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Fiction

Jean P. Moore’s Three Women And One Healing Journey

There’s something strangely dramatic – certainly beautiful and authentic – in the way author Jean P. Moore captures the mundane repetitions of a woman adjusting to a new phase of life after her husband’s death: “Your membership will expire soon. This was the opening sentence of Tilda’s first email of…

Brielle HeinlApril 15, 2019

Podcasts

Writers, Ink Podcast: Khashayar J. Khabushani on Why You’re Not a Real Writer Until You’ve Cried Over a Typewriter (while passing through TSA)

BookTrib is proud to present to our readers the Writers, Ink podcast, a show about the business of writing. J.K. Rowling was nearly homeless when she wrote the first Harry Potter book. Stephen King penned Carrie on a small desk wedged between a washer and dryer. James Patterson worked in advertising and…

Writers, InkSeptember 18, 2023

Fiction Miscellany Romance

AuthorBuzz: Hollywood Intrigue and Scandal Turns Enemies into Lovers

Sapphire Storm by C. Travis Rice (Blue Box Press) Dear Reader, My favorite romance novels are about two people who try to destroy each other before realizing they're destined to be together. That's Sapphire Storm in a nutshell. When gorgeous young Roman Walker rolls into Sapphire Cove, his number one…

AuthorBuzzMarch 13, 2023

Fiction

Identity, Relationships and a Past That Comes Back to Sting in Jodi Picoult Collab

I knew absolutely nothing about Mad Honey before I picked it up and I am so glad I did! With two accomplished authors writing opposing characters’ voices, the partnership of Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan has created an important book that encourages dialog surrounding relationships, secrets, abuse and gender identity. Olivia…

Jennifer BlankfeinMarch 8, 2023

Audiobooks Listicles

Audiobooks That Feature Multiple Queer Characters

I often struggled to find myself reflected in books when I was younger—an experience that so many people share, for so many different reasons. These days, as I listen my way through dozens and dozens of queer books every year, I sometimes think about the reader I was as a…

Laura SacktonJanuary 30, 2023

Fiction

A Young, Tatted-Up Nun Takes On Murder

We’re always there, us nuns, to witness, to hold space for miracles in the terror, in the boredom, in the wretched gore of life. To take it in, watch your hands tremble, validate your questions, honor your pain. You never see us seeing you. Nuns are slippery like that. The…

Neil NyrenJanuary 27, 2023

Audiobooks Fiction Listicles Listicles - Featured Romance Thrillers

Wrap Up The Summer with These 10 August Audiobooks

Every month, AudioFile Magazine reviewers and editors select the best new audiobooks just for BookTrib’s readers. Get ready for the last beach days of the season, back-to-school preparation and cooler days ahead with these August picks! This story appears through BookTrib’s…

AudioFileSeptember 2, 2022

Fiction Fiction - Featured

“All This Could Be Different,” A Radiant Portrait of a Young, Queer, Immigrant Woman

This novel is as vibrant as its cover, alive and awash with people and love. Its first chapters begin in a rhythm that is clipped and clear, the beat of it ticking along like a clock until suddenly, it shatters, lurching into the life of a young, queer, Indian woman. All…

Megan BeauregardAugust 5, 2022

Audiobooks Listicles Listicles - Featured

3 Audiobooks Featuring Journeys, Internal and External

While trying to articulate what I loved so much about one of my favorite audiobooks of the year so far, Greenland by David Santos Donaldson, I realized that part of what makes this book so compelling is that it is full of movement. That got me thinking about other books…

Laura SacktonAugust 3, 2022

Fiction Romance Romance - Featured

Blended Family Learns Love and Acceptance

After a series of online dating mishaps and five years after the loss of her husband, Daisy thinks she's finally found the one. But as she settles into her new relationship with Brad, she realizes that everything takes work — not just romance and friendship, but supporting Brad’s children along…

Megan BeauregardJuly 19, 2022

Children's Books Miscellany

Lázaro Miguel Garcia Wins 5th Annual Little, Brown Emerging Artist Award

Little, Brown Book for Young Readers has selected artist Lázaro Miguel Garcia as the winner of the fifth annual Little, Brown Emerging Artist Award. The award seeks to recognize a previously unpublished creator whose work amplifies and portrays a distinct and diverse cultural point of view, identity, or background. The program…

BookTribNovember 29, 2022

Thrillers

Opium and Identity: 19th Century Woman Battles Crime

Port Townsend, Washington, 1887. An ex-Pinkerton agent named Alma Rosales is hunting for opium stolen from her employer, criminal boss Delphine Beaumond, one of the most dangerous women in the Northwest. Also on the hunt is a dockworker named Jack Camp, a rough brawler with his own plans for the…

Neil NyrenNovember 7, 2018

Thrillers

NEW COLUMN Chasing Phantoms: Copenhaver’s Debut, ‘Dodging and Burning’ is an ‘Hommage to Pulp Fiction’

One of the things that makes BookTrib special is our commitment to connecting readers to writers, editors and experts in the business of books! That is why we have partnered with the International Thriller Writers (ITW) to help discover debut thriller writers. Our new column features reviews by veteran editor,…

Neil NyrenMarch 6, 2018

Romance

Social Justice and Modern Romance Meet in “American Love Story”

At the end of the day, which is more important - your core values, or the ones you love? Adriana Herrera asks us, along with a myriad of other complicated questions, in American Love Story (Carina Press), her latest in the Dreamers series of LGBTQ+ stories. Patrice and Easton come…

Tori ClaytonOctober 21, 2019

Miscellany Potpourri - Featured

Winners of the 34th Annual Lambda Literary Awards Announced

For the 34th year in a row, Lambda Literary held its awards ceremony to celebrate LGBTQ literature. Lambda Literary is an organization that advocates for LGBTQ writers and uplifts the community by honoring lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer literature of all genres. It works to ensure that LGBTQ stories…

BookTribJune 13, 2022

Miscellany Potpourri - Featured

Recipes for a Perfect Pride Month Pool Party

So, nobody loves a pool party more than this guy. Pitchers of a special cocktail, fun finger foods, games, music (I make annual pool party playlists on Spotify for friends to tap into every year)... To kick off the 2022 PRIDE Month, and pool party season, I had a few…

Tim MulliganJune 8, 2022

Jean P. Moore’s Three Women And One Healing Journey

Writers, Ink Podcast: Khashayar J. Khabushani on Why You’re Not a Real Writer Until You’ve Cried Over a Typewriter (while passing through TSA)

AuthorBuzz: Hollywood Intrigue and Scandal Turns Enemies into Lovers

Audiobooks That Feature Multiple Queer Characters

Wrap Up The Summer with These 10 August Audiobooks

“All This Could Be Different,” A Radiant Portrait of a Young, Queer, Immigrant Woman

3 Audiobooks Featuring Journeys, Internal and External

Blended Family Learns Love and Acceptance

Lázaro Miguel Garcia Wins 5th Annual Little, Brown Emerging Artist Award

Opium and Identity: 19th Century Woman Battles Crime

NEW COLUMN Chasing Phantoms: Copenhaver’s Debut, ‘Dodging and Burning’ is an ‘Hommage to Pulp Fiction’

Social Justice and Modern Romance Meet in “American Love Story”

Winners of the 34th Annual Lambda Literary Awards Announced

Recipes for a Perfect Pride Month Pool Party

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