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12 Extraordinary Stories Set in Libraries

“The only thing you absolutely have to know is the location of the library.” — Albert Einstein Libraries are a crucial part of society — preserving history, promoting literacy, and providing an abundance of free resources and programs to communities. But perhaps even more than that, they provide essential nourishment…

Katie BloomerApril 11, 2024

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#ThrillerFest2017 Debut Author Shaun Harris Steals Our Attention with ‘The Hemingway Thief’

Check out today's featured ThrillerFest 2017 debut author Shaun Harris and his new thriller, The Hemingway Thief! See what he has to say about how he'd kill off his beloved hero, Henry "Coop" Cooper! BookTrib: If you were on death row, what would be your last read? Why? Shaun Harris:…

BookTribJune 23, 2017

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Love Mysteries? Love Books? Here’s a Collection For You

If you like mysteries and you like books, there’s a collection of stories you should know about. Bibliomysteries: Volume Two, edited by Otto Penzler and to be published in August by Pegasus, is just what the title implies: a collection of crime stories about rare books, bookshops, libraries, manuscripts, magical books,…

BookTribAugust 1, 2018

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Book-to-Screen on Trials of Bookshop Ownership

If you have read The Bookshop (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) by Penelope Fitzgerald, you will want to see the movie to answer some questions: How can a movie portray a book’s delicately described inner states? How can subtle emotions and flitting feelings be shown on the screen? And if you have seen…

Joanna PoncavageSeptember 14, 2018

Fiction

Step Inside “The Lost and Found Bookshop” Where Joy Never Yields to Struggle

Natalie Harper grew up around books: “When she was very small, her mother used to tell her that books were alive in a special way. Between the covers, characters were living their lives, enacting their dramas, falling in and out of love, finding trouble, working out their problems. Even sitting…

Chelsea CicconeJuly 7, 2020

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“The Reading List” Is Book Therapy for Lovers of Literature

"A quietly beautiful novel about the magic of books and the joy of human connection.” —Newsweek —∞— "A lovely story about how a love of reading can transport us to other worlds and also bring us together.” —Toronto Star —∞— Sara Nisha Adams’ debut The Reading List (William Morrow) is…

Linda HitchcockAugust 3, 2021

Book Club Network Fiction

“Writers & Lovers:” Food for the Creative Spirit and Dreamers

I loved her 2014 release Euphoria and author Lily King has written another great one, although quite different, Writers & Lovers (Grove Press). We follow Casey Peabody, a writer, on a journey to find herself. “I am 31, and $73,000 in debt. I’ve moved 11 times, had 17 jobs and…

Jennifer BlankfeinMay 7, 2020

Fiction

BookTrib Review: “Summer Hours at the Robbers Library” Is Worth Checking Out

Libraries are here to stay. Long after your corner coffeehouse has been turned into a drug store, your local library will be there to embrace you with an ever-changing community of avid readers. Summer Hours at the Robbers Library (Harper Perennial) by veteran author and journalist Sue Halpern offers an introspective and poignant look…

Rachel Fogle De SouzaFebruary 28, 2018

Fiction

Author Camille Di Maio is Haunted by Matthew Sullivan’s ‘Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore’

What is your first scary memory? For me, it was the horrible murder of a family by the hands of a stranger that took place in my hometown of Aurora, Colorado. I won’t go into the details – it would be a spoiler alert. But like me, author Matthew Sullivan…

Camille Di MaioJuly 6, 2017

Fiction Listicles

Five Fantastic Books About Books for the Ultimate Bibliophile

As readers, we love to lose ourselves between the pages of a good book, and what’s more delicious than a book about books? If you love a good story about writers, here are five women’s fiction titles to pull off the shelf:

Women's Fiction Writers AssociationJuly 22, 2020

Fiction Listicles Thrillers

Inside the Writing Brain: 8 Novels About Writing Novels

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/meta-fiction-feat..jpg The question came to me in my admiration of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood: how does someone write novelistic nonfiction when many of the main characters are dead? How can you write a true-crime novel if you don’t know the truth? And how can you ever find it? I’ll…

Hank Phillippi RyanOctober 22, 2020

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Check Out These 9 “Library Books” for National Library Week

Walking into a library is like walking into an opium den. The exhilarating scent of paper and binding — whether musty with age or fruit-sweet and fresh off the press — is a perfume like no other. Endorphins flood the brain. Ahhhhh ... books! Here we can wander among the…

BookTribApril 5, 2022

Author Spotlight Book Club Network Fiction

Amy Meyerson’s Tempest in a California Bookshop

A romance, a quest, and a literary adventure, Amy Meyerson’s debut novel The Bookshop of Yesterdays (Park Row) introduces a young woman in furious pursuit of the past. In the novel, just released in paperback, Miranda Brooks, named for the heroine of Shakespeare’s play The Tempest, is a history teacher…

Claudia KeenanMay 7, 2019

12 Extraordinary Stories Set in Libraries

#ThrillerFest2017 Debut Author Shaun Harris Steals Our Attention with ‘The Hemingway Thief’

Love Mysteries? Love Books? Here’s a Collection For You

Book-to-Screen on Trials of Bookshop Ownership

Step Inside “The Lost and Found Bookshop” Where Joy Never Yields to Struggle

“The Reading List” Is Book Therapy for Lovers of Literature

“Writers & Lovers:” Food for the Creative Spirit and Dreamers

BookTrib Review: “Summer Hours at the Robbers Library” Is Worth Checking Out

Author Camille Di Maio is Haunted by Matthew Sullivan’s ‘Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore’

Five Fantastic Books About Books for the Ultimate Bibliophile

Inside the Writing Brain: 8 Novels About Writing Novels

Check Out These 9 “Library Books” for National Library Week

Amy Meyerson’s Tempest in a California Bookshop

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