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Lots to Digest When Sorting Fact From Fiction on Subject of Gut Health

The consumer health and nutrition industry is a tricky space. On one hand there are plenty of professionals doing real research who are genuinely invested in the well-being of consumers. On the other, there are just as many, some professionals and some not, who are simply looking to cash in…

Wyatt SemenukDecember 5, 2022

Nonfiction Pop Culture

Downton Abbey’s Hugh Bonneville Pens Laugh-Out-Loud Memoir

Hugh Bonneville is a talented, skilled, versatile, well-established, working actor, neither a diva nor a flavor of the month celebrity whose memoir Playing Under the Piano: From Downton to Darkest Peru (Other Press) is perfectly smashing! It has a ready-made audience with Downton Abbey aficionados who already admire his character…

Linda HitchcockDecember 1, 2022

Fiction Thrillers

Old Rivals Threaten Gamache in Louise Penny’s Latest, Soon a Prime Original Series

In Louise Penny’s new mystery, World of Curiosities (Minotaur), the past and present of Québec Sûreté Chief Inspector Armand Gamache once again collide in the idyllic village of Three Pines. But this time, in its most deadly form possible. Siblings with a Shady Past It is spring, and as the…

Jodé MillmanNovember 29, 2022

Fiction Thrillers

Murder at High School Reunion Reveals Decades-Old Secrets in New Elly Griffiths

Elly Griffiths’ latest suspenseful mystery novel Bleeding Heart Yard (Mariner) might rightfully give pause to those readers who are contemplating attending an upcoming high school reunion. It’s daunting enough to be concerned about your appearance and imagining how you might measure up to long-ago classmates without finding one old friend…

Linda HitchcockNovember 16, 2022

Fiction Romance

Second-Chance Romance Celebrates Southern Black Culture and Cuisine

When I saw the cover for Kennedy Ryan’s newest novel Before I Let Go (Forever), I thought two things: first, I wondered if she was expanding into women’s fiction, and second, that it had been a long time since I’d been to a party (more on that later). But above…

Y. M. NelsonNovember 17, 2022

Fiction Thrillers

Con Jobs and Falling Bodies in “Fake Money, Blue Smoke”

“So, I have a business proposition for you.” The speaker in Josh Haven’s Fake Money, Blue Smoke (Mysterious Press) is Kelly Haggerty, and she’s just picked up a man named Matt Kubelsky from the Ray Brook Federal Correctional Institution in upstate New York. Matt’s been in there for killing an unarmed…

Neil NyrenNovember 28, 2022

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Writers, Ink Podcast: Reimagining Failure with Dan Padavona

BookTrib is proud to present to our readers the Writers, Ink podcast, a show about the business of writing. J.K. Rowling was nearly homeless when she wrote the first Harry Potter book. Stephen King penned Carrie on a small desk wedged between a washer and dryer. James Patterson worked in advertising and…

Writers, InkNovember 28, 2022

Better Self Recommended

Find Balance Amidst the Chaos

It’s hard to keep your balance these days. Not so much your ability to physically stand up straight, but rather to adjust emotionally to all the distractions and obstacles from technology to viruses to constantly changing social norms that tend to put our heads on overload. Katherine Grealis, a longtime…

Jim AlkonNovember 11, 2022

Fiction Recommended Thrillers

Therapist Turns Analysis Inward As Jolting News Leads to Tragedy

For a man whose profession is based on listening to other people and helping them navigate through life’s biggest emotional issues, this was the kind of jolt that forced Dr. Paul Mason to turn his examination inward – and in a big way. TRAGEDY STRIKES In John R. Wallis’s suspense-filled…

Cristina LenociNovember 18, 2022

Nonfiction

Haunting Memoir Recounts the Brutal Experiences of Those Who Lived in Soviet Russia

In her memoir, Broken Kaleidoscope Syndrome: Daughter of the Soviet Union, Mila Kraabel reflects upon her life in the Soviet Union, exemplifying the harsh experience of the millions of people who lived under what American President Ronald Reagan called the “Evil Empire.” In this first-person account of her young life,…

Abigail WhiteNovember 18, 2022

Fiction Thrillers

The Search for Rogue Artificial Intelligence Continues in Fast-Paced Techno-Thriller

In the second installment of the thrilling SNO Chronicles series, author Guy Morris manages the extraordinary feat of stitching together scintillating artifacts and prophecies from the ancient past with modern espionage and artificial intelligence technology. If Indiana Jones had the technological savvy of Elon Musk, he would fit perfectly in…

Michael FerryNovember 11, 2022

Fiction Listicles

Six Historical Mysteries to Keep Your Mind Sharp as the Weather Cools

If you love historical mysteries, 2022 has a fantastic lineup of new titles you don’t want to miss! With settings from Victorian England to World War II–era Europe and beyond, these atmospheric novels feature intrepid sleuths and clever mysteries sure to keep your fingers warm this winter by turning the…

Wyatt SemenukNovember 14, 2022

Fiction Recommended

Historical Fiction Weaves Two Timelines of Modern Womanhood

If you ever kept a diary or journal, you probably thought about what would happen if someone else read it. And what if that reader was a family member dealing with the same issues you were, generations apart? This is the premise of A Matter of Happiness (Lake Union Publishing) by Tori Whitaker. INTERGENERATIONAL…

Laura McCaffertyNovember 8, 2022

Nonfiction

American Truth or Mythology? Historian Revisits the Illustrious Grimke Family

During the late sixties, women scholars began to urge their male colleagues to carve out a place for “herstory” alongside “history.” Over time, with the establishment of women’s studies departments in colleges and universities, second-wave feminists would correct many longstanding legends of American history. Their research produced transformative knowledge while…

Claudia KeenanNovember 17, 2022

Fiction Recommended

Novel Explores Surviving the Hood Like a Game of Cards

As Fat Bread, a kid trying to navigate the rough streets of inner-city Detroit in the 1980s, explores one of the many hustles presented to him, Bram, a slick operator and “businessman,” invites him for a game of chess. Asked to make the first move of a game he doesn’t…

Jim AlkonNovember 17, 2022

Fiction Listicles Romance Thrillers

5 Pulse-Pounding Romantic Suspense Series

Picture a book that makes your heart race, sweat bead on your forehead, and keeps you from falling asleep. Did you picture a thriller or a romance? The two genres complement each other particularly well, despite being seen as opposites. Romantic suspense novels have a compelling mixture of love, lust,…

BookTribNovember 9, 2022

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