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Check Out What This Week’s Authors Have to Say!

Dear Reader, See what this week’s authors have to say! In each AuthorBuzz note you’ll receive invitations to join contests, get free books, bookplates or bookmarks, read personal stories, and more. Dear Reader, A mailbox, a pair of eccentric pen pals living half a country and a hundred years apart, and only…

BookTribFebruary 2, 2016

Miscellany Pop Culture Pop Culture - Featured

Sisterhood of Storytelling: Oprah Magazine’s 28 Books for a Transportive Summer

“While our movements these days may be restricted, that doesn’t mean we can’t explore the world,” says Oprah Winfrey in the essay she penned to introduce Oprah Magazine’s annual summer reading list. This year, that list boasts 28 women writers from around the world, and its diverse range of titles…

BookTribJune 30, 2020

Miscellany Pop Culture

Author Buzz Giveaway: Spice Up Holiday Shopping

This week's Author Buzz giveaway features quite the mix of genres to save some money and start holiday shopping with a spring. A hot romance and a story that will pull at your heartstrings, a murder mystery with recipes and a heart-pounding adventure with links to the ancient past. Don't miss…

AuthorBuzzDecember 3, 2018

Nonfiction

The Voice of Dunn Books: Peter Heather, Author of “The Fall of the Roman Empire”

PETER HEATHER is a leading academic authority and historian on the Roman Empire and the author of The Fall of the Roman Empire. He is a professor of Ancient and Medieval History at King’s College London. ABOUT THE BOOK: The death of the Roman Empire is one of the perennial…

BookTribApril 11, 2016

Nonfiction

I’m Glad I Did: Songwriter Cynthia Weil recreates her early years in the business

Rules are meant to be broken. Or at least that’s what Grammy-winning songwriter Cynthia Weil proposes in her latest young adult novel, I’m Glad I Did, a book that rides on the back of the Peace Train, giving voice to issues of racism, sexism and war. It was 1961 when…

Steph ScottMarch 1, 2015

Giveaways

Video: Missed It? Interview RaeAnne Thayne and A Cold Creek Christmas Story

Celeste Nichols has always preferred to keep to herself in her hometown of Pine Gulch, Idaho…until she becomes an instant celebrity! When one of her children's stories becomes a major success, she's suddenly the talk of the town. Celeste should be gloriously happy…but something, someone, special is still missing from…

BookTribNovember 30, 2015

Giveaways

Get off DoggyDates.com and Fall in Love With These Giveaways!

Aren't free books the best? Each week there's something for everyone this week! Don't delay, enter to win this week's books. The Angel's Lamp by Ashby Jones The Angel’s Lamp, set in war-torn Ireland just after the Easter Rising, centers around a love affair between Johnny Flynn, an Irish-bred, English staff-sergeant…

BookTribFebruary 4, 2016

Fiction Young Adult Young Adult - Featured

Imagine Attending “Academy Earth” as a Teenager … Where Your Magic Must Fulfill an Ancient Prophecy

But the idea of being away from home is enough to make Kylie nervous, never mind the fact that the Academy is far from an ordinary school. It is a place for students to learn how to better master their magical abilities. S.K. Molinari’s Academy Earth is also a place…

Nicole MaherDecember 6, 2021

Fiction Young Adult Young Adult - Featured

Sometimes, “Far Less” Is Much More in Searingly Honest Coming Of Age Novel

There’s something magical about observing the beauty of nature from the vantage point of a large redwood tree high above a California forest, looking down at the tranquility and the possibilities the world has to offer. There’s something more poignant when the person on that perch is the homeless 17-year-old…

Jim AlkonNovember 19, 2021

Fiction Young Adult

“Shine Until Tomorrow” Tells of a Girl’s Transformative Journey Through the Summer of Love

What do you get when you combine The Wizard of Oz with Back to the Future? You get a delightfully nostalgic romp in Shine Until Tomorrow (Rare Bird Books) by Carla Malden. Through the eyes of Tamara Caldwell, a.k.a. Mari, and the lens of her vintage Leica camera, we behold…

Valerie Taylor, author of "What’s Not Said" and "What’s Not True"May 13, 2021

Fiction Young Adult

Being Human is Difficult, Especially Amid the Chaotic Mess of Teenage Life in “This Boy”

“Being human is hard work, isn’t it?” One could argue that to be true for any person of any age group at any station in life. One also could argue it is the hardest, most uncomfortable, most complicated for teenagers experiencing the transitional growing pains from child to adult. That’s…

BookTribApril 15, 2020

BooksToScreen Fiction Fiction - Featured Thrillers

Circumstance Threatens A Man’s Character Even as His “Unyielding Destiny” Unfolds

“A swift, thoughtful thriller … as fast-paced as it is philosophical. … Great for fans of Leonardo Sciascia, Tod Goldberg’s Gangsterland. … Grittily realistic.” —BookLife —∞— The average person might not realize that in the 1960s, some 300 civilians lived on the maximum-security federal prison known as Alcatraz, in the waters off…

Jim AlkonMarch 8, 2022

Fiction Fiction - Featured

A Thoroughbred’s Harrowing Tale Sparks a Mystery at the Smithsonian in “Horse”

Pulitzer prize winner, Geraldine Brooks, dashes out of the gate with a bittersweet antebellum tale of horse racing in her latest thrilling novel Horse (Viking). A mystery unfolds as a Nigerian-American graduate student, Theo Northam, is struggling to find the topic for his PhD dissertation in Art History. Theo, a…

Jodé MillmanJune 14, 2022

Fiction Thrillers Thrillers - Featured

Clearly We “Don’t Know Tough”, Because “Friday Night Lights” Was Never Like This

In Eli Cranor’s searing Southern Gothic Don’t Know Tough (Soho Crime), three people at the ends of their ropes form an uneasy alliance – until it all blows up. Trent Powers is the new coach of the high school football team in Denton, Arkansas, “a small town nestled in the…

Neil NyrenFebruary 25, 2022

Fiction Thrillers Thrillers - Featured

Jon Land Aces Margaret Truman’s Capital Crimes Series Yet Again With “Murder at the CDC”

Brimming with action and terrifying suspense, Murder at the CDC (Forge Books) takes a hard look at a divided nation and examines the consequences when rhetoric and lies spiral out of control. This 32nd installment of Margaret Truman’s Capital Crimes series is the second penned by veteran thriller author Jon…

James R. HannibalFebruary 15, 2022

Fiction Thrillers Thrillers - Featured

Philippines Folklore Takes Center Stage In Terrifying Paranormal Novel

Every culture in the world has some legend of a creature akin to a vampire. Some of those lesser-known myths are quite interesting to those who have a love of vampire mythology. For example, in Albania, there is the Shtriga, which is said to suck the blood of infants at…

Monique SnymanFebruary 23, 2022

Check Out What This Week’s Authors Have to Say!

Sisterhood of Storytelling: Oprah Magazine’s 28 Books for a Transportive Summer

Author Buzz Giveaway: Spice Up Holiday Shopping

The Voice of Dunn Books: Peter Heather, Author of “The Fall of the Roman Empire”

I’m Glad I Did: Songwriter Cynthia Weil recreates her early years in the business

Video: Missed It? Interview RaeAnne Thayne and A Cold Creek Christmas Story

Get off DoggyDates.com and Fall in Love With These Giveaways!

Imagine Attending “Academy Earth” as a Teenager … Where Your Magic Must Fulfill an Ancient Prophecy

Sometimes, “Far Less” Is Much More in Searingly Honest Coming Of Age Novel

“Shine Until Tomorrow” Tells of a Girl’s Transformative Journey Through the Summer of Love

Being Human is Difficult, Especially Amid the Chaotic Mess of Teenage Life in “This Boy”

Circumstance Threatens A Man’s Character Even as His “Unyielding Destiny” Unfolds

A Thoroughbred’s Harrowing Tale Sparks a Mystery at the Smithsonian in “Horse”

Clearly We “Don’t Know Tough”, Because “Friday Night Lights” Was Never Like This

Jon Land Aces Margaret Truman’s Capital Crimes Series Yet Again With “Murder at the CDC”

Philippines Folklore Takes Center Stage In Terrifying Paranormal Novel

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