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Taking care of our parents, and ourselves

“In any given year, almost 30% of the U.S. population will be caring for an ill, disabled, or aging friend or family member.” So we are informed by Ariel Gore in her new memoir The End of Eve (Hawthorne Books, March). She goes on to explain: “The typical caregiver, it…
Melissa Duclos
March 4, 2014
Nonfiction

A reader’s guide to the no-baseball blues

“I just look out the window and wait for spring to come,” Baseball Hall of Famer Rogers Hornsby once said, when asked how he passed time during the off-season. As a certified baseball nut, I know the feeling. But here’s a more constructive idea: pull up a chair and delve…
Lee Lowenfish
January 2, 2014
Nonfiction

Barbara Mertz Dead: Mystery Writer Dies At 85

NEW YORK — Barbara Mertz, a best-selling mystery writer who wrote dozens of novels under two pen names, has died. She was 85. Mertz died Thursday morning at her home, in Frederick, Md., her daughter Elizabeth told her publisher HarperCollins. Mertz wrote more than 35 mysteries under the name Elizabeth…
BookTrib
August 13, 2013
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BookTrib Giveaway: Win the Bold New Memoir Everyone’s Been Talking About!

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September 30, 2021
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BookTrib Giveaway: Memoir of a Complicated Mother-Daughter Relationship

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/booktrib_giveaway_the-burning-light-of-two-stars-laura-davis-feature-scaled.jpg “Provides a topographical map through the complex landscape of the mother-daughter relationship ... with characters both noble and deeply flawed. ... Deeply moving and wise.” —Betsy Graziani Fasbinder, therapist and author of Filling Her Shoes and Fire and Water “Davis has a unique ability to capture the details of everyday life in…
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November 4, 2021
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BookTrib Giveaway: Two Very Different Reads Related to the Natural Sciences

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April 7, 2022

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