Civil War

Audiobooks Fiction Listicles Listicles - Featured

7 Brilliant and Affecting Historical Fiction Audiobooks

Just in time for the last lazy days of summer listening, I give you four authors and seven — seven! — historical fiction titles that will spirit you away in your own private time machine. This story appears through BookTrib’s partnership with AudioFile. It first appeared on AudioFile’s website.

Aurelia C. ScottSeptember 8, 2022

Audiobooks Fiction Listicles Listicles - Featured Romance Thrillers

Wrap Up The Summer with These 10 August Audiobooks

Every month, AudioFile Magazine reviewers and editors select the best new audiobooks just for BookTrib’s readers. Get ready for the last beach days of the season, back-to-school preparation and cooler days ahead with these August picks! This story appears through BookTrib’s…

AudioFileSeptember 2, 2022

Fiction Recommended

It’s About the Journey… “Westbound” Uncovers Ancestors’ Pioneering and Civil War History

A genealogy project documenting the life of his great-grandparent’s westward experiences during the 19th century holds unexpected surprises for retired newspaper editor Elliott Madison in K. Patrick Conner’s charming novel, Westbound (Nacl Press). History Revealed Through Letters and Journal Entries Living in San Francisco’s upscale Russian Hill district, Elliott uses…

Peggy KurkowskiDecember 2, 2022

Thrillers

Jon Land’s Year-End Picks: 6 Best Thrillers of the Season

Tis' the season... for a good thriller! From some of the best known thriller writers come some great suggestions you don't want to miss, like unforgettable novels by James Rollins and Lisa Gardner. No matter what adventure you're looking for them to take you on, here are some suggestions for…

Jon LandDecember 20, 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

‘The Eves of Our Destruction’: Can Citizens be Ignorant and Free at the Same Time?

As authors, we tend to specialize in writing fiction or nonfiction. A few writers are able to successfully write both entertaining fiction and erudite nonfiction but in a terrible irony, increasingly, our society seems to be so easily manipulated in blurring the distinction. In 1816 in a letter to John…

Roy BerelowitzNovember 3, 2017

Fiction Thrillers Thrillers - Featured

Historical Mystery “Lake of Flowers” Delivers a Feast of Egyptian Intrigue

When it comes to certain eras in ancient history, tangible, irrefutable facts are few and far between. A lot of our knowledge about these people and their cultures comes from painstaking research paired with the educated guesswork of experts like N.L. Holmes, who writes in the historical notes that begin…

Chelsea CicconeAugust 18, 2021

Fiction Fiction - Featured

Turmoil of Reconstruction-Era Alabama Tests the Bonds of Family

There’s so much to love about Michelle Muriel’s latest book of fiction, Westland (Little Cabin Books). It’s a fine history lesson set in Alabama shortly after the Civil War, where folks are trying their best to recover and rebuild — not only their homes and their land but also their…

Sherri DaleyMarch 30, 2022

Fiction

Tyranny of the High Seas Turns an Eager Bride Into a Fearless Captain in “The Highland Thistle”

If you put the best parts of Outlander and Pirates of the Caribbean together, you would get The Highland Thistle (Bowker) by KJ Fay, a swashbuckling tale brimming with adventure. The year is 1584; Scotland is on the precipice of a Civil War. Rebels and traitors are sweeping through the…

Kelsey HallSeptember 15, 2021

Fiction

Ragtag Band of Musicians On a Quest to Reunite Lovers in “Simon the Fiddler”

Novelist, memoirist, poet and rancher, Paulette Jiles finds it hard to leave a fictional world she’s created. “If you spend time and effort to construct an alternative world,” she writes on her blog page, “why abandon it after one work?” So it is that her new novel revisits the war-torn…

Sherri DaleyApril 16, 2020

Book Club Network Fiction

A Riveting Civil War Novel of Romance and Espionage

Across the River is a lush and languid historical spy novel set during the Civil War. This novel by Richard Snodgrass is the fourth in a series, following the critically praised Furnass Towers Trilogy. Colin Lyle is the owner of the Keystone Steam Works and lives in Furnass, Pennsylvania with…

Ann LinebergerJuly 2, 2019

Fiction

Review: ‘The Underground Railroad’ is the Best Book of the Year — Maybe the Decade

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

Fiction

Video: Missed It? Interview with Steve Berry, Author of The Lincoln Myth

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE LINCOLN MYTH Steve Berry returns with his latest thriller, a Cotton Malone adventure involving a flaw in the United States Constitution, a mystery about Abraham Lincoln, and a political issue that’s as explosive as it is timely—not only in Malone’s world, but in ours. September 1861: All…

BookTribJune 6, 2014

Fiction Listicles Listicles - Featured

7 Fictions Attacking the Civil War From All Sides

We are living through a tumultuous time in history. The COVID-19 pandemic, racial injustice, political tension — every day, it seems, we experience a new event in keeping with the recent theme of crazy-high levels of change. This isn’t the first time, however, that this country has gingerly picked its…

Judy MorenoApril 23, 2021

Fiction Miscellany - Featured

AuthorBuzz: Civil War Throws Blacksmith’s Romance and Life Off Course

AuthorBuzzNovember 14, 2022

Podcasts

Ron Chernow Shares Insight on his Newest Novel, ‘Grant’

Just the Right Book! Podcast, hosted by Roxanne Coady of Connecticut’s acclaimed, award-winning, independent bookseller R.J. Julia, is now available on BookTrib.com, the premier website where readers meet writers. The podcast and BookTrib are both dedicated to helping readers find their next favorite read and this pairing will open up…

Just The Right Book PodcastOctober 13, 2017

7 Brilliant and Affecting Historical Fiction Audiobooks

Wrap Up The Summer with These 10 August Audiobooks

It’s About the Journey… “Westbound” Uncovers Ancestors’ Pioneering and Civil War History

Jon Land’s Year-End Picks: 6 Best Thrillers of the Season

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

Historical Mystery “Lake of Flowers” Delivers a Feast of Egyptian Intrigue

Turmoil of Reconstruction-Era Alabama Tests the Bonds of Family

Tyranny of the High Seas Turns an Eager Bride Into a Fearless Captain in “The Highland Thistle”

Ragtag Band of Musicians On a Quest to Reunite Lovers in “Simon the Fiddler”

A Riveting Civil War Novel of Romance and Espionage

Review: ‘The Underground Railroad’ is the Best Book of the Year — Maybe the Decade

Video: Missed It? Interview with Steve Berry, Author of The Lincoln Myth

7 Fictions Attacking the Civil War From All Sides

AuthorBuzz: Civil War Throws Blacksmith’s Romance and Life Off Course

Ron Chernow Shares Insight on his Newest Novel, ‘Grant’

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