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20 Years After “Kitchen Confidential” & Zadie Smith’s “White Teeth,” Plus Great American Women

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BookTribJuly 17, 2020

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A Murder Mystery Full of Art and Intrigue in 1960s Manhattan

Once upon a time, Thomas Hart Benton was a household name, known widely as America’s foremost Regionalist painter. A prolific chronicler of the nation during the good and bad times of the 1920s through World War II, the Kansas City native studied art in Paris and New York City and…

Claudia KeenanMarch 1, 2021

Book Club Network Fiction

Everyone’s Favorite First Lady and Her Quest for Happily Ever After

For the many who have read about Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, few have missed her elegance and dignity, her remarkable style as a wife, mother, sister, daughter-in-law and First Lady. Myriad articles and nonfiction books have documented Jackie, but what stands out in Stephanie Marie Thornton's newest historical fiction is…

Susan Shapiro BarashMarch 3, 2020

Book Club Network Fiction

Who Was Grace Kelly If Not “The Girl in White Gloves”?

Millions fell in love with the Princess of Monaco, but as her independence shifted from the thumb of one man to another, hardly anyone saw the real woman beneath the icon and legend. In The Girl in White Gloves (Berkley), Kerri Maher masterfully reveals the Grace Kelly few people knew:…

Jessica McEnteeFebruary 25, 2020

Book Club Network Fiction

The Powerful Woman Behind Winston Churchill

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Lady-Clementine-Marie-Benedict.jpg With the publication of Lady Clementine (Sourcebooks Landmark), Marie Benedict, New York Times bestselling author of The Other Woman in the Room, (read our review here) provides readers a story so beautifully written and filled with historical fact and colorful fiction it becomes almost impossible to put down until the…

Carole ClapsJanuary 6, 2020

Fiction

Review: “Song of a Captive Bird” is a Stunning Account of Famed Iranian Poet Forugh Farrokhzad’s Life

Not quite historical fiction and not quite biography, there's a genre that exists halfway in between and Jasmin Darznik's Song of a Captive Bird: A Novel fits perfectly. While the book is fiction, it documents the real life and times of Forugh Farrokhzad, the Iranian poet. Forugh led a fairly controversial life…

Rachel Fogle De SouzaFebruary 12, 2018

Audiobooks Fiction

Heavy is “The Weight of Smoke,” a Historical Drama Now on Audiobook

In grade school, most of us learned the story of English explorer Captain John Smith and his relationship with Algonquian princess Pocahontas. But what about the details surrounding the English explorations in the New World and the establishment of the Jamestown Colony in the early 17th century? In this new…

K.L. RomoSeptember 6, 2019

fictional biography

20 Years After “Kitchen Confidential” & Zadie Smith’s “White Teeth,” Plus Great American Women

A Murder Mystery Full of Art and Intrigue in 1960s Manhattan

Everyone’s Favorite First Lady and Her Quest for Happily Ever After

Who Was Grace Kelly If Not “The Girl in White Gloves”?

The Powerful Woman Behind Winston Churchill

Review: “Song of a Captive Bird” is a Stunning Account of Famed Iranian Poet Forugh Farrokhzad’s Life

Heavy is “The Weight of Smoke,” a Historical Drama Now on Audiobook

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