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From AuthorBuzz: Heartbreaking and Hopeful Tales

This week's AuthorBuzz giveaway features an intense novel that questions justice, and a historical fiction highlighting an inspirational coming-of-age tale. To learn more about how to win either of these fantastic stories, read on. Dear Reader— In Defense of an Other (Clink Street Publishing), a young, closeted gay lawyer named…
AuthorBuzz
March 20, 2019
Thrillers

It’s Cotton Malone vs. the Knights of Malta

No one sells over 20 million books without understanding how to hook a reader. Over the past 17 years, and now with his 18th novel, The Malta Exchange (Minotaur Books), Steve Berry has mastered the art of page-turning. That elusive art is really the lifeblood of publishing. It’s a simple…
Casey Barrett
March 15, 2019
Fiction

Novel Highlights Real Danger of Hitler’s Food Tasters

Sharing a meal is typically viewed as a binding activity, creating closer relationships with all present. However, you may want to toss your assumptions of intimate connections over food straight in the garbage after reading Rosella Postorino’s latest novel! Based on truth, At the Wolf’s Table (Flatiron Books) is a historical…
Jennifer Blankfein
March 1, 2019
Fiction

Chris Formant Speaks on “Saving Washington”

Author Chris Formant discusses his new historical fiction novel Saving Washington (Permuted Press) with BookTrib. Saving Washington is now available to purchase. Want more on this book? Be sure to check out our review! Want more BookTrib? Sign up NOW for news and giveaways! ABOUT CHRIS FORMANT: Photo: Jason Roth Novelist Chris Formant is a…
BookTrib
February 19, 2019
Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: A Heroine Ventures “Into the Free”

It's hard to place Into the Free (Thomas Nelson) into one genre. The novel plays with conventions common to historical fiction and coming-of-age parables, but Julie Cantrell delivers a wholly unique story in her novel. From high in the branches of her favorite sweet gum tree, Millie Reynolds watches a long…
Erin Celello
February 14, 2019
Book Club NetworkFiction

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…
BookTrib
January 8, 2019
Fiction

The Wartime Sisters in Need of a Peace Talk

It’s Brooklyn in the early thirties, and Mr. and Mrs. Kaplan have brought forth two daughters who could not possibly be more opposite from each other.  Ruth is studious, brittle and envious of her younger sister, Millie, whose beauty and charm captivate everyone around her. Even as a child, Millie…
Claudia Keenan
January 7, 2019
Romance

A Duke in Disguise and Protagonist with Purpose

In the third book in her London Underground series, Dare to Love a Duke (Avon), Eva Leigh again creates a strong female protagonist who isn’t afraid to take risks and knows her own mind. Lucia Marini, known only as Amina by visitors to The Orchid Club, is a foreigner in London. Born to…
Krista Beggan
January 4, 2019
Fiction

Julia Kelly Unites Two Women Of Different Times

There is a certain allure that comes with stories about English women—whatever year they live and thrive, however old they are. From Jane Austen’s Elizabeth Bennett to Thomas Hardy’s Bathsheba Everdene, to Anita Brookner’s Edith Hope, we are keenly invested in the trials and tribulations these women endure. That being…
Susan Shapiro Barash
January 2, 2019
Fiction

A Gorgeous Distraction in Time of Turmoil

In 1947, the world set its weary eyes on a royal wedding when Princess Elizabeth married Philip Mountbatten. The war had ended just two years earlier, and the British were still living in hard times, with food and gas rationing and insufficient housing. And so, as winter approached, the prospect…
Claudia Keenan
December 19, 2018
Fiction

Madame Tussaud: The Woman Behind The Wax

Little (Riverhead) is the unusual story of a determined young girl who shapes a better life for herself through masterful wax figures. We recognize Madame Tussaud as the famed wax sculptor, but Edward Carey adds a compelling story that will stay with you as much as her own art. After her father…
Jennifer Blankfein
December 13, 2018