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Winners of 2022 National Book Awards

Big news, literary lovers! This year’s recipients of the National Book Awards have been announced; keep reading to find out the winners in five crucial categories! Padma Lakshmi, Emmy-nominated producer, food expert, television host, and New York Times bestselling author, hosted the exclusively online National Book Awards Ceremony on November…

BookTribNovember 17, 2022

Better Self Book Club Network Nonfiction

Listen to Your “Gut Feelings” and Feel Your Best After Reading This Groundbreaking Book

“Ok, I’ll just deal with it.” “I felt at the end of my rope, hopeless and lost.” “Why can’t someone help me?” These are the thoughts of many patients with chronic gastrointestinal tract issues. Such issues are extremely prevalent in our society; if you don’t suffer from these problems yourself,…

Barbara WilkovJuly 2, 2021

Nonfiction

Two Immigrants Unveil an Unjust Justice System in Heartbreaking Nonfiction Story

“Remember! Justice Crucified August 23, 1927” was printed with black ink onto blood red felt armbands. These were handed out and worn by many of the over 7,000 mourners marching in the funeral cortege following the hearses bearing the bodies of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. The men, considered to…

Linda HitchcockFebruary 23, 2023

Nonfiction Recommended

A Professional’s Effort to Curb the Crisis of Functional Illiteracy in Children

When I was a child, I could play the piano by ear. If I could whistle a tune, I could play it on the piano. My parents recognized this and got me taking lessons at a young age. I was pretty good. Grownups were really impressed. This kid’s going places,…

Jim AlkonJanuary 10, 2023

Better Self Nonfiction Recommended

Creative Tools to Transcend Any Adversity

How do you transcend adversity? How do you emerge a better person because of it? Gladys Mangiduyos answers these questions in her latest book, Transcend. It’s not quite poetry and not quite prose either; it’s less of a traditional story narrative and more of a string of episodic images and…

Katie BloomerJanuary 5, 2023

Nonfiction Recommended

Basketball Aficionado Takes Granular Look at the Sport’s Greatest

“Greatness is easy to recognize but sometimes hard to define.” So says Jack Sutter, a longtime basketball fan who has had an up-close view of the game as a small college player and coach. And now, in as methodical a means as you can imagine, he has attempted to put…

Jim AlkonDecember 14, 2022

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

The Joys of a Natural Disaster in Powerful Memoir Placing Family Above All

Fifty years ago in June of 1972, Agnes, one of the most devastating storms in hurricane history, caused record damage across large swaths of the eastern United States. In Pennsylvania, up to 19 inches of rain fell, rivers overflowed and more than 200,000 residents lost their homes. Of the estimated…

Joanna PoncavageSeptember 16, 2022

Better Self - Featured Nonfiction

Learn to Turn Adversity into Opportunity from the Man Who Gave Us Chicken Soup for the Soul

Those are nice words to live by, especially if it works and your destiny turns out to be fulfilling and rewarding. People probably view Mark Victor Hansen’s destiny as a successful one, having sold more than half a billion books as co-author of Chicken Soup for the Soul. It’s unlikely,…

Jim AlkonSeptember 7, 2022

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

One Woman Recounts Her Survival from Auschwitz in This Powerful, Must-Read Story

One Hundred Saturdays (Avid Reader Press) is, quite simply, essential reading. Award-winning author Michael Frank has distilled six years of conversations between the now ninety-nine-year-old charming raconteur and inspirational Holocaust survivor Stella Levi into a slender yet powerful volume of memories of her life experiences. She was born in 1923…

Linda HitchcockSeptember 6, 2022

Nonfiction

Q&A With Linda Ronstadt: Unique Memoir Addresses Heritage, Immigration and Food

Linda Ronstadt’s latest offering began as a group cookbook. Thankfully, Feels Like Home: A Song for the Sonoran Borderlands (Heyday) morphed into a profoundly moving and visceral memoir and travelog, rooted in place, family heritage, history, and, yes, food. Co-written with New York Times editor Lawrence Downes, Feels Like Home explores…

Susan BaileyNovember 14, 2022

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

One Woman’s Journey From Tragedy to Triumph on the Path of Motherhood

These lines are from the introduction to the touching and inspirational memoir, Undefined: More Than the Sum of My Losses by author, leader, coach, motivational speaker and mom, Michelle Lee Graham. I literally just closed the last page of the book, and I’m filled with such emotion — a mix…

Barbara WilkovAugust 17, 2022

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

An Unflinching Portrayal of Growing Up in the Foster Care System

Roger Saillant was particularly guarded about his emotions during his childhood. Throughout most of his memoir, The Power of Being Seen (Saratoga Springs Publishing LLC), about growing up in the foster care system, he holds back his feelings to outsiders by design based on the advice of his older foster…

Jim AlkonSeptember 20, 2022

Business Business - Featured Nonfiction

Build a Fine Vessel to Sail Through Your Financial Life

Author Michael Helgesen provides the most entertaining and engaging opening to a financial book that you might ever find. Fortunately for readers, his father, Lars Helgesen, was a Norwegian Merchant Marine during World War II, and his ship was part of a convoy delivering goods and supplies from the U.S.…

Jim AlkonSeptember 19, 2022

Author Spotlight Author Spotlight - Featured Fiction

Mitzi Perdue Talks Values, Fortune 500s and Politics in Multi-Genre Interview

In a simple Q&A with Mitzi Perdue, it’s so easy to feel her energy and her passion for life and her work. And, by the way, she has countless anecdotes that are sure to entertain. Earlier this year, she published what she calls “a highlight of my life” – Relentless,…

Jim AlkonOctober 10, 2022

Children's Books Children's Books - Featured

Build Your Child’s Confidence and Expand Their Palate With Good Housekeeping’s Kid-Friendly Cookbook

It’s never too soon to start cooking! Now, Good Housekeeping has created 1,2,3 Cook!: My First Cookbook, a children’s beginner cookbook for ages 4-7, to teach kids all about basic kitchen skills and how to make easy and delicious recipes. The 50 no-fail, Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen tested-until-perfect recipes are sure to build kids’…

BookTribNovember 10, 2022

Thrillers

Drug Money Turns Deadly in “Killer Deal”

In Killer Deal (Gordon Productions, LLC), the second book in Karen S. Gordon's Gold and Courage series, Gordon spins a tale of secret manipulation and murderous revenge in the middle of the West Texas desert. When Vance Courage a former not-so-upright police-detective-turned-attorney, and video producer Lauren Gold buy a West…

K.L. RomoJanuary 14, 2020

Winners of 2022 National Book Awards

Listen to Your “Gut Feelings” and Feel Your Best After Reading This Groundbreaking Book

A Professional’s Effort to Curb the Crisis of Functional Illiteracy in Children

Creative Tools to Transcend Any Adversity

Basketball Aficionado Takes Granular Look at the Sport’s Greatest

The Joys of a Natural Disaster in Powerful Memoir Placing Family Above All

Learn to Turn Adversity into Opportunity from the Man Who Gave Us Chicken Soup for the Soul

One Woman Recounts Her Survival from Auschwitz in This Powerful, Must-Read Story

One Woman’s Journey From Tragedy to Triumph on the Path of Motherhood

An Unflinching Portrayal of Growing Up in the Foster Care System

Build a Fine Vessel to Sail Through Your Financial Life

Mitzi Perdue Talks Values, Fortune 500s and Politics in Multi-Genre Interview

Build Your Child’s Confidence and Expand Their Palate With Good Housekeeping’s Kid-Friendly Cookbook

Drug Money Turns Deadly in “Killer Deal”

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