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A Wild Ride Through 1916 Hollywood’s Darkest Corners

The Devil Raises His Own is replete with characters that are lewd, crude and socially unacceptable racing towards H E double Toothpicks with little or no chance of redemption with the possible exception of the admirable boardinghouse cook, housekeeper and widowed Mrs. Chen. Her only unforgivable “sin” in the eyes…
Linda Hitchcock
September 11, 2024
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Espionage and Absurdity Collide in New Spoof

James Bond has been busy. Since 1952, when Ian Fleming published Casino Royale, the first of his spy novels featuring 007, subsequent Bond books have sold more than 100 million copies worldwide. It’s been estimated that 47 percent of people in the United States have seen at least one of…
Joanna Poncavage
August 28, 2024
The Golden Warrior by Soraya RoseRecommended

Gladiator’s Epic Journey of Freedom and Self-Discovery

Rome itself will change after these games. Get ready for the next epic story of gladiator fights, found family and righteous causes in Soraya Rose’s debut novel, The Golden Warrior. Follow Cassius, the renowned Golden Warrior, on a journey of self-reflection that will change the fate of Rome. Unleash the…
Katie Bloomer
June 19, 2024
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Family Choices and Cultural Clashes Push Boundaries

Jennifer Acker’s debut The Limits of the World is a ruminative and insightful look at the way in which choices play out over several generations within a family's timeline. The subject matter calls to mind Pachinko, and the book will also draw inevitable comparisons to Jhumpa Lahiri. The Chandaria family, Indians who’ve settled in…
Jessica McEntee
April 16, 2019
Fiction

Lynne Sharon Schwartz’s “Truthtelling” Puts the Magic in Magical Realism

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Untitled-design-13.jpg Lynne Sharon Schwartz has an intuitive ability to write with soul and substance. In Truthtelling (Delphinium), her new collection of twenty-five tight short stories, Schwartz moves effortlessly between realism and fantasy. Her characters are not so quirky as the things that happen to them, and her introspective writing lets…
Laura Newman
October 6, 2020