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Healer and Star Child Ariyana Shares Her Spiritual Gifts

Ariyana, a beautiful Japanese-born California businesswoman turned channeler and healer, speaks with a comforting and confident voice. A multi-millionaire entrepreneur who discovered her inner Star Child, Ariyana is an old soul from the Seventh Dimension, here on this planet to lead it away from destruction. As she reveals in her…

Joanna PoncavageApril 17, 2015

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I’ll have a peanut butter and pickle sandwich, please!

From a cyanide-laced cocktail to a soothing cup of teeth and a biscuit (the British kind, of course) after a long day at the office, food, drink, and crime fiction are intertwined. Miss Marple, one of the genre's most recognizable heroines, is estimated to have consumed a whopping 143 cups…

Jordan FosterApril 10, 2015

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A primer on gender identity and transgender children

Aidan Key is the founder and director of Gender Diversity Education and Support Services at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Joe Wenke is the author of THE HUMAN AGENDA: Conversations about Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. Aidan, Joe and transgender fashion model and activist Gisele Alicea will be at Seattle Town Hall on…

Joe WenkeApril 8, 2015

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This spring break, Party Like a President

If nothing else, we here at BookTrib feel bound by the sense of decorum that our devotion to books and literature commands. Therefore, I humbly beg your indulgence while I express the following sentiment: Its SPRING BREAK, baby! Woooo-hooooo!!! PARTY!! PARTY HEARTY, PEOPLE!!! Thanks. I feel better now. Actually, I…

Michael RuscoeMarch 15, 2015

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Author Casey Plett tells the story behind her Personal Ink

There is always a story behind a tattoo. Whether an image was motivated by love, family, or just too much tequila, tattoos become meaningful the moment they appear on your skin. As an author, I always knew I wanted to get a tattoo that represented my work —and a few…

Rachel CarterMarch 4, 2015

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I’m Glad I Did: Songwriter Cynthia Weil recreates her early years in the business

Rules are meant to be broken. Or at least that’s what Grammy-winning songwriter Cynthia Weil proposes in her latest young adult novel, I’m Glad I Did, a book that rides on the back of the Peace Train, giving voice to issues of racism, sexism and war. It was 1961 when…

Steph ScottMarch 1, 2015

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Children portray Black History Month icons in Because of Them, We Can

Today we are giving you a dose of cuteness for a cause. The Because of Them, We Can campaign was born from photographer Eunique Jones Gibson’s desire to share the rich history of black people as well as the limitless future potential by using photographs that challenged negative…

Mea StewartFebruary 26, 2015

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Ellen Oh discusses why we need diverse books

If you’re a frequent Twitter user, then you’ve probably already heard of We Need Diverse Books. The phenomenon hit social media last year, shortly after BookCon announced a panel, “Blockbuster Reads: Meet the Kids’ Authors That Dazzle,” which only featured white men. A few YA authors, including popular fantasy author…

Rachel CarterFebruary 25, 2015

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Honoring our mothers: History and health on the menu in Soul Food Love

“The kitchen has historically been a fraught place for many black Americans. Our family is among the many,” write New York Times best-selling author Alice Randall and her daughter, Caroline Randall Williams, in their new book, Soul Food Love: Healthy Recipes Inspired by One Hundred Years of Cooking in a…

Michael RuscoeFebruary 21, 2015

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Video: Missed It? Barbara Summers talks matchmaking business and Next! her high-spirited guide to finding love

Since launching her professional matchmaking business in 1986, Barbara Summers has engineered the match for hundreds of married couples. In Next! A Matchmaker’s Guide to Finding Mr. Right, Ditching Mr. Wrong, and Everything In Between (check out our Q&A with the author here), Barbara extends her expertise to all women who…

BookTribFebruary 7, 2015

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A Taste of The Whisky Cabinet

My relationship with whiskey started out hot and heavy—more a whiskey shooter than a whiskey sipper. Over time, my tastes matured, and I began to savor the slow and smoky sip of my favorite peaty winter-time whiskey, Laphroaig. Mark Bylok understands the complexity that comes with sipping whiskey and recognizes…

Amanda HarknessFebruary 1, 2015

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John Cleese and Martin Short: Memoirs by your humble comedy legends

As I was growing up, two famous comic troupes worked from different sides of the pond. On public television, Britain’s renowned Monty Python’s Flying Circus dazzled us with a singularly bizarre brand of humor that at any time might feature exploding penguins, singing lumberjacks, Spam-loving Vikings, or a pantomime Princess…

Michael RuscoeJanuary 26, 2015

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12 Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes That Are Amazingly Appropriate for Our Time

The world knows the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ’s famous “I have a dream” speech. The idea of judging someone not by the color of their skin has become a defining cultural sentiment. But Dr. King was also a revolutionary who wasn’t afraid to speak truth to power…

BookTribJanuary 19, 2015

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Video: Missed It? Live Interview with Frank Schaeffer, Author of Why I am an Atheist Who Believes in GOD

Caught between the beauty of his grandchildren and grief over a friend's death, Frank Schaeffer finds himself simultaneously believing and not believing in God - an atheist who prays. Schaeffer wrestles with faith and disbelief, sharing his innermost thoughts with lyricism that only great writers of literary nonfiction achieve. Schaeffer…

BookTribJanuary 18, 2015

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Malcolm X’s story retold by his daughter for a new generation

Decades after the civil rights movement exploded across America, as our country still struggles with the challenges of its seemingly bottomless racial rift, a new novel based on the life of Malcolm X’s young adulthood, written by the daughter of the iconic civil rights leader, is set to hit the…

Michael RuscoeJanuary 15, 2015

Nonfiction

When Books Went to War to fight facism with freedom of expression

When Nazi Germany began invading neighboring countries in the 1930s it not only declared war on freedom, liberty, and tolerance—it declared war on the printed page as well. By 1941, the Nazis had banned and burned more than 100 million books and had driven terrified citizens to hide or destroy…

Michael RuscoeJanuary 11, 2015

Healer and Star Child Ariyana Shares Her Spiritual Gifts

I’ll have a peanut butter and pickle sandwich, please!

A primer on gender identity and transgender children

This spring break, Party Like a President

Author Casey Plett tells the story behind her Personal Ink

I’m Glad I Did: Songwriter Cynthia Weil recreates her early years in the business

Children portray Black History Month icons in Because of Them, We Can

Ellen Oh discusses why we need diverse books

Honoring our mothers: History and health on the menu in Soul Food Love

Video: Missed It? Barbara Summers talks matchmaking business and Next! her high-spirited guide to finding love

A Taste of The Whisky Cabinet

John Cleese and Martin Short: Memoirs by your humble comedy legends

12 Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes That Are Amazingly Appropriate for Our Time

Video: Missed It? Live Interview with Frank Schaeffer, Author of Why I am an Atheist Who Believes in GOD

When Books Went to War to fight facism with freedom of expression

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