The Book Whisperer RECOMMENDS The Phoenix Crown
Dorothy Caldwell Minor, aka The Book Whisperer, inquisites, "What happens when two bestselling authors team up to write historical fiction?" The result, she finds, is a rousing novel by Kate Quinn and Janie Chang! A little about Dorothy: “I am an avid reader and also...
Bonfire Night by Anna Bliss
ABOUT: Set before and during World War II, this moving, intricately wrought historical novel brings together a young Irish Catholic photographer and a British Jewish medical student, each discovering the price of love, art, and ambition. London, 1936: At twenty-one,...
Kitty Zeldis – Acclaimed Author
from author's website Kitty Zeldis is the pen name of a Brooklyn based author of nine novels, numerous essays, articles and works of short fiction as well as forty books for children. Her two latest novels are both works of historical fiction; NOT OUR KIND is set in...
May is AANHPI Month
It’s Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month. Who are some AANHPI characters or authors you admire? I grew up loving Amy Tan, and now as an adult, have adored Charles Yu's "Interior Chinatown," Kevin Kwan, Jean Kwok, Lauren Lee Ho,...
Judith Lindbergh – Acclaimed Author
from author's website Judith Lindbergh’s new novel, Akmaral, about a nomad woman warrior on the ancient Central Asian steppes, is forthcoming from Regal House Publishing on May 7, 2024. Her debut novel, The Thrall’s Tale, about three women in the first Viking Age...
The Goldie Standard by Simi Monheit
ABOUT: An aged Jewish woman kvetches her way toward love while solving everyone else’s problems in Monheit’s bittersweet comic novel. Goldie Mandell, a 90-year-old widow ensconced at the Riverdale Adult Community Residence in the Bronx, is sharp as a tack and busy...
Behold the Monster: Confronting America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer by Jillian Lauren
ABOUT: He was sitting right across the table... and he would have killed her if he could Jillian Lauren had no idea what she was getting into when she wrote her first letter to prolific serial killer Samuel Little. All she knew was her research had led her to believe...
Tracey Enerson Wood – USA Today Bestselling Author and Military Family Advocate
from author's website Tracey Enerson Wood has always had a writing bug. While working as a Registered Nurse, starting her own Interior Design company, raising two children, and bouncing around the world as a military wife, she indulged in her passion as a playwright,...
Brian J. Morra – Award-Winning Novelist
from author’s website Brian J. Morra has spent his career in intelligence and national security beginning with his time as a decorated Air Force Intelligence officer and through his many years as a senior executive in the aerospace and defense industry. Brian was...
I Never Do This by Anesa Miller
ABOUT: MEET THE UNFORGETTABLE YOUNG WOMAN, LaDene Faye Howell, who finds herself in police custody recounting her story after her paroled cousin Bobbie Frank appears and engages her in a crime spree. LaDene Faye Howell has spent her life in the small town of...
The Wartime Book Club by Kate Thompson
ABOUT: Inspired by true events, The Wartime Book Club is an unforgettable story of everyday bravery and resistance, full of romance, drama, and camaraderie and a tribute to the joy of reading and the power of books in our darkest hour.The Isle of Jersey was...
Lian Dolan – Bestselling Author, Podcaster, and Speaker
from author’s website ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Lian Dolan is a writer and talker. She’s the author of four best-selling novels, Lost and Found in Paris, The Sweeney Sisters, Helen of Pasadena and Elizabeth the First Wife. Her new...
Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg – Award-Winning Author
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg is an award-winning and bestselling author and essayist. Her novel The Nine (SWP 2019) was honored with the 2019 Foreword Indies Gold Award in Thriller & Suspense and the Gold Medal and Juror’s Choice in the...
1666 by Laura Chilton
ABOUT: A Fictional Recounting of the Survival Story of Patawomeck Tribe of Virginia The story has been remembered within the Patawomeck tribe for generations, but is largely unknown outside of the tribe until now. Author Lora Chilton, a tribal member through the...
Friends in Napa by Sheila Yasmin Marikar
ABOUT: Six old friends descend on Napa Valley for a luxurious weekend of fine wine and good times…until old tensions simmer to the surface. So much can go wrong in this dark comedy by the author of The Goddess Effect. Just get yourselves here, everything else is...
Piper Huguley – Author of Historical Fiction featuring African American Characters
from author's website ABOUT PIPER: Piper G. Huguley’s biographical historical fiction, By Her Own Design: a novel of Ann Lowe, Fashion Designer to the Social Register (William Morrow Publishing) tells the inspiring story of the Black fashion designer of Jackie...
Don’t Let Rejection Define You or Determine Your Future!
by Zoro the Drummer Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. ~ Marilyn vos Savant Hello Friends, I want to encourage you with some lesser-known truths about some of the most successful people of all time. ELVIS PRESLEY...
Aimie K. Runyan – International Bestselling Author
from author’s website From even my earliest years, I loved jotting down stories and really, really bad poetry. I dabbled in the world of the short story for a long time, until I finally sat down one fateful February day and decided that my beloved short...
Author Book Review – by Rebecca Rosenberg
Our authors are avid readers, too! Rebecca Rosenberg, champagne geek, lavender farmer, and award-winning author of the Champagne Widows Novels Champagne Widows and Madame Pommery: Creator of Brut Champagne is dedicating the month of March to...
Stephanie Dray – New York Times, Wall Street Journal & USA Today Bestselling Author
from author’s website STEPHANIE DRAY is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal & USA Today bestselling author of historical women’s fiction. Her award-winning work has been translated into many languages and tops lists for the most anticipated reads of the...