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Breaking the Destructive Cycle in “This Will Never Stop”

The title of Joan Spilman's novel, This Will Never Stop (Xlibris), is spoken by Carmen Amber, the character around whom most of the book revolves. Her mother, Lizzie, has hold of her wrist. “This has to stop,” she tells her daughter: the drinking, the grieving, the locked doors and child…

Sherri DaleyDecember 18, 2019

Book Club Network Fiction

Three Generations of Young Men Come of Age in the Wonderfully Complex “The World Played Chess”

Robert Dugoni treats us to his expert, character-driven storytelling about growing up, and you won’t want to miss it! In his latest novel, The World Played Chess (Lake Union), recent high school graduate Vincent has a job working construction to make some beer money the summer before he goes off…

Jennifer BlankfeinOctober 14, 2021

Fiction

Army Nurse Comes of Age During Vietnam War in Kristin Hannah’s Historical Epic, “The Women”

Imagine you are a veteran returning home from war after serving in the terrifying jungles of Vietnam. Then imagine that no one ever acknowledges your service. In fact, you are spat upon, shamed, and ignored by the country whose freedom you have sworn to protect. In Kristin Hannah’s latest novel,…

Jodé MillmanJanuary 31, 2024

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Girl’s Search for Abducted Father in Prohibition-Era Coming-of-Age

It’s on the very first page of The Last Tale of Norah Bow by J.P. White. Fourteen-year-old Norah is told by her father that they share a “demon switch,” whatever that is. Readers don’t have to wait long to find out: The demon switch means she can do hard things…

Jim AlkonJune 10, 2024

Guilty of Stealing His Heart by Nancy Lynn White

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Woman on the Run Finds New Love and Family in Western Romance

Nancy Lynn White’s debut novel Guilty of Stealing His Heart: Never Say You Love Me combines historical fiction, murder mystery, western romance and inspirational genres into one well-blended page-turner of a story. Set in America’s mid-West just before the Civil War, the novel offers a nicely gritty sense of how…

Anne Eliot FeldmanMay 22, 2024

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A Gripping Tale of Survival and Sacrifice

The Wild Road Home by Melissa Payne is a stunning tale of love and endurance, of a young woman and an older man helping each other to craft hope and meaning out of what seems to be little more than shattered dreams. A Staged Death for Love Sixty-seven-year-old Mack Anders…

Anne Eliot FeldmanJune 18, 2024

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Oddball Collection of Scarred Characters Navigating Life’s Pains & Pleasures

“You will soon discover that in matters of the heart, memories are much kinder than reality.” — Judith McNaught Every so often, the website that keeps me loosely connected to my high school graduating class sends me an email with the subject line, “In Memory.” Someone in my class has…

Jim AlkonMay 19, 2023

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Fishing a Couple’s Rubicon River: “Ruin, A Novel of Flyfishing in Bankruptcy”

Character and chance braid vividly throughout Ruin (City Point Press), a tale by Leigh Seippel of a couple’s shattered glittering life. Young Frank and Francy had every settled marriage’s nightmare of sudden total loss of basic viability. But they wake into that nightmare, which becomes reality for them. Completely bankrupted…

BookTribSeptember 27, 2022

Fiction Recommended Romance

Women Spill the Tea on Rich & Powerful Over Lunch & Cocktails

What happens when gossip becomes reality? In her debut novel, Royal Coconut Beach Lunch Club (Meridian Editions), author Diane Bergner shares the trials and tribulations of ladies who lunch. Julia Wild is sure the transition from attorney to fundraiser for an affluent performing arts center will be everything she wanted,…

BookTribMarch 7, 2023

Fiction

Take a Trip to 1968 via “The Road to Delano”

What the average American knows about the Delano Grape Strike would probably fit on the head of a pin. Most of us can quote a sentence or two from Martin Luther King Jr.’s impassioned “I’ve got a dream” speech. We can call up an image of Ghandi, clad in his…

Sherri DaleyMarch 6, 2020

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured Romance

A Tender Love Story That Spans Continents and Faces the Dangers of World War II

It was only by chance that journalist and author Lisa Franco found the seeds of what would become a decade-long passion project. Browsing through an antique shop in Cape Cod, she found a large trove of handwritten letters in a basket marked “World War II Ephemera.” What she would discover,…

Cynthia ConradAugust 26, 2022

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Historical Fiction from a Lawyer Who Saw It All

The first sentence of My Best Friend is Angela Bennett (Inanna Publications) by Canadian author Suzanne Hillier might seem to hint this book is a light-hearted romance. It soon becomes clear it’s something much more: a historical fiction novel that chronicles one woman’s crusade for women’s rights and equality in…

Joanna PoncavageJanuary 6, 2023

Fiction

Witty and Endearing Escapade in Armistead Maupin’s Final Tales of the City Novel

Written by the inimitable Armistead Maupin, Mona of the Manor is a refreshing romp in the Cotswolds, a tale of entrepreneurial ingenuity and a reunion followed by well-deserved retribution. It is the 10th and final installment of the author’s Tales of the City novels which began fifty years ago in…

Linda HitchcockMarch 18, 2024

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Touching & Inspirational Poetry Encourages Readers to Reclaim Their Narratives

we sacrifice relationships and burn bridges in the name of self-preservation … but who is really in control when our hands are forced? Are we the masters of our own narratives? Who pulls the strings in our lives? These are the very questions Allen Vartanian asks in his newest collection…

Katie BloomerSeptember 5, 2023

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Privileged Life Starts to Fray for Rich Widows of Savannah Valley

At first blush, Mitzi Perdue’s Rich Widows of Savannah Valley (Mark Victor Hansen Library) appears to be a tale reminiscent of The Golden Girls, albeit far wealthier girls to be sure. Four women, whose ages span four decades, become fast friends over such gastronomies as bluefin tuna, organic zebra tomatoes,…

Valerie Taylor, author of the "Venus Bixby Mystery" seriesSeptember 27, 2022

Fiction Recommended

Exploration of People, Place and Identity in LGBTQ+ Coming of Age Novel

Jeffrey Dale Lofton’s stunning debut novel Red Clay Suzie (Post Hill Press) is a coming-of-age story about a gay, physically-misshapen young man growing up in the rural and segregated Georgia of the 1960s. A work of fiction inspired by his own childhood and set in his hometown of Warm Springs,…

Anne Eliot FeldmanJune 14, 2023

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Breaking the Destructive Cycle in “This Will Never Stop”

Three Generations of Young Men Come of Age in the Wonderfully Complex “The World Played Chess”

Girl’s Search for Abducted Father in Prohibition-Era Coming-of-Age

Woman on the Run Finds New Love and Family in Western Romance

A Gripping Tale of Survival and Sacrifice

Oddball Collection of Scarred Characters Navigating Life’s Pains & Pleasures

Fishing a Couple’s Rubicon River: “Ruin, A Novel of Flyfishing in Bankruptcy”

Women Spill the Tea on Rich & Powerful Over Lunch & Cocktails

Take a Trip to 1968 via “The Road to Delano”

A Tender Love Story That Spans Continents and Faces the Dangers of World War II

Historical Fiction from a Lawyer Who Saw It All

Touching & Inspirational Poetry Encourages Readers to Reclaim Their Narratives

Privileged Life Starts to Fray for Rich Widows of Savannah Valley

Exploration of People, Place and Identity in LGBTQ+ Coming of Age Novel

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