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Young Adult

YA Time Traveler Shows Smarts in Brush With da Vinci

Saving Time does three things extremely well: serves up an engrossing story sure to captivate its targeted teen audience, provides great learning for those teens about STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Math), and beautifully captures the language of this generation to a tee — a language to which…

Jim AlkonDecember 11, 2020

Children's Books

Tween Detectives Chase After Swift and Mystical Creature in “Swampfire”

In Patricia Cecil Hass’s Swampfire: A Shockoe Slip Gang Adventure (Windsong Press), siblings Sally and Andrew — amateur tween detectives known as “The Shockoe Slip Gang,” a name dubbed by the press after their last successful case — are excited to return to Cousin Anne’s peanut farm in Virginia this…

Daniela RamrasSeptember 1, 2020

Children's Books

“Wimpy Kid” Author Kicks Off Socially Distanced Book Tour

Those were the words of Forrest Simpson, a sixth-grader back in 2009, writing in Time magazine about author Jeff Kinney, whose highly celebrated Diary of a Wimpy Kid series has had such an impact on kids that he was named to Time’s list of Most Influential People in the World.…

BookTribJuly 29, 2020

Thrillers

James Rollins Takes Sigma Force to the Gates of Hell in “The Last Odyssey”

No, not the one created for cinema by George Lucas. James Rollins’ Sigma Force operatives have returned for a fifteenth time, and his latest novel, The Last Odyssey (William Morrow), delivers what thousands of fans have come to expect from one of the masters of the historical thriller genre. The…

Dennis HetzelMarch 24, 2020

Children's Books

Delightful “Mr. Business” Series Encourages Kids to be True to Themselves

Having to wear an outfit like that to school would make most children cringe. But Little BK, the star of BK Fulton’s charming Mr. Business: The Adventures of Little BK, learns a valuable lesson decked out in exactly those clothes. It’s one of the many life nuggets the author shares…

Jim AlkonJanuary 17, 2020

Children's Books

Imagination Meets Lifelong Lessons in “The Dale Family Adventures”

A serious warning or just having some fun? So begins The Dale Family Adventures (CreateSpace) by Ursula Masdal, a delightful and exciting children’s book that follows the exploits of the Dales through their holiday confrontations with talking animals, leprechauns, fairies, witches, wizards, trolls, scarecrows and other creatures. The stories have…

BookTribNovember 11, 2019

Children's Books

Decide the Fate of France in Interactive “Iron Magicians”

In Iron Magicians: The Search for the Magic Crystals (Quirk Books), the reader becomes the protagonist. In a fantastical steampunk Paris, Gustave Eiffel is unveiling his Tower at the World’s Fair. The reader is called upon to collect crystals which will charge the tower to defend Paris against a magical…

Lee PelletierAugust 13, 2019

Romance

Come Dance with a Seductive Specter

“I do not see ghosts!” uttered more than once by Suzy Wanamaker, is one of the most memorable lines in Come Dance With Me. And even though readers may want to disagree with her, there’s one thing they can agree with: this is an intriguing page-turner. Originally titled Come Closer,…

Y. M. NelsonMay 9, 2019

Nonfiction

Bret Easton Ellis Continues to Offend and Astonish

The man knows how to touch a nerve. Relishes it, in fact, despite his protestations that he “was never good at realizing what might offend someone anyway.” Please. This is Bret Easton Ellis we’re talking about, author of Less Than Zero, creator of Patrick Bateman, Twitter provocateur par excellence. He’s…

Casey BarrettApril 15, 2019

Fiction

A Globetrotting, Tomb-Raiding Tour de Force

Carys Jones may bear the same last name as Harrison Ford’s action hero Indiana, but she has more in common with Robert Langdon from Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code series. For starters, she’s a novice when it comes to adventuring, described by an old boyfriend as “a highly educated, glorified…

Jeff DaughertyApril 12, 2019

Miscellany

“Literary Places” Unleashes Every Reader’s Wanderlust

Have you ever read stories with settings so vivid that you felt you could be standing there alongside the characters? Some settings in books have become so iconic and intrinsic to their stories that they serve as active elements rather than passive backgrounds. From dark and brooding to serene and…

Rebecca ProulxMarch 1, 2019

Children's Books

Lessons of the Alphabet and Overcoming Fear

And so the stage is set for a fun story and learning adventure in A for Airplane, written by Rob Bevan and inspired by his son Scotty. It is the first in a planned Transport Adventure Learning Series of 26, with the second book, “B for Bus,” to be published…

Jim AlkonJanuary 7, 2019

Fiction

A Quest for Meaning and Moby-Dick—A Whale of a Tale

The Moby-Dick Blues (Roundfire Books) by Michael Strelow chronicles the hunt for not only literary treasure, but the search for admiration and purpose: “The story of Arvin and his family and the manuscript for Moby-Dick, the unlikely tale of unlikely characters just like Melville’s story.” Arvin Kraft is used to being…

K.L. RomoDecember 5, 2018

Miscellany

17 Recommendations From 7 Independent Booksellers

Our segment, “What’s on the Front Table” features booksellers, owners, and buyers from some of the best indie bookstores in the U.S.! On a special edition of Just the Right Book Podcast we take you on a cross-country road trip to some of our favorite independent bookshops from past episodes! Are you…

Just The Right Book PodcastSeptember 14, 2018

Nonfiction

“My Family Was Crazy, So Now I’m a Psychiatrist”

One day at the age of 10, as a student at a New England boarding school, young Ned Hallowell was told to report to the school psychologist at the request of his mother. Getting right to the point, Dr. Merritt asked, “Well, how about if you tell me about your…

Jim AlkonJuly 3, 2018

Nonfiction

BookTrib Interview with Rick Steves on Transformational Travel and Global Perception

Best-selling travel guide author, the host of multiple travel TV shows and radio programs: if you've ever even thought about traveling, you've come across Rick Steves. Just a few years ago, Steves came out with his television special The Holy Land: Israel and Palestine Today, and now he has an updated version…

BookTribMarch 13, 2018

YA Time Traveler Shows Smarts in Brush With da Vinci

Tween Detectives Chase After Swift and Mystical Creature in “Swampfire”

“Wimpy Kid” Author Kicks Off Socially Distanced Book Tour

James Rollins Takes Sigma Force to the Gates of Hell in “The Last Odyssey”

Delightful “Mr. Business” Series Encourages Kids to be True to Themselves

Imagination Meets Lifelong Lessons in “The Dale Family Adventures”

Decide the Fate of France in Interactive “Iron Magicians”

Come Dance with a Seductive Specter

Bret Easton Ellis Continues to Offend and Astonish

A Globetrotting, Tomb-Raiding Tour de Force

“Literary Places” Unleashes Every Reader’s Wanderlust

Lessons of the Alphabet and Overcoming Fear

A Quest for Meaning and Moby-Dick—A Whale of a Tale

17 Recommendations From 7 Independent Booksellers

“My Family Was Crazy, So Now I’m a Psychiatrist”

BookTrib Interview with Rick Steves on Transformational Travel and Global Perception

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