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
Some thrillers begin with a crime scene. Dawn Before Darkness begins with a woman trying to end a relationship without angering the man on the other end of the phone. That choice — careful, almost ordinary — tells readers exactly what kind of danger Liz Lazarus is interested in. Not…
BookTribMay 26, 2026
In an era when conversations about masculinity often oscillate between defensiveness and despair, Vince Benevento’s Boys Will Be Men: 8 Lessons for the Lost American Male takes a different approach. Rather than debating what masculinity should mean, Benevento focuses on what young men actually need: structure, accountability, mentorship and a…
BookTribJanuary 20, 2026
In The Safe Place, Brandon M. Rogers follows Tristan from a childhood fire and a brutal stay in a children’s psychiatric hospital to an adult overdose that forces him to face the lie that shaped his life. The result is a moving, faith‑rooted story about shame, family, and the hard…
BookTribJanuary 13, 2026
An inspiring memoir of midlife transformation, where grit and perseverance turn a 48-year-old beginner into an Ironman triathlete and ultramarathoner.
BookTribDecember 29, 2025
In a cabin in upstate New York’s frigid wilderness, a hungry woman waits for her husband to return from hunting. She remembers the tenement they left in Dublin, filled with friends and warmth. Now they struggle for survival alone. Just as troubling to Moira Kelly is the strange behavior of…
Joanna PoncavageDecember 16, 2025
The Christmas Spirit by Alexandrea Weis emerges as a fresh deviation from the conventional holiday tales that saturate the market around this time of year. Courtney Winston, the protagonist of the story, is an accountant in Nashville and a writer in her spare time — although, like most aspiring authors,…
Monique SnymanDecember 2, 2025
Midway through The Bone Thief, Vanessa Lillie’s new thriller starring Cherokee B.I.A. archaeologist Syd Walker, this interaction between Syd and Shawna, a Narragansett woman who interned with the B.I.A, hit me in the heart. “No, not artifacts, not objects … This basket is a story about how we’re connected to…
LA BourgeoisNovember 12, 2025
C.V. Wooster has written a comprehensive biography about the life and work of Dr. John Bowlby, the noted British psychiatrist who devoted most of his career to studying the links of the emotional bond (or lack thereof) between parent/guardian and their child and how the child’s development was inhibited as…
Philip ZozzaroNovember 4, 2025
Physician Erica M. Elliott, M.D., closes her memoir trilogy with a riveting account of chemical injury, a 50/50 brain surgery and the slow, practical work of healing. From an emergency appendectomy in India to environmental‑medicine sleuthing and a spiritual reckoning, From Doctor to Healer is an intimate, hopeful narrative about…
BookTribNovember 18, 2025
R. John Dingle, the author of Karma Never Sleeps, returns with another page-turning thriller in the Gus Wheeler FBI Thriller series. In Wings of Madness, readers are taken on a suspenseful journey filled with psychological twists as FBI Agent Gus Wheeler and his spirited female partner pursue a psychopathic killer…
Natalia KavaleNovember 5, 2025
Jonathan R. Miller’s Animal Control is a bold, cerebral and unnervingly intimate exploration of what happens when the need to make the world better collides with the corruptive pull of control. Set in San Jose, this story follows 17-year-old Shay Garner, a young woman whose moral compass starts out strong…
Monique SnymanOctober 8, 2025
In The Natural Intelligence of Stem Cells, cosmetic surgeon Dr. Nathan Newman takes readers on a fascinating journey into the world of stem cell therapy. This BookTrib review highlights how Newman’s groundbreaking discovery – that plant and human stem cells communicate in the same healing language – is unlocking new…
BookTribOctober 24, 2025
In the fields of the Jaliscan Highlands, the agave bristles under the Mexican sun. In a boardroom high above Manhattan, another kind of heat rises — ambition, greed and betrayal. Between these two worlds, a family empire begins to fracture. With his debut novel Tequila: A Story of Love, Sex…
BookTribOctober 17, 2025