Published Reviews

LA Weekly reviews Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas “…Funny in Farsi, is an enjoyably and believably simplistic reminder of how good — despite bigger and wealthier men’s attempts to muck it up — we have it here….” Read More »	Library Journal reviews Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas Today, as Middle Easterners in the United States are subject to racial profiling, stereotyping, and sometimes violence, this book provides a valuable glimpse into... Read More »
The New York Times reviews The True Sources of the Nile by Sarah Stone Sarah Stone's fine first novel is about a love affair between Anne Copeland, a 37-year-old Californian doing human rights work in central Africa, and Jean-Pierre... Read More »	Publishers Weekly reviews The True Sources of the Nile by Sarah Stone About that title: experts disagree, citing no fewer than five possible sites. Anne, a human rights activist working in Burundi, finds the avowed source there... Read More »
BookPage reviews The True Sources of the Nile by Sarah Stone A ghastly scene in Sarah Stone's fascinating first novel, The True Sources of the Nile, starkly illustrates the saying that one death is a tragedy and a million... Read More »	Library Journal reviews The True Sources of the Nile by Sarah Stone This stunning first novel, set in contemporary Africa, begs to be compared to Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible and Ronan Bennett's The Catastrophist yet... Read More »
Tertulia Magazine reviews Alms for Oblivion: A Poem in Seven Parts by Bryce Milligan In general, good poetry contains stark images and simple word use. It is written to be read aloud, rewards bibliophiles but does not punish... Read More »	Bloomsbury Review reviews Alms for Oblivion: A Poem in Seven Parts by Bryce Milligan Embarking on an ambitious, solemn, and passionate quest into a maze of his own making, the muse-poet in Bryce Milligan's latest collection of... Read More »
Orion Magazine reviews Yellowcake by Ann Cummins Kinds of damage and forms of compensation propel this engaging debut novel by Ann Cummins. She avoids cheap rhetoric and easy judgments about a local environmental... Read More »	The Feminist Review reviews Edge and Fold by Paul Hoover Paul Hoover, author of Edge and Fold, amazes his readers with postmodern poetry. His newest work is a compilation separated into two poems: "Edge and Fold... Read More »

People's Book Prize reviews The Ghosts of Eden by Andrew JH Sharp Magical language. Wonderfully drawn characters. Fascinating narrative that stops you from putting down this book before you've read it from cover to cover. A rich... Read More »	Publisher's Weekly reviews Every Little Thing In The World by Nina de Gramont Sixteen-year-old Sydney has just learned that a casual fling has left her pregnant (“I hadn't felt like I knew him well enough to remind him about the condom issue... Read More »
News Bureau, University of Illinois reviews The Fall of Augustus by Sarah U. Wisseman "Wisseman teaches an anthropology course and is director of the Program on Ancient Technologies and Archaeological Materials at the University of Illinois. And... Read More »	BC Blogcritics reviews How to Get Divorced by 30: My Misguided Attempt at a Starter Marriage by Sascha Rothchild The idealist in me wasn’t entirely certain that our society needed even a tongue-in-cheek primer on how to end a marriage. Yet, if one looks objectively at the... Read More »
Baltimore City Paper reviews Baked by former member Los Angeles crime novelist Mark Haskell Smith has always harbored a comically ludicrous streak. From his 2002 debut Moist (in which a tattoo on a woman’s severed... Read More »	Anna's Book Blog reviews Heart of the Highland Wolf by Terry Spear Thoughts: This latest installment in the werewolf series is one of my favorites, along with the first book Heart of the Wolf. There is always something fresh and... Read More »
Being Alison reviews Sleeper's Run by Henry Mosquera Right from the start of the book you will be on the edge of your seat. It’s filled with surprises, energy and great dynamic. Henry describes location and fight... Read More »	Salt in Our Blood:The Memoir of a Fisherman's Wife www.seafoodnews.com reviews Salt in Our Blood:The Memoir of a Fisherman's Wife by Michele Longo Eder "What makes this book such compelling reading? It is that Michele exposes to us all what that sense of risk on the sea is all about. All of us think... Read More »
Cutbank reviews Broken World by Joseph Lease With his books Human Rights, and the latest Broken World, Joseph Lease has created a body of work which is wholly innovative and musically alive. Perhaps more than... Read More »	'Viewpoint', Vol. 16, No. 1, Spring 2009 reviews Dasha's Journal: A Cat Reflects on Life, Catness and Autism by T.O. Daria Authored by T.O. Daria, the mother of a son with autism and daughter with Asperger’s syndrome, “Dasha’s Journal: A Cat Reflects on Life, Catness and Autism”... Read More »