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A Comet Brings Secrets, Love, Obsession, Death

“The woman I was back then could never have foreseen what was coming, and I can’t reach back into the past to warn her.” Sylvia Knight, 32, the narrator of Ruby Todd’s Bright Objects, finally thinks she knows what to do. The funeral home she works for in a small…

Neil NyrenJune 28, 2024

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Timeless and Evocative Love Story Between Troubled Artist and Writer

When something hurts, it’s easy to access medical books, Google or physicians for the answers. When it comes to love, the prescriptions are not so simple. Peter Sarno does a masterful job of dissecting love to its barest roots and greatest pains in his complex novel, Visions of Johanna (PFP…

Jim AlkonDecember 9, 2022

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Magical Realism Saga of Multi-Generational Trauma

Sound the trumpets and ready the fireworks to light the sky in a dazzling display honoring the debut of Jamie Ford’s eagerly awaited new novel The Many Daughters of Afong Moy (Atria). He has ambitiously reached for the stars and caught the tail of a transcendent, iridescent and fast-moving comet.…

Linda HitchcockAugust 2, 2022

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ITW Spotlight: Four 60-Year-Old Female Assassins Must Kill or Be Killed

New York Times bestselling author Deanna Raybourn had her feet firmly planted in the past when her editor called with a challenge she couldn’t pass up: Write a book featuring an older badass woman. Raybourn accepted the challenge and made it even more difficult. She created four badass women, made them assassins, and for the first…

Dawn IusSeptember 13, 2022

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Two Renowned Writers of the 19th Century Correspond in This Historical Reimagining

Two 19th-century writers lived just 74 miles from each other. One is the renowned author of Little Women, the other, one of America’s foremost poets. Emily Dickinson would undoubtedly have heard of Louisa May Alcott, yet there is no historical record of the two ever meeting or corresponding despite their…

Susan BaileyMay 9, 2022

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Calamitous Coincidences or a 3000-Year-Old Curse in Gill Paul’s Latest

It was November 4, 1922, and Carter anticipated that his discovery would reveal the long-sought-after and elusive Tutankhamen’s tomb. Three weeks later, Herbert and his daughter, Lady Evelyn, arrived in time to witness the final clearing of yards of sand, dirt and rubble from the stairway leading to the entrance…

Linda HitchcockSeptember 8, 2021

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Jackie Kennedy Onassis’ Year in Post-War Paris

This current novel is an expansion of her New York Times article: A Year in Paris that Transformed Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis published in June, 2019. Vast numbers of biographies, newspaper and magazine articles have been published about the former First Lady and her storied life. Although Jacqueline in Paris is…

Linda HitchcockSeptember 29, 2022

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Author Nancy Bilyeau Paints the Glitz, Glamour and Subterfuge of 18th Century London in “The Fugitive Colors”

“I love the wit, bawdiness, and crazy energy of 18th century England,” says author Nancy Bilyeau when asked about her new book, The Fugitive Colors (Genevieve Planché book 2). Set in 1764 London, the book takes readers on a wild ride through glitz, glamor, and danger of the art world…

BookTribMay 12, 2022

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See a Hometown Through the Eyes of One Who Calls it Home in “Save the Village”

Save the Village, Michele Herman’s novel, is a love letter to Greenwich Village and those who live there. Her descriptions of both place and mood are so visceral that one swears she’s actually walking along the cobblestone, admiring the red brick buildings. We understand from the start that living in…

Susan Shapiro BarashMay 13, 2022

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Sizzle and Seduction Return in Sexy “Bridgerton” 2nd Season Based on “The Viscount Who Loved Me”

The excitement is building as the second season of the sexy Netflix rom-com, Bridgerton is set to return in March. According to our favorite gossip columnist, Lady Whistledown, the next installment promises to be a “whole lot spicier.”On Whistledown’s authority, season two of Bridgerton is inspired by Julia Quinn’s sequel…

Jodé MillmanMarch 4, 2022

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A Compelling Story of Survival Unfolds in “Sparks Like Stars” by Nadia Hashimi

“Untold histories live in shallow graves” and in Sparks Like Stars (William Morrow) by Nadia Hashimi, life’s secret traumas hidden below the surface haunt Sitara. As a young Afghan girl, Sitara loses everything and everyone in her beloved country; she was the sole survivor in a government coup where all her…

Jennifer BlankfeinApril 30, 2021

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S. Kirk Walsh on Her Debut Historical Novel of War, Loss and Animal Companionship

After reading S. Kirk Walsh’s piece that ran in the New York Times this past January, “How the Author of ‘Ragtime’ Taught an Aspiring Writer to Hear the Music,” I was eager to read her new novel, The Elephant of Belfast (Counterpoint). Having also studied with E.L. Doctorow at NYU…

Susan Shapiro BarashApril 5, 2021

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