Joanna Poncavage

Rags-to-Riches Memoir Is a Wild Ride that Speaks to Society’s Misfits

READ AN EXCERPT Biographies and memoirs consistently rank as top-selling genres. The usual subjects of these books are the famous or infamous, but everyone has a story to tell. It’s just that some stories are more entertaining than others. Laurence Neal Pokras is a man of strong opinions and a…

Joanna PoncavageApril 7, 2025

Recommended Thrillers

Cold War Continues in an International Game of Cat and Mouse

Readers of spy fiction may have wondered if the genre would melt away after the Cold War, but it turns out the secret world of espionage is timeless. All a good spy novel needs are a brave hero (or heroine) and some international skullduggery. With Moscow Nights Return, Book 1…

Joanna PoncavageJanuary 8, 2025

Fiction Recommended

Southern Sleuthing in the Big Easy: “The Lafitte Affair” Delivers

Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans? Love a good historical mystery? Pirates and hidden treasure? Swoon-worthy southern cuisine? Find your heart’s desires in The Lafitte Affair by Norman Woolworth. City of the Dead Curmudgeonly antiques dealer Bruneau Ignatius Abellard is finishing his last bite of Eggs…

Joanna PoncavageSeptember 27, 2024

Recommended

Espionage and Absurdity Collide in New Spoof

James Bond has been busy. Since 1952, when Ian Fleming published Casino Royale, the first of his spy novels featuring 007, subsequent Bond books have sold more than 100 million copies worldwide. It’s been estimated that 47 percent of people in the United States have seen at least one of…

Joanna PoncavageAugust 28, 2024

Fiction Recommended

In 1960s America, The Disillusioned Search for Truth

America’s 1960s were revolutionary years marked by anti-war protests, flag-burning, civil disobedience and assassinations. Many young people lost their dreams and ideals in the maelstrom, some emerged enlightened, but all were affected by the turbulence.Authors who chose to write about the era have a head start if they lived through…

Joanna PoncavageJuly 24, 2024

Audiobooks Nonfiction Recommended

Audiobook Portrays Music and Magic of a Maestro, As Told by a Musician and His Daughter

Listen to an EXCERPT of This Was Toscanini Half a century after his death, Arturo Toscanini is remembered as one of the greatest conductors of all time. His fame was global. He insisted his musician’s performances hew to a composer’s intentions instead of self-expression. In Italy, he conducted premieres of…

Joanna PoncavageJune 4, 2024

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Stranger than Fiction: The Life of Mormonism’s Joseph Smith

A former Mormon writing a novel based on the life of the founder of this church might well be expected to produce an exposé. But Holy Joe! Prophet, Seer and Revelator by Just Judy is instead a heavily researched book based on firsthand information and documentation by historical characters. The…

Joanna PoncavageApril 19, 2024

Fiction Recommended

Fighting Racism and Hate with Farce and Satire in Humorous Literary Novel

It’s the end of an ordinary day for Dwight Bridges: Poor business as usual at his Buick Dealership in Hoggzswallow Hollow, West Virginia. He blames his lack of sales on the 1970s gas crisis caused by “towel-headed sheiks holding back their oil” and the “swarthy, brooding influence” of “cutthroat Jewish…

Joanna PoncavageMarch 7, 2024

Nonfiction Recommended

Thoughts, Insights and Meditations on the World’s No. 1 Bestseller, The Bible

Scholars have been interpreting the words of the Bible for millennia. The oldest known manuscripts of the Bible date to the 4th Century C.E., but the oldest sources of its contents are thousands of years older. The Book of Genesis, for example, contains traces of ancient creation stories. Today’s Protestant…

Joanna PoncavageDecember 12, 2023

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Witness the Little Boy Inside the Man in Nostalgic Memoir

It’s 1948 in Tacoma, Washington, and 8-year-old Joe and his best friend Freddie have a lot going on. Each day is filled with thrilling adventures — like keeping the younger kids out of Fort Blackberry, avoiding all girls, and planning gruesome punishments for people who are mean to dogs. Joseph…

Joanna PoncavageFebruary 9, 2023

Fiction Recommended

What It Means to “Have It All” in Historical Feminist Novel

Meet Liz Castillo, a professional woman in New York City in the 1980s. She has a master’s degree in business, a high-pressure job with a global ad agency, and a 22nd-floor apartment overlooking the Hudson River. She has dreams of a promotion, but everything is interrupted when she discovers a…

Joanna PoncavageJanuary 11, 2023

Fiction Recommended

Historical Fiction from a Lawyer Who Saw It All

The first sentence of My Best Friend is Angela Bennett (Inanna Publications) by Canadian author Suzanne Hillier might seem to hint this book is a light-hearted romance. It soon becomes clear it’s something much more: a historical fiction novel that chronicles one woman’s crusade for women’s rights and equality in…

Joanna PoncavageJanuary 6, 2023

Fiction Fiction - Featured Recommended

A Dragon Walks Into a Bar …

A sprawling epic of a battle for world power, Scars and Scales by KC J. Hutchins delivers enough strange creatures to fill a hundred fantasy novels. The last of his kind, the Omni dragon Xerxes has been imprisoned in a cage suspended above the throne of the sorceress Queen Delsey…

Joanna PoncavageNovember 30, 2022

Fiction

Literary Tale of Sadness, Sorrow and Grief Told by a Poet

Should a book ever win a prize for its unreliable narrator, bet on The Offering (Penelope Books) by Salah el Moncef. The narrator in question is Tariq Abbassi, a lapsed Muslim who leaves Tunisia to study philosophy at the Sorbonne but ends up running a successful Middle Eastern restaurant in…

Joanna PoncavageNovember 7, 2022

Fiction Fiction - Featured Recommended

Literary Journey of Self-Discovery Shows the Making of a Man

It’s a bold and gutsy move to open a book with a description of two dead men, their bodies mangled at the bottom of a construction pit, blood running from their mouths and stiffening into maroon jelly. “If you have to, blame me for wanting to feel the rush that…

Joanna PoncavageOctober 31, 2022

Fiction Fiction - Featured

Alternate History Gives Autonomy to Enslaved Young Man in America

What if? That’s the question the alternate history genre of speculative fiction poses as it weaves together real events and gives them a different outcome. One of the best-known examples is Philip K. Dick’s classic, The Man in the High Castle, in which Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan win WWII.…

Joanna PoncavageOctober 4, 2022

Joanna Poncavage

Rags-to-Riches Memoir Is a Wild Ride that Speaks to Society’s Misfits

Cold War Continues in an International Game of Cat and Mouse

Southern Sleuthing in the Big Easy: “The Lafitte Affair” Delivers

Espionage and Absurdity Collide in New Spoof

In 1960s America, The Disillusioned Search for Truth

Audiobook Portrays Music and Magic of a Maestro, As Told by a Musician and His Daughter

Stranger than Fiction: The Life of Mormonism’s Joseph Smith

Fighting Racism and Hate with Farce and Satire in Humorous Literary Novel

Thoughts, Insights and Meditations on the World’s No. 1 Bestseller, The Bible

Witness the Little Boy Inside the Man in Nostalgic Memoir

What It Means to “Have It All” in Historical Feminist Novel

Historical Fiction from a Lawyer Who Saw It All

A Dragon Walks Into a Bar …

Literary Journey of Self-Discovery Shows the Making of a Man

Alternate History Gives Autonomy to Enslaved Young Man in America

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