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
Fairy tales promise that love can conquer the darkest forces, but Ellen Roth’s Ten Fingers Touching invites readers to consider an even more tantalizing possibility: that true love might be the most powerful magic of all. Roth’s debut novella opens with a wager between Good and Evil — a cosmic…
Cynthia ConradDecember 18, 2025
If there’s one thing I love, it’s a book that yanks me straight into another world like it has zero regard for my to-do list. Give me magic. Give me danger. Give me the kind of quest where a kid with more heart than experience has to figure out who…
BookTribDecember 16, 2025
As a teenager coming of age in the aughts, I was a fan girl of The Princess Diaries. Mia Thermopolis learns that she is a princess of the fictitious country of Genovia, and undergoes a giant makeover. She is transformed from a bespectacled nobody into a bombshell babe, and must…
Krysti OstermeyerDecember 2, 2025
Set on Scotland’s far northern coast in 1941, V. M. Knox’s If Necessary Alone sends Reverend Major Clement Wisdom undercover to trace enemy radio traffic. What follows is a lean, morally charged thriller—rich with atmosphere, careful tradecraft and a hero whose faith shapes every hard choice. A standout entry in…
BookTribNovember 25, 2025
The Gratifying Relief of Being Forgotten by BK is a bruising and beautiful exploration of grief, longing, self-erasure and the persistence of love in its most destructive and redemptive forms. Moving between aphoristic fragments, longer narrative poems, typographic experimentation and a prose-poem sequence, BK constructs a world where memory, nature,…
Cynthia ConradNovember 21, 2025
In her debut novel, The White Hot, playwright and memoirist Quiara Alegria Hudes tackles the complexity of an emotion that few dare to explore: the explosive power of female rage. The story is told in the form of a letter written by a mother to her daughter on her 18th…
Riley HarkerNovember 11, 2025