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Lisa Harding’s Latest Is Full of “Bright, Burning Things” That Haunt Your Mind and Memory

When we first meet Sonya, the young mother at the center of Bright Burning Things (HarperVia) by Lisa Harding, she is frolicking at the beach with her son, Tommy, and dog, Herbie. While it feels like a normal outing on a warm and sunny day, it is not long before…

Laura McCaffertyDecember 7, 2021

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Search for Hopes and Dreams on “The Lincoln Highway” and You’ll Enjoy the Ride

By the author of Rules of Civility and The Gentleman in Moscow (which I loved), The Lincoln Highway, Amor Towles’ newest piece of work is sure to entertain. Drawn in on page one (of close to 600 pages) I thoroughly enjoyed spending 10 days with 18-year-old Emmett and the others…

Jennifer BlankfeinJanuary 7, 2022

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ITW Spotlight: The Suspense Is on Pointe in Megan Abbott’s Slow-Burn Thriller “The Turnout”

"Fans of Black Swan and The Red Shoes are bound to be obsessed." — Refinery29 —∞— When Megan Abbott saw The Nutcracker for the first time, she was enthralled. “Such magic and mystery,” she says, “and a young girl at the center. It was thrilling.” Though Abbott only took two years of beginning ballet…

Karen HuggAugust 10, 2021

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Terror-Filled Novel “The Sanatorium” Offers Thrills and Chills at a Luxurious Winter Resort

"It's The Shining but with a full house." — People —∞— Sarah Pearse’s debut, The Sanatorium (Pamela Dorman Books), is a page-turning thriller with complex characters and an unforgettable setting. The novel opens on a dark, snowy night with a masked figure and a missing person, and the pace doesn’t let up…

Mary Helen SheriffMarch 16, 2021

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Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Klara and the Sun” Explores Humanity and the Ethical Conundrum of AI

“A haunting fable of a lonely, moribund world that is entirely too plausible.” — Kirkus Reviews —∞— “Moving and beautiful … an unequivocal return to form, a meditation in the subtlest shades on the subject of whether our species will be able to live with everything it has created." — The Los…

Karina Holosko, M.A. English LitMarch 2, 2021

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A Collaboration of Creative Soul Mates: Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

BookTrib was joined by two incredible authors, Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray, to discuss their new release, The Personal Librarian. Together, they bring to life the story of Belle da Costa Greene, personal librarian to financier J.P. Morgan. For a woman at the start of the 20th century, her position…

BookTribJuly 20, 2021

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Princess on the Outside, Rebel on the Inside in This Sweeping Fantasy Adventure

We meet our heroine princess, Lilla, in S.G. Blaise’s award-winning debut novel The Last Lumenian (Lilac Grove Entertainment) in a galaxy far, far away upon the planet Uhna. Princess Lilla is a headstrong and independent woman staring down the barrel of life in a royal court where she often feels…

Kelsey HallJune 29, 2022

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Bonding over books: How to start a mother-daughter book club

Back in February, I posted a quick guide to setting up a successful book club, based on my own wonderful experiences with my book club. My daughter, at eighteen months, is perhaps a bit too young to join the club, but I love the idea of starting a mother-daughter club…

Melissa DuclosMay 5, 2014

Book Club Network Miscellany

A quick guide to a kick-ass book club

Book clubs have a bad reputation among people who like to read, mocked for being a nice excuse to sit with your friends and drink wine, but certainly not an opportunity to talk about books with fellow bibliophiles. At least, this is what I thought before I joined one. I…

Melissa DuclosFebruary 3, 2014

Book Club Network Miscellany

Author Sally Allen Suggests 10 Twists on the Same Ole Book Club

I love books. I love reading them, collecting them, talking about them, writing about them. I’ve even been known to hug a book, now and again. I am that person who is forever shoving books into friends’ hands, urging, “Read this!” I have an “Oh! That reminds me of this…

BookTrib Guest AuthorAugust 23, 2016

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A Wonderfully Classic Fantasy Tale Inspired by Tabletop RPGs

The high saturation of the Fantasy genre is both a blessing and a curse. It’s a blessing that fans of the genre like myself have so many options to choose from within such a high profile genre, however the volume also can lead to exhaustion. With so many options inside…

Wyatt SemenukSeptember 14, 2022

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Tragic Twist Defines “A Game Maker’s Life”

Jeffrey Breslow was an icon in the toy design business. In his 40-year, Hall of Fame career, he oversaw operations at two multimillion-dollar toy companies and had his hand in such classic toys at Simon, Polly Pocket, Operation, Mousetrap and more. His stories of late nights at the drawing board…

Jim AlkonAugust 30, 2022

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A Cozy Rural Mystery Served Up with a Side of Italian Cuisine

What pairs better with a murder mystery than some fine Italian dining? It may seem like an unlikely combo, but Wendy Sand Eckel’s new book, Mystery at Windswept Farm (Level Best Books), will have you eagerly turning pages not only to see who the culprit is but also to savor…

Paige VigliaroloSeptember 27, 2022

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Most of Humanity May Have Regressed to the Stone Age, But “Primitives” is a Work of Art

Is humanity worth saving? Time and time again, this question has been posed by popular media. From the Mad Max films and Octavia Butler’s The Parable of the Sower to productions as mainstream and recent as Marvel’s Eternals and AMC’s The Walking Dead, the question has been answered in just…

Wyatt SemenukJune 23, 2022

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Patients and Doctors Will Understand Those “Gut Feelings” After Reading This Sequel

Several months ago I had the opportunity to read and review Gut Feelings: Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction and the Patient-Doctor Relationship. In the book, Dr. Douglas A. Drossman, MD, a renowned gastroenterologist, founder and COO of the internationally recognized nonprofit the Rome Foundation, and president of DrossmanCare, teams up with…

Barbara WilkovJune 7, 2022

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An Honest Man’s World is Turned Upside-Down with an International Tell-All in This Enticing Suspense Thriller

What’s better than an espionage thriller spanning the world stage of finance and global geopolitics? How about one with a central protagonist who is not a CIA-Military-Superhero type, but simply an honest every-man who rises to the occasion? And to make this story even better, KGB Banker (Milford House Press)…

Mark E GreeneSeptember 7, 2022

Lisa Harding’s Latest Is Full of “Bright, Burning Things” That Haunt Your Mind and Memory

Search for Hopes and Dreams on “The Lincoln Highway” and You’ll Enjoy the Ride

ITW Spotlight: The Suspense Is on Pointe in Megan Abbott’s Slow-Burn Thriller “The Turnout”

Terror-Filled Novel “The Sanatorium” Offers Thrills and Chills at a Luxurious Winter Resort

Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Klara and the Sun” Explores Humanity and the Ethical Conundrum of AI

A Collaboration of Creative Soul Mates: Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

Princess on the Outside, Rebel on the Inside in This Sweeping Fantasy Adventure

Bonding over books: How to start a mother-daughter book club

A quick guide to a kick-ass book club

Author Sally Allen Suggests 10 Twists on the Same Ole Book Club

A Wonderfully Classic Fantasy Tale Inspired by Tabletop RPGs

Tragic Twist Defines “A Game Maker’s Life”

A Cozy Rural Mystery Served Up with a Side of Italian Cuisine

Most of Humanity May Have Regressed to the Stone Age, But “Primitives” is a Work of Art

Patients and Doctors Will Understand Those “Gut Feelings” After Reading This Sequel

An Honest Man’s World is Turned Upside-Down with an International Tell-All in This Enticing Suspense Thriller

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