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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 Hires
August 9, 2016
Fiction

A Professor of Immortality You’ll Care Deeply About

By page three of Eileen Pollack’s The Professor of Immortality (Delphinium Books), we have already learned that our protagonist, a 54-year-old professor of a questionable line of study at a local college, is a grieving widow of eight years, her adult son has been missing for seven months, and a…
Sherri Daley
October 15, 2019
Fiction

Madame Tussaud: The Woman Behind The Wax

Little (Riverhead) is the unusual story of a determined young girl who shapes a better life for herself through masterful wax figures. We recognize Madame Tussaud as the famed wax sculptor, but Edward Carey adds a compelling story that will stay with you as much as her own art. After her father…
Jennifer Blankfein
December 13, 2018
Fiction

Love, Faith, and Writing: A Chat with Herb Freed

We recently sat down with Herb Freed to discuss his new book Love, Faith and a Pair of Pants, now available for purchase. Herb Freed started his adult life as an ordained rabbi and became the spiritual leader of Temple Beth Shalom in Lake Mahopac, NY, while producing and directing three shows…
Jim Alkon
October 24, 2018
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 Nyren
April 29, 2019
Fiction

Fighting Fire with Feelings in “Beneath the Flames”

"With heavy smoke coming from the home, Captain Gregory Lee Renz knew that if the boys were to have any chance of being rescued, he had to get to them quickly.  Without regard for his own safety, he descended the basement stairs and began to search for the boys.” What…
Jim Alkon
June 5, 2019
Fiction

As Clock Strikes Down, Will Good Triumph Over Evil?

Since its introduction in 1947, the Doomsday Clock has represented how close mankind is to total destruction. Although the clock was originally set at seven minutes to midnight, it has fluctuated over the years from as far away as seventeen minutes (in 1991, marking the fall of the Soviet Union)…
BookTrib
June 3, 2019

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