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‘Unbelievable’ New Releases You Can’t Wait to Read!

Two weeks into September and it’s finally starting to feel like fall, and with the new season, comes new books! From riveting autobiographies and intense dramas, to provoking sci-fi and secret love, here are eight new books just released this week. The wide variety of genres ensures that there's something…

Rachel Fogle De SouzaSeptember 15, 2017

Miscellany

Gentleman Prefer Books: Flirty Marilyn Monroe Reads

BookTrib is partnering with Early Bird Books to bring you more great content, including this article on the 55th anniversary of Marilyn's death. We're turning to the books that reveal the woman behind the glamour who led a troubled, but extraordinary life. In June of 1926, a girl named Norma Jeane was born to an unknown…

Early Bird BooksAugust 11, 2017

Nonfiction Young Adult Young Adult - Featured

Illustrated Biography on Literary Icon Louisa May Alcott Shares a Fresh and Lively Perspective

Little Women, a Civil War-based novel about the four March sisters and derived from the life of its author, Louisa May Alcott, has been a classic for well over 100 years. As a result, much has been written about Alcott, both for adults and younger readers. Biographer and young adult…

Susan BaileyOctober 6, 2021

Nonfiction Pop Culture

“Rocket Man” Satisfies Both Rabid and Casual Elton Fans

Rocket Man by Mark Bego is for serious Elton John fans: ones who have already seen the movie, who have at least two dozen of his LPs balanced on a shelf over an honest-to-God turntable, who saw Billy Elliott twice and went to see The Lion King by themselves. This…

Sherri DaleyJanuary 7, 2020

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

Meet a Pillar of the Vegas Gambling Community in “Paul S. Endy Jr.: Las Vegas Gaming Legend”

Author Eric Endy had a front-row seat to much of that history and documents it vividly and thoroughly through the story of his father in Paul S. Endy Jr., Las Vegas Casino Gaming Legend. Paul Endy, a 1997 inductee into the Nevada Gaming Hall of Fame, made a name for…

Jim AlkonMay 18, 2022

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

The Heart of This Great American Love Story Beats On, Generation After Generation

Theirs was an unlikely match. Isn’t that how all great love stories start? A Southern man, forced to rebuild his life after the Civil War, falls in love with a Northern woman with pedigree. It sounds like something straight out of a Nicholas Sparks novel. Only this story is real…

Kelsey HallFebruary 24, 2022

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

Presidential Funny Business: Old Abe Had Plenty of Both Wisdom and Wit

It was in the heat of one of the famous Lincoln – Douglas debates in 1858 for the Illinois Senate seat that the Democrat incumbent Stephen Douglas accused Abraham Lincoln of waffling on his position on slavery, the most contentious topic of the times. At one point, he called Lincoln…

Jim AlkonFebruary 16, 2022

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

The Flamboyant Life and Lasting Legacy of the Portrait Photographer to the Art World

Born in 1907, George Platt Lynes was a sickly boy who grew up during the era of Muscular Christianity, a social movement that promoted manliness and vigor. Fortunately, no one stifled the child’s poetic sensibility and love of beauty. George, while lacking in self-awareness, was destined for flamboyance, passion and…

Claudia KeenanJanuary 3, 2022

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

The Magic of Musical Passion in “This Was Toscanini: The Maestro, My Father, and Me”

Samuel Antek — first violinist with the famed NBC Symphony Orchestra for 17 years — captures what it was like to perform under Maestro Arturo Toscanini, who many consider to be the greatest conductor of the mid-20th century. In This Was Toscanini, his musical memoir published in 1963, Antek shared…

K.L. RomoAugust 17, 2021

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

The Intriguing Literary Genius Philip Roth Comes to Light in a Brilliant New Biography

“Don’t try to rehabilitate me,” Philip Roth told biographer Blake Bailey. “Just make me interesting.” Based on the early returns, Bailey has done just that in his much-anticipated Philip Roth: The Biography (W.W. Norton & Company). —∞— “A monumental gift in the realm of international letters. I wept and railed,…

BookTribApril 5, 2021

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

Hidden Figures Emerge in “Overnight Code”

In an era of shattering glass ceilings, no story tells of overcoming adversity better than this captivating memoir. Paige Bowers and David Montague tell the incredible story of Raye Montague, the engineer credited with creating the first digital draft of a United States naval ship, in Overnight Code. From humble…

Gabby TorrentiJanuary 12, 2021

Nonfiction

Lessons on “The Art of Resistance” from a Legendary Freedom Fighter

When he was fifteen years old, Justus Rosenberg snuck into a Wagner music festival. The next year, as Nazis descended upon his town of Danzig, he stole away again to Paris. When the Nazis took that city from him as well, Justus went underground, and so began a daring chapter…

Jeff DaughertyJanuary 29, 2020

Nonfiction

Master of Subversive Fiction Chuck Palahniuk Asks Readers to “Consider This”

To paraphrase Chuck Palahniuk, “People are always asking, did I know about Chuck Palahniuk.” Everyone does at this stage, at the very least from Fight Club, but for edgy kids who want to write edgy stories and didn’t grow up with Burroughs and Bukowski, this guy has always been the…

Jeff DaughertyJanuary 8, 2020

Nonfiction

Rachel Maddow: Traversing the Political Divide

Lisa Rogak’s well-researched Rachel Maddow: A Biography (Thomas Dunne Books) details Maddow’s life from growing up in the conservative town of Castro Valley, CA, as the youngest child of Elaine and Robert Maddow to becoming the popular and brilliant superstar political pundit for MSNBC-TV on the Emmy award-winning The Rachel…

Carole ClapsJanuary 7, 2020

Nonfiction

An Insider’s Account of the Real Barbara Bush

As many political figures are frequently judged by the loudest voices, we tend to form assumptions quickly and easily about those in power. Presidents are prime subjects for these swift judgments, but their wives are not exempt from public scrutiny either. Barbara Bush could conjure a myriad of strong perceptions,…

Rebecca ProulxApril 5, 2019

Nonfiction

Chronicler of Political Power Brokers Tells How He Does It

“Political power,” writes biographer Robert A. Caro, “shapes all of our lives. It shapes your life in little ways that you might not even think about.” That’s why Caro explains in his new not-a-memoir Working (Knopf) that he chose as subjects for his massive writing projects the great forces that…

Jim AlkonMay 1, 2019

‘Unbelievable’ New Releases You Can’t Wait to Read!

Gentleman Prefer Books: Flirty Marilyn Monroe Reads

Illustrated Biography on Literary Icon Louisa May Alcott Shares a Fresh and Lively Perspective

“Rocket Man” Satisfies Both Rabid and Casual Elton Fans

Meet a Pillar of the Vegas Gambling Community in “Paul S. Endy Jr.: Las Vegas Gaming Legend”

The Heart of This Great American Love Story Beats On, Generation After Generation

Presidential Funny Business: Old Abe Had Plenty of Both Wisdom and Wit

The Flamboyant Life and Lasting Legacy of the Portrait Photographer to the Art World

The Magic of Musical Passion in “This Was Toscanini: The Maestro, My Father, and Me”

The Intriguing Literary Genius Philip Roth Comes to Light in a Brilliant New Biography

Hidden Figures Emerge in “Overnight Code”

Lessons on “The Art of Resistance” from a Legendary Freedom Fighter

Master of Subversive Fiction Chuck Palahniuk Asks Readers to “Consider This”

Rachel Maddow: Traversing the Political Divide

An Insider’s Account of the Real Barbara Bush

Chronicler of Political Power Brokers Tells How He Does It

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