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Truth Finds Its Story: The Illuminating Power of Fiction

We live in a time when history is made by Tweets, when what happens there can instantly be known here. A time when anyone with a digital device can express views, publish opinions, or comment on news within moments of it unfolding, making the (somewhat dated) concept of “information superhighway” never more accurate…or glutted. We want to be…

Lorraine Devon WilkeFebruary 8, 2019

What Will It Take to Satisfy Her “Greedy Heart?”

It’s 2006, and she is living in a shabby apartment and facing crushing student debt. Suddenly, she’s plucked from obscurity to work for Wall Street’s top hedge fund. Determined to make her millions, Delia must master the cutthroat world of big-stakes trading and profit off of the cataclysm of the…

BookTribApril 7, 2020

“When Angels Play Poker,” They Deal Love and Miracles

64-year-old con-artist Jimmy has just pulled off one of his most successful schemes. “Though he was a seasoned con man, he had to admit it was pure luck — and some masterful BS — that had gotten him into and accepted at the town’s best retirement home.” As he readies…

Chelsea CicconeJune 29, 2020

Tall Poppy Review: Thin Ice Between Guilt and Acceptance

Imagine being the sole survivor of an incident at a frozen lake that claims your brothers in its icy depths. The emotional baggage and survivors' guilt one would carry on a daily basis would feel insurmountable. Best Lightburn, the protagonist of Nicole Blades' The Thunder Beneath Us (Kensington), has had…

Aimie K. RunyanMay 23, 2019

New Novel From National Book Award Winner Sigrid Nunez

What Are You Going Through (Riverhead Books) by National Book Award winner Sigrid Nunez is a perfect follow-up to her previous novel, The Friend, where a woman’s friend passes away and she takes on the responsibility of her dog. In Nunez’s latest novel, empathy is the focus when this narrator’s…

Jennifer BlankfeinDecember 10, 2020

Tall Poppy Review: Capturing a Time, an Emotion, and Your Attention

There’s so much to love about a novel that gives us insight into what it was like to be a woman during a certain time in history. Even better if that time was pivotal, unforgettable and hovering on the brink of seismic shifts that will leave the world forever changed.…

Jessica StrawserJuly 22, 2021

Tall Poppy Review: “The Man She Married” Shocks

There are many ways to write about being in a coma, the shock, the helpless entrapment, and the frightening numbness and silence, but then there is Cathy Lamb's way, with bewilderment, with laugh-out-loud humor, and with chilling fear of why things have gone wrong. In The Man She Married, (Kensington)…

Weina Dai RandelNovember 1, 2018

“The Lost Diary of Anne Frank” Imagines the Final Days of an Extraordinary Young Girl

Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl, first published in 1947, is a universal classic and perhaps the most powerful, important and tragic account of the Nazi occupation of Holland in the early 1940s. It has sold 30 million copies in 67 languages. Some 1.3 million people visit…

Jim AlkonApril 14, 2021

Here’s What “The Book Thief” Author Zusak Is Reading

Love The Book Thief and wonder about the kinds of books Markus Zusak reads? Zusak, also the author of recently released Bridge of Clay (Penguin) talks about the kinds of books he's been enjoying with Penguin.

Signature Views Random HouseOctober 11, 2018

The Tiger in the House

Tall Poppy Review: “The Tiger in the House”

The Tiger in the House (Kensington Publishing) by Jacqueline Sheehan introduces Delia Lamont, who is wrapping up the last month of work at Portland, Maine’s child services agency. She’s ready to open a seaside bakery with her younger sister and start a quieter life. But first, she has one last case…

Orly KonigSeptember 20, 2018

Tall Poppy Review: The Tearjerker “You Were Always Mine”

Equal parts tear-jerker and page-turner, Nicole Baart's You Were Always Mine (Atria Books) entwines the heartbreak of a mother's struggle with the urgency of a mystery that won't let her (or you) go. At the start of You Were Always Mine, we meet mother and teacher Jessica Chamberlain on the brink of…

Jessica StrawserOctober 25, 2018

The Dog Year

Tall Poppy Review: “The Dog Year” Is Compelling and Real

Think of a time in your life when you hit a wall. Everything was going to pieces. You were living your life and then wham. You got hit. And kept getting hit. One problem after another. It wasn’t, “Problems come in threes,” it was, “Problems come in SETS of three.”…

Cathy LambNovember 29, 2018

Tall Poppy Review: “The Curiosities” Exposes Grief

“Art is like life,” Susan Gloss writes in The Curiosities (William Morrow). “It’s fragile, but that doesn’t mean you should never take a risk.” Taking a risk is exactly what Gloss’ protagonist, Nell, does when, in the wake of the loss of her baby, born at only 22-weeks’ gestation, she, looking…

Kristy HarveyJanuary 10, 2019

Girls on the line

Tall Poppy Review: “Girls on the Line” Puts WWI in a New Light

Girls On The Line (Lake Union) is Aimie K. Runyan's latest heartfelt and enlightening historical novel. I don't know about you, but there's a gap in my knowledge when it comes to World War I, and even more so when it comes to the role women played in World War…

Amy NathanNovember 8, 2018

Tall Poppy Review: “I’m Fine and Neither Are You”

I’m Fine and Neither are You (Lake Union Publishing)—the title alone is so rife with conflict that it could be a writing prompt, and we’d all end up novelists. I wonder, though, how many of us could come up with as impactful a story as Camille Pagán’s newest, which is…

Kathryn CraftApril 11, 2019

Tall Poppy Review: “A Distant Heart” Draws All to India

I love reading novels that sweep me away to faraway places; far from the mundanity of my daily routines, worries, and struggles. A Distant Heart (Kensington) by Sonali Dev does just that. From page one, suddenly I was in Mumbai, India with its gritty slums, beautiful mansions, rickshaw drivers, and…

Heather WebbNovember 11, 2018

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