing from decades of quiet reflection,…
BookTribMay 20, 2026
Dawn Isler Cox’s The Root of All Fear takes a familiar therapeutic idea — that thoughts shape feelings and behavior — and asks what happens when the thought beneath anxiety is not only “I’m not enough,” but something much deeper: our beliefs about the nature of God. That shift gives…
BookTribMay 19, 2026