The Shampoo Effect delivers exactly the kind of warm, breezy atmosphere that makes you want to pack a bag and head for the coast.
Pejuola RansomeJune 30, 2026
Girl begins to hate job. Girl quits job. Girl goes to college for the experience and degree she never had. Girl matches wits with professor. Girl and professor… might… like… each other? Though this is an extremely simplified summary of Extracurricular by Rachel Lynn Solomon, if you’re interested in forbidden…
Krysti OstermeyerJuly 14, 2026
Daniel Welynn's BlackFyre: Shattered Shards is a fantasy novel that is hard to put down.
BookTribJune 22, 2026
Jack Martin Haley's Allegory is a work long in the making, rooted in stories heard more than sixty years ago in the villages of the Yukon Flats, and given the shape they always deserved. The result is a book about dignity, decline and the human hunger for redemption. At the…
BookTribJuly 15, 2026
Grief does not always behave like an ending. Sometimes it acts more like a ride that refuses to stop: the same drops and turns, the same sickening return to the place where everything irrevocably changed. In the latest entry to his “Life and Living” series, Roller Coasters: The Life Kind,…
BookTribJuly 6, 2026
There's a moment early in Icefall where an Alaska state trooper pulls open the door of a stranded Amazon delivery van and finds the driver catatonic, frozen in place with Sinatra still playing softly on the radio. It's a small, eerie image, and it tells you everything about what this…
BookTribJuly 14, 2026
Andrew Forrester has made a fine impression with his debut novel, How the Story Goes, a charming, upbeat literary romance set in the small fictional town of Whelk Harbor, Massachusetts.
Linda HitchcockJuly 1, 2026
In Palm Beach, a family can look flawless from the outside and still be coming apart behind the hedges. The trick is knowing how to smile through it, where to sit, what to wear and which rumors to pretend not to hear. Lucinda Barrows has spent decades perfecting that art.…
BookTribJune 2, 2026
Corey E. King's novel, Marek of the Mists: The Sword of the Moon Maiden, is a fantasy novel featuring a hooded swordsman, a fog-bound coastal kingdom, a tyrant in a lightning-crowned tower and a hero who doesn't yet know how much of the story is about him.
BookTribJuly 10, 2026
Alessandra Ranelli has written a most unusual locked-room mystery that succeeds in titillating and amusing the reader and possibly even enticing confirmed armchair travelers to book a flight for an exploration of old Vienna, although perhaps booking a more conventional hotel.
Linda HitchcockJuly 6, 2026
The Wish carries the tagline “some stories live forever” and this first contemporary novel by author Heather Morris is certain to live on in its readers’ hearts. She is well known for her impeccably researched uplifting works of historical fiction based on real events including critically acclaimed The Tattooist of…
Linda HitchcockJune 29, 2026
The story in Charles Bruckerhoff’s PLOWMAN: Harvest of Grain and Innocence (2nd edition) begins, in a sense, when a dusty wooden first-aid case crashes down from an attic shelf. It is not medicine inside, but memory: loose pages, wartime journals, military records and family history waiting for someone young enough…
BookTribJune 24, 2026
F. N. Knight's The First Cycle is an ambitious, richly imagined science-fantasy epic that announces the arrival of a writer with a bold vision.
BookTribJune 2, 2026
What if the justice system didn't stop at prison? What if it prevented crimes before they happened, asked offenders to experience the pain they'd caused, or sought healing instead of punishment? These six works of crime fiction take familiar questions about crime and accountability in strikingly different directions. Some embrace…
BookTribJune 29, 2026
In 1954, the New York Times ran an article called "Couple Finds Life in Alaska Varied." In it they wrote, “As in the country of which it is a territory, ‘living in Alaska is what you make it,’ according to one young couple here.” That sentiment is still true today and…
Lisa RoeJuly 1, 2026