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A Striking Portrayal of Mother-Daughter Duo Versus the California Reich

In this absolutely gripping take on an important moment in world history, Mother Daughter Traitor Spy by Susan Elia MacNeal (Bantam) is a fantastic historical fiction-meets-spy-novel depiction of a mother and daughter trying to foil the plots of German Nazis in the United States. The year is 1940, right after…

Mckenzie TozanSeptember 23, 2022

Fiction

Southern Novel “Little Tea” Unravels Past and Present in Rich Narrative

Every so often you read a novel so intricately and exquisitely crafted that it reaffirms an admiration for the whole art of writing. Little Tea by Claire Fullerton (Firefly Southern Fiction) accomplishes this considerable feat with sensitivity as graceful as Southern charm. But not everything about the tradition-steeped culture of…

Judy MorenoMay 1, 2020

Fiction

In “GOTCHA!,” Trump Rages, the World Tilts, and Life Goes On

Toxic power; a delusional president; despicable characters; lies, sex and audiotapes; and a basket overflowing with deplorables. Now throw in hydroxychloroquine as a cure for COVID-19 — just because we can and they actually did — and what you get is a GOTCHA!: Inside Trump’s 2020 Campaign (South Street Books) by…

Carole ClapsJanuary 5, 2021

Fiction

36 Major Literary Voices, Edited by Atwood and Preston, Produce “Fourteen Days”

The iconic Margaret Atwood and American author Doug Preston have spearheaded a unique novel in which each of 36 noted authors of The Authors Guild contribute by each creating and writing about one character living in a Lower East Side apartment building in Manhattan telling stories on the rooftop one…

BookTribFebruary 6, 2024

Fiction Recommended

Searching Italy for a Miracle Cure, a Man Finds Family and Identity

Danny Hubble is a middle-aged insurance agent with an ordinary life in Pittsburgh until his whole world is suddenly turned upside down. Danny’s diagnosed with terminal leukemia, and his only hope is a bone marrow transplant. He has a peculiar genetic makeup, which his geneticist describes as having “faded genes,”…

R.G. BelskyOctober 3, 2023

Fiction Recommended

Aspiring Writer Rises to Stardom with Stolen Manuscript in Unique NYC Adventure

Chivalry is a compelling novel about the importance of always doing what’s right in life, even though a lot of the characters in the book do the wrong things. When aspiring writer Bob Herman finds a manuscript accidentally lost on the streets of New York City, he publishes it as…

R.G. BelskyJanuary 2, 2024

Fiction

Murakami: Putting Normal Characters in Weird Situations

I first heard of Haruki Murakami a decade ago and instantly knew we had a connection. It was while reading the first pages of his tome 1Q84, in which a young woman riding a taxi on an elevated expressway in bumper-to-bumper traffic realizes she is going to miss an important…

Jim AlkonOctober 12, 2018

Fiction Recommended

A Pop-Punk Band, a Missing Person Case & an Ode to the Best — And Worst — Of Charlottesville

Liz Larson's debut novel Fireflies and Zeroes (Brandylane Publishers, Inc.) offers a carefully crafted story of suspense as Max, the leader and songwriter of a three-person pop-punk band goes missing, on the eve of their reunion tour in Charlottesville, Virginia and just six months after the explosive racial violence of…

Anne Eliot FeldmanJanuary 18, 2024

Fiction

J.J. Martin Tackles Delicate Topic Within the Catholic Church

Sometimes, and with some topics, there are no delicate ways to tell a story. That’s what makes them harrowing, heart-wrenching, so real and so important. In his debut novel, Father Sweet (Dundurn), J. J. Martin gives readers an intimate glimpse into clerical abuse of young boys within the Catholic Church…

K.L. RomoJuly 18, 2019

Fiction

“Faith on Fire” During a Difficult Time in American History

I was pacing nicely through Faith on Fire: Thy Will Be Done (Gatekeeper Press), Deborah Curtin’s intriguing historical fiction novel about a family torn apart during the Civil War in which the protagonist is modeled after the author’s real-life great grandfather. I was busy seeing the pieces come together, nodding…

Jim AlkonJanuary 6, 2020

Fiction Recommended

Hidden Rooms & Ancient Curses Abound in Gothic Mystery Reminiscent of “Clue”

Ivan Obolensky tells his readers that he wrote Eye of the Moon with only one purpose in mind: to delight the reader — and delight he does. With a fine hand, he has written a richly layered Gothic mystery which, only a few pages in, reveals itself to be an…

Sherri DaleyOctober 11, 2023

Fiction

A Perilous Journey to Reunite Father and Daughter in “Embracing the Elephant”

The title of Lori Hart Beninger’s novel, Embracing the Elephant, refers to the phrase “going to see the elephant,” an expression seldom heard today, but widely known and used in the mid- and late-1800s. Loosely, it means gaining true and valuable life experiences, whether positive or negative, which either sends…

Sherri DaleyJuly 30, 2020

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Einstein? Time Travel? In One Man’s Attic, Eternal Questions and an Enticing Sci-Fi Adventure Unfold

Children are not shy about asking the tough, practically unanswerable questions of our existence, such as, "What happens after we die?" However, haunted by a fundamentally unanswerable question his eleven-year-old self asked, present-day quantum physicist Adam Reemi turns to four critical scientific and philosophical minds for answers, including none other…

Ann LinebergerSeptember 1, 2022

Fiction Recommended

A Man and His Therapist Tackle Far More Than Just His Demons

That great philosopher and former boxer Mike Tyson said it best: “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.” Or consider this example. A man is waiting for a train with his wife. Suddenly, another man quickly rushes up to the wife and it appears he might…

Jim AlkonMarch 15, 2024

Fiction Recommended

First It Was “Breakfast With Buddha” — Several Meals Later, There’s Still Room for Dessert

It was not the first road trip he had taken with a Siberian monk. The first one, of course, was in Roland Merullo’s widely popular Breakfast with Buddha, in which New Yorker Otto Ringling reluctantly hooks up with his brother-in-law Volya Rinpoche, shares his thoughts and beliefs and gains new…

Jim AlkonMay 3, 2023

Fiction Recommended

Fighting Racism and Hate with Farce and Satire in Humorous Literary Novel

It’s the end of an ordinary day for Dwight Bridges: Poor business as usual at his Buick Dealership in Hoggzswallow Hollow, West Virginia. He blames his lack of sales on the 1970s gas crisis caused by “towel-headed sheiks holding back their oil” and the “swarthy, brooding influence” of “cutthroat Jewish…

Joanna PoncavageMarch 7, 2024

A Striking Portrayal of Mother-Daughter Duo Versus the California Reich

Southern Novel “Little Tea” Unravels Past and Present in Rich Narrative

In “GOTCHA!,” Trump Rages, the World Tilts, and Life Goes On

Searching Italy for a Miracle Cure, a Man Finds Family and Identity

Aspiring Writer Rises to Stardom with Stolen Manuscript in Unique NYC Adventure

Murakami: Putting Normal Characters in Weird Situations

A Pop-Punk Band, a Missing Person Case & an Ode to the Best — And Worst — Of Charlottesville

J.J. Martin Tackles Delicate Topic Within the Catholic Church

“Faith on Fire” During a Difficult Time in American History

Hidden Rooms & Ancient Curses Abound in Gothic Mystery Reminiscent of “Clue”

A Perilous Journey to Reunite Father and Daughter in “Embracing the Elephant”

Einstein? Time Travel? In One Man’s Attic, Eternal Questions and an Enticing Sci-Fi Adventure Unfold

A Man and His Therapist Tackle Far More Than Just His Demons

First It Was “Breakfast With Buddha” — Several Meals Later, There’s Still Room for Dessert

Fighting Racism and Hate with Farce and Satire in Humorous Literary Novel

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