Family

“Always Together at Christmas” is an Uplifting Tale for This Holiday Season

How will families spend the holidays this year? What about Santa? Does he leave presents out on the sidewalk, or does he wear a mask? Inspired by the ways her own family and friends are coming together – while staying apart – during the pandemic, author Sara Sargent has penned…

BookTribNovember 26, 2020

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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

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“The Heir Apparent” Delivers an Adult Twist on the Princess Fantasy

As a teenager coming of age in the aughts, I was a fan girl of The Princess Diaries. Mia Thermopolis learns that she is a princess of the fictitious country of Genovia, and undergoes a giant makeover. She is transformed from a bespectacled nobody into a bombshell babe, and must…

Krysti OstermeyerDecember 2, 2025

Fiction

Disney Pixar’s ‘Coco,’ Not Just for Kids

For the past few years, Disney has been turning our favorite classic stories into live-action films. These revivals remind us that sometimes, kids movies aren't just for kids. In theaters this holiday season is Disney Pixar's Coco, a beautifully animated film that takes place in Mexico. Lucky for us, the companion book Coco:…

BookTribOctober 31, 2017

Nonfiction Recommended

Anchored by Love: A Family’s Journey through Obstacles, Success, and Reunion

Anchored by Love by Marie-Claire Moriah Wright and David Saccoh Wright is a heartwarming multigenerational family saga. The book explores the lives of Asher and Charlotte Kingsley and their children as they grow through life’s milestones. The story begins with Asher and Charlotte’s teenage years. Asher Kingsley, a confident and…

Natalia KavaleAugust 11, 2025

My Bully My Aunt and Her Final Gift by Harold Phifer

Nonfiction Recommended

Memoir Reveals Unexpected Healing — And Humor — Found in Family Dysfunction

Harold Phifer’s My Bully, My Aunt, and Her Final Gift is a refreshingly honest, darkly humorous, and unexpectedly heartfelt memoir that masterfully balances comedy and introspection. With sharp wit and a candid narrative style, Phifer takes readers on a journey through his complicated past, shaped by the formidable presence of his Aunt…

Kelsey HallFebruary 18, 2025

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Magical Realism Saga of Multi-Generational Trauma

Sound the trumpets and ready the fireworks to light the sky in a dazzling display honoring the debut of Jamie Ford’s eagerly awaited new novel The Many Daughters of Afong Moy (Atria). He has ambitiously reached for the stars and caught the tail of a transcendent, iridescent and fast-moving comet.…

Linda HitchcockAugust 2, 2022

Fiction Recommended

One American Family’s Global Experience of Life and Fulfillment in the 20th Century

George John Black’s new novel Crystal Lake (BookBaby) offers the rich story of one American family as it spans the twentieth century, told from the standpoint of a dynamic father-son relationship that unfolds over decades. Told in three chronological parts, Crystal Lake takes us from Normandy to Africa, from Honduras…

Anne Eliot FeldmanMay 18, 2023

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Amid the Uncertainty of the Pandemic, a New Addition to the Family Brings Comfort and Happiness

We’ve heard the stories of the pandemic dogs — over 23 million Americans, or 1 in 5 households, has gained one over the course of these past years. It can be hard to fathom a statistic like that — 23 million dogs means 23 million wagging tails, 23 twitching noses…

Cameron KimballSeptember 12, 2022

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Chase Your Dreams and Fall in Love with Nicholas Sparks’ Latest

Are you doing yourself justice if you don’t follow your heart and chase your wildest dreams? That idea is what Nicholas Sparks explores in his latest novel, Dreamland (Random House). ROMANCE GROUNDED IN REALITY Colby Mills has wanted to be a musician for as long as he can remember, but…

Lydia LefevreSeptember 20, 2022

Author Spotlight Fiction Fiction - Featured

Moving Story of Adoption, Parenting and What Makes a Family

Unconventional family stories are fun to read and give us an understanding of unfamiliar situations, allowing for the development of empathy. Eleanor Brown's Any Other Family (Putnam) is about open adoption, siblings and how their adoptive families chose to raise them together as one big family. Although the subject may…

Jennifer BlankfeinAugust 16, 2022

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Don Winslow’s New Crime Novel Burns Down the House

As with many violent tales, it all started with a woman. The same holds true for City on Fire (William Morrow) by Don Winslow. Danny Ryan knew the minute he saw the gorgeous woman that she would be trouble. But he didn't know that the lives of his family and friends…

K.L. RomoAugust 15, 2022

Thrillers

When the Killer is “Someone We Know”

‘Domestic suspense’ – It’s a rather loaded term for a subgenre, isn’t it? It seems, intended or otherwise, to be a marketing phrase coined to target a very specific set of readers: ie suburban moms who love mysteries and thrillers. Don’t get me wrong, like the ‘soccer mom’ vote, this…

Casey BarrettJuly 30, 2019

Thrillers

Alan Brenham Plays With Our Minds in “Game Piece”

A killer is messing with Barry Marshall’s head -- and with everything he holds dear. That sets the stage for Alan Brenham’s chilling, twisting, rocketing thriller, Game Piece (Black Opal Books), in which Marshall is the game piece that the killer is coldly, cruelly maneuvering. Alan Brenham is the pseudonym…

Jim ParryOctober 30, 2018

Miscellany

Chelsea Clinton’s Top 3 Books To Read With Your Family

BookTrib partners with Signature Views from Penguin Random House to bring you more great content. Today we have recommendations from Chelsea Clinton, former first-daughter and author of She Persisted Around the World, for three wonderful and original books to read with your family. https://youtu.be/XekANqA-joE

Signature Views Random HouseJune 29, 2018