The Carnegie Awards, established in 2012 by The American Library Association to reflect the expert judgment and insight of library professionals and booksellers who work closely with adult readers, this week announced The Swimmers (Knopf) by Julie Otsuka as the winner of the Medal for Excellence in Fiction and An…
BookTribJanuary 30, 2023
“Up and down the Maine coast, there’s a tough breed of men who make their living from the sea. They battle the wind and the weather and the tides, and sometimes, each other … Welcome to Tranquility. Welcome to Lobster Wars.” Words spoken by the voiceover at the beginning of…
BookTribJanuary 30, 2023
What Have We Learned From American Dirt? Three years after the launch of the controversial book American Dirt, the tale of a Mexican immigrant family, by Jeanine Cummins, a white woman, that created a firestorm over race, identity and Cummins’ right in the first place to write about the plight of…
BookTribJanuary 28, 2023
Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio 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…
BookTribJanuary 25, 2023
“Beyond the Heart” is a brand-new podcast hosted by renowned Cardiologist, Women’s Health Advocate and Author, Dr. Nieca Goldberg. Weekly, she explores essential conversations with doctors, thought leaders, health practitioners and game-changers to help you redefine how to view your body and the healing process. This groundbreaking conversation series is a…
BookTribJanuary 24, 2023
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…
BookTribJanuary 23, 2023
In the 1980’s corporate world of Full Circle, Liz Castillo is a single professional woman trying to navigate the intricacies of a career-oriented life and what society deems is the role of womanhood. When it comes to the book’s discussion of the working woman’s struggles — everything from underpayment to…
BookTribJanuary 23, 2023
Childhood education, according to Donald Sung, is the foundation for people, families, society and the future of the world. Sung has addressed this belief in his scholarly work Principles of Education (Barnes & Noble Press), in which he defines and details 81 principles that parents, educators and learners need to…
BookTribJanuary 23, 2023
More than 42 million Americans are functionally illiterate; they can't follow the directions on a can of soup. Millions of students leave grade school with insufficient reading skills to adequately do their work and learn. How and why did this happen? And what does this say about the way we…
BookTribJanuary 23, 2023
Emma Straub’s Historic F-Bomb: The Houston Chronicle reported that a school district in Texas uninvited novelist Emma Straub (This Time Tomorrow) from a planned visit with elementary school students because the author dropped multiple F-Bombs in a Tweet in 2022. Emma Straub had been invited to read her new children’s…
BookTribJanuary 21, 2023
There’s something about music that just brings people together. Whether it’s a parent lulling their baby to sleep, a couple of friends singing obnoxiously loud in the car, or a roaring crowd of strangers at a concert. Music transcends the boundaries of logic and language to speak to us on…
BookTribJanuary 19, 2023
Based on a true family story and set in the home front America of 1943, I’ll Remember You by Deborah Packer is a bittersweet portrait of a conflicted, wartime romance between an idealistic, proud, small-town Jewish girl and a Jewish soldier from Brooklyn with horrific memories as a child in war-torn Poland during World…
BookTribJanuary 18, 2023
