family history

5 Novels Where Family History Becomes American History

The story of America is also the story of families and of what one generation inherits from the last and what it chooses to carry forward. These five novels span decades, and sometimes centuries, using intimate family histories to explore race, identity, migration, community and belonging. From Chicago’s Cabrini-Green to…

BookTribOctober 5, 2026

Fiction Listicles

How True Is Your Family History?

Every family has stories — the ones they tell over holiday dinners and on road trips, the ones grandparents passed down to their littles, the ones couples who are getting serious reveal to each other. And yes, certainly, some of those stories are true. But families repeat the stories they…

Hank Phillippi RyanApril 1, 2026

Fiction

Military and Political Thriller Meets American Family Saga in “The Wolf and the Fox”

Readers seeking a l-o-n-g thriller they can sink their teeth into, one that's rich with characters and history, need seek no more. D.P. Harshman’s The Wolf & The Fox Volume 1, Beginning of the Middle (D&D Publications LLC) is the first of a planned six volumes, each averaging 700 pages.…

Joanna PoncavageAugust 4, 2021

Book Club Network Nonfiction

“Better Dead Than Divorced:” Okay, Have it Your Way

Those were the words of an eight-year-old boy living in a small Greek mountain village in the 1950s and trying with his brothers to comprehend the booming noise outside that turned out to be gunshots. It’s the defining moment in Better Dead Than Divorced (Hard Work Publications), the true story…

Jim AlkonAugust 21, 2019

Fiction Miscellany Romance

AuthorBuzz: A Romantic Caper & Giveaway for Story of Love and Family History

Sorry, this promotion is over. Read on for another great recommendation from AuthorBuzz! The Heist by C.W. Gortner and M.J. Rose (Blue Box Press) Dear Reader, To catch a leopard wear diamonds. A year after The Bait, Ania Throne is on the prowl. Gone into hiding, she’s planned her next…

AuthorBuzzAugust 1, 2022

Fiction Giveaways

BookTrib Giveaway: One Family’s Dangerous Secrets, and Another’s Legacy of Love

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BookTribMarch 3, 2022

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Donna Urbikas Comes to Terms With the Past Through Writing It Down

In the 1950s, baby boomer Donna Solecka Urbikas grew up in the American Midwest yearning for a “normal” American family. But during World War II, her Polish-born mother and half-sister had endured hunger, disease and a desperate escape from slave labor in Siberia. War and exile created a profound bond…

BookTribJanuary 10, 2022