Paris

Sleepy Mountain Range Overlooks Hotbed of Crime

The enigmatic title The Sleeping Lady (She Writes Press), conjures a feeling of mystery and excitement, an impression that only intensifies after opening the book. The namesake of The Sleeping Lady is the hazy outline of Mount Tamalpais. This summit helps frame the skyline over small towns north of San…

Mary Ann RyanMarch 13, 2019

Thrillers

Tara Isabella Burton’s Debut and Deadly Relationships

This year, we've seen a lot of books that seem to just raise the bar on what we can expect from literature in terms of mesmerizing plots, spellbinding characters and twists no one ever saw coming. But debut novel Social Creature, with its eye-catching cover that stops you in your tracks may…

Rachel Fogle De SouzaJune 21, 2018

Miscellany

Previously Unpublished Hemingway Story

Having just celebrated the 74th anniversary of the Liberation of Paris, another celebration of Paris took place earlier this month when The Strand Magazine ran a previously unpublished story by Ernest Hemingway with post-war Paris as the focal point. A Room on the Garden Side is “an earthy, poignant sketch…

BookTribAugust 28, 2018

Nonfiction

A Life in Books: Author Kathleen Hill Talks About the Power of Words and Writing Her New Book

Before I spoke with Kathleen Hill for the first time, I had been talking with a friend about aging and watching the adults in our lives, some who’ve passed away, struggle with memory in their later years. We were both saying how we wished they had written down some of…

Aisha K. StaggersDecember 4, 2017

Nonfiction

Pauline Lévêque and Florence Mars: The Culture of Raising Children

If you lived abroad for an extended period, even simply during a semester off while in college, you know that cultures are nothing alike. There is as much in common between Russian and Portuguese bread than between a whale and a tiger. That is what gives the world its colors…

Frederic ColierJuly 20, 2017

Nonfiction

Seduced by Trotsky’s Assassin: John P. Davidson tells the inside story

Paris, 1938. A young social worker from Brooklyn, Sylvia Ageloff was in the French capitol to study the language. And as a member of Leon Trotsky’s inner circle, she was also an American delegate to an organizational meeting of the Russian revolutionary’s followers. And, marked by Josef Stalin’s secret agents,…

Joanna PoncavageFebruary 27, 2018

Fiction Thrillers Thrillers - Featured

Former CIA Analyst Integrates Espionage, Love and Betrayal in Gripping Thriller “Damascus Station”

He was midway through a cup of booza, an elastic Levantine ice cream, and nursing a bottle of water when the mind games started. He’d executed the tradecraft perfectly, he thought. Or had he? Had the woman buying ice cream been the same woman from the jewelry store? Had the…

Neil NyrenSeptember 24, 2021

Fiction Thrillers

A Parisian Vacation Leads Armand Gamache to Danger in “All the Devils Are Here”

"This is a rare novel that will definitely linger in your thoughts long after finishing the last page." — Fresh Fiction In Louise Penny’s latest novel, All the Devils Are Here, (Minotaur) Armand Gamache, Chief Inspector of Homicide for the Sûreté du Quebec, is in dire need of a vacation to…

Jodé MillmanSeptember 1, 2020

Fiction Romance Romance - Featured

Valerie Taylor Doubles the Drama With New Love Interests in Her Sequel “What’s Not True”

You don’t have to read Valerie Taylor’s first book — What’s Not Said — in order to find yourself delightfully immersed in the goings-on in her second, What’s Not True (She Writes Press). Taylor’s a master at making sure new readers aren’t lost, slipping in important details from the back…

Sherri DaleyAugust 24, 2021

Children's Books

Decide the Fate of France in Interactive “Iron Magicians”

In Iron Magicians: The Search for the Magic Crystals (Quirk Books), the reader becomes the protagonist. In a fantastical steampunk Paris, Gustave Eiffel is unveiling his Tower at the World’s Fair. The reader is called upon to collect crystals which will charge the tower to defend Paris against a magical…

Lee PelletierAugust 13, 2019

Book Club Network Thrillers

Exacting Revenge in the City of Love

In Mike Bond’s latest thriller Goodbye Paris (Big City Press), that’s how Special Forces veteran Pono Hawkins remembers what happened eight years ago in Mosul, when he and his buddy Mack were grabbed by Mustafa al-Boudienne and Mustafa’s terrorist crew. Pono and Mack escaped. And now Mustafa is thought to…

Jim ParryJune 25, 2019

Book Club Network Fiction

Serving Girl Forges a New Life for Herself as a Noblewoman in Historical Novel “Irina”

1378, Poland. Irina Kwasniewska, a farmer's daughter and servant girl to a wealthy merchant family, is about to lose almost everything dear to her — and begin an unexpected new life. Pregnant by her benefactor's son, Berek, and turned out of her family's household for it, Irina arrives back at…

Cynthia ConradJune 14, 2021

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

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 BlankfeinDecember 13, 2018

Fiction

Liam Callanan on Bookstores, Travel and Magic of Paris

Who doesn't love Paris? Whether it's the language, the culture, the food, or just that element of je ne sais quoi, there's something magnetic about the city. With so many different words that could be used, it's telling that perhaps the most common word to describe the city is magic. And no…

BookTribApril 11, 2018

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: Cheated But Not Broken

You don’t have to be wearing rose-colored glasses to be blind to the flaws of the people you love: Sophie Bloom learns this the worst possible way when her forty-second birthday party culminates with the revelation that her devoted husband Gabe is anything but. Not only has Gabe cheated on…

Camille PaganMay 3, 2019

Sleepy Mountain Range Overlooks Hotbed of Crime

Previously Unpublished Hemingway Story

A Life in Books: Author Kathleen Hill Talks About the Power of Words and Writing Her New Book

Pauline Lévêque and Florence Mars: The Culture of Raising Children

Seduced by Trotsky’s Assassin: John P. Davidson tells the inside story

Former CIA Analyst Integrates Espionage, Love and Betrayal in Gripping Thriller “Damascus Station”

A Parisian Vacation Leads Armand Gamache to Danger in “All the Devils Are Here”

Valerie Taylor Doubles the Drama With New Love Interests in Her Sequel “What’s Not True”

Decide the Fate of France in Interactive “Iron Magicians”

Exacting Revenge in the City of Love

Serving Girl Forges a New Life for Herself as a Noblewoman in Historical Novel “Irina”

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

Madame Tussaud: The Woman Behind The Wax

Tall Poppy Review: Cheated But Not Broken

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