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Winners of 2022 National Book Awards

Big news, literary lovers! This year’s recipients of the National Book Awards have been announced; keep reading to find out the winners in five crucial categories! Padma Lakshmi, Emmy-nominated producer, food expert, television host, and New York Times bestselling author, hosted the exclusively online National Book Awards Ceremony on November…

BookTribNovember 17, 2022

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Author Offers Lessons in Love, Humor and — Yes — Chemistry

Earlier this month I had a wonderful conversation with Bonnie Garmus about her bestselling debut novel, Lessons In Chemistry (Doubleday), her writing and more. Lessons in Chemistry follows the story of chemist Elizabeth Zott who counts herself as anything but ordinary or "average." Elizabeth would even go so far as…

Jennifer BlankfeinOctober 13, 2022

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A Cozy Rural Mystery Served Up with a Side of Italian Cuisine

What pairs better with a murder mystery than some fine Italian dining? It may seem like an unlikely combo, but Wendy Sand Eckel’s new book, Mystery at Windswept Farm (Level Best Books), will have you eagerly turning pages not only to see who the culprit is but also to savor…

Paige VigliaroloSeptember 27, 2022

Children's Books

“Wimpy Kid” Author Kicks Off Socially Distanced Book Tour

Those were the words of Forrest Simpson, a sixth-grader back in 2009, writing in Time magazine about author Jeff Kinney, whose highly celebrated Diary of a Wimpy Kid series has had such an impact on kids that he was named to Time’s list of Most Influential People in the World.…

BookTribJuly 29, 2020

Fiction

Climate Change, Florida Destruction, Off the Grid Living and Finding Hope

Wow! A MUST READ! Fiction that addresses the possible future in climate change by sharing the beautiful life story of Wanda, a true survivor. Dive in to The Light Pirate (Grand Central Publishing) and you will become enamored with this young girl who has a special connection to nature and learns to…

Jennifer BlankfeinFebruary 28, 2023

Fiction Recommended

A Man With the Misfortune of Leaving Bodies in His Wake

“I wanna know why whenever you come around, people start dying.” So, too, do readers, trying to navigate through the complex machinations that make up the plot of Thyme Lewis’ intriguing A Week’s Worth (Palmetto Publishing). There’s something about the overriding storyline that begs the question: what the heck is…

Jim AlkonFebruary 14, 2023

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Colleen Hoover’s “It Starts With Us” is a Breathtaking Second-Chance Romance

“My choice helped me realize that sometimes the hardest decisions a person can make will most likely lead to the best outcomes.” The highly anticipated sequel to Colleen Hoover’s bestseller begins right where the epilogue of It Ends With Us left off. If you haven’t yet read It Ends With…

Emily FinlaysonOctober 19, 2022

Fiction Listicles

5 New Books to Read by the Fire this Winter

With the season of holiday lights and Jack Frost upon us, there is no better time to think about the books that will keep you company through what many are foretelling to be a long, dark winter. So, cozy up by the fire with a cup of hot cocoa and…

BookTribDecember 23, 2022

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A Dragon Walks Into a Bar …

A sprawling epic of a battle for world power, Scars and Scales by KC J. Hutchins delivers enough strange creatures to fill a hundred fantasy novels. The last of his kind, the Omni dragon Xerxes has been imprisoned in a cage suspended above the throne of the sorceress Queen Delsey…

Joanna PoncavageNovember 30, 2022

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Blasphemy, Truth and Conviction in Epic Family Drama

THE PLOT This is a book about freedom and what it means to have it ripped away. It’s a story about women and their independence --- or lack thereof. It’s about liberties given and liberties relinquished. And it’s about strong women fighting their way through hardship. In An Unlasting Home…

K.L. RomoSeptember 16, 2022

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How Many Lives Can One Woman Save in This Charming Equestrian Thriller

In Pressure Point (Sunrise Selections) by Betty Briggs, Stephanie receives a letter from her ultimate nemesis, who mocks her with the kidnapping of her future adoptive daughter and promises worse things that are yet to come. Sent on a spiraling chase for salvation, Stephanie’s not only haunted by what else…

Mckenzie TozanSeptember 15, 2022

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A Moving Story of Marriage, In-Laws and Family, Starring Three Generations of Women

Before we even begin Sally Koslow's latest novel, The Real Mrs. Tobias (Harper), there is a pause to appreciate the title. Next you turn the first pages, at once lured into an unforgettable tale written in snappy prose with lots of humor. In a mother-in-law triangle, we meet Veronika, the…

Susan Shapiro BarashSeptember 14, 2022

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A Dark Retelling of Love and Murder in Maggie O’Farrell’s Latest Historical Fiction

Those who have read the complex works of Maggie O’Farrell, especially her previous historical fiction, Hamnet (Tinder Press), or her memoir, I Am, I Am, I Am (Tinder Press), know they are in for a rare treat when O’Farrell announces she is back on the historical fiction scene — this…

Lydia LefevreSeptember 9, 2022

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A Man Goes Face-to-Face with the Dead to Save a Life in This Haunting Western Mystery

Craig Johnson consistently, intelligently and with customary dry humor, melds literary fiction with western crime fiction as Sheriff Walt Longmire rides the Wyoming High Plains range in the pickup truck he calls “Silver Bullet," delivering justice. Hell and Back (Viking), his 18th novel in the Longmire series, opens with a…

Linda HitchcockSeptember 7, 2022

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A Reunion, Jealousy and Murder – And an Exclusive Interview with Ann Cleeves

Feisty and Disheveled DCI Vera Stanhope returns for her eleventh North Umberland investigation in Ann Cleeves’ chilling new novel, The Rising Tide (Minotaur Books). Set on a tiny tidal island off the mainland, a group of friends gather to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of a school holiday retreat called “Only…