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Love In the Time of War, Anti-Semitism & Racism

In 1943, a trip to Miami Beach to escape Michigan’s icy-cold winter had seemed like such a good idea. But when two young women arrive after a horrible three-day train ride, they find the hotel rooms taken up by Army Air Corps soldiers in training there. Even worse, one hotel…

Joanna PoncavageJune 17, 2022

Fiction Romance Romance - Featured

One Young Woman’s Rebellion Against a Society Divided by Race

The Great Peony: Safina Cameron (Pretty Publications) flips the script on racism and discrimination, imagining a world where dark-skinned people thrive in High Society, while light-skinned people make up the lower class with less access to resources and education. Jannah Bayyan has crafted a fascinating piece of speculative literary fiction…

Megan BeauregardSeptember 15, 2022

Romance

“Lakeshire Park:” Let the Marriage Games Commence

Megan Walker takes us to the world of the landed gentry in pre-Victorian England, where a lady would never venture from her rooms without the proper gloves and a gentleman is never late for tea. There are childish parlor games and carefully measured conversation, but there is something delightful in…

Sherri DaleyApril 7, 2020

Miscellany

AuthorBuzz Giveaway: Friendship and Marriage

This week's AuthorBuzz giveaway dives deep into the complexities of friendship and marriage. Katharine Weber and Amy Blumenfeld are giving away titles that will make you both feel and think a great deal. Don't miss out! Want more BookTrib? Sign up NOW for news and giveaways!

AuthorBuzzSeptember 3, 2018

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

Passion and Pain Bring “Love’s Journey Home”

Someone once told me we have just one truly passionate love in our lives. Sometimes it’s our lifelong partner, but not always. In her memoir, Love’s Journey Home (Atmosphere Press), Gabi Coatsworth puts that theory to the test and ultimately validates it. In many ways, I don’t think Coatsworth’s story…

Valerie Taylor, author of "What’s Not Said" and "What’s Not True"May 9, 2022

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

“90 Days to Live” is a Compelling True Story of Cancer, Choices and Hope

“He might as well have told her that he was planning to jump off a bridge in the hope of bouncing the cancer out of his body.” About 650,000 cancer patients receive chemotherapy in an outpatient oncology clinic every year in the U.S. Rodney Stamps was not going to be…

Jim AlkonAugust 11, 2021

Nonfiction

Jane Pollak: Time to Say “Enough” with This Marriage

Appreciation. Praise. Approval. Validation. That’s what Jane Pollak sought from her 30-plus years of marriage. Trouble was she was married to the wrong person to provide it. In Pollak’s masterfully written memoir, Too Much of Not Enough (She Writes Press), the intrigue begins in the first paragraph in a therapist’s…

Jim AlkonJune 3, 2019

Nonfiction

Just the Right Book Podcast: Marriage and the Art of Living Together

Are these midlife crises? Are they fatal flaws or are they a rough patch? On this week’s episode we meet Daphne De Marneffe, the author of The Rough Patch: Marriage and the Art of Living Together. She takes us through some of the major stressors of marriage like money and sex,…

Aisha K. StaggersFebruary 16, 2018

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

Nonfiction

‘He Never Deserved Me’: Marrying for Culture, Not Love is a Recipe for Disaster

Sometimes, things are not exactly what they seem to be. When we were writing He Never Deserved Me, 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.…

Ariana MansourNovember 22, 2017

Nonfiction

On Writing, Friendship and Healing: One Writer’s Journey to the Center of Self

I met my friend and co-writer 10 years ago. With every year that went by, our friendship quickly escalated from a simple friendship to a soulmate friendship. We talked about everything and anything and it was easy. We both felt no judgment from the other and it made us feel…

Ariana MansourNovember 3, 2017

Nonfiction

‘The State of Affairs’: Sex, Betrayal and Why We Need to Understand Infidelity

Betrayal, power and affairs are at the scandalous center of our lives and entertainment these days (we're looking at you Scandal!). The big question is WHY. For those of us lost in the dark, Esther Perel just may have the answer. Esther Perel, a Belgian psychotherapist now based in New York…

Rachel Fogle De SouzaOctober 12, 2017

Fiction Romance

A Fairytale Marriage Does Not Come Easy For This Young 1950s Couple

A young wife, whose husband is undergoing treatment for an incurable brain tumor, is befriended by a trio of nuns in a hospital waiting room. Thus begins a friendship that carries the love story of Valerie and Alex. “I fell madly in love with him in high school,” she tells…

Sherri DaleyNovember 12, 2021

Love In the Time of War, Anti-Semitism & Racism

One Young Woman’s Rebellion Against a Society Divided by Race

“Lakeshire Park:” Let the Marriage Games Commence

AuthorBuzz Giveaway: Friendship and Marriage

Passion and Pain Bring “Love’s Journey Home”

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

“90 Days to Live” is a Compelling True Story of Cancer, Choices and Hope

Jane Pollak: Time to Say “Enough” with This Marriage

Just the Right Book Podcast: Marriage and the Art of Living Together

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

‘He Never Deserved Me’: Marrying for Culture, Not Love is a Recipe for Disaster

On Writing, Friendship and Healing: One Writer’s Journey to the Center of Self

‘The State of Affairs’: Sex, Betrayal and Why We Need to Understand Infidelity

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