Family

My Bully My Aunt and Her Final Gift by Harold Phifer

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

Book Club Network Fiction Fiction - Featured

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

Children's Books Children's Books - Featured

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

Fiction Romance Romance - Featured

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

Fiction Thrillers Thrillers - Featured

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

Miscellany

The Secrets to a Stress-Free Holiday: 5 Tips for Survival from Author Madisyn Taylor

For most of us, when we think about the holiday season it evokes a feeling of excitement, anticipation, peacefulness, beauty and more. As the holidays get closer, we often begin to fall into our old patterns that have plagued us for our adult lives. The feelings of needing to buy…

Madisyn TaylorDecember 20, 2017

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

“90 Days to Live” is a Compelling True Story of Cancer, Choices and Hope

“He might as well have told her that he was planning to jump off a bridge in the hope of bouncing the cancer out of his body.” About 650,000 cancer patients receive chemotherapy in an outpatient oncology clinic every year in the U.S. Rodney Stamps was not going to be…

Jim AlkonAugust 11, 2021

Nonfiction

The Freedom to Love is Paramount in Ariana Mansour’s ‘He Never Deserved Me’

For most American women, we cannot conceive of marrying a man we don’t love, much less marrying a man our parents and community chooses for us. Not to say that this doesn’t happen in some regions and/or faiths, or that it wasn’t a more common phenomenon in another time and…

Aisha K. StaggersDecember 19, 2017

Nonfiction

‘The Best of Us’: Joyce Maynard’s Memoir on Love, Loss and Life

I highly recommend reading Joyce Maynard's The Best of Us, but just make sure you have a box of tissues. Maynard finds the love of her life in her 50s, many years after being divorced and raising her children as a single mother. She and Jim, her new love, had a…

Jennifer BlankfeinNovember 8, 2017

Nonfiction

The Life of Pie: Linda Lomelino Scores a Hit with ‘Lomelino’s Pies’

Who doesn't love pie? My nephew, that's who! One of my mother's favorite stories to tell about her grandchildren (and one we never let this particular one forget) is how he asked her if they could make a pie together. My mother really enjoys doing these things with her…

Aisha K. StaggersOctober 12, 2017

Nonfiction

TED Talks: Andrew Solomon on Parents, Children and the Search for Identity

Thanksgiving is all about family and the stress and joy that come with reconnecting. Family is also the theme of Andrew Solomon’s “Love No Matter What” talk from TEDMED 2013, in which he explores the ways family and identity develop in the face of extraordinary circumstances. Solomon shares the deeply…

Katie HiresNovember 24, 2015

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

Magical Realism Saga of Multi-Generational Trauma

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

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

Moving Story of Adoption, Parenting and What Makes a Family

Don Winslow’s New Crime Novel Burns Down the House

When the Killer is “Someone We Know”

Alan Brenham Plays With Our Minds in “Game Piece”

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

The Secrets to a Stress-Free Holiday: 5 Tips for Survival from Author Madisyn Taylor

“90 Days to Live” is a Compelling True Story of Cancer, Choices and Hope

The Freedom to Love is Paramount in Ariana Mansour’s ‘He Never Deserved Me’

‘The Best of Us’: Joyce Maynard’s Memoir on Love, Loss and Life

The Life of Pie: Linda Lomelino Scores a Hit with ‘Lomelino’s Pies’

TED Talks: Andrew Solomon on Parents, Children and the Search for Identity

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