The Reel Life of Zara Kegg explores themes of grief and loss, loneliness, friendship, dysfunctional families and coming-of-age romance.
Natalia KavaleJune 16, 2026
In this powerful memoir, Lyn Barrett recounts her journey through Dissociative Identity Disorder, revealing how a family crisis unearthed her long-buried childhood trauma. Crazy: Reclaiming Life from the Shadow of Traumatic Memory is a story of resilience and transformation — the reclaiming of a life once fragmented by trauma.
Y. M. NelsonMay 11, 2026
In this powerful memoir, Lyn Barrett recounts her journey through Dissociative Identity Disorder, revealing how a family crisis unearthed her long-buried childhood trauma. Crazy: Reclaiming Life from the Shadow of Traumatic Memory is a story of resilience and transformation — the reclaiming of a life once fragmented by trauma.
BookTribApril 27, 2026
In this powerful memoir, Lyn Barrett recounts her journey through Dissociative Identity Disorder, revealing how a family crisis unearthed her long-buried childhood trauma. Crazy: Reclaiming Life from the Shadow of Traumatic Memory is a story of resilience and transformation — the reclaiming of a life once fragmented by trauma.
Linda HitchcockApril 24, 2026
More than historical fiction, The Immigrant by Frederic Petrovsky can be defined as a fine bit of motivational philosophizing -- and a most satisfying read. The Immigrant follows an admirable and eclectic list of previous works by Petrovsky: The Clinton Diaries, speculative fiction about former president Bill Clinton, his obsessions…
Sherri DaleyNovember 18, 2022
Thomas Schlesser wears many hats as an art historian, college professor, foundation director and author of several well-regarded nonfiction books. His second novel is the international #1 best seller Mona’s Eyes, first published in Europe in 2024. It was translated from the original French for this English language edition by…
Linda HitchcockDecember 9, 2025
George Lee’s debut novel Dancing in the River (Guernica Editions) offers a rare and intimate view into the coming of age of a young boy in a sleepy mountain village along the Yangtze River, during and after China’s Cultural Revolution. From grammar school through college, Little Bright maneuvers a turbulent…
Anne Eliot FeldmanNovember 18, 2022
As a kid, you barely notice them. Maybe it’s at a restaurant. Maybe it’s in your own basement, where your parents have set up a bar in the downstairs game room. It’s dozens of bottles of liquor reflecting off mirrors – in different shapes, sizes and colors. “I saw them…
Jim AlkonOctober 25, 2023
It’s a bold and gutsy move to open a book with a description of two dead men, their bodies mangled at the bottom of a construction pit, blood running from their mouths and stiffening into maroon jelly. “If you have to, blame me for wanting to feel the rush that…
Joanna PoncavageOctober 31, 2022
Adam Unrehearsed (Wicked Son) is a captivating coming-of-age novel set in Flushing, New York, during the early 1970s. Skillfully crafted by co-host of TLV1’s The Promised Podcast, Don Futterman, the story revolves around Adam Miller, a Jewish boy on the brink of his bar mitzvah, who is navigating the fragility and…
Natalia KavaleNovember 14, 2023
BookTrib is proud to present to our readers the Writers, Ink podcast, a show about the business of writing. J.K. Rowling was nearly homeless when she wrote the first Harry Potter book. Stephen King penned Carrie on a small desk wedged between a washer and dryer. James Patterson worked in advertising and…
Writers, InkSeptember 18, 2023
The charm and intensity of the Barnes and Noble and Jimmy Fallon Book Club Pick, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Knopf) by Gabrielle Zevin will sneak up on you unsuspectedly and before you know it, you will be deep into a book about the coming of age of three young people…
Jennifer BlankfeinAugust 31, 2022
On the cusp of the Second World War, Mussolini held Libya in the grips of his fascist rule. His dictatorship aimed to colonize the country which sustained anti-capitalist and anti-fascist sentiments. Salah El Moncef’s Benghazi (Penelope Books) is a fictionalized version of this historical event, told from the perspective of…
Megan BeauregardDecember 13, 2022
“Home…. How can one little word have so many meanings?” For Mirror, a 5-inch-tall, frightfully fierce and loyal young fairy, home begins with showing up in Somewhere, a fairy community said to be hidden in the natural beauty and grandeur of the Rocky Mountains. Mirror never speaks of her past,…
BookTribDecember 16, 2022
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
Jasmin Faulk-Dickerson spent much of her young life with a foot in two different worlds, belonging to one culture that restricted her individual freedoms and to another that promised more to its women than marriage, children and subservience to men, including their own sons. A strong-willed, sensitive and highly creative…
Chelsea CicconeMay 24, 2022