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Lines to openly adore Aberjhani talks about THE GENEROSITY OF STARS by Barbara Berman I first came across the name Barbara Berman when I heard about the 100 POETS AGAINST THE WAR project, though I'm aware that many others are familiar with her in a variety of capacities as poet,... Read more »	Review by Silke Heiss of Letters to the World Poems from the Wom-Po Listserv (2008), edited by Moira Richards, Rosemary Starace moira richards talks about Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-po LISTSERV edited by Moira Richards, Rosemary Starace, Lesley Wheeler & others by moira richards Review by Silke Heiss of Letters to the World Poems from the Wom-Po Listserv (2008), edited by Moira Richards, Rosemary Starace and Lesley Wheeler, Los Angeles: Red Hen Press It is more than a year... Read more »
Recommended by reviewer: Jan Evan Whitford, Allbooks Review (2/09) Tony Arthur talks about The Chosen by Tony Arthur "When you pick up this book, fasten your seat-belt because you’re in for a thrilling ride filled with page-turning adventure in a violent clash between extraterrestrial creatures in a battle for the... Read more »	Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (1/09) Tony Arthur talks about The Chosen by Tony Arthur In 'The Chosen,' a man named Gabriel is awakened from a horrific dream in which he knows he must flee his home. He contacts his siblings and also directs them to pack up and run. As Gabriel is... Read more »
Black Tide Debbie Bishop talks about Black Tide by Debbie Bishop From Booklist Gr. 6-10. This collects the first eight issues of an ongoing comics series that follows Justin Braddock as he learns deep secrets about his past self. In a distant past, Justin lived as... Read more »	Samuel Sheridan... Michael Anthony talks about Mass Casualties: A Young Medic's True Story of Death, Deception, and Dishonor in Iraq by Michael Anthony “Dulce et Decorum Est, Pro Patria Mori. It seems we must relearn the lessons, again and again—the Old Lie. “Mass Casualties” finds the truth behind the most recent propaganda; the small stories, the... Read more »
Gary Hart Michael Anthony talks about Mass Casualties: A Young Medic's True Story of Death, Deception, and Dishonor in Iraq by Michael Anthony “Though riddled with dark, very dark, humor, Mass Casualties is “MASH” absent the light-heartedness. Michael Anthony’s account of his months as a medic in Iraq chillingly describes how the casualties... Read more »	Outward Bound Cheryl L Snell talks about Prisoner's Dilemma by Cheryl L Snell “Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.” * But for mystics, the disabled and convalescent, those in enclosed orders, those dedicated to fulfilling their genius, those in jail and... Read more »
Saffron Dreams eliza scott talks about Saffron Dreams by Shaila Abdullah Arissa is born in an affluent family in Pakistan. She moves to New York when she marries Faizan who works in a restaurant in the World Trade Center. Arissa is very happy with her life, her husband... Read more »	The Imaginative and works at last. skylee Brightman talks about Timmy & Tammy's Train of Thought by Oliver Chin I got the special classification in reviewing the paragraphs, in amazing knowledge of bravery and courage it happen all day at the background of the plane crasher and welding the craft of iron mask.... Read more »

Noir & Eddie Muller Kim Hoffman talks about Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir by Eddie Muller The works of Eddie Muller, including his organization of the Noir Film Festivals, are indispensable to the genre. Few equal his knowledge of the subject, and fewer, if any, surpass it. He's probably... Read more »	The Curse of the Mistwraith Iris Timm talks about The Curse of the Mistwraith: The Wars of Light and Shadow Volume 1 by Janny Wurts Music and swords and magic. What drew me to this book when I first picked it up in the mid 90’s was, frankly, the cover illustration, but it was the idea of a quest and a world where vanquishing the... Read more »
To Hide in the Light Bonnie G Roberts talks about To Hide in the Light, Elk River Review, 1998, AL Book of the Year by Bonnie G Roberts In her introduction of Bonnie Roberts at a 1992 reading in Dublin, poet Paula Meehan, of Poetry Ireland and author of The Man Who Was Marked by Winter, had the following to say about Roberts's work... Read more »	The Queen of Harlem rules! Charles A. Ray talks about Adam's Belle: A Memoir of Love Without Bounds by Joyce A Burnett I have to confess, I have always been fascinated with that period in American history known as the Harlem Renaissance. a lot of my writing is inspired by the creative genius that was spawned during... Read more »
"Finally Broken" Rena Montford talks about Finally Broken by Rena Montford What an awesome story of Rena's life and hardships and how she finally found her way through multiple marriages, addiction to alcohol and pills, child molestation and spousal abuse to a happy and... Read more »	review of GODOT ARRIVES at Orlando Fringe Festival daniel curzon talks about ANNOTATED AVAILABLE PLAYS by daniel curzon ORLANDO WEEKLY RAVE REVIEW: http://www.orlandoweekly.com/blog/c2g.asp?perm=1276 Read more »
Po Bronson's novel "Bombadiers" shows the sleazy size of bond traders Julia Stein talks about Bombardiers by Po Bronson by Julia Stein Po Bronson's Bombardiers is a satire of corrupt bond traders in mid-1990s San Francisco which makes the reader both laugh and cry. While not actually set in Silicon Valley, the novel... Read more »	marriage so diverse, so critical. FOLA mordecai talks about Marriage in Translation: Foreign Wife, Japanese Husband by Wendy Nelson Tokunaga A marriage so similar,yet different. people of diverse background,inspiration,aspiration and knowledge. even marriage of the same ethnic inclination,with different orientation. Read more »
A Book That Stays with You Jana McBurney-Lin talks about On a Night Like This by Ellen Sussman The main character of Sussman's book discovers she has cancer and is going to die very soon. She is a mother of a teenager, and has no other family around. As I read I kept thinking, "How can this... Read more »	A Real Feminist Hero Trina Robbins talks about Huntress: Year One by Ivory Madison Once upon a time, when the world was young, I taught a workshop in writing comics. Let me tell you about one that really has stayed with me. I’ve been writing graphic novels, comics and books for... Read more »