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Layla Matthews

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Layla-Matthews-crop300.jpg Layla Matthews Medical Thriller, Suspense Family Nurse Practitioner and author of a terrifying medical thriller, The Body Auction Author Lisa Mathis is a Family Nurse Practitioner who writes under the pen name of Layla Matthews. Being in the medical field for over twenty years has given her the opportunity…
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February 12, 2020
Author Discovery Zone

Paul Budden

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Paul-290x300.jpg Paul Budden Historical "Fact-ion" A student of history who never stops learning. We are invited to join a journey with the author which he had no intention of travelling upon, indeed did not even know existed, but which has since becoming unfurled occupied many a waking hour. That uncovers…
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February 12, 2020
Author Discovery Zone

Ken Kamen

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Ken-Kamen-Horizontal-untouched-scaled.jpg Ken Kamen Nonfiction - Personal Finance, Technology Nationally recognized financial expert and advisor Ken Kamen is the president of Mercadien Asset Management with nearly four decades of experience in the securities and personal finance industries. Kamen is a nationally recognized financial expert and advisor. He is the author of…
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February 12, 2020
Author Discovery Zone

Jim Parry

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jim-Parry-Portrait-color-scaled-cropped300.jpg Jim Parry Top Ten Lists: Real Facts, Dark Humor Writer, blogger and apocalyptic comedian letting us know what the end of the world has in store for us. Jim Parry misspent his years at Harvard by helping start the Gargoyle, a humor magazine to compete with the Lampoon, and…
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February 7, 2020
Author Discovery Zone

Kevin Doherty

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Kevin-Doherty.jpg Kevin Doherty Mystery/Thriller Hard at work on the next book. Staring into space on the one after that.
BookTrib
January 31, 2020
Fiction

“American Dirt” Publisher Issues Statement, Cancels Book Tour

The president and publisher of Flatiron Books, which published the controversial American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins, has issued a statement on the book’s rollout and his company’s “inadequacies” in addressing issues of representation. The statement also announced that the rest of the author’s planned 40-city book tour has been canceled.…
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January 30, 2020
Author Spotlight

Q&A with M. L. Huie on Spy Thriller and Flawed Heroine

If you’re after a riveting spy thriller with the added bonuses of an intrepid female protagonist, a fascinating historical setting, and a nuanced depiction of challenging ethical decisions, M. L. Huie’s debut novel Spitfire (our review) is worthy of your consideration. When you first meet anti-heroine Livy Nash, she certainly doesn’t…
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January 29, 2020
Author Discovery Zone

Author Rebekah Simon-Peter

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/rebekah-simon-peter-crop2.jpg Rebekah Simon-Peter Non-Fiction United Methodist pastor coaches church leaders and congregations on how to achieve dreams previously thought impossible.
BookTrib
January 28, 2020
Miscellany

Melinda Gates on “The Moment of Lift” and Empowering Women

Today YouTube Originals launched episode four of its critically acclaimed book club, BookTube. The new episode features an in-depth conversation with philanthropist and author Melinda Gates, where she discusses her new book The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World. This episode follows the special featuring Michelle Obama (Becoming), episode…
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January 26, 2020
Fiction

Digging Into the “American Dirt” Controversy

There’s a saying in marketing that there's no such thing as bad publicity. That expression is about to be put to the ultimate test. Only a few weeks into the New Year and the publishing industry has a major controversy on its hands with the just-released American Dirt (Flatiron Books)…
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January 23, 2020
Author Discovery Zone

Ron Barrett

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/RonBarrett-copy-2.jpg Ron Barrett Illustrator Ron Barrett is best known for illustrating the children's book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, which was written by his wife, Judi Barrett. Ron Barrett is the internationally bestselling illustrator and author of many books for children and adults, including Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Animals…
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January 23, 2020