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Romance

“Trouble Brewing:” A Rom-Com Just in Time for Oktoberfest

Not all beer enthusiasts can jet to Germany to join in the true revels of the celebration, but that doesn't mean you can't get in the spirit other ways! Beer in books? Yes! Even as a self-proclaimed wine person, I couldn't help but carried away with Trouble Brewing (Gallery Books).…

Rebecca ProulxOctober 2, 2018

BooksToScreen Fiction Miscellany Pop Culture

“Transit:” Classic 1940s Refugee Novel Now a Film

What can a novel written in the early 1940s teach us today about national identity? Plenty, especially when a German director like Christian Petzold portrays it as a kaleidoscope of time, place, person and politics. “Transit,” his adaptation of Anna Seghers' novel (New York Review Books Classics) of the same…

Joanna PoncavageFebruary 14, 2019

Fiction

Novel Highlights Real Danger of Hitler’s Food Tasters

Sharing a meal is typically viewed as a binding activity, creating closer relationships with all present. However, you may want to toss your assumptions of intimate connections over food straight in the garbage after reading Rosella Postorino’s latest novel! Based on truth, At the Wolf’s Table (Flatiron Books) is a historical…

Jennifer BlankfeinMarch 1, 2019

BooksToScreen Fiction

Messineo’s ‘The Fire by Night’ Sheds Light on Nurses During Wartime

Though all wars result in the same atrocious outcome, they are hardly similar in their origins. They often start with an incident, a provocation, appearing to be insignificant, but releasing long-supressed emotions. This can be a process which may take years to burn out. On May 8, 2017, we celebrated…

Frederic ColierOctober 17, 2017

Fiction

Historical Fiction With Twists of Plenty More in “Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch”

Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), a work of historical fiction from Rivka Galchen, is a darkly humorous, surrealist and riveting tale about hysteria and group think. Set in Germany in the early 1600s with the Thirty Years’ War and the Plague ravaging the country,…

Jessica McEnteeJune 8, 2021

Fiction

Abduction and Raw Emotion in ‘The Atlas of Forgotten Places’

Don’t let this exceptional new novel fall under the radar! Based on war-torn Africa and the innocent people caught in the middle, the stunning debut of The Atlas of Forgotten Places by Jenny D. Williams takes us to Uganda where a young girl, Lily, goes missing. The authorities are hard to come…

Jennifer BlankfeinSeptember 28, 2017

Fiction

Walt Gragg Turns Realities of War into a Work of Fiction in ‘The Red Line’

One of the questions I'm frequently asked about my World War III epic The Red Line, a novel about a major conflict between Russia and the United States, is - Why a war novel and why Russia? The answer is not a simple one. First let me say my hope…

Walt GraggSeptember 11, 2017

“Trouble Brewing:” A Rom-Com Just in Time for Oktoberfest

“Transit:” Classic 1940s Refugee Novel Now a Film

Novel Highlights Real Danger of Hitler’s Food Tasters

Messineo’s ‘The Fire by Night’ Sheds Light on Nurses During Wartime

Historical Fiction With Twists of Plenty More in “Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch”

Abduction and Raw Emotion in ‘The Atlas of Forgotten Places’

Walt Gragg Turns Realities of War into a Work of Fiction in ‘The Red Line’

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