Aviation

“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

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

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

Author Spotlight Thrillers

Mother and Daughter Battle the Odds in “Freefall”

“Here are the facts. I am alone. I am on a mountain. The plane I was on has crashed. I have very little food and water. It will be dark in a few hours and my only shelter is a twisted hulk of metal that could, at any minute, explode.…

Neil NyrenJanuary 8, 2019

Listicles Miscellany

Crash Course: 7 Books About Aviation Disasters

We've all heard the statistic before: 1 in 11 million. That's the average American's annual risk of being killed in a plane crash. Usually it's followed by this statistic: 1 in 5,000 — the much higher annual risk of dying in a car crash. So why are so many people…

Cynthia ConradDecember 7, 2020

Miscellany

New Giveaways and Stories from Four AuthorBuzz Authors

Dear Reader, see what this week’s AuthorBuzz authors have to say! In each note you’ll receive invitations to join contests, get free books, bookplates or bookmarks, read personal stories, and more. Dear Reader: Every romance reader loves a bad boy hero. In Last Night with the Duke, Griffin has never…

BookTribMarch 7, 2017

Nonfiction Podcasts

Books & Looks Podcast: Soaring High, Falling Hard: The R101 Airship’s Ill-Fated Journey with S.C. Gwynne

Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio 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 reviews are either…

Blaine DesantisDecember 13, 2023

Nonfiction

The Woman Who Could Have Been the First in Space

That would be an appropriate epitaph for the women of the Mercury 13, or Woman in Space, program, a privately funded project in the early 1960s to test women pilots for astronaut fitness. The women never made it into space – the program was abruptly cancelled -- but they are…

Brielle HeinlMarch 13, 2019

BookBites

BookBites: Psycho Thrillers, Moral Dilemmas, Dangers of Automation

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/BookBites.FINAL-3-1180x234.jpg Burden of Proof by Davis Bunn Three weeks after his twenty-third birthday, Ethan missed the chance to save his brother's life when he was murdered on the courthouse steps in Jacksonville, FL. Ever since, Ethan has sensed a deep disconnect between the man he should have been and the…

BookTribNovember 10, 2020