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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

One-of-a-Kind Guide Offers Relationship Lessons from Corporate Finance

What do risk-adjusted returns, beta coefficients and strategic exits have in common with romance? According to Desi Duncker, quite a bit. In his book Asset Management: Relationship Lessons from Corporate Finance (and Other Fields), Duncker draws an unlikely — but utterly compelling — line between boardrooms and bedrooms, offering readers a…

BookTribMay 23, 2025

Nonfiction Recommended

Guidebook Offers Personalized, Holistic Approach to Health and Wellness

If you’ve ever felt discouraged or defeated by diet and fitness fads or overwhelmed by the ever-growing sea of contradictory advice about weight loss, Do It Yourself Weight Management by Kouros F. might be the guide you didn’t know you needed. This isn’t a book about quick fixes and overhyped…

BookTribMay 22, 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

Nonfiction Recommended

An Essential, Compassionate Guide to Navigating Life’s Deepest Losses

Grief and Managing This Inevitable Part of Life by Michael Dow, beautifully presented through the voice of Nurse Dorothea, is a sensitive, heartfelt and empowering book that offers readers both understanding and tools for coping with one of life's most difficult challenges — grief. As the second installment in the Nurse…

Kelsey HallApril 29, 2025

Podcasts

Books & Looks Podcast: Life’s Final Horizon

Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a literary podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio and video interviews with authors. With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he…

BookTribApril 23, 2025

Author Spotlight

Mapping the Soul and the Enneagram’s Journey to Self-Discovery

Joseph Howell’s Know Your Soul is an engaging and reassuring tool that makes the Enneagram accessible for anyone seeking its help in healing or searching for spiritual transformation. In this Q&A, we talk with author Joseph Howell and his openness about how he was able to turn his seismic losses…

BookTribApril 21, 2025

Nonfiction Recommended

Transformative Power of the Enneagram, the Spiritual Map to the Soul

When psychologist and spiritual teacher Joseph Benton Howell lost his son in 2008, the bottom fell out of his world. Years later, his daughter died in her sleep following a relapse after a hard-won period of sobriety. These seismic losses shattered the coping mechanisms that had previously held Howell together.…

BookTribApril 2, 2025

Better Self Nonfiction Recommended

Free Yourself From Suffering With “Soul Setting,” A Must-Read Guide to Healing

There are a plethora of self-help books about changing your mindset, but what would happen if the paradigm shift occurred on a deeper level? What if instead of setting your mind on something, you set your soul? This is the premise of Soul Setting: Listen to Your Soul Instead of…

BookTribJanuary 31, 2025

Nonfiction Recommended

Helpful, Hands-On Writer’s Guide to Crafting a Novel

If you’ve read enough books, at some point you’ve probably wondered: How do they do it? How do they write books? Is there a magic formula? Some of you no doubt even pondered the question: Can I do it? “Method, momentum and motivation are what I believe you need whether you’re…

Jim AlkonOctober 31, 2024

Better Self Nonfiction Recommended

Experience a Brighter Future with Transformative Recovery Guide

Author Daryl Dittmer has written two really great books! In his first, When I Stop Fighting: The Unexpected Joy of Getting My Head Out of My Ass (see BookTrib’s review here), Dittmer acknowledges that he is not a celebrity, doctor, retired billionaire, politician or Navy SEAL, but, rather, “a very…

Barbara WilkovOctober 15, 2024

Author Spotlight

International Civility Consultant Calls for Kindness & Mutual Respect in the Workplace

“In our extremely divided world where people are unwilling to share space with — much less talk to — people with differing views, it is a radical act to encourage the energetic debating of ideas respectfully and without personal attacks.” That is one of the thoughts at the heart of…

BookTribSeptember 13, 2024

Nonfiction Recommended

One Man’s Search for Spiritual Enlightenment Stretches Cultures and Continents

“The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance, yet better equipped to understand the … systematic reasoning to the…

Jim AlkonSeptember 6, 2024

Better Self Nonfiction Recommended

Conquer Anxiety and Radiate Confidence with Social Guidebook

Between the incendiary world of social media, the lingering aftermath of remote learning and the ever-changing expectations of the professional world, the young adults of today have a lot to contend with socially. And whether they’re headed for college orientation or their first job interview, there’s a good chance they’re…

BookTribAugust 26, 2024

Better Self Listicles Nonfiction

5 Science-Based Guides to the Beauty Industry

The beauty industry is more alive than ever, with makeup tutorials, home-brewed skincare hacks, talk of “anti-aging”, dieting, and more trending on social media, commercials, and celebrity blogs. We’re constantly being bombarded with an abundance of advertisements and misinformation. So how do we know what’s true, and who is just…

BookTribAugust 20, 2024

Better Self Nonfiction Recommended

Woman’s Journey Provides Helpful Guide to Healing from Chronic Pain

Wow! What an unbelievable story of pain, frustration and despair transforming into new life that author Mireille Mandat has to share in her powerful memoir/self-help book, The Empowerment to Conquer Illnesses. Anyone who has or knows someone who has one of those “invisible” illnesses — like fibromyalgia, neuropathy, inflammatory bowel…

Barbara WilkovAugust 16, 2024

One-of-a-Kind Guide Offers Relationship Lessons from Corporate Finance

Guidebook Offers Personalized, Holistic Approach to Health and Wellness

Transformative Memoir of Loss and Psychedelic Healing

An Essential, Compassionate Guide to Navigating Life’s Deepest Losses

Books & Looks Podcast: Life’s Final Horizon

Mapping the Soul and the Enneagram’s Journey to Self-Discovery

Transformative Power of the Enneagram, the Spiritual Map to the Soul

Free Yourself From Suffering With “Soul Setting,” A Must-Read Guide to Healing

Helpful, Hands-On Writer’s Guide to Crafting a Novel

Experience a Brighter Future with Transformative Recovery Guide

International Civility Consultant Calls for Kindness & Mutual Respect in the Workplace

One Man’s Search for Spiritual Enlightenment Stretches Cultures and Continents

5 Science-Based Guides to the Beauty Industry

Woman’s Journey Provides Helpful Guide to Healing from Chronic Pain

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