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When Sequels Whisper in Your Ear

Have you ever finished a novel and wished the author would write another with the same characters? Some novels are so hard to let go of. They linger. They nag. They whisper in our ears when we're sleeping. "So what happened next?" Some of my most popular novels were conceived…
BookTrib Guest Author
July 21, 2015
Fiction

Truth Finds Its Story: The Illuminating Power of Fiction

We live in a time when history is made by Tweets, when what happens there can instantly be known here. A time when anyone with a digital device can express views, publish opinions, or comment on news within moments of it unfolding, making the (somewhat dated) concept of “information superhighway” never more accurate…or glutted.  We want to be…
Lorraine Devon Wilke
February 8, 2019
Fiction

What Will It Take to Satisfy Her “Greedy Heart?”

It’s 2006, and she is living in a shabby apartment and facing crushing student debt. Suddenly, she’s plucked from obscurity to work for Wall Street’s top hedge fund. Determined to make her millions, Delia must master the cutthroat world of big-stakes trading and profit off of the cataclysm of the…
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April 7, 2020
Fiction

Was that gut-wrenching Outlander finale too much for you?

Outlander’s season finale aired on Saturday, and it was disturbing, to say the least. After leading up to a confrontation all season, Jamie is tortured and sexually assaulted at the hands of Black Jack Randall, and the show never once spares us from the excruciating details. It was difficult to…
Rachel Carter
June 3, 2015
Fiction

What it Feels Like to Be a Captive Enemy

Robert Frost, who often used a farmer’s plain-spoken philosophy, had a neighbor say “Good fences make good neighbors.” But like Frost, I’m not so sure. For over three years of my youth, I lived behind the tall masonry wall of Japanese Internment Camp Number One at Santo Tomas University in…
William Hamilton
June 24, 2019
Fiction

Walter Scott Prize Shortlist Spans History and Geography

Honoring the achievements of the founding father of the historical novel, the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction is one of the most prestigious literary prizes in the world. The Walter Scott Prize’s eleventh shortlist has just been announced. The six books on the shortlist are: The Narrow Land by Christine Dwyer…
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April 2, 2020
Fiction

Vietnam Vet Learns What It Means to Be a Hero in an Imperfect World

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/booktrib_hero-can-I-be-maureen-hogan-lutz-book-review.jpg Set in the '60s, Maureen Hogan Lutz’s newest novel, Hero Can I Be, is the fast-paced story of James “Jamie” Vincent Corrigan, “a tall redhead with a hair-trigger temper” whose troubled yet street-smart New York City upbringing by Irish Catholic immigrant parents shapes him into the hero he becomes,…
Anne Eliot Feldman
November 11, 2020

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