Published Reviews

Library Journal reviews Cloud Mountain by Aimee Liu Warner Books, which has been highly successful with such bittersweet romances as Robert James Waller's The Bridges of Madison County and Nicholas Sparks's The... Read More »	The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Vol. 297 No. 18, pp. 1955-2044 reviews Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders by Aimee Liu With uninhibited truthfulness Aimee Liu reveals incidents in her own life which propelled her into anorexia... She believes the greatest asset any of us possess is... Read More »
PsycCRITIQUES Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books reviews Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders by Aimee Liu Liu's book, Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders, immediately grabbed our attention because it focuses on life after a person overcomes an eating... Read More »	For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance Story Circle Book Reviews reviews For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance by Aimee Liu For Keeps is not an easy book to read. It is not about pretty women with perfect bodies who find easy acceptance in a beauty-obsessed culture. No. It is an... Read More »
Los Angeles Times reviews It's My F---king Birthday by Merrill Markoe "Funny in a sly, true, painful way." Read More »	The New York Times reviews What the Dogs Have Taught Me by Merrill Markoe Merrill Markoe has a keen eye for the little lunacies of modern living. Hers is a special talent, desperately needed these days. Read More »
Los Angeles Times reviews Walking in Circles Before Lying Down: A Novel by Merrill Markoe There was a time when Merrill Markoe worried that Stupid Pet Tricks, the goofy segment she created for “Late Night With David Letterman,” would be the sum total of... Read More »	Kirkus Reviews reviews Dream of the Blue Room by Michelle Richmond A complex and nimbly fashioned first novel. Read More »
Florida Sun Sentinel reviews Dream of the Blue Room by Michelle Richmond A dreamy, haunting work with a deeply personal feel. Any time a work of fiction raises our sights to higher truts, as this one does, the writer has done her job. Read More »	Publishers Weekly reviews MIDNIGHT AT THE PALACE: My Life as a Fabulous Cockette by Pam Tent In 2002, David Weissman’s and Bill Weber’s documentary The Cockettes brought the eponymous 1970s San Francisco glitter-rock drag theatrical troupe back into the... Read More »

AT THE HOME PLATE reviews A TALE OF THREE CITIES: THE 1962 BASEBALL SEASON IN NEW YORK, LOS ANGELES, AND SAN FRANCISCO by Steven Robert Travers On the occasion of the release of Steven Travers' new book, “A Tale of Three Cities: The 1962 Baseball Season in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco,” At Home... Read More »	SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE reviews Barry Bonds: Baseball's Superman by Steven Robert Travers IT SOUNDED like a terrific opportunity, chronicling Giants superstar Barry Bonds in what would become perhaps the best single-season performance in baseball... Read More »
The Daily Beast reviews The Last Bridge by Teri Coyne A comic turned novelist debuts a dark tale. If you’re familiar with Teri Coyne’s former life as a stand-up comedian, get ready for something very, very different.... Read More »	Romance Studio reviews To Tempt the Wolf by Terry Spear "Do not attempt to start reading this book unless you have a full two hours to sit and be held spell bound by what begins to unfold from the first page of this... Read More »
Publisher's Weekly reviews Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler "clever, funny story...with excitement, suspense, and delightfully good humor." Read More »	Curious Readers reviews To Tempt the Wolf by Terry Spear I enjoyed the werewolf lore that Spear has created for her books. I know that this is not the only one, although I haven't read the others. Her werewolves live in... Read More »
Sacramento Book Review reviews CHANGE YOUR MINDSET NOT YOUR MAN, Learn to Love What's Right Instead of Trying to Fix What's Wrong by Sally B. Watkins Change Your Mindset, Not Your Man by Sally B. Watkins, a clinical social worker, is a rich investigation into the minds of women. Written in simple terms, it is... Read More »	South Florida Sun-Sentinel reviews City of Dragons by Kelli Stanley Unconventional characters provide the backbone of the mystery genre. And Kelli Stanley's riveting new series about 1940s San Francisco private investigator Miranda... Read More »
Booklist reviews Our Farm: By the Animals of Farm Sanctuary by Maya Gottfried The creatures on an animal sanctuary provide the voices in this collection of playful poetry.... From the cover image of one vulnerable lamb to the farm overviews... Read More »	Publisher's Weekly reviews I Was the Jukebox: Poems by Sandra Beasley More fun than most recent books, Beasley's second collection can also get quite serious: in the best parts, the poet pretends she is any number of nonhuman things—... Read More »