Published Reviews

Rose and Thorn Journal reviews The Sword of Medina by Sherry Jones "Above all, Jones narrates Islamic history as a love story. She makes it a story of choices, struggle and reform, rather than subjugation and mindless obedience." Read More »	Library Thing, Good Reads, Amazon, etcetera reviews Standing At The Crossroads by Charles Davis Good Reads http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9734014-standing-at-the-crossroads# Library Thing http://www.librarything.com/work/10689740 Amazon http://www.amazon.... Read More »
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 »

Boston Globe reviews Look Me in the Eye by John Elder Robison Look at him now Boston Globe Sept 25 2007 At peace with Asperger's and his troubled youth, Augusten Burroughs's older brother tells his own story in a... Read More »	Poetry Review / Volume 98:3 /Autumn 2008 reviews But a Passage in Wilderness by Margo Berdeshevsky "...It is this ability to perceive hope in despair, joy in grief - not in the abstract but in daily lives - which infuses these poems with a rare beauty. The... Read More »
http://www.theusreview.com/reviews/Diving-Jackson.html reviews Diving for Carlos, or, Heroes' Welcome Blues by William Jackson DIVING FOR CARLOS, or, Heroes’ Welcome Blues by William J. Jackson CreateSpace/Sliding Floor Publications reviewed by Michael Radon "...You could say... Read More »	SONS OF STEVE GARVEY reviews Dodgers Past & Present by Steven Robert Travers rlier this year, the Sons were sent a copy of Steven Travers' Dodgers Past & Present (MVP Books, 144 pages, $25). One in a series of similar books (along with... Read More »
Drey's Library reviews Love At Absolute Zero by Christopher Meeks Gunnar Gunderson is a geek (yes, he is) who gets hit with the revelation that he doesn't want to live out the rest of his life alone. So he decides it's time to... Read More »	Los Angeles Times reviews Charles R. Knight: The Artist Who Saw Through Time by Richard Milner Although his is not a household name, Charles R. Knight (1874-1953) created paintings of dinosaurs, saber-toothed cats, woolly mammoths and other prehistoric fauna... Read More »
Publishers Weekly reviews Death Lies Beneath by Pauline Rowson Rowson’s solid eighth police procedural featuring Det. Insp. Andy Horton (after A Killing Coast) opens with the funeral of 47-year-old Daryl Woodley, whose... Read More »	The Boston Globe reviews Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient with Recipes by Jennifer McLagan Jennifer McLagan's cookbooks are joyously contrarian affairs. In 2005, she published the finger-licking and terrific "Bones." Now she has "Fat." This is no quick-... Read More »
Entertainment Weekly reviews Finn by Jon Clinch Clinch brings us a radical new take on Twain's classic, and a stand-alone marvel of a novel. Read More »	Arab Studies Quarterly, Vol. 34 No. 2 reviews Geographies of Light by Lisa Suhair Majaj The theme of light and geography throughout the volume plots the layers of family and history through three continents and over several generations.... Read More »