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“The Partnership Protocol” is Anything But the Usual Protocol

Peace on earth. We’ve all heard it talked about, promoted and wished for. Some of us have maybe even taken a step towards it at one time or another. Maybe we’ve donated to the poor or attended a protest against violence or injustice, but real, full-scale world peace? Is that…

Paige VigliaroloMay 26, 2021

Fiction

“Second Place” is a Captivating Narrative Unlike Anything Else

Rachel Cusk earned critical renown with her “Outline” series, three books that strip bare traditional narrative formats and train the spotlight on minor characters, eliding the narrator’s identity and making her a mere conduit. Cusk’s newest novel, Second Place (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), performs an about-face from this approach, sinking…

Jessica McEnteeMay 7, 2021

Fiction

“Back to Serve” Contemplates Life, Liberty and a Veteran’s Next Pursuit

“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.” It’s an iconic line in the third installment of The Godfather movies, as a mafia kingpin trying to go legit just can’t seem to break free of his involvement in the family business. It’s the line — not…

Jim AlkonJanuary 22, 2021

Children's Books Miscellany

Author of the Seminal “The Phantom Tollbooth,” Norton Juster, Passes Away at 91

Bill Greene/The Boston Globe/Getty Images Norton Juster captured the hearts and minds of many a reader with his uniquely playful acclaimed novel The Phantom Tollbooth, published in 1961. He died earlier this week in his Northampton, MA, home at the age of 91. His housemate, the talented Jules Feiffer, illustrated…

Judy MorenoMarch 10, 2021

Book Club Network Thrillers

A.F. Brady’s “Could Be” Killer

Compelling readers to turn the pages in a novel with a hateful anti-hero and few sympathetic characters is tricky, but A.F. Brady succeeds and captivates in the complex, intricately plotted and propulsive psychological thriller Once A Liar (Park Row Books). A.F. Brady, the pseudonym of a Manhattan psychotherapist, is also…

Ann LinebergerApril 9, 2019

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Thriller Set in Contras Era Asks, “How Much Should a Man Sacrifice for His Country?”

It was during the pandemic that friends encouraged Tony Roth, entrepreneur and founder of a major eldercare business, to write the story he was destined to bring to life. And he did. 90 days later, and with more than 110,000 words and a number of fascinating characters, Trigger Point (Full…

BookTribMarch 1, 2022

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Nation’s Infrastructure Becomes Terrorist Target, but a Bigger Ploy Is at Play in “Red Deception”

What would happen if all the major bridges in the U.S. were bombed, all commerce came to a dead stop, and the nation’s natural resources, like our water supply, were cut off? The importance of protecting America's critical infrastructure has rarely been depicted so powerfully as in Ed Fuller and…

BookTribJune 22, 2021

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From a Barroom in England to the Streets of Italy, Sarah Winman’s “Still Life” Is Life Well-Lived

If you had the opportunity to read Tin Man, a beautiful story of love, loss and art by Sarah Winman and loved it like I did, then you cannot miss Still Life, her latest novel! Still Life is a lovely meandering through lives well-lived where the eclectic characters choose their…

Jennifer BlankfeinJanuary 14, 2022

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“Dava Shastri’s Last Day” Prompts Her, and Us, To Perform a Personal Perspective Overhaul

Fate is not an option. Instead, she takes charge of the when, where and how — though, as she soon learns, not everything can be so tightly scripted. In Dava Shastri’s Last Day (Grand Central), author Kirthana Ramisetti weaves a world in which the secrets of Dava’s past are free…

Karina Holosko, M.A. English LitNovember 30, 2021

Book Club Network Fiction

“Burning Ground” Is the Frontier Epic, Time-Traveling Tale You Didn’t Know You Needed

On a frigid New Year’s Eve in 1961, Graham Davidson just wants to join his elder brother, Frank, and skate on a frozen pond. He has to drag along little Billy per his mother’s request, but his younger brother isn’t around to inconvenience Graham for very long; he dies under…

Judy MorenoNovember 12, 2021

Book Club Network Fiction

Joani Elliott’s “The Audacity of Sara Grayson” is Poignant, Playful and Perceptive

“Audacity,” writes Sara’s mother from the grave. “A word with superb meaning and long overlooked as a girl’s name.” And something that Sara Grayson is pretty sure she does not have. Things happen quickly in Joani Elliott’s debut novel The Audacity of Sara Grayson (Post Hill Press). Sara wanders through…

Sherri DaleyMay 25, 2021

Book Club Network Fiction

Go on “Carnevale” with This Debut Literary Mystery

Peter Fortunato’s debut novel starts with a craps game and a red and white snake in a mayonnaise jar. But it moves on quickly to art, love, amphibians, the beautiful Gracie Laporta, the bewildering Leo Declare, Renaissance painters, philosophers, Tarot cards, a Ouija board, dreams, voyeurism and Debussy's "Prelude to…

Sherri DaleyNovember 1, 2019

Book Club Network Fiction

Jojo Moyes’ Newest Heroine Delivers Books and Hope in Hard Times

Jojo Moyes sets her latest novel, The Giver of Stars (Pamela Dorman Books), in rustic Kentucky during the Depression. At this time, Americans in remote areas had little or no access to books, and many were uneducated. In contrast, our reading habits today are fluid: we peruse library shelves and…

Susan Shapiro BarashOctober 8, 2019

Book Club Network Fiction

Time-Jumping, Take-Out and a Daughter in Danger

Who hasn’t dreamed of a time machine that could zap us into our past, or maybe our future? "Back to the Future" fans know about the risk

K.L. RomoDecember 17, 2018

Book Club Network Fiction

“The Only Woman in the Room:” Enter the Wild World of Actress Hedy Lamarr

An actress, inventor, and keeper of secrets, the beautiful Hedy Lamarr was among many Jews who fled Europe during the 1930s and came to Hollywood to start a new life. Born in Vienna in 1914, she studied acting with the innovative theater director, Max Reinhardt. But she made the mistake…

Claudia KeenanOctober 24, 2018

Book Club Network Fiction

Terry Watkins’ Darling Girl Disrupted

What if you lived in a trailer, always moving to the next town? What if your mom had to spend weeks away and your dad was never home? In Darling Girl (Green Place Books), a heart-moving tale, Terry H. Watkins chronicles 13 years in the precarious life of “DG” Pitre through…

K.L. RomoOctober 5, 2018

“The Partnership Protocol” is Anything But the Usual Protocol

“Second Place” is a Captivating Narrative Unlike Anything Else

“Back to Serve” Contemplates Life, Liberty and a Veteran’s Next Pursuit

Author of the Seminal “The Phantom Tollbooth,” Norton Juster, Passes Away at 91

A.F. Brady’s “Could Be” Killer

Thriller Set in Contras Era Asks, “How Much Should a Man Sacrifice for His Country?”

Nation’s Infrastructure Becomes Terrorist Target, but a Bigger Ploy Is at Play in “Red Deception”

From a Barroom in England to the Streets of Italy, Sarah Winman’s “Still Life” Is Life Well-Lived

“Dava Shastri’s Last Day” Prompts Her, and Us, To Perform a Personal Perspective Overhaul

“Burning Ground” Is the Frontier Epic, Time-Traveling Tale You Didn’t Know You Needed

Joani Elliott’s “The Audacity of Sara Grayson” is Poignant, Playful and Perceptive

Go on “Carnevale” with This Debut Literary Mystery

Jojo Moyes’ Newest Heroine Delivers Books and Hope in Hard Times

Time-Jumping, Take-Out and a Daughter in Danger

“The Only Woman in the Room:” Enter the Wild World of Actress Hedy Lamarr

Terry Watkins’ Darling Girl Disrupted

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