Published Reviews

New York Journal of Books reviews Anya's War by Andrea Alban Gosline Anya’s War is a tender coming-of-age tale of a Jewish girl whose family escaped to Shanghai from the impending Nazi takeover of their home in Russia. ... Alban’s... Read More »	Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books reviews Anya's War by Andrea Alban Gosline “[a] solid depiction of the setting: the markets, the homes, and the streets are brought vividly to life, providing a visual backdrop for this seldom-told chapter... Read More »
Booklist reviews Anya's War by Andrea Alban Gosline "... An important addition to the literature about WWII refugees. ... Most moving are the scenes with the full cast of family characters, who are irritating,... Read More »	Kirkus Reviews reviews Anya's War by Andrea Alban Gosline "Anya's Shanghai is richly chaotic, polyglot and packed with refugees. Russian, Yiddish, Hebrew, Mandarin Chinese and Italian pepper the dialogue. Meanwhile,... Read More »
School Library Journal reviews Anya's War by Andrea Alban Gosline It’s 1937, and Anya Rosen is struggling to adjust to her new home in Shanghai after her family flees secret police and religious persecution in Odessa, Ukraine.... Read More »	Eyewear reviews Works & Days (winner 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize) by Dean Rader Dean Rader’s book is full of vast expanses. The title is taken directly from Hesiod (a bold reference for a debut collection). The original was a key work of... Read More »
Rattle reviews Works & Days (winner 2010 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize) by Dean Rader It’s hard to say what I love most in this glorious debut volume; is it the glorious Frog & Toad poems, the love poems, or the one-on ones with mentors—Stevens... Read More »	Publisher's Weekly reviews River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery on the Amazon by Buddy Levy In this fluid account, Levy narrates the story of the conquistadors who become the first Europeans to navigate the length of the Amazon River. After plundering the... Read More »
Current Intelligence reviews Conquistador: Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs by Buddy Levy BUDDY LEVY IS A freelance journalist and Clinical Associate Professor of English at Washington State University. The author of four books, including Conquistador:... Read More »	http://www.thedefendersonline.com reviews Arc & Hue by Tara J Betts In her debut collection of poetry, Arc & Hue, Tara Betts articulates deeply-felt human emotion in a lyrical, beautiful way. Betts is a poet for the people. In... Read More »

The San Francisco Chronicle reviews Serpent Box: A Novel by Vincent Louis Carrella If atmosphere were everything in fiction, Vincent Louis Carrella's first novel might be proclaimed a masterpiece. "Serpent Box" takes readers deep inside the world... Read More »	Tangent Online reviews "Most Excellent and Lamentable" by Jason Erik Lundberg This story has a surprise ending, which usually I wouldn't like, except in this case it turned what would have been a forgettable story into one that demands to be... Read More »
http://www.carolynjourdan.com/05b_reviews.htm reviews Heart in the Right Place: A Memoir by Carolyn Jourdan A Best Book Club Book of 2008 says Book Sense A Best Book of 2008 says The Literary Guild THE FIRST EVER Book of the Month for Family Circle Magazine! A Most Fun... Read More »	Booklist reviews Anya's War by Andrea Alban Gosline "... An important addition to the literature about WWII refugees. ... Most moving are the scenes with the full cast of family characters, who are irritating,... Read More »
Hamilton Spectator reviews Creating Leaderful Organizations: How to Bring Out Leadership in Everyone by Joe Raelin You're at wit's end trying to motivate your employees. You've dangled carrots and threatened to use sticks. You've scheduled formal meetings and had informal water... Read More »	Publishers Weekly reviews Manufacturing Hysteria: A History of Scapegoating, Surveillance, and Secrecy in Modern America by Jay Feldman Feldman ably sketches out instances of the trampling of the constitutional rights of Japanese-Americans during WWII and the Black Panther Party in the late 1960s... Read More »
Zoland Poetry reviews Poeta en San Francisco by Barbara Jane Reyes “I have said “A Poet in New York” when I ought to have said “New York in a Poet,” Lorca said of his 1932 volume, and this... Read More »	Diablo Magazine reviews What I Love About You by Kate Marshall Put down that box of chocolates! And the roses, too. Kate and David Marshall have published the ultimate Valentine's Day gift; a fill-in-the-blanks book that... Read More »
Santa Fe Reporter reviews To The Last Drop by Andrew D Wice On July 2, the Santa Fe Reporter published the following article about me and my novel. The online version is also available -- there's a picture of me!... Read More »	Historical Novels Review Online (November 2008 - February 2009 quarter) reviews MY MOTHER BIDS ME by Rosy Cole My Mother Bids Me - Rosy Cole, New Eve Publishing, 2007 (New edition of novel formerly published in 1984) $13.72, pb, 192pp, 9781847991287 Roisin Harcup... Read More »