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Video: Missed It? Live Interview with Angie Hallier, Author of “The Wiser Divorce”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN-bVEp4cck ABOUT THE AUTHOR ANGIE HALLIER is the founder and managing partner of Hallier & Lawrence PLC, ranked the #1 family law firm in Arizona by Ranking Arizona. Her practice includes complex divorce and legal separation, business issues incident to divorce, spousal maintenance, appellate work, and paternity issues. She offers…

BookTribSeptember 19, 2014

Video: Missed It? Interview with Leslie Meier, Author of French Pastry Murder

We have a FRENCH PASTRY MURDER on our hands! (Book 21 in the Lucy Stone Mystery series by Leslie Meier) ABOUT FRENCH PASTRY MURDER Tinker's Cove is abuzz with excitement when Norah, the queen of daytime TV, comes to town and selects Lucy and her pals to be featured…

BookTribSeptember 19, 2014

Jonesin’ for a Fix: Books for TV Addicts — Longmire edition

Despite being unexpectedly cancelled by A&E after three seemingly successful seasons, there’s still hope for Sheriff Walt Longmire and Absaroka County, Wyoming. Insiders report that the Longmire team is preparing pitches for possible suitors, chief among them Netflix (a logical choice because the first two seasons—and soon the third—are already…

Jordan FosterSeptember 13, 2014

Live Interview with Kira Peikoff, Author of No Time to Die

NO TIME TO DIE In a Washington, D.C. research lab, a brilliant scientist is attacked by his own test subjects. At Columbia University, a talented biochemist is lured out of her apartment and never seen again. In the Justice Department's new Bioethics Committee, agent Les Mahler sees a sinister pattern…

BookTribSeptember 11, 2014

Solving the mystery of Tana French; one of fall’s most eagerly awaited novels

When I was a kid, my parents had a thing for Murder, She Wrote. We’d watch every week, competing to guess whodunit, how, and why. And somehow, one Sunday, it clicked for me: the culprit was always the extra person, the one whose absence (minus that PG offing in Act…

Tracy ManasterSeptember 9, 2014

Jonesin’ for a Fix: Books for TV Addicts — Brooklyn Nine-Nine edition

How does one describe FOX’s freshman hit, Brooklyn Nine-Nine? I’ll let the show’s star, Andy Samberg, do it for me: “We’re a like a family with two black dads, two white sons, two Latina daughters and a strange baby thing.” If that sounds like stunt casting to you, don’t be…

JeriAnn GellerSeptember 6, 2014

Video: Missed It? Interview with Pam Jenoff, Author of The Winter Guest

THE WINTER GUEST A stirring novel of first love in a time of war and the unbearable choices that could tear sisters apart, from the celebrated author of The Kommandant's Girl. Life is a constant struggle for the eighteen-year-old Nowak twins as they raise their three younger siblings in rural…

BookTribAugust 22, 2014

Who dressed you like that? Doctor Who style from best to worst

Doctor Who is debuting its Twelfth Doctor this week, and every Whovian out there is waiting on pins and needles to see how Peter Capaldi will portray our favorite Time Lord. Will he be goofy and sweet like the Tenth Doctor? Or quirky but a little damaged like the Eleventh?…

Rachel CarterAugust 21, 2014

Kira Peikoff discusses how a life-changing event inspired her latest novel

When I was 7 years old, my father had a heart attack. Not one that killed him, thank God. He was rushed to the hospital in time for doctors to clear his blocked artery. No one was all that surprised. My dad had smoked three packs a day for 30…

BookTrib Guest AuthorAugust 13, 2014

Lev Grossman discusses weaving the power of literary fiction into fantasy

Lev Grossman’s latest novel, The Magician’s Land, hits shelves this week, marking the triumphant close of his New York Times bestselling fantasy trilogy. The trilogy is no doubt a beacon on the current rising tide in fantasy readership and writership, a genre which Grossman says is evolving quickly. It’s a…

Angela PalmAugust 11, 2014

Move over hobbits and wizards — here come the Dragonriders of Pern

Harpers strike a stirring chord and beat a triumphant cadence – the original dragons are finally coming to life! Warner Brothers has announced its next movie franchise: it is bringing Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Anne McCaffrey’s beloved Dragonriders of Pern series to the big screen. Anne McCaffrey Now that…

Ann NordlandAugust 11, 2014

Heroes on a half-shell: How Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles became a pop-culture powerhouse

It’s been a banner season for sci-fi movie lovers. We’ve cheered with delight as everything from a spider-powered superhero to a giant Japanese monster to an army of intelligent apes to, most recently, a feisty rifle-slinging raccoon have all made their marks in theaters around the world. As the last…

Michael RuscoeAugust 7, 2014

A modern heroine rises from Jewish folklore in The Angel of Losses

It’s funny how books speak to you. As a professional journalist and former editorial illustrator, I know that you can’t judge a book by its cover, but the gorgeous Chagallesque fantasy on the cover of The Angel of Losses: A Novel by Stephanie Feldman (Harper-Collins, July 29) drew me right…

JeriAnn GellerJuly 31, 2014

Four flash novels for fast times

The trouble with traditionally structured novels is they no longer seem to fit easily into the fast-paced, electronically charged lives of would-be readers, let alone the lives of committed novel readers. Don’t worry, I’m not about to write that the novel is dying. It’s not. I’ve spent hundreds of hours…

Angela PalmJuly 29, 2014

Has “New Adult” genre replaced “Chick Lit”?

Fifteen years ago, everyone was talking about Chick Lit. It was the new big genre, and candy-colored books were flying off the shelves. Bridget Jones’s Diary, Confessions of a Shopaholic, anything by Jennifer Weiner – readers couldn’t get enough of the quirky heroines who awkwardly navigated love and careers. But…

Rachel CarterJuly 27, 2014

Plague Is Coming to Reign – Here’s Two Books of Treachery While You Wait

Look! So many pretty people on The CW, especially on my guilty pleasure show, Reign. It’s a riveting historical tale that follows Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1557 France. Not interested yet? How about adding a love triangle, a borderline psychotic king and a conniving queen with a growing murder…

McKenzie MorrellJuly 26, 2014

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