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7 Brilliant and Affecting Historical Fiction Audiobooks

Just in time for the last lazy days of summer listening, I give you four authors and seven — seven! — historical fiction titles that will spirit you away in your own private time machine. This story appears through BookTrib’s partnership with AudioFile. It first appeared on AudioFile’s website.

Aurelia C. ScottSeptember 8, 2022

Thrillers

Ancient Truths, Modern Evil, in Hearts of the Missing

The spirit of Tony Hillerman hovers over every page of Carol Potenza’s debut novel Hearts of the Missing (Minotaur), so it’s no surprise that, when still unpublished, it won the 2017 Hillerman Prize for the best first mystery set in the Southwest. Hillerman’s spirit is far from the only ghost that…

Neil NyrenDecember 4, 2018

Miscellany temp-delete

BookTube: Natterson-Horowitz on the Human-Animal Connection in Medicine

YouTube Originals has just released the September 2020 episode of BookTube. This month's episode features Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, M.D., New York Times bestselling author of Zoobiquity, which explores how the field of human medicine can learn from veterinary science and zoology. YouTube creators Hannah Stocking, Cedric Jamie Rutland of Medicine Deconstructed and Cydnee Black…

BookTribSeptember 24, 2020

Nonfiction Save the World

Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals Affecting Our Lives

Dr. Leonardo Trasande, a pediatrician, professor, and world-renowned researcher, tells the story of how our everyday surroundings are making us sicker, fatter, and poorer. His book, fittingly enough, is called Sicker Fatter Poorer: The Urgent Threat of Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals to Our Health and Future…And What We Can Do About It…

BookTribJanuary 15, 2019

Nonfiction Save the World

Enlightening and Alarming Explanation of Climate Challenge

If the title alone for Jeff Nesbit’s analysis of environmental challenges isn’t enough to scare you, there’s plenty to be concerned about in the content of This Is The Way The World Ends: How Droughts and Die-offs, Heat Waves and Hurricanes Are Converging on America (Thomas Dunne Books). Nesbit, previous…

BookTribOctober 25, 2018

Nonfiction

“Man on a Mission”: Bill Nye the Science Guy Documentary Debuts in NYC

Bill Nye is 'the science teacher you wish you had," according to a new documentary on his life and work. The film, Bill Nye: Science Guy, features the star of the 90's kid's TV show of the same name, his personal life, beliefs and how he viewed by his peers.…

Aisha K. StaggersOctober 31, 2017

Nonfiction

Find Your Groove: 3 Books to Spice Up Your Love Life Before Season 4 of Masters of Sex

Masters of Sex returns September 11, 2016 on Showtime and the premiere can’t come soon enough. It’s been what feels like an eternity since we last saw Virginia Johnson and Dr. Williams Masters pushing the boundaries of societal norms with their pioneering research in science and human sexuality. The show,…

McKenzie MorrellSeptember 6, 2016

Nonfiction

Review: Pulitzer Prize Winner Siddhartha Mukherjee’s Laws of Medicine

We’ve been trained—from childhood—to trust our doctors; some patients trust their doctors absolutely. For many, it can be unnerving to hear a doctor discuss what he or she doesn’t know—and admitting that what we do know about medicine is a tiny speck in the vast universe of what has yet…

Michael RuscoeOctober 21, 2015

Nonfiction

WIN: Mysteries of the Unknown. The creepy, the kooky, the mysterious and spooky

What really happened to Amelia Earhart? Is the Kennedy family truly cursed? Do the spirits of the dead haunt a house in Amityville, Long Island? And why did it take the Boston Red Sox 86 years to win a World Series after selling Babe Ruth to the hated rival New…

Michael RuscoeOctober 26, 2014

Fiction Thrillers Thrillers - Featured

Reichs Remains the Master of Forensic Fiction in Her Latest Novel “The Bone Code”

It’s fair to say that Dr. Temperance Brennan is having a very 2021 kind of year: that is, everything is a cluster of chaos in Kathy Reichs’ The Bone Code (Scribner). There’s the tropical storm sending everyone, especially her fidgety feline companion, for cover. There’s the concerning outbreak of capno,…

Amanda GardnerJuly 6, 2021

Fiction Romance Young Adult

Here’s Some “Prom Theory” For You: Getting a Date Is Simply Science

As she heads to her locker at the beginning of another day at school, Iris notices they’re everywhere — pink posters announcing “Only 19 days until Junior/Senior Prom,” et cetera. As usual, Iris has a more pragmatic view of reality. She views the posters as “a propaganda campaign geared to…

Joanna PoncavageAugust 11, 2021

Fiction Fiction - Featured

The Appetite of France’s King Alters the Life of a Young Maid and Her Daughter

Veronique’s life is not easy. It’s Paris, 1755. Her father is dead, her mother is desperately poor, and the family’s four children sometimes go hungry. But one day that all changes. An elderly stranger wearing a purple frock coat approaches Veronique’s mother and says there is a place for the…

Nancy BilyeauFebruary 22, 2022

Children's Books

With Heart and Humor, “The Mole and the Sunglasses” Inspires Us to Care for Nature

Mr. Mole has a conundrum. His underground tunnel has flooded with rain, and now his bed of leaves is all soggy. He needs to wriggle up to the surface for new supplies — but Mr. Mole doesn’t have a very good sense of direction! In The Mole and the Sunglasses…

Cameron KimballOctober 9, 2020

Better Self Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

Julia Baird’s Memoir “Phosphorescence” Shares Wisdom to Make Life Glow

In Phosphorescence: A Memoir of Finding Joy When Your World Goes Dark (Random House), Australian journalist and biographer Julia Baird explores the experiences that give life meaning and joy — the things that make life glow. The book is a thought-provoking mix of journalism and memoir as Baird blends essays…

Kirsten MacdissiJuly 6, 2021

Listicles Listicles - Featured Nonfiction

Understanding Where We Came From: Books Explaining Humanity’s History

Avid reader, Will Wechsler shares his more academic picks for a well-rounded knowledge base focused on history and scientific developments regarding people and the world around us. fascinating but densely written, and since I know my friend would like that kind of book I happily recommended it. A few days…

William WechslerAugust 25, 2022

Better Self Listicles

Women Share How to Approach Complicated Relationships in These 9 Nonfiction Reads

If you are a woman — and if you’re not, you’re more than welcome here, too — you have relationships of all shapes and sizes, closeness and casualness, complexity and simplicity. Whether you secretly feel lonely, consider yourself rotten at relationships, or feel like you have too many to ever…

Judy MorenoJune 29, 2021

7 Brilliant and Affecting Historical Fiction Audiobooks

Ancient Truths, Modern Evil, in Hearts of the Missing

BookTube: Natterson-Horowitz on the Human-Animal Connection in Medicine

Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals Affecting Our Lives

Enlightening and Alarming Explanation of Climate Challenge

“Man on a Mission”: Bill Nye the Science Guy Documentary Debuts in NYC

Find Your Groove: 3 Books to Spice Up Your Love Life Before Season 4 of Masters of Sex

Review: Pulitzer Prize Winner Siddhartha Mukherjee’s Laws of Medicine

WIN: Mysteries of the Unknown. The creepy, the kooky, the mysterious and spooky

Reichs Remains the Master of Forensic Fiction in Her Latest Novel “The Bone Code”

The Appetite of France’s King Alters the Life of a Young Maid and Her Daughter

With Heart and Humor, “The Mole and the Sunglasses” Inspires Us to Care for Nature

Julia Baird’s Memoir “Phosphorescence” Shares Wisdom to Make Life Glow

Understanding Where We Came From: Books Explaining Humanity’s History

Women Share How to Approach Complicated Relationships in These 9 Nonfiction Reads

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