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Magical Realism Saga of Multi-Generational Trauma

Sound the trumpets and ready the fireworks to light the sky in a dazzling display honoring the debut of Jamie Ford’s eagerly awaited new novel The Many Daughters of Afong Moy (Atria). He has ambitiously reached for the stars and caught the tail of a transcendent, iridescent and fast-moving comet.…

Linda HitchcockAugust 2, 2022

Fiction Recommended

Cornucopia of Poetry and Prose Features Delightful Experiences to Societal Foibles

As Abby Kenigsberg tells it, while a friend’s mother lay dying, the mother suddenly brightened up, called her son’s name, and said to him, “Remember, with laughter.” Perhaps there’s no better description for the work of Kenigsberg herself – words to live by that need not be reserved for one’s…

Jim AlkonMarch 6, 2023

Fiction Fiction - Featured

Novella by a Vietnam Vet Is a Masterful Study of a War-Ravaged Psyche

That message comes through loud and clear in Les Burns’ riveting, deeply moving and beautifully written novella, The Sand Fiddlers: A Rogue Green Beret’s Escape From the Memories of Vietnam. It’s the story of Alex Driscoll, who has recently returned home from battle, painting a vivid, uncomfortable portrait of a…

Jim AlkonJanuary 20, 2022

Fiction Romance Romance - Featured

A Unique Perspective on #MeToo in Paulette Stout’s New Romance

Many of the high profile #MeToo cases and accusations we’ve seen in the news are focused on accused famous men. Whether the victims are men or women, many of the alleged and proven perpetrators are men. I had never really considered a female predator harassing a male, even with over…

Y. M. NelsonNovember 4, 2022

Fiction Fiction - Featured

Amid Florida’s Lurid Nightlife, a War Rages Between the Rational and the Animalistic

In Carleton Eastlake’s provocative and sharply written Monkey Business (Red Hen Press), William Fox is caught somewhere in between that civil war — as a writer immersed in the corporate, political and social minutiae that defines the entertainment industry and, in this case, the TV series for which he writes,…

Jim AlkonAugust 9, 2022

Romance

Book Romances That Would be Your Perfect Summer Fling!

Summer is officially here! Teens and college students are home from school and they’re looking for fun and exciting things to spend their time doing every day. Some will go on road trips, others will most definitely go to the beach, while some will certainly fall in love. Ahh, summer…

Matt GillickJuly 5, 2016

Romance

Heat Index: 5 Hot New Harlequin Romance Books We’re Literally Loving

Let's be honest, for the most part everyone loves a good love story. HEAs (Happily Ever After, for those of you who are new) are what I live for, whether it's a book or a movie. Contemporary romance literally has my heart. So it makes complete sense that Harlequin books are top on…

Beth WaskoMarch 18, 2016

Miscellany

Why Romantic Relationships Go Bad and What to Do

Dr. Ann Schiebert is a clinical psychologist whose book, Let’s Make a Contract: Getting Through Unhappy Romantic Relationships (Andrew Benzie Books), helps people discover why they are unhappy, gain a better understanding of why they stay in an unhealthy relationship, and how to increase their chances of finding a fulfilling romance.…

Ann SchiebertOctober 17, 2018

Miscellany

AuthorBuzz Giveaway: Books with Love Defying Odds

AuthorBuzzJuly 25, 2018

Miscellany

‘Fall In Love With You’: The Guaranteed Path to More Love & Happiness

We’ve been conditioned to believe in an outside-in model of life that says we are intrinsically lacking and have to attract, achieve, or fill ourselves up with something more in order to be enough. This has led us to develop all manner of coping and controlling mechanisms to get what…

Derek RydallFebruary 14, 2018

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Valentine’s Day Quiz –Discover Your Literary Soulmate!

BookTribFebruary 14, 2019

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

The Heart of This Great American Love Story Beats On, Generation After Generation

Theirs was an unlikely match. Isn’t that how all great love stories start? A Southern man, forced to rebuild his life after the Civil War, falls in love with a Northern woman with pedigree. It sounds like something straight out of a Nicholas Sparks novel. Only this story is real…

Kelsey HallFebruary 24, 2022

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

You’ll Never Find a More Faithful Friend Than This (Wo)man’s Best Friend

The big friendly eyes, the smiling face with bright pink tongue ready to lick a welcome greeting, and a tail, wagging hard enough to topple a small child, all seem to ask, “won’t you be my friend?” Woodrow on the Bench: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog (Harper), by…

Linda HitchcockOctober 27, 2021

Nonfiction

The Freedom to Love is Paramount in Ariana Mansour’s ‘He Never Deserved Me’

For most American women, we cannot conceive of marrying a man we don’t love, much less marrying a man our parents and community chooses for us. Not to say that this doesn’t happen in some regions and/or faiths, or that it wasn’t a more common phenomenon in another time and…

Aisha K. StaggersDecember 19, 2017

Nonfiction

Arranged Marriage Gone Wrong: Not A Love Story

When we were writing the book, the subject came up of how I ended up marrying my husband. My best friend kept on saying that it was an arranged marriage and I would explain to her that it wasn’t. Then finally, she asked me, "Why don’t you be the judge…

Ariana MansourDecember 4, 2017

Nonfiction

Second Chance at Love: How a New Man Turned a Writer’s Nightmare into A Dream Come True

My whole life I dreamed of what it would feel like to fall in love. Listening to love songs and watching romantic movies as a teenager, I was excited to find my own love story. But the realities of my society slammed hard in my face. I was told that…

Ariana MansourDecember 11, 2017

Magical Realism Saga of Multi-Generational Trauma

Cornucopia of Poetry and Prose Features Delightful Experiences to Societal Foibles

Novella by a Vietnam Vet Is a Masterful Study of a War-Ravaged Psyche

Amid Florida’s Lurid Nightlife, a War Rages Between the Rational and the Animalistic

Book Romances That Would be Your Perfect Summer Fling!

Heat Index: 5 Hot New Harlequin Romance Books We’re Literally Loving

Why Romantic Relationships Go Bad and What to Do

AuthorBuzz Giveaway: Books with Love Defying Odds

‘Fall In Love With You’: The Guaranteed Path to More Love & Happiness

Valentine’s Day Quiz –Discover Your Literary Soulmate!

The Heart of This Great American Love Story Beats On, Generation After Generation

You’ll Never Find a More Faithful Friend Than This (Wo)man’s Best Friend

The Freedom to Love is Paramount in Ariana Mansour’s ‘He Never Deserved Me’

Second Chance at Love: How a New Man Turned a Writer’s Nightmare into A Dream Come True

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