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“The View from Lake Como” Blends Heartache and Hope in a Sumptuous Summer Read

The View from Lake Como is Adriana Trigiani’s 21st published book. Whether you have faithfully followed her from debut novel Big Stone Gap (2000) or are just joining those devoted readers — the self-described evangelical acolytes who celebrate each word, clever phrase and humorous heart-warming tale of families that often…

Linda HitchcockJuly 8, 2025

Listicles

5 Books About Family Secrets

Compelling books that explore family secrets resonate with readers by weaving together mystery, drama and emotion. These stories captivate us by peeling back the layers of seemingly ordinary lives to reveal events and experiences that sometimes shape families across generations. The suspense of unearthing long-buried secrets keeps us turning pages,…

RaeAnne ThayneJune 6, 2025

Fiction

Grief, Portals and the Power of Belief in Megan Giddings’ Latest Novel

Every reader needs a unique novel full of faith, love and forgiveness, and woven together with sci-fi elements. Megan Giddings has achieved a one-of-a-kind, adventurous yet thought-provoking and immersive experience in Meet Me at the Crossroads. The story follows inseparable twin sisters Ayanna and Olivia, who are forced to live…

Ashley IveyJune 19, 2025

Listicles

8 Books That Prove Daddy Issues Make Great Literature

We all have baggage — but some of us have a full matching set labeled Dad. Whether he was absent, overbearing or just emotionally unavailable, the father figure looms large in literature. These eight books dive headfirst into the complicated, messy, sometimes tender, but often painful relationships we have with…

Kelsey HallJune 12, 2025

Fiction Recommended

Gripping Coming-of-Age Offers Poignant Reflection on Community, Resiliency and Destiny

In her latest gripping novel, Closer, Miriam Gershow drops us into an Oregon high school in the Winter of 2016 on the day a young student, Livvy, has been found dead. Clear your day for this one; you’ll be hooked from the first paragraph and unable to walk away until…

Kristin KeatonJune 3, 2025

Fiction

Family and Fame Collide within the Glitz and Chaos of 2000s Pop Stardom

Eclectic readers who prefer not to pigeonhole authors into strictly designated genre types have wholeheartedly embraced New York Times #1 best-selling author Jennifer Weiner. She burst into publication in 2002 with two books: Good in Bed and In Her Shoes, launching a trilogy about a zaftig heroine named Cannie Shapiro.…

Linda HitchcockMay 29, 2025

Fiction

Mary Morris Weaves Poignant Mother-Daughter Mystery in “The Red House”

How well do we really know the people we love? Can uncovering the secrets of the past finally bring healing, or will it cause more chaos in the present? In The Red House, award-winning author Mary Morris crafts a haunting and thought-provoking historical mystery that explores these very questions. Set…

Natalia KavaleMay 13, 2025

Fiction

Sue Hincenbergs’ Debut Novel Isn’t Your Everyday Retirement Plan

“Watching, Pam sensed something shift in the night air. As she cleared the dishes, she looked around the table at her husband and the friends they’d made three decades ago, and wondered again, which of them would die first. “Two days later, she knew.” Pam, Nancy, Shalisa, Marlene — four…

Neil NyrenApril 25, 2025

Guest Article- The Last Man in Paradise Syed Massood

Fiction Miscellany

How One Author’s Character Came to Life and Challenged His Worldview

Azaan, the protagonist of The Last Man in Paradise, surprised me. I suppose that sounds a bit bizarre coming from an author — after all, I created Azaan and I wrote out everything that happened to him. I ought to have had full control over him and, therefore, he should’ve…

Syed M. MasoodMarch 18, 2025

Fiction

Gripping Family Saga Explores Healing in the Heart of Appalachia

Some authors can tell a sad story but render it beautiful. That’s what Bobi Conn observed when she started reading books while in graduate school at the age of 27. I would take it a step further and count Conn herself among those authors. Conn documented poignantly the harsh realities…

Jim AlkonMarch 24, 2025

The Acadians by Samuel Andre Aucoin - review

Fiction Recommended

Heritage & Historical Fiction Combine in Tale of Resilience Against “The Damn English”

The sweeping tale of the French Acadians in America and one family’s trials over hundreds of years of persecution is revealed in The Acadians by Samuel Andre Aucoin. Aucoin mixes history and light fiction to tell the often heartbreaking story of the Acadian experience in America. Beginning with a trip…

Peggy KurkowskiDecember 6, 2024

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Fiction Recommended

Explore Grief and Healing in This Literary Dreamscape

“Dreams are a cryptic maze, but the emotions they stir up are real.” The first time I spoke with author Humberto “Bear” Garcez, he was telling me about his new book based on very detailed recollections of one of his own dreams. That book is the recently released The Blue…

Jim AlkonDecember 19, 2024

Thrillers

Murder, Secrets and the Long Road Back in Snowy Legal Novel

“Nora Sheehan sits in a jail cell in Lodgepole, Colorado, surrounded by three cinderblock walls and the kind of steel bars she’s only seen on television, gray and cold. She’s thirteen, the woman she might become still a shadow even though she’s ready to discard her childhood. A longing for…

Neil NyrenJanuary 31, 2025

Fiction Listicles

5 Moving Literary Stories of Grief, Redemption and Community

There’s nothing better than being lost in a book and letting a story overtake you. Some fiction is life-changing and permanently alters your worldview. Other books bring you to tears and consume your thoughts for the subsequent days or weeks. If you’re a reader who seeks out the kinds of…

Megan BeauregardDecember 10, 2024

Fiction Listicles

Spend Time With Feel-Good Book Familias This Holiday Season

Happy Holidays, from my book familias to yours! It’s that time of year when we gather for the holidays. If your family is like my familia, your celebration probably involves favorite activities, traditions, and customs. In casa Oliveras (aka, my family home), November, December, and January are a mix of…

Priscilla OliverasNovember 14, 2024

Fiction Recommended

Forgiveness, Tragedy and the Search for “Something Better” in Diane Parrish’s Poignant Novel

Diane Parrish’s rich, thought-provoking novel Something Better (Meridian Editions) is a testament to the tenacity of the human spirit and the enduring quest for, well, something better in life. When Jack and Lydia Brady tragically die in a car accident during a fierce winter storm, their daughter Annabeth, a college…

LK GriffieOctober 8, 2024

Family Life Fiction

“The View from Lake Como” Blends Heartache and Hope in a Sumptuous Summer Read

5 Books About Family Secrets

8 Books That Prove Daddy Issues Make Great Literature

Gripping Coming-of-Age Offers Poignant Reflection on Community, Resiliency and Destiny

Sue Hincenbergs’ Debut Novel Isn’t Your Everyday Retirement Plan

How One Author’s Character Came to Life and Challenged His Worldview

Heritage & Historical Fiction Combine in Tale of Resilience Against “The Damn English”

Explore Grief and Healing in This Literary Dreamscape

5 Moving Literary Stories of Grief, Redemption and Community

Spend Time With Feel-Good Book Familias This Holiday Season

Forgiveness, Tragedy and the Search for “Something Better” in Diane Parrish’s Poignant Novel

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