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True-Life Page-Turner About Power, Danger and Finding Your Voice

Brenda Coffee’s Maya Blue recounts a fairytale marriage turned nightmare in a memoir that races along like a thriller. From the infamous “Spy House” in Texas to a terrifying jungle abduction, Coffee’s real-life journey of survival and self-discovery will leave readers breathless and inspired.

BookTribAugust 29, 2025

Author Spotlight

“High Flight”: A Life Lived at Altitude, Anchored in Faith

From the roar of an F-15 slicing the sky at supersonic speed to the hushed stillness of a fog-covered runway, few lives have been lived at such altitude and with such depth as the one captured in High Flight In this Q&A, author Richard Hess takes us beyond the cockpit…

BookTribAugust 28, 2025

Nonfiction

Slutty Cheff’s Hilarious and Steamy Memoir of Coming of Age In and Out of the Kitchen

As a reader of TART, you may have come for the promise of unabashed shagging and haute cuisine, but stay for the writing, which is crisp and unapologetic, a hard dive into an excess of just about everything. “I’m a greedy person at my core,” our protagonist writes right up…

Sherri DaleyAugust 8, 2025

Listicles Nonfiction

7 Powerful True Stories About Growing Up, Speaking Out and Holding On

Some books whisper, while others hit like lightning … then there are the rare ones that do both. Those books tend to shift something deep inside you with their quiet insistence on truth. The following 7 books are shaped by memory and sharpened by resistance. They dig deep and unearth…

Monique SnymanAugust 4, 2025

Listicles

5 Unforgettable Tales of Airborne Bravery and Resilience

Military life rarely unfolds in straight lines. It twists through unexpected missions and personal trials where a single decision can alter the course of a career — or a life. These five books plunge you into the heart of airborne and aviation service, where split‑second decisions can determine survival and…

Katie BloomerJuly 31, 2025

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Author Spotlight

A Cross-Cultural Journey Through Gender, Identity, and Feminism

In Portrait of a Feminist, the author weaves personal narrative with cultural critique, offering a deeply reflective exploration of identity, gender, and selfhood shaped across multiple continents and belief systems. In this Q&A, we talk with author Marianna Marlowe about the roots of her feminism, the complexities of family, faith,…

Kelsey HallJuly 18, 2025

Nonfiction

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Dave Barry’s Hilarious New “Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass”

Dave Barry is hilarious … full stop. He promises this is his first and only memoir, but since so much of his writing is personal and/or observational, we needn’t take this as definitive. Class Clown, subtitled: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass: How I went 77 Years without Growing Up,…

Linda HitchcockJuly 17, 2025

High Flight A Pilots Journey Through Life by Richard Hess

Nonfiction Recommended

From War Zone to Classroom: Pilot’s Firsthand Account of Life in the Cockpit

Thanks to their miles-high vantage point, aviators develop an outsider’s perspective of life on the ground, like the Apollo 17 astronauts who saw the earth looking like a “blue marble.” In his memoir, former U.S. Air Force and airline pilot Richard Hess takes the broad view. High Flight: A Pilot’s…

Joanna PoncavageJuly 17, 2025

Nonfiction

Jeffrey Seller’s Theater Kid Explores How Art, Identity, and Grit Built a Broadway Icon

Theater Kid: A Broadway Memoir needs to be available in every high school and college library to uplift, give courage and instill hope in each young person, encouraging them to strive for their dreams. At that vulnerable time of life, many struggle with doubt, fear and all too often bullying…

Linda HitchcockJune 30, 2025

Listicles

Books That Ignited My Walking Obsession and Inspired My Novel

My dual-timeline novel, Smoke on the Wind, is set in the Scottish Highlands where two women walk the same long path in separate times, each with her son, each carrying the extra weight of past trauma and fear of her future. One is running from a murder accusation; one is…

Kelli EstesJune 24, 2025

Recommended

A Feminist Coming-of-Age That’s Quiet, Powerful and Unforgettable

Marianna Marlowe’s Portrait of a Feminist isn’t your typical feminist memoir. It doesn’t shout its message or come armed with statistics and slogans. Instead, it invites you into the quiet, powerful moments that shaped one woman’s identity across years, continents and cultures. Told in a series of beautifully written personal essays that…

Kelsey HallJune 23, 2025

Listicles

8 Books That Prove Daddy Issues Make Great Literature

We all have baggage — but some of us have a full matching set labeled Dad. Whether he was absent, overbearing or just emotionally unavailable, the father figure looms large in literature. These eight books dive headfirst into the complicated, messy, sometimes tender, but often painful relationships we have with…

Kelsey HallJune 12, 2025

Nonfiction

Hilarious Yet Poignant Memoir Navigates Self-Discovery After Late-in-Life Divorce

Virginia DeLuca is a dedicated psychotherapist and writer whose memoir, If You Must Go, I Wish You Triplets, is cathartic and replete with dark humor. The tagline is “Sometimes, we know the least about those we love the most.” Anyone who has gone through a traumatic divorce or relationship break-up…

Linda HitchcockJune 6, 2025

Nonfiction

Bestselling Author Judith Viorst Shares Witty and Poignant Memoir About Life’s Twilight Years

The complete title of prolific author Judith Viorst’s latest captivating book is Making the Best of What’s Left: When You’re Too Old to Get the Chairs Reupholstered. It’s a frank, humorous blend of memoir and astute advice for aging gracefully that is touching and inspiring. The book provides personal observations…

Linda HitchcockMay 23, 2025

Nonfiction Recommended

80-Something Couple Proves the Road to Alaska Is Paved with Stories

What happens when you give two adventurous octogenarians a Class C motorhome, a loaded itinerary and 15,642 miles of North American wilderness? You get Ride With Us! 15,642 Miles, Seventy Nights Camping, a memoir by Sportyman (the husband's pseudonym) that’s equal parts travelogue, survival journal and a love letter to…

BookTribMay 21, 2025

Nonfiction Recommended

Transformative Memoir of Loss and Psychedelic Healing

In Pain Is a Portal to Beauty, Alexis Leigh embarks on a deeply personal and transformational journey, weaving together grief, self-discovery and spiritual awakening. Through raw and poetic storytelling, Leigh shares how immense loss, psychedelic experiences and the process of feeling everything led her to profound realizations about life, love…

BookTribMay 20, 2025

True-Life Page-Turner About Power, Danger and Finding Your Voice

“High Flight”: A Life Lived at Altitude, Anchored in Faith

7 Powerful True Stories About Growing Up, Speaking Out and Holding On

5 Unforgettable Tales of Airborne Bravery and Resilience

A Cross-Cultural Journey Through Gender, Identity, and Feminism

From War Zone to Classroom: Pilot’s Firsthand Account of Life in the Cockpit

Books That Ignited My Walking Obsession and Inspired My Novel

A Feminist Coming-of-Age That’s Quiet, Powerful and Unforgettable

8 Books That Prove Daddy Issues Make Great Literature

80-Something Couple Proves the Road to Alaska Is Paved with Stories

Transformative Memoir of Loss and Psychedelic Healing

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