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Celebrating Lovely Imperfections in “Branching Out”

Emotional and satisfying, Kerstin March’s novel Branching Out is a skillfully written love story that will truly touch the heart of readers. This isn’t a story about a perfect marriage, and that’s what makes it so very lovely in its deeply moving journey of love between two people. This is…

BookTribJune 21, 2018

Fiction

Tall Poppies Review: Brandi Megan Granett’s “Triple Love Score”

Life is really a bunch of scrambled words—love, loss, joy, zest, quest (note to self: I possess the high-scoring j, z, and q tiles) and figuring out how they fit into our journey. In her page-turning love story Triple Love Score, Brandi Megan Granett introduces us to the smart and…

Lisa BarrNovember 13, 2017

Fiction

Scotland Yard Detective Duo Take on Murder in Crombie’s ‘Garden of Lamentations’

A new shipment from Texas transplant Deborah Crombie, brings another powerful thriller featuring the Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James. The most interesting aspect of Crombie’s novels, and this one (her 17th) does not fail to hit the high mark, lies in their characterizations. No two thriller writers…

Frederic ColierOctober 10, 2017

Fiction

A Quest for Meaning and Moby-Dick—A Whale of a Tale

The Moby-Dick Blues (Roundfire Books) by Michael Strelow chronicles the hunt for not only literary treasure, but the search for admiration and purpose: “The story of Arvin and his family and the manuscript for Moby-Dick, the unlikely tale of unlikely characters just like Melville’s story.” Arvin Kraft is used to being…

K.L. RomoDecember 5, 2018

Fiction

Noir Detective Mysteries Author Sam Wiebe on His Latest Novel ‘Invisible Dead’

Do you enjoy a thrill that makes you think about the world around you? In the new novel Invisible Dead, this happens on a whole new level. Invisible Dead is a novel about systemic violence, the kind we often don’t notice or don’t think about. Vancouver PI Dave Wakeland sets…

Maggie MeyersJuly 14, 2017

Fiction

Sally Rooney Depicts the Highs and Pitfalls of Two Teens in Love

sSally Rooney’newest novel, Normal People (Hogarth) is an engaging page-turner focusing on the shifting relationship between two teenagers from Ireland. This propulsive novel from the author of Conversations with Friends was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, with little wonder. Connell is a smart, popular athlete with a working class single mother,…

Jennifer BlankfeinMay 22, 2019

Fiction

Anita Hughes Fills Your Summer with Romance and Adventure in “Emerald Coast”

At BookTrib, we are constantly searching for the best ways to connect readers with writers, opening their eyes and worlds to fresh ideas! This is how we came across a wonderful group known as the Tall Poppies, who are not only avid readers, but extremely talented writers as well! This…

Camille PaganAugust 3, 2017

Fiction

Review: ‘The Waters & The Wild’ is a Stunning Exploration of Human Character

Daniel Abend lives a comfortable life as a successful psychotherapist on the Upper West Side of New York City. He is a single father raising a teenage daughter. When one of his patients commits suicide Daniel receives a note that has him start to ask questions about his patient's death.…

BookTribMarch 13, 2018

Fiction

Review: Dive Into Psychological Mystery on Peregrine Island

Tolstoy said that every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Diane B. Saxton, the debut author of Peregrine Island (She Writes Press, August 2, 2016), would probably agree. Her new novel dives into a memorably dysfunctional family, the Peregrines, living on the titular private island on Long Island…

Katie HiresAugust 9, 2016

BooksToScreen Fiction

‘Life Is A Wheel… It Always Comes Back Around To Where It Started’: Stephen King’s Life in Books

Stephen King has thrilled readers for more than four decades with a body of work that effortlessly combines scintillating fear and some very uniquely memorable characters. King, who recently turned 70, is as unique and memorable as his characters and has lead a life that is just as interesting as…

Maggie MeyersOctober 16, 2017

Fiction

Jamie Brenner’s “Blush” Gives Three Women Bonded by Family the Chance for Beautiful Boldness

Review and Q&A with Susan Shapiro Barash aka Susannah Marren, author of A Palm Beach Scandal (St. Martin's Griffin) Three generations of women at a family vineyard on the North Fork of Long Island find their strength and determination put to the test in Jamie Brenner’s new novel, Blush (G.P.…

Susan Shapiro BarashJune 22, 2021

Fiction

Why is the Servant Covered in Their Blood?

From the prisoners’ hold, they take me through the gallery, down the stairs and past the table crawling with barristers and clerks. Around me a river of faces in flood, their mutters rising, blending with the lawyers’ whispers. A noise that hums with all the spite of bees in a…

Neil NyrenApril 29, 2019

BooksToScreen Fiction

Free eBooks: Classic Science Fiction You May Have Missed

If you're an everyday reader, you've probably read some interesting science fiction along the line - but have you read some famous classics that end up on reader's lists every year? Because we love sci-fi, from the awesome movies we're all familiar with such as Blade Runner and The Matrix just to name two,…

Maggie MeyersNovember 14, 2017

Fiction

An Excerpt of Joan Didion’s ‘Play It As It Lays’: Heart of the American Dream

BookTrib is partnering with Early Bird Books to bring you more great content, including this article and excerpt from Joan Didion's Play It As It Lays. Read on for more! An excerpt from the literary icon's novel about loneliness and life's unanswerable questions. The name Joan Didion is synonymous with a lot of…

Early Bird BooksJuly 13, 2017

Fiction

Elizabeth Strout’s Beloved Character is Back in “Olive, Again”

Olive Kitteridge is back and we are richer for it. Elizabeth Strout’s new novel Olive, Again (Random House)—sequel to her 2008 novel Olive Kitteridge that spawned the eponymous television mini-series and won a Pulitzer prize—is arguably better than its predecessor. The story resumes with Olive in her mid-seventies still residing…

Anne Eliot FeldmanOctober 17, 2019

Fiction

After 40 Years, Howard Kaplan’s ‘The Damascus Cover’ Hits Theaters

If achievement is a mélange of skill, perseverance and luck, along the way I’ve had periods of fierce drive, missed great opportunities and been the recipient of incredible luck. As a result, the film adaptation of my novel The Damascus Cover, starring Sir John Hurt and Jonathan Rhys Meyers will…

Howard KaplanAugust 9, 2017

Celebrating Lovely Imperfections in “Branching Out”

Tall Poppies Review: Brandi Megan Granett’s “Triple Love Score”

Scotland Yard Detective Duo Take on Murder in Crombie’s ‘Garden of Lamentations’

A Quest for Meaning and Moby-Dick—A Whale of a Tale

Noir Detective Mysteries Author Sam Wiebe on His Latest Novel ‘Invisible Dead’

Sally Rooney Depicts the Highs and Pitfalls of Two Teens in Love

Anita Hughes Fills Your Summer with Romance and Adventure in “Emerald Coast”

Review: ‘The Waters & The Wild’ is a Stunning Exploration of Human Character

Review: Dive Into Psychological Mystery on Peregrine Island

‘Life Is A Wheel… It Always Comes Back Around To Where It Started’: Stephen King’s Life in Books

Jamie Brenner’s “Blush” Gives Three Women Bonded by Family the Chance for Beautiful Boldness

Why is the Servant Covered in Their Blood?

Free eBooks: Classic Science Fiction You May Have Missed

An Excerpt of Joan Didion’s ‘Play It As It Lays’: Heart of the American Dream

Elizabeth Strout’s Beloved Character is Back in “Olive, Again”

After 40 Years, Howard Kaplan’s ‘The Damascus Cover’ Hits Theaters

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