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10 Ways to Keep Reading Groups Fresh & Engaged in These Weird Times

Maybe your group has successfully migrated to Zoom, or are social distancing in someone’s bigggggg backyard. Or maybe you’ve temporarily disbanded or gone on hiatus. Or perhaps, you’re kind of limping along and a teensy bit bored and totally miss getting together in person and having things be, for lack…

Kelly SimmonsNovember 26, 2020

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Is Your Book Club Looking for Ideas? Here Are Four

Here’s something to talk about at your next book club! BookTrib.com‘s new deal with the Girly Book Club sends 4 book club worthy reads from select publishers to 50 U.S. book clubs every month. BookTrib’s Jim Alkon describes the four titles in the program’s inaugural package. Want more BookTrib? Sign up NOW for news and…

Just The Right Book PodcastSeptember 21, 2018

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These 5 Online Book Clubs are Calling Your Name!

At this point in my life, I’m not sure where I would be without a book club. Both social and fun, book clubs are the perfect way to take my favorite thing to do and add friends to it. Oh, and wine. (Lots of wine!) But we do read the…

Rachel CarterMay 6, 2017

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Reese Witherspoon’s and Other Celebrity Book Clubs: Read Along with Your Favorite Stars

BookTrib is partnering with Bookish to bring you more great content. Admit it. You get a little excited every time you see a celebrity caught by the paparazzi with a book in their hand. You have one of those moments where you realize that even though they are staggeringly beautiful and stunningly successful and talented,…

BookishSeptember 20, 2017

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January Book Club Picks: Schizophrenia, Refugees, and Tropical Storm Irene

BookTrib is partnering with Bookish to bring you more great content. Is one of your 2018 resolutions to keep reading and discussing awesome books with your book club? Well, you’re in luck. 2018 is off to a great start in terms of thought-provoking new releases for your book club to dive into. We’ve rounded up…

BookishJanuary 10, 2018

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The Devastating Loss of a Child Provides One Mother With a Lifetime of Wisdom

“To die will be an awfully big adventure” – James M. Berrie, Peter Pan Searching for Spenser: A Mother's Journey Through Grief (Anamcara Press) by Margaret Kramar opens by telling readers what they can expect to find between its covers; there is no suspenseful moment to the climax, no unforeseen plot…

Kelsey HallOctober 6, 2021

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“Pioneering the Vote:” The Plural Histories of Women’s Suffrage

Five years ago, looking ahead to the centennial of women’s suffrage in the United States, Neylan McBaine embarked on a story that has been largely neglected. In her new book, Pioneering the Vote, The Untold Story of Suffragists in Utah and the West (Shadow Mountain), she examines the tangled history…

Claudia KeenanAugust 4, 2020

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True Grit in “The Bond,” a Memoir About Family Survival

“A poignant, infuriating, informative, and ultimately triumphant account of an unusual clan.” — Kirkus —∞— “Grotticelli’s unsparing honesty … will make readers wince and keep them marveling at the indomitability of these children.” — BookLife.com —∞— After enjoying the 2013 TV series The Fosters (ABC Family/Freeform), which follows the stories…

Susan BaileyDecember 16, 2020

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“Blue Grit:” An Insider’s Often Harrowing Look at the UN

This is no global thriller we’re talking about. Those are the words of Ulf T. Kristoffersson, reflecting on his real-life 40-year career with the United Nations in his fascinating and often-harrowing memoir, Blue Grit: A Life on the Humanitarian Front Lines of the United Nations (CreateSpace). Kristoffersson served six Secretaries-General,…

Jim AlkonAugust 6, 2019

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“Stealing Cinderella:” A Forbidden Relationship in South Korea

Stealing Cinderella: How I Became an International Fugitive for Love (Fencetree) is supposed to be a story of forbidden love, and it is – but without the longing glances and furtive clutches in the dark. One has to imagine the heat, the whispers, the kisses, because author Mark D. Diehl’s…

Sherri DaleyOctober 7, 2019

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“Original Politics:” An Exploration of Native American Influence on the Founding of the U.S.

There is a Cree Indian proverb that says: “Only when the last tree has been cut down, the last fish been caught and the last stream poisoned, will we realize we cannot eat money.” These words are the essence of educator, ecopsychologist and political philosopher Glenn Aparicio Parry’s beautifully written…

Carole ClapsJune 16, 2020

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“The Inside Ride:” Dissecting One Father-Son Relationship

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/InsideRide-2.jpg At a time when some would argue that fatherhood and manhood have become endangered concepts, The Inside Ride: A Journey to Manhood (Nicolas-Hays Inc.) by Dr. Donald Cohen and his father Dr. Max Cohen offers an extended and fearless exploration on the meaning of manhood in contemporary Western culture.…

BookTribJune 19, 2020

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“Better Dead Than Divorced:” Okay, Have it Your Way

Those were the words of an eight-year-old boy living in a small Greek mountain village in the 1950s and trying with his brothers to comprehend the booming noise outside that turned out to be gunshots. It’s the defining moment in Better Dead Than Divorced (Hard Work Publications), the true story…

Jim AlkonAugust 21, 2019

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“The Sun Does Shine:” Hinton Stares Down Death Row

The Sun Does Shine (St. Martin's Press) is a powerful and important memoir, showing a discouraging side of our legal system and an incredible testament of stamina and hope from one special individual Anthony Ray Hinton. In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was convicted of murder in Alabama and sentenced to the…

Jennifer BlankfeinSeptember 6, 2018

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Dispelling Myths About the Brain and Consciousness

The mainstream view, expressed by Carl Sagan in 1977, is: “ workings – what we sometimes call mind – are a consequence of its anatomy and physiology and nothing more.” But what in its anatomy and physiology? Said neuroscientist Sam Harris in 2015, “There is nothing about a brain, studied…

Jim ParryOctober 16, 2018

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Susan Orlean Exposes Importance of Local Libraries

We know that today, libraries do not just house books, but they provide so much more to their community. In April 1986 a suspicious fire started at the Los Angeles Public Library and destroyed over 400,000 books and countless irreplaceable historical materials. Some of the lost relics included a cherished…

Jennifer BlankfeinDecember 26, 2018

10 Ways to Keep Reading Groups Fresh & Engaged in These Weird Times

Is Your Book Club Looking for Ideas? Here Are Four

These 5 Online Book Clubs are Calling Your Name!

January Book Club Picks: Schizophrenia, Refugees, and Tropical Storm Irene

The Devastating Loss of a Child Provides One Mother With a Lifetime of Wisdom

“Pioneering the Vote:” The Plural Histories of Women’s Suffrage

True Grit in “The Bond,” a Memoir About Family Survival

“Blue Grit:” An Insider’s Often Harrowing Look at the UN

“Stealing Cinderella:” A Forbidden Relationship in South Korea

“Original Politics:” An Exploration of Native American Influence on the Founding of the U.S.

“The Inside Ride:” Dissecting One Father-Son Relationship

“Better Dead Than Divorced:” Okay, Have it Your Way

“The Sun Does Shine:” Hinton Stares Down Death Row

Dispelling Myths About the Brain and Consciousness

Susan Orlean Exposes Importance of Local Libraries

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