Jon LandAugust 30, 2022
To summarize 1960s America with one event or novel would be a tremendous disservice to that era. The decade was shaped by the Vietnam War, political protests, the civil rights movement, second-wave feminism, hippie counterculture and a thriving music scene. But these major events weren’t the only factors in shaping…
George Lee’s debut novel Dancing in the River (Guernica Editions) offers a rare and intimate view into the coming of age of a young boy in a sleepy mountain village along the Yangtze River, during and after China’s Cultural Revolution. From grammar school through college, Little Bright maneuvers a turbulent…
Anne Eliot FeldmanNovember 18, 2022
Wagih Abu-Rish’s second historical novel, Nad of Nadidé (Kirkland Publishing House), is a unique love story set in 1981 in Istanbul, Turkey amidst the political turbulence of the ruling military junta. The fast-paced action that drives this one-of-a-kind romance derives from the unlikely pairing of twenty-year-old engineering students Fareed Shaheen…
Anne Eliot FeldmanDecember 6, 2022
Whew! Let’s say goodbye to the hottest summer on record and pull out those comfy blankets and PJs. Now that the leaves are changing (somewhere!), it’s time to curl up with a cup of cocoa and some cozy Fall reads. As the kids go back to school and the sun…
Julie CantrellAugust 25, 2022
In Alaina Urquhart’s The Butcher and the Wren (Zando), a man named Jeremy knows all of that very well. A second-year medical student at Tulane University, his interests in experimentation go way beyond anything he’s been taught in class. His father’s advice echoes in his mind: “You want to learn…
Neil NyrenAugust 26, 2022
This month we celebrate Women’s Fiction stories of lazy, hazy summer days spent at the beach, listening to roaring sea waves or boating across the placid or mysterious waters of a lake. Lots of things can happen during the dog days of summer when the heat hits record temperatures. Water…
Women's Fiction Writers AssociationAugust 24, 2022
Picture Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women: Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March as mermaids adorned with long, graceful tails and pastel-colored hair, living under the sea. That’s what the niece of Megan Lois Whitehill inspired in the author when she requested a mermaid book for her birthday. The result is…
BookTribAugust 25, 2022
The question is raised as two co-workers at Larrabee Yacht Company in the small community of Sandy Harbor, WA, contemplate killing their boss before he can mastermind a plan to shut down the facility, move operations to Mexico, eliminate the staff, and walk away with a fortune. That’s the storyline…
Jim AlkonAugust 24, 2022
GOOD VS. EVIL “In mankind’s competition between good and evil, I don’t yet have the courage to declare a winner.” A.I. Fabler pronounces this inconclusive accounting of humanity in the introduction to his revelatory conspiracy thriller, The Seed of Corruption. This contemporary suspense thriller, rooted in on-the-ground research and current…
Michael FerryAugust 23, 2022
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…
Writers, InkDecember 5, 2022
Ray Nayler’s debut is a dazzling exploration of consciousness, morality and environmentalism delivered through the vehicle of a near-future thriller. Complete with androids, espionage and corporate greed, the pages practically turn themselves in The Mountain in the Sea (MCD) — and we haven’t yet mentioned the hyper-intelligent humanlike species of…
Darryl OliverDecember 2, 2022
Coming from a low-class neighborhood meant Pete had to work three jobs to afford a spot at Stepney Green, his prestigious New Jersey college. Most of all, he thought that college would be the perfect opportunity for finding true love. Instead, he graduates with a hard-earned degree, a promise to…
Megan BeauregardAugust 23, 2022
Author B. R. Myers, best known for her young adult novels, has written a perfectly splendid novel for adults called A Dreadful Splendor. It can be easily read and relished by anyone ages twelve and up, as it is devoid of both crude language and explicit sex scenes. It is…
Linda HitchcockAugust 23, 2022
It was a dark and stormy night (yes, really). Icy rain falls as a six-wheeled imperial berlin drawn by eight great horses hurtles along a mountain road, followed by a mounted escort on unruly thoroughbreds. Inside the coach are the aging, bejeweled Lady Drasher Elizabeth Tasgneganz, two doctors and two…
Joanna PoncavageAugust 22, 2022