Tara Roberts

Jul 31, 2024 | bookbub.com | Tara Roberts

If you’re looking to be transported by your next read, this historical drama inspired by Moby-Dick is “so vivid you can taste the salt spray” (Oprah Daily). On an island off the coast of New England, an innkeeper and a mysterious fisherman meet — sparking four generations of gifted women. “Sweeping” (Booklist), “stunning” (Publishers Weekly), and “beautiful” (Bookreporter). A gorgeous debut, laced through with magic, following four generations of women as they seek to chart their own futures.

Jul 27, 2024 | medicalxpress.com | Tara Roberts

Many people with stage II or III colon cancer receive additional, or adjuvant, chemotherapy following surgery. However, clinical trials have shown that this treatment doesn't improve the chances of survival for every patient. A study published July 25 in Cell Reports Medicine identifies and validates a 10-gene biomarker that potentially predicts whether a stage II or III colon cancer patient will benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy.

May 30, 2024 | phys.org | Tara Roberts

Plans for flood mitigation along urban rivers often benefit some neighborhoods more than others. Researchers and collaborators in a densely populated California floodplain developed a way to help planners see how infrastructure designs, sea-level rise, and severe storms fueled by climate change will affect flood risk at the local level.

Feb 7, 2024 | bookbrowse.com | Tara Roberts

BookBrowse: A sweeping historical novel spanning continents that connects four generations of women to the events of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. Tara Karr Roberts is a newspaper columnist who also teaches English and journalism. Wild and Distant Seas, her first novel, won over our First Impressions reviewers, receiving 4 or 5 stars from 21 out of 23 readers.

Jan 31, 2024 | historicalnovelsociety.org | Byzantine Empire |Bywater Books |Lara Byrne |Tara Roberts

Nantucket. Moby-Dick. Four generations of women who blossom via an inner force that’s part insight, part magic; the rediscovery of a father by a daughter whose mother died years earlier, in a journey that led to a distant continent across fierce seas. Take all of this and meticulous historical detail of 19th-century New England, add courageous mothers who ask more than simple romance in their lives, and you have the marvelous resilient core of Wild and Distant Seas.