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Jeff Daugherty

Jeff Daugherty

Jeff Daugherty graduated from Bard College and now writes and edits for BookTrib. In addition to books, he likes dogs and podcasts.

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Jeff Daugherty

NonfictionSave the World

Malaka Gharib and the Elusive American Dream

Malaka Gharib, the daughter of an Egyptian immigrant and a Filipino immigrant, spent her formative years carving out an identity for herself between her Filipino-American community at home and her father’s Egyptian family in Cairo. In her graphic memoir, I Was Their American Dream (Clarkson Potter), she notes the cultural…
Jeff Daugherty
April 26, 2019
Fiction

A Globetrotting, Tomb-Raiding Tour de Force

Carys Jones may bear the same last name as Harrison Ford’s action hero Indiana, but she has more in common with Robert Langdon from Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code series. For starters, she’s a novice when it comes to adventuring, described by an old boyfriend as “a highly educated, glorified…
Jeff Daugherty
April 12, 2019
Fiction

A Grand Adventure Through the Stars Beyond

In science fiction and fantasy, this object often has to be brought from point one location to another, whether it’s a Horcrux, the One Ring, or the Death Star plans. Relics of Andromeda (Gold Dragon Books), Jonathan Michael Erickson’s first installment in a planned sci-fi trilogy called “Songs of Ancients,”…
Jeff Daugherty
April 10, 2019
Romance

A Travel Guide for Your Honeymoon in Purgatory

Gour Ghost Passage is a story of boy meets girl, boy is swallowed by sinkhole, girl tries to rescue boy only to realize that boy was alive all along, boy goes after girl, and the two wind up together in purgatory. There’s a lot more to Margot Suzanne Weyandt’s debut…
Jeff Daugherty
March 27, 2019
NonfictionSave the World

A Man and His Bike Battle a Rare Disease

Kyle Bryant may not be a household name—yet—but he’s become the face and voice of defeating Friedreich’s ataxia, one mile on his recumbent bike at a time. Shifting Into High Gear: One Man’s Grave Diagnosis and the Epic Bike Ride That Taught Him What Matters (Health Communications, Inc.) is the…
Jeff Daugherty
March 15, 2019