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FBI Agent Nikki Cassidy Faces Twisted Killer and Hometown Secrets in Crime Series

“My kid sister was murdered fifteen years ago. Now the killer has struck again. And this time, I’m going to take my revenge…” R.G. Belsky, creator of the Clare Carlson mystery series featuring a tough, strong-willed investigative journalist, has given readers another strong female protagonist in the person of FBI…

BookTribApril 2, 2024

The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians by James Patterson and Matt Eversmann

Nonfiction

Patterson Celebrates Book World with True Stories in “The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians”

If you are reading these words, you are in a minority — you are in the only 20 percent of people in America who can read a book and habitually do so. Yet despite the plethora of distractions and obsessions, reading, says iconic author James Patterson, is not on the…

BookTribApril 8, 2024

Fiction

“The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County” Unite Community in Uplifting Novel with Midwestern Charm

Claire Swinarski welcomes new fans and graces her readers with a charming, uplifting novel The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County. Anyone who has ever lived or spent time in Midwestern or Southern states is familiar with the comforting custom of feeding the family, friends and mourners a meal at the…

Linda HitchcockApril 4, 2024

Nonfiction

Knopf to Publish President Bill Clinton’s Memoir Detailing Life After the White House

Alfred A. Knopf has announced the upcoming publication of President Bill Clinton’s memoir, Citizen: My Life After the White House, set to release on November 19, 2024. Remarkably candid, and richly detailed, Citizen offers fascinating insight into Clinton’s life – both personal and political – after his two terms as…

BookTribApril 5, 2024

Better Self Nonfiction

Author’s New Book Teaches Positivity in an Era Marked by Toxicity

It's not enough to be sickened by the injustices and atrocities around us, we have to be a visible and vocal presence in the world, says writer/activist/pastor and storyteller John Pavlovitz. We suffer from a “poverty of empathy.” We must fight for the people that we love, for the nation we…

BookTribApril 2, 2024

Fiction Thrillers

Two Women Search for Justice – It’s Not What They Expect

I was on fire. I’d never felt this sort of rage before, the kind that blinds, the kind that was sinking itself into my skin, over and over and over. The speaker in Sara Koffi’s While We Were Burning (G.P. Putnam's Sons) is Elizabeth Smith, and her life is falling…

Neil NyrenMarch 29, 2024

Fiction

“Last Seen in Havana” Explores Cuban American Mother’s Disappearance

What happens when you mix a starry-eyed blond, blue-eyed teenage surfer girl wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt with a strikingly handsome genuine Cuban revolutionary soldier nearly twice her age who is one of Fidel Castro’s right-hand men? Hint: this is not a romance novel despite their “meet cute”. I heartily…

Linda HitchcockMarch 28, 2024

Fiction

Literary Horror Stitches Together Girlhood, Swim Team and Mermaids

How far would you go to become who you were always meant to be? What if “who you were meant to be” was something entirely different, something inhuman? Chlorine (William Morrow) by Jade Song is a hilarious, haunting and deeply moving story of transformation and change — from childhood to…

Megan BeauregardMarch 26, 2024

Fiction Young Adult

YA Reimagines Tale of Icarus into Vibrant, Queer Star-Crossed Love Story

Icarus is a new queer YA romance novel from K. Ancrum, critically acclaimed author of The Wicker King. Filled to the brim with vibrant imagery, vivid detail and vivacious characters, it pulled me in from the very first page! Icarus reimagines the classic myth of Icarus into a queer, star-crossed…

Kiersten BjorkMarch 25, 2024

Thrillers

WWII Spy Thriller Series Takes on Post-War Hollywood

David Downing can include former rock music critic among his formidable writing credits. He is a prolific English author, writing both fiction and non-fiction on a wide-range of topics including children’s books, biographies, soccer, military history and several stand-alone thrillers. During the 1990’s, using the pseudonym David Monnery, he published…

Linda HitchcockMarch 21, 2024

Fiction

Witty and Endearing Escapade in Armistead Maupin’s Final Tales of the City Novel

Written by the inimitable Armistead Maupin, Mona of the Manor is a refreshing romp in the Cotswolds, a tale of entrepreneurial ingenuity and a reunion followed by well-deserved retribution. It is the 10th and final installment of the author’s Tales of the City novels which began fifty years ago in…

Linda HitchcockMarch 18, 2024

Fiction Thrillers

Reporter’s Probe Forces Secrets to Surface in Claire Coughlan Debut

Each month yields a fresh bumper crop of thrillers. They may be labeled “atmospheric, literary, spine-tingling, noir” or whatever the currently favored catch-phrase is for publicists to extol their clients’ virtues making it difficult for readers and reviewers not to become cynical about these sometimes over-hyped new releases. However, there…

Linda HitchcockMarch 18, 2024

Romance

Forbidden Romance, Family Drama and Hope for Reinvention in Kennedy Ryan’s Skyland Series

On my first trip to the Skyland neighborhood in Before I Let Go, I cried. A lot. On my return trip in This Could Be Us (Forever) by Kennedy Ryan, I'm more shocked by the scandal and intrigued by slow-burn, forbidden romance between Judah and Soledad, but I still thoroughly…

Y. M. NelsonMarch 13, 2024

Fiction

Every Door Opens to Adventure in This Spellbinding Debut

The Book of Doors (William Morrow) offers up a delectable fantasy tantalizing for most people: travel anywhere, any time. It's for anyone who's daydreamed of another place, wishing they could go, wishing they could return, wishing it were easy. Gareth Brown's first novel is a winding, rambling tale, woven with…

C RunyonMarch 14, 2024

Fiction

Sarah J. Maas Is Back in Exhilarating Return to the World of Crescent City

House of Flame and Shadow (Bloomsbury Publishing) is the highly anticipated third installment in bestselling author Sarah J. Maas’ Crescent City series. To say that I’ve been looking forward to this book for a long time is an understatement. If you’ve read Maas’ body of work, you know just what…

Kiersten BjorkMarch 13, 2024

Nonfiction

American Disaster: A New History of the San Francisco Earthquake in “The Longest Minute”

Thousands of years before Spanish soldiers and missionaries arrived in California, its northern coast was inhabited by Native Americans. The Ohlone people lived on the land that would become San Francisco. This beautiful peninsula, encircled by the ocean and bay, would be seized by the invaders in the 1770s, sending…

Claudia KeenanMarch 13, 2024

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