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A Heart-Pounding Tale of Courage, Compassion, and the Cost of Care | BookTrib.
It’s always a treat as a reader to find a book that delivers a powerful social message as well as tells a good story, and that’s exactly what we get in Under Their Watch — Charlie Ketchey’s compelling and moving novel about the challenges facing a pair of dedicated child-care workers. Child-care caseworker Cameron Springer
Books & Looks Podcast — Inside The Deadliest Book Series with Eleanor Spicer Rice | BookTrib.
Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a literary podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio and video interviews with authors. With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he reviews are either new authors
R.F. Kuang Fans Will Fall for These 6 Dark Academia Fantasies | BookTrib.
The calendar’s turned over another page, school is back in session and orange-and-black decorations are already cluttering store shelves. While the weather might still be hovering around summertime temps, readers are already turning to the cooler season — brewing steaming mugs of loose-leaf tea, curling up in a well-cushioned reading nook and cracking open a
Boudicca’s Daughter: An Epic Tale On The Power Of Personal Identity | BookTrib.
What’s your Roman Empire? Because mine might just be Elodie Harper’s latest novel, Boudicca’s Daughter. Author of The Wolf Den trilogy, Harper knows what it means to take us back in time to a different Ancient Rome than the one we are used to seeing on the big screens, focusing instead on women’s Ancient Rome.
Bookaholic Podcast — Exploring History and Mystery: Sarah Ladenwich on Her Debut Novel | BookTrib.
The Bookaholic Podcast is the ultimate audio haven for passionate readers, curious minds, and unapologetic book lovers. Hosted by Deirdre Pippins, each episode dives into the world of storytelling through author interviews, genre spotlights, literary trends, and honest book chats that feed your reading addiction. No matter the genre, there’s something here to spark your
7 Books That Change How We View the World | BookTrib.
Some books amuse us while others teach us something new, but few change our perception. There are many perspectives we have on life (and the world in general) that are damaging to us, or others around us. These books address changing some of those perspectives.
Sarah Strohmeyer’s Latest Thriller Unravels Secrets in a Cult’s Shadow | BookTrib.
Sarah Strohmeyer is one of the most versatile and compelling contemporary authors. Before starting her career as a successful and award-winning novelist, she worked for several years in the newspaper business initially as a freelance journalist and later as a crime reporter. Her first hilarious and slightly risqué book Barbie Unbound: A Parody of the
Cli-Fi Novels with Rich People Building In Inadvisable Places, Inadvisably | BookTrib.
SALVAGIA, my debut sci-fi mystery, is set along the future flooded Florida coast. Mean season is twice as long and twice as strong, and Miami is long abandoned. Despite this, lots of money is about to come in to build it all up again and make most of the same mistakes that ruined it in
Long Overdue: Books about Libraries and Librarians | BookTrib.
I grew up in really rural Indiana, so rural that you couldn't see another house from our house, and we were so isolated my sister and I used to ride our ponies to the local library. We'd fill up our saddlebags with books, then read up in the hayloft of the barn behind our house.
A Haunting Collection of Stories from Cynthia Pelayo | BookTrib.
In Lotería, Cynthia Pelayo has compiled an eclectic collection of stories and vignettes that vary from haunting to unsettling to the macabre. Whether a chapter contains a short narrative, a poem or even a list, every featured entry stands on its own in terms of being thought-provoking or poignant, and the transition from one chapter
Writers, Ink Podcast: From sitcoms to horror, how screenwriting can help shape your novel with Brian McAuley | BookTrib.
BookTrib is proud to present to our readers the Writers, Ink podcast, a show about the business of writing. J.K. Rowling was nearly homeless when she wrote the first Harry Potter book. Stephen King penned Carrie on a small desk wedged between a washer and dryer. James Patterson worked in advertising and famously wrote the Toys “R”
Life-Tested Advice on How to Overcome the Past and Take Control of Your Future | BookTrib.
Jason Ferguson didn’t stumble into self-reinvention by choice — it hit him like a brick wall. After chasing success the way he thought he was “supposed to,” he found himself staring at the wreckage of burnout, disappointment and a life that didn’t feel like his own. From a promising career in football to losing himself
Victim Turned Vigilante Hunts Con Artists and Shares Most Common Red Flags | BookTrib.
The art of the con is just as much a part of human nature as the need for food, shelter, water and clothing. People have been attempting to get something for nothing, or get by with something, for as long as humans have been contemplating the meaning of life. In Anatomy Of A Con Artist,
Books & Looks Podcast — The Martian Craze: How Percival Lowell Invented Canals on Mars | BookTrib.
Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a literary podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio and video interviews with authors. With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he reviews are either new authors
Sip, Savor and Get Swept Away With These Fabulous Fall Reads | BookTrib.
Autumn will soon be rolling in, which means there’s no better time to curl up with a cozy story. This fall, the publishing world serves up everything from rom-coms and historical epics to thrillers and reinvention tales, so we’ve paired each standout release with a perfect seasonal cocktail (or mocktail). Now, you can sip along
The Martians are Coming: A Scientific Melodrama | BookTrib.
Of all the planets in our solar system, Mars has long possessed a special allure. Indeed, its reddish hue caught the eye of many an ancient human who stared into the night sky. Starting with Galileo’s telescope in 1610, technology brought the planet into better focus. Until the late nineteenth century, Mars largely drew the
“Dire Bound” Author Duo Sable Sorensen Talk Debut’s Skyrocket to Fame | BookTrib.
One of the latest novels taking the romantasy world by storm is Dire Bound — the action-packed, swoon-worthy new title from Sable Sorensen that marks the launch of Hachette Book Group’s latest imprint, Requited. Dire Bound follows the fiery and fierce Meryn Cooper as she is thrust into the world of the Bonded following her
An Old Crime Stirs Up New Passions and Fresh Blood | BookTrib.
The truth is, everyone knew who killed Caitlin – everyone knew back then, too. It was a massive crime in a tiny village, and about two hundred of the most powerful residents were standing about ten yards away when it happened. Twenty years ago, in the elite, idyllic, history-laden Hudson Valley village of Briar’s Green,
“High Flight”: A Life Lived at Altitude, Anchored in Faith | BookTrib.
From the roar of an F-15 slicing the sky at supersonic speed to the hushed stillness of a fog-covered runway, few lives have been lived at such altitude and with such depth as the one captured in High Flight In this Q&A, author Richard Hess takes us beyond the cockpit to share not just the
Where Haunted Houses and Forbidden Hearts Collide | BookTrib.
Contemporary romance meets paranormal historical fiction in Elizabeth O’Roark’s latest book, My Favorite Lost Cause. This is a follow-up to My Favorite Bad Decision, an adventure romance, but it can certainly be enjoyed as a stand-alone. This is my first foray into paranormal romance, and I have to say it may become my go-to for
This Is Your Brain on Tropes: Why Readers are Addicted to the Familiar | BookTrib.
Readers swear they’re tired of clichés. They roll their eyes at the “chosen one,” the “grumpy-sunshine romance,” the “ragtag crew who saves the world.” Yet, whenever a new book with those very tropes drops, it rockets up bestseller lists. Why? Because tropes aren’t just lazy storytelling, as so many people like to say. Tropes are
A Tapestry of War, Memory, and Survival | BookTrib.
What does it mean to come of age in a world where truth itself is a battlefield? Through shifting timelines and converging fates, The Threads Remain wrestles with identity, morality, and the haunting legacies of war. In this Q&A with author Glenn Shapiro, we step beyond the page to uncover the inspirations, struggles, and visions
Bookaholic Podcast — Building Worlds & Breaking Genres: Lexy Delorme on Writing, Life, and the Limerent Series | BookTrib.
The Bookaholic Podcast is the ultimate audio haven for passionate readers, curious minds, and unapologetic book lovers. Hosted by Deirdre Pippins, each episode dives into the world of storytelling through author interviews, genre spotlights, literary trends, and honest book chats that feed your reading addiction. No matter the genre, there’s something here to spark your
A Groundbreaking LGBTQ+ Crime Fiction Anthology | BookTrib.
There have been some excellent novels published in the last several years looking at historical crime fiction through a queer lens — books set in 1950s Los Angeles, 1950s Washington, D.C., 1828 Edinburgh, 1866 Paris, an English manor house in 1899, the dockyards of Tacoma, Washington, in 1888. What we haven’t seen much of, however,
Writers, Ink Podcast: Redefining what you know with retired Special Agent turned author, Jeffrey James Higgins | BookTrib.
BookTrib is proud to present to our readers the Writers, Ink podcast, a show about the business of writing. J.K. Rowling was nearly homeless when she wrote the first Harry Potter book. Stephen King penned Carrie on a small desk wedged between a washer and dryer. James Patterson worked in advertising and famously wrote the Toys “R”
“Dream by the Shadows” Blurs the Boundaries Between Light, Darkness, and Desire | BookTrib.
Following the stunning response to the self-published launch of Logan Karlie’s debut fantasy novel, Christy Ottaviano Books (Little Brown Books for Young Readers) delivers Karlie’s Dream by the Shadows in an all-new, deluxe edition. Packed with delicious banter, clever magic and plenty of twists and turns, Dream by the Shadows is set to become your
The Secret Weapons of Victorian Women | BookTrib.
Women had very little power in Victorian England. They couldn’t vote, they seldom had a voice, and they were even restricted in the books they were allowed to read. And yet, there were intrepid women who found quiet ways to resist. A bloom pressed into a bouquet, a powder stirred into a teacup, the gleam
R.F. Kuang Descends Into Darkness With Dark Academia Masterpiece | BookTrib.
The tagline for this book is Dante’s Inferno meets Piranesi and is that ever a fitting description. Katabasis by R.F. Kuang is a dark academia novel that takes you on a journey through the underworld. Through the Gates of Academia and Into Hell Alice Law is a postgraduate student studying under the esteemed and infamous
The Oracle Audiobook Series is my New Thriller Obsession | BookTrib.
If you’re in the mood for a binge-worthy psychological thriller audiobook series that blends psychic detectives, FBI investigations, and edge-of-your-seat supernatural scares, Andrew Pyper’s Oracle series is absolutely it. These Audible Originals hooked me so hard, I tore through all three in a matter of days. Add Joshua Jackson’s pitch-perfect narration (and an ensemble cast
Romances to Celebrate the Return of Women in Professional Baseball | BookTrib.
Anyone who has ever enjoyed the film classic A League of Our Own has heard of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Started during World War II to keep professional baseball alive, the league flourished from 1943 to 1954. Seventy years later, we are about to witness a rebirth. Some six hundred female baseball players
Darkly Comic and Unflinching Feminist Campus Novel Explores Youth, Beauty and Power | BookTrib.
Heather Colley’s debut novel, The Gilded Butterfly Effect, is a brilliant, biting exploration of campus life that strips away the glossy veneer of Greek letters, manicured lawns and curated personas to reveal the raw struggle beneath. Both hilarious and harrowing, the novel captures the absurdities of American college while probing deeper questions of identity, belonging
5 Fantasy Novels that Flirt with the Dark | BookTrib.
I love a dark fantasy. But I’m not always primed for a DARK fantasy, especially not multiple ones back-to-back. I need some sunshine in my life (and in my books). My solution? Books that flirt with the dark without being completely steeped in it. The aesthetic, the story, the characters … sometimes darkness makes a
A Past That Won’t Stay Buried: The Unforgettable Thrills of “Forget Me Not” | BookTrib.
One of the best pleasures about reading is that you naturally just come across stories that are simply unforgettable. Forget Me Not by Stacy Willingham is an unforgettable novel that intertwines forbidden love, grief navigation, and crime in this coming-of-age atmospheric thriller. The Past Resurfaces in a Gripping Family Thriller One of my favorite genres
Moving Middle-Grade Novel Tackles Heavy Topics with Sensitivity and Compassion | BookTrib.
Rewilding by Lisa Gerlits is heartwarming and emotional, telling the story of a young girl coming to terms with the harsh reality of her family’s struggles. Reflecting her journey is the plight of a baby bird that, after a fall from a nest, becomes Joy’s priority as she works to save it with the help
Debut Author of “Dream by the Shadows” Shares Journey from Self to Traditional Publishing | BookTrib.
In 2023, Logan Karlie had just released Dream by the Shadows into the world. She’d been working on the fantasy novel for years, from teenage sketches with ideas inspired by The Phantom of the Opera and Labyrinth, to early drafts in college. With the self-published book finally out for readers to enjoy, she thought that