Published Reviews

420 Characters Flavorwire reviews 420 Characters by Lou Beach From the great collagist and graphic designer Lou Beach comes a mischievous montage of a different sort: a tiny book filled with tiny stories, each having... Read More »	The Durango Herald reviews Osa & Martin: For the Love of Adventure by Kelly Enright Vail historian Kelly Enright re-introduces the couple that time forgot in her new book, Osa and Martin: For the Love of Adventure. There must be something about... Read More »
Canadian Jewish News reviews The Warsaw Anagrams by Richard Zimler "We may not yet know the names of all who were killed in the Holocaust. Richard Zimler, however, helps us understand that, whatever their names, each victim... Read More »	Small Wars Journal reviews Cartel: The Coming Invasion of Mexico's Drug Wars by Sylvia M Longmire Book Review: Cartel: The Coming Invasion of Mexico’s Drug Wars by Dennis J. Castellanos Journal Article \| December 1, 2011 - 7:08am Cartel: The Coming Invasion of... Read More »
420 Characters The Wall Street Journal reviews 420 Characters by Lou Beach A collection of Facebook "status updates," which are limited to 420 characters, this charming stocking stuffer proves just how much punch miniature stories can... Read More »	Poetry Flash, Number 147 reviews In Concern: for Angels by Bill Vartnaw When you make a book of poems and inhabit that book with the presence of angels, you better know "from which you speak." Bill Vartnaw has made such a book,... Read More »
Amazon reviews Veracity by Mark Lavorato "Mark Lavorato's Veracity is a provocative first novel that succeeds in creating a realistic future-world that is rife with darkness, excitement, thought, and... Read More »	Amazon reviews Veracity by Mark Lavorato "I believe this to be the best novel I have ever read. I was captivated by the choice of words used by Joshua and the others he conversed with, the interactions... Read More »
Quiet Corner Book Reviews reviews Gertrude's Broken Wand (Marmalade Book 1) by Jason Thibeault Gertrude’s Broken Wand was a great book. I thought the book would be about a girl named Gertrude but really it was about Rebecca who breaks Gertrude’s wand. I... Read More »	Quill & Quire reviews Believing Cedric by Mark Lavorato (Starred review, 'a work of exceptional merit') "The writing is inventive without being showy, and Lavorato has a gift for letting characters’ emotions seep out,... Read More »

GhostVillage reviews Encyclopedia of Natural Magic by John Michael Greer A splendid reference work, this book is one that makes for a nice, practical work to have on hand. It is concise, logical, and accurate. Read More »	Korean Quarterly reviews The Calligrapher’s Daughter by Eugenia Kim . . . While there are historic highs and lows during the colonial period in Korea, Kim is not tempted to exploit the brutal events in a dramatic or axe-griding way... Read More »
Publisher's Weekly reviews North of Hope: A Daughter's Arctic Journey by Shannon Huffman Polson In her debut, Polson offers a memoir of her journey down a river of grief, set against the sparkling beauty of the wilderness of her native Alaska..Polson shares... Read More »	RedRoom reviews Prisoner's Dilemma by Cheryl L Snell OUTWARD BOUND “Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.” * But for mystics, the disabled and convalescent, those in enclosed orders, those dedicated... Read More »
The Center for Children's Literature reviews Anya's War by Andrea Alban Gosline "Anya's War is a remarkable look into the lives of Russian Jews who settled in Shanghai, China in 1937 ... When Anya finds an abandoned baby girl and begins a... Read More »	Children's Bookwatch reviews The Magic Word by Sherrill S Cannon "The Magic Word" is a versed tale about a rude little girl named Elizabeth Keys, who never said "please." Sharing, taking turns, cooperating in play, these... Read More »
Pop Matters reviews Keep on Pushing: Black Power Music From Blues to Hip-Hop by Denise Sullivan Tellingly, Sullivan paints with condensed strokes, documenting in succinct sections how the music segued with powerful protest movements to smash disfranchisement... Read More »	Kirkus Reviews reviews Keep on Pushing: Black Power Music From Blues to Hip-Hop by Denise Sullivan A pleasing survey of soul music, from Lead Belly to Johnny Otis to Michael Franti to Louis Farrakhan. Read More »
Kirkus reviews Mediterranean Summer by David Shalleck San Francisco foodie Shalleck pleasantly recreates his sweat-and-glamour season toiling as chef on a yacht cruising the Côte d’Azur. At the time, he was an... Read More »	Booklist reviews A Country Called Home by Kim Barnes “Fiction latticed with mystery, animated by myth, spiked with menace, and rooted in the raw poetry of the Idaho landscape. . . . Barnes ascends in this... Read More »