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Three Women Share Their Tales of Lust, Marriage and Disloyalty

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/three-women-feature-image-300x300.jpg A raw and honest look at women’s lives based on reports and interviews, Three Women (Avid Reader Press/Simon and Schuster) is an explicit and intense work of nonfiction. Author Lisa Taddeo dives deep into the sexual and emotional worlds of Maggie, Sloan and Lina, revealing desires and intimate details of…
Jennifer Blankfein
November 1, 2019
Nonfiction

Did Media Sensationalize, Mislead in Horrific Scandal?

Presumption of Guilt (Hybrid Global Publishing) is written by a former federal prosecutor, Lorna N. Graham, whose colleagues falsely accused an experienced judge of taking money to jail kids. Instead of scrutinizing these heinous allegations, national media reported them as facts, which spawned the notorious “kids for cash” scandal. The…
Jim Alkon
May 13, 2019
Nonfiction

Chronicler of Political Power Brokers Tells How He Does It

“Political power,” writes biographer Robert A. Caro, “shapes all of our lives. It shapes your life in little ways that you might not even think about.” That’s why Caro explains in his new not-a-memoir Working (Knopf) that he chose as subjects for his massive writing projects the great forces that…
Jim Alkon
May 1, 2019
Nonfiction

The Woman Who Could Have Been the First in Space

That would be an appropriate epitaph for the women of the Mercury 13, or Woman in Space, program, a privately funded project in the early 1960s to test women pilots for astronaut fitness. The women never made it into space – the program was abruptly cancelled -- but they are…
Brielle Heinl
March 13, 2019
Nonfiction

Colm Tóibín Examines the Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce

"A father...is a necessary evil," according to Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses. But Colm Tóibín would hazard a guess that James Joyce genuinely felt this way about his father. This is just one nugget of truth from Tóibín's latest non-fiction Mad, Bad, Dangerous To Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce (Scribner).…
Meagan Foy
October 26, 2018
Nonfiction

TED Talks: Bryan Stevenson on Identity and Injustice

    Black History Month ends in just a few days, so this week’s installment of TED Talks Tuesday is one of the most elegant examinations of race in America ever given on the TED stage. Human Rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson’s moving talk from TED 2012 paints a hard picture…
Katie Hires
February 23, 2016
Nonfiction

Smart Reads: Real Life Heroes, Villains and Monsters

Villains and monsters are so much more frightening in the world of non-fiction. While we can reassure ourselves that the horrors of fiction aren’t real and sleep with the lights on, the comfort in non-fiction lies in the books themselves. By shining a light on the darkest hearts we lessen…
JeriAnn Geller
November 19, 2015