Published Reviews

Midwest Book Review reviews Joseph Bennett of Evans and the Growing of New York’s Niagara Frontier by Kevin H Siepel Amazing saga of New York's evolution as seen through the eyes of an extraordinary and versatile man. A most enjoyable armchair tour through New York's pioneer... Read More »	Grand Rapids Press reviews Rebel: The Life and Times of John Singleton Mosby by Kevin H Siepel In Rebel, Kevin Siepel treats us to a perceptive history of Mosby--during and after the Civil War. Siepel's Mosby is a complicated man, a combination of Southern... Read More »
The Buffalo News reviews Rebel: The Life and Times of John Singleton Mosby by Kevin H Siepel Engrossing, well written, hoofbeat‑sounding biography. The unbelievable facts about Mosby are all there in the letters, field reports, war documents, and primary... Read More »	The Knoxville News-Sentinel reviews Rebel: The Life and Times of John Singleton Mosby by Kevin H Siepel The story of John Singleton Mosby as told by Kevin H. Siepel should be read by anyone interested in the Civil War. For the serious student of the conflict, however... Read More »
Village Voice Literary Supplement reviews Rebel: The Life and Times of John Singleton Mosby by Kevin H Siepel Siepel's book is decent, solid, popular biography, organizing the facts of a dramatic life into clear, easily assimilated episodes. Even the baldness of his style... Read More »	Civil War Times Illustrated reviews Rebel: The Life and Times of John Singleton Mosby by Kevin H Siepel Siepel has written a sympathetic biography of Mosby, utilizing both published and unpublished sources. His account of the warrior's postwar years is solid, written... Read More »
Richmond Times-Dispatch reviews Rebel: The Life and Times of John Singleton Mosby by Kevin H Siepel Kevin Siepel's book does not neglect the war years, but addresses itself to filling out the peacetime years when the Virginia-born cavalryman continued to be a... Read More »	The Atlanta Journal reviews Rebel: The Life and Times of John Singleton Mosby by Kevin H Siepel This crisply written, well researched biography provides an entertaining rundown on the exploits of a bonafide Confederate hero, John Mosby. Read More »
Choice reviews Rebel: The Life and Times of John Singleton Mosby by Kevin H Siepel Rebel draws on a wide range of manuscript sources and offers, as well, a wider view of Mosby than we have seen before, covering not only his Civil War exploits but... Read More »	Richmond News Leader reviews Rebel: The Life and Times of John Singleton Mosby by Kevin H Siepel For the next few years at least, Kevin Siepel's biography of Mosby will be the basic source for the 'Gray Ghost.' Siepel’s research—especially into manuscripts and... Read More »

Vulpes Libris reviews Crossed Wires by Rosy Thornton Read More »	Rainbow Reviews reviews My Life With Stella Kane by Linda Morganstein Author Linda Morganstein delivers an enticing novel well-couched in Hollywood history with intriguing subplots such as Stella's deaf sister (who along with other... Read More »
Meagan Brothers, Author of Debbie Harry Sings in French reviews Bone Worship by Elizabeth Eslami "In a voice at once acerbic and lyrical, Elizabeth Eslami deftly navigates the choppy waters of a cross-cultural father-daughter relationship bowing beneath the... Read More »	The Urbanite reviews Daughters of Empire: A Memoir of a Year in Britain and Beyond by Jane Satterfield "A slim collection of essays, Daughters of Empire gains narrative coherence via an accretion of personal details—Satterfield’s pregnancy and her daughter’s birth,... Read More »
Kirkus Reviews reviews To Hell in a Handbasket by Beth Groundwater A family's ski vacation turns deadly when they find out their social connections are a little more connected than they thought. All gift-basket designer Claire... Read More »	Library Journal reviews I Was the Jukebox: Poems by Sandra Beasley Think Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath as read by Dorothy Parker, and you'll hear the fine-always passionate, sometimes sexual-ironies that make up Beasley's... Read More »
Xtra! reviews "First Touch" (in the anthology I LIKE IT LIKE THAT). by 'Nathan Burgoine Burgoine has another take. "Here in Canada," he says, "I would say the queer male condition is one of change. In my life, I've seen such amazing strides — gay... Read More »	Bibliobabes reviews The Prodigal Hour by Will Entrekin This book has got a really REALLY cool idea driving it; and while I was reading, I found myself thinking, "This would make and EPIC movie!" So I definitely... Read More »
Now Dig This, UK reviews Race With The Devil: Gene Vincent's Life In The Fast Lane by Susan VanHecke A moving account... [A] damned good read. Read More »	THe Independent UK reviews Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient with Recipes by Jennifer McLagan Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, with Recipes is much more than a cookery book. McLagan explains and debunks the received wisdom about how bad... Read More »