California

Can a Lethal Celebrity Stalker Outwit This Snarky Ball-Player-Turned-Private-Eye?

In award-winning author D.P. Lyle’s newest detective thriller, The OC (Oceanview), former pro baseball player Jake Longly — reluctant private investigator, lover of women and irreverent smart-ass extraordinaire — once again finds himself in the middle of a tough investigation. Readers first met Jake and his girlfriend, Nicole Jamison, in…

K.L. RomoOctober 5, 2021

Miscellany

A Recovering Perfectionist Bans the Word Altogether

Since her 2009 diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, Dr. Lisa Doggett has come to realize MS is no excuse to avoid challenges. Instead, it has propelled her to run two marathons, hike the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, and complete a 168-mile bike ride to raise awareness for MS. She is…

Lisa DoggettSeptember 7, 2018

Miscellany

Sarah Jessica Parker On Her Imprint and Empowering Women

Sarah Jessica Parker who is best known for her iconic role as Carrie Bradshaw is also a producer, designer, and now a publisher, recently launching her own imprint, SJP for Hogarth. In a rare and revealing interview, the Sex and the City star opens up to Roxanne on several hot topics. They discuss not…

Just The Right Book PodcastAugust 31, 2018

Nonfiction

BookTrib Review: Jonathan White Captures the ‘Spirit of the Ocean’ in ‘Tides’

Something unexpected will happen upon reading the chapters of this captivating book. Your nostrils will feel the iodine-laden air brushing as the winds break like waves upon the shores of your assumptions. They will jolt into wakeness. If you ever thought that the constant ebb and flow of the sea…

Frederic ColierJanuary 10, 2018

Fiction Romance

Tall Poppy Review: Marrying Jane Austen to Contemporary Cali Charisma

Retellings of Jane Austen novels could be their own section in the bookstore, adding a new shelf's worth each year. Some are quite literal, others are barely recognizable and some are delicately perfect, capturing the spirit of Austen without sacrificing organic storytelling. Sonali Dev’s latest novel, Incense and Sensibility (William Morrow…

Amy ReichertAugust 5, 2021

Fiction Fiction - Featured

Two Spunky Rescue Pups Venture Into the Jungles of Africa to Help Save Elephants

Terriers in the Jungle (Atmosphere Press) by Georja Umano tells the story of two very eloquent canines, Roxie and Romeo, in what reads like a personal diary of their adventures. Their tale starts with their struggles to survive as strays on the unforgiving streets of L.A. Fortunately, they find a…

Kelsey HallJanuary 24, 2022

Fiction

A Trip Home Turns Into a Surprising Adventure in “Return to Bodie”

Rita Weisheit takes her readers on a journey through towns, states and time in her meticulously researched historical novel Return to Bodie (Barnes and Noble Press). What begins as a story centered around complicated family dynamics and the urge to leave the past behind quickly turns into a lesson on appreciating…

Nicole MaherSeptember 22, 2021

Fiction

“There There” Offers Visceral Vision of Urban Indian Life

There There (Knopf) by Tommy Orange tells the stories of 12 people of Native American descent in Oakland, California, Deep East Oakland, that is, where crime is so rampant a failing mall has been turned into a police station. Like more than half of all Native Americans today, they are urban…

Joanna PoncavageAugust 23, 2018

Fiction

‘The Immortalists’ Review: If You Knew You Were Going To Die Tomorrow, How Would You Live Today?

In the summer of 1969, four children from a Jewish family on the Lower East Side of Manhattan visit a psychic and are told the date they will die. Does this information, this prediction, change the way they choose to live? That question is wrapped in mystery in The Immortalists, a…

Jennifer BlankfeinFebruary 26, 2018

Fiction

Gabriel Tallent’s Literary Debut is an ‘Absolute Darling’

Wow! My Absolute Darling is literary fiction at its finest! This vividly written debut is rich in language with full descriptive prose and incredibly complex characters. Turtle, a motherless teenager living with her reclusive and resourceful survivalist dad, has an unusual existence. Some of her days begin with raw eggs and a…

Jennifer BlankfeinSeptember 29, 2017

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

Miscellany Podcasts

Writer’s Bone Podcast: A Talk with Diane Ratican, Author of ‘Why LA? Pourquoi Paris?’

Writer's Bone Podcast, hosted by Daniel Ford and Sean Tuohy, gives insight into the world of writing and sheds light on some of your favorite writers every week! Diane Ratican, author of Why LA? Pourquoi Paris?, talks to Daniel Ford about what she loves most about Los Angeles and Paris,…

Daniel FordDecember 4, 2017

Can a Lethal Celebrity Stalker Outwit This Snarky Ball-Player-Turned-Private-Eye?

A Recovering Perfectionist Bans the Word Altogether

Sarah Jessica Parker On Her Imprint and Empowering Women

BookTrib Review: Jonathan White Captures the ‘Spirit of the Ocean’ in ‘Tides’

Tall Poppy Review: Marrying Jane Austen to Contemporary Cali Charisma

Two Spunky Rescue Pups Venture Into the Jungles of Africa to Help Save Elephants

A Trip Home Turns Into a Surprising Adventure in “Return to Bodie”

“There There” Offers Visceral Vision of Urban Indian Life

‘The Immortalists’ Review: If You Knew You Were Going To Die Tomorrow, How Would You Live Today?

Gabriel Tallent’s Literary Debut is an ‘Absolute Darling’

Amy Meyerson’s Tempest in a California Bookshop

Writer’s Bone Podcast: A Talk with Diane Ratican, Author of ‘Why LA? Pourquoi Paris?’

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