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A Pirate With No Beard But Plenty of Imagination

Board the Flying Dragon and join Captain No Beard with his motley crew on their nautical quests for treasure and adventure. Prolific children's book author Carole P. Roman has penned an exciting series that will encourage kids to use their imagination to easily transport themselves to new parts of the…

Rebecca ProulxFebruary 26, 2019

Book Club Network Fiction

“The Guest Book:” Identity, Isolation and An Island

The Guest Book (Flatiron Books) by Sarah Blake is a multigenerational family saga about the life of the wealthy and well-bred Milton family. Kitty Milton has it all—a powerful, successful husband, a beautiful home in Manhattan, three beautiful kids, and all the money she could ever need. She basks in…

K.L. RomoFebruary 26, 2019

Book Club Network Fiction

Chandler Baker: Women, Work and Waging War

Those three words uttered by any man is bad enough, but your boss? Whisper Network (Flatiron Books), a novel of domestic suspense by Chandler Baker, vividly portrays the razor-sharp, double-edged sword of being a professional woman in corporate America. Whisper Network chronicles several months in the lives of professional women of…

K.L. RomoFebruary 19, 2019

Book Club Network Thrillers

“Beautiful Bad:” Psych. Thriller Meets Romance

When you think of psychological thrillers, you think of a mystery, dark and menacing—or at least damaged—characters, and maybe a death. Annie Ward's Beautiful Bad (Park Row) has it all, but even more than that, it has a paradox between these popular thriller aspects and a love story, expertly constructed from the first…

Y. M. NelsonFebruary 12, 2019

Book Club Network Fiction

Gretchen Anthony’s Debut Dazzles With Wit and Charm

Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners (Park Row) is the perfect pre-holiday read to put your own frenzied parties and dysfunctional family dynamics into perspective. Gretchen Anthony has spun a domestic drama revolving around a mother with a tight hold on her cherished family image, and the events that follow once her…

Rebecca ProulxFebruary 10, 2019

Book Club Network Fiction

Self-Discovery and Espionage in “The Lost Girls of Paris”

A fresh, new and exciting tale of espionage, The Lost Girls of Paris (Park Row Books) by Pam Jenoff is engaging historical fiction that follows three women all at different stages in their lives but brought together in crazy twists of fate. For Grace, World War II is over (it's 1946)…

Meagan FoyJanuary 16, 2019

Book Club Network

Relocator Spurs New Book Club Chapter in Kansas City

Relocate to a new city. Look for a book club chapter. Can’t find one. Decide to start one. It’s a common scenario for members of the Girly Book Club, who have joined the group in one city and suddenly find themselves in another. Such was the case for Sharayah Farrell,…

BookTribJanuary 10, 2019

Book Club Network Fiction

The Pivotal Revolutionary Battle Story Never Told

On a marshy Brooklyn battlefield on August 27, 1776, 400 men from Baltimore, MD, assembled to do battle with a vastly superior British army. Seemingly overnight, these young soldiers matured from naïve teenagers to perhaps the most important, yet most forgotten, citizen soldiers in all of American history. In Chris…

BookTribJanuary 8, 2019

Book Club Network Nonfiction

Susan Orlean Exposes Importance of Local Libraries

We know that today, libraries do not just house books, but they provide so much more to their community. In April 1986 a suspicious fire started at the Los Angeles Public Library and destroyed over 400,000 books and countless irreplaceable historical materials. Some of the lost relics included a cherished…

Jennifer BlankfeinDecember 26, 2018

Book Club Network Fiction

Time-Jumping, Take-Out and a Daughter in Danger

Who hasn’t dreamed of a time machine that could zap us into our past, or maybe our future? "Back to the Future" fans know about the risk

K.L. RomoDecember 17, 2018

Book Club Network

Toronto Closeup: “The Book Club That Changed My Life”

Sometimes a book can change your life. Sarah Wreford says the Girly Book Club changed hers. As one of the co-hosts of GBC’s 3,200-member Toronto chapter, Wreford, a grade 9-12 schoolteacher, credits the book club with bringing “so many incredible friends into her life. I love meeting with the other…

BookTribDecember 3, 2018

Book Club Network Thrillers

A Poetic Killer More Complicated Than Reading Shakespeare

Taking a much-needed break from her stressful yet rewarding job as administrator of a psychiatric hospital, Rebecca Paige goes on a retreat to GetAway Resort, a secluded cabin in the woods. Expecting peace and solace, she walks right into the thick of a criminal plot involving characters with far more…

Rebecca ProulxNovember 26, 2018

Book Club Network

This Month’s Book: Luxury Liner, Lies, and Lifeboat 21

For the month of November, all chapters of the Girly Book Club are reading On a Cold Dark Sea by Elizabeth Blackwell. Here’s our review: April 15, 1912. Lifeboat 21 saves a mere 12 lives instead of the 65 it was built to hold. This is not just another tale…

K.L. RomoNovember 13, 2018

Book Club Network

Closeup: Putting Oakville, Ontario on the Reading Map

The vision of Oakville, Ontario, according to its website, is to be “the most livable town in Canada.” If Karina Kaushal and Soni Sharma have their way, it might be the most well-read town in Canada. That’s because they are hosts of the Oakville chapter of the Girly Book Club.…

BookTribNovember 5, 2018

Book Club Network

Take Me Out To The Book Club, A Reader Celebration

“My drinking club has a book problem,” said a wise humorist somewhere. As the hours wind down on National Reading Group Month, we have this to say to anyone who is not a member of a book club: our deepest sympathies. But of the many subscribers to the BookTrib newsletter…

Jim AlkonOctober 31, 2018

Book Club Network Fiction

10 Reasons Why “The Wife Between Us” Will Hook You by Chapter Two

If you pick up The Wife Between Us, know you are in for many sleepless nights. This piece of literary perfection will have you hooked from the very beginning. Even the title is fat with unanswered questions. Whose wife? Which wife? Is it Nellie, the wife-to-be? Or Vanessa, the ex-wife who…

BookTribOctober 26, 2018

A Pirate With No Beard But Plenty of Imagination

“The Guest Book:” Identity, Isolation and An Island

Chandler Baker: Women, Work and Waging War

“Beautiful Bad:” Psych. Thriller Meets Romance

Gretchen Anthony’s Debut Dazzles With Wit and Charm

Self-Discovery and Espionage in “The Lost Girls of Paris”

Relocator Spurs New Book Club Chapter in Kansas City

The Pivotal Revolutionary Battle Story Never Told

Susan Orlean Exposes Importance of Local Libraries

Time-Jumping, Take-Out and a Daughter in Danger

Toronto Closeup: “The Book Club That Changed My Life”

A Poetic Killer More Complicated Than Reading Shakespeare

This Month’s Book: Luxury Liner, Lies, and Lifeboat 21

Closeup: Putting Oakville, Ontario on the Reading Map

Take Me Out To The Book Club, A Reader Celebration

10 Reasons Why “The Wife Between Us” Will Hook You by Chapter Two

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