Beryl Markham Fans of Paula McLain’s The Paris Wife—her delicious first-person novel about Ernest Hemingway’s first wife, Hadley Richardson—will be glad to hear that her new work of historical fiction, Circling the Sun (Ballantine Books, July 28th) is just as good, if not better. You might not think you have…
Rebecca FosterJune 7, 2015
Not many people have lead a life like that of Nobu Matsuhisa. Born in Saitama, Japan, he and his brother were raised solely by their mother, their father dying in a traffic accident when Matsuhisa was just seven years old. After graduating high school, he worked at a restaurant for seven…
Rachel Fogle De SouzaNovember 9, 2017
A great undiscovered jewel, and from what I infer, a book that deserves to get into every single book club in the nation, and beyond. My enthusiasm is perhaps excessive. There comes a time when a book appears and has valuable lessons to teach us. We learn something we never…
Frederic ColierAugust 29, 2017
If you lived abroad for an extended period, even simply during a semester off while in college, you know that cultures are nothing alike. There is as much in common between Russian and Portuguese bread than between a whale and a tiger. That is what gives the world its colors…
Frederic ColierJuly 20, 2017
Sheryl Sandberg suffered a tragic and unthinkable loss when her husband died on vacation, and just like anyone else, she had to develop coping strategies and solutions to problems in order to work through her grief, comfort her children and get back to living. Her personal story is honest, devastating and inspiring…
Jennifer BlankfeinJune 23, 2017
What does it take to raise your daughter to be a feminist? Writer and feminist scholar, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, was asked this question by a close friend and transformed her response into the newly released book, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions. Adichie's sage advice is absent of the tradition…
Shanel AdamsMarch 29, 2017
As a Health Coach, I take the idea of happiness very seriously. In my practice, I help people cultivate happiness in their own lives by focusing on what I believe to be the four key ingredients to a fulfilled life: Real, Good Food Work/Life Balance Self-Care Strong Connections Since I'm…
Holly TorontoFebruary 28, 2017
The Memory Diet is an empowering, informative and motivational read. Judi and Shari Zucker’s book, The Memory Diet: More than 150 Healthy Recipes for the Proper Care and Feeding of Your Brain (New Page Books, 2016), provides readers with the insights to understand how food and diet play a vital role in good…
BookTrib Guest AuthorJanuary 25, 2017
The memoir, Love Warrior, by Glennon Doyle Melton has been called “epic” by Elizabeth Gilbert, “astonishing” by Rob Bell of The New York Times and Brené Brown declared that the book “blew me away.” So when I heard Oprah choose the book on CBS This Morning to be the next…
Meryl L. MossDecember 23, 2016
If you’ve been talking to your clothes while folding them lovingly in an attempt to make your life more “tidy,” you should take a long, hard look at yourself, according to author Jennifer McCartney. Her new book, The Joy of Leaving Your Sh*t All Over the Place: The Art of…
Katie HiresJuly 18, 2016
Some books challenge you. Others feel like cozy sweaters. It’s rare to find a book that does both. And that's exactly what Isabel Vincent’s latest memoir, Dinner with Edward: A Story of an Unexpected Friendship (Algonquin Books, May 24, 2016) manages to do, by striking the perfect balance between being bittersweet and making you so damn…
Katie HiresMay 23, 2016
Decades before the Civil War, a slave woman named Cora risks her life and runs off a cotton plantation in Georgia. Colson Whitehead’s hero in The Underground Railroad is afraid to take a gamble on so much until she realizes she wouldn’t be risking that much to begin with. Being…
Matt GillickNovember 17, 2016
I’ve read many of Jane Green’s previous novels, and The Sunshine Sisters (Berkley Books, June 6, 2017) is a standout. All of the characters are sympathetic and their motivations believable, even if I don’t always agree with their choices. The Sunshine sisters, Nell, Meredith and Lizzy, grow up with a…
Heather FrimmerMay 2, 2017
Charming and enchanting, The Simplicity of Cider (Gallery Books) by Amy E. Reichert is a must-read for Fall. Set in Door County, Wisconsin on an apple orchard, Reichert’s descriptions of the land, owned by the fascinating Lund family for five generations, is only rivaled by the mouthwatering food served in their kitchen.…
Tina Ann ForknerSeptember 13, 2018
The second novel from environmental lawyer Carrie La Seur, The Weight of an Infinite Sky is a stunning story about family, murder, betrayal, and love, drawing in elements of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Set in the unforgiving, open land of Montana, La Seur easily captures the essence of the West in her writing, making…
Rachel Fogle De SouzaJanuary 16, 2018