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5 Novels Explore Harsh Reality of the Vietnam War

The Vietnam War has been taught in classrooms and history books for decades — from the years fought, to the lives lost, to the immeasurable heroism, and the widespread anti-war protests. But as most wars go, there is a divide between the romanticized, patriotic myth of war and the grittier,…
BookTrib
August 8, 2024
Thrillers

It’s Cotton Malone vs. the Knights of Malta

No one sells over 20 million books without understanding how to hook a reader. Over the past 17 years, and now with his 18th novel, The Malta Exchange (Minotaur Books), Steve Berry has mastered the art of page-turning. That elusive art is really the lifeblood of publishing. It’s a simple…
Casey Barrett
March 15, 2019
Historical Fiction Books About the 1920s Jazz EraMiscellany

Jazz Age Magic Lights up the 2020s

In this Tall Poppy Writers article, author Denny S. Bryce shares her fascination with the Jazz Age, some sensational headlines from the era, the research and archive-combing required to write a novel set in the 1920s, and some recommendations of other great books set in the era. What is it…
Denny S. Bryce
July 15, 2024
Book Club NetworkFiction

The Pivotal Revolutionary Battle Story Never Told

On a marshy Brooklyn battlefield on August 27, 1776, 400 men from Baltimore, MD, assembled to do battle with a vastly superior British army. Seemingly overnight, these young soldiers matured from naïve teenagers to perhaps the most important, yet most forgotten, citizen soldiers in all of American history. In Chris…
BookTrib
January 8, 2019
Fiction

Dickens-Inspired Story Will Turn–Not Sever–Heads

It's the French Revolution. A young woman is in line for the guillotine, and she's the last person to speak to Sydney Carton, also awaiting execution, who she recognizes as an imposter taking the place of someone else. They give each other comfort. Though their interaction is only brief, their…
Janice Lombardo
April 22, 2019
Book Club NetworkFiction

“The Secret Diaries of Juan Luis Vives” Resurrects a 16th Century Thinker Ahead of His Time

—∞— “Ellis writes ... with magnificent gusto … reminiscent of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall … a fast-paced and richly engaging story.” — Kirkus Reviews “Beautiful metaphors and tactile, evocative descriptions bring sixteenth-century England and Spain to life.” — Foreword Reviews —∞— “I was to play the clever little fish. And…
Chelsea Ciccone
November 5, 2020