Published Reviews

The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune reviews Sandrine's Letter to Tomorrow by Dedra Johnson One of the appealing facets of this character is her love of books and reading, her devotion to letter-writing. Like many lonely young girls, she finds solace in... Read More »	Booklist reviews Sandrine's Letter to Tomorrow by Dedra Johnson Growing up in New Orleans in the 1970s, Sandrine is proud to be black, but because she is light-skinned and very smart, the black kids think she is stuck-up, and... Read More »
MELUS (Multi Ethnic Literature in the US) Journal reviews Gravities of Center by Barbara Jane Reyes Barbara J. Pulmano Reyes's debut book of poetry, Gravities of Center, opens with an invocation echoing with the loss and longing of exile: "Found" asks... Read More »	Publisher's Weekly reviews Sandrine's Letter to Tomorrow by Dedra Johnson This aching debut explores a girl's coming-of-age in poverty-drenched mid-1970s New Orleans. Eight-year-old Sandrine Miller lives like a servant to her mother,... 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 »	BookPage reviews HEAD GAMES by Craig McDonald Every now and then you run into a book that has it all: humor, a delightfully dark tone, a world-weary and larger-than-life protagonist and a wildly inventive... Read More »
Chicago Tribune reviews HEAD GAMES by Craig McDonald Blurring the lines between historical fact and fiction, Craig McDonald's triumphantly twisted first novel is one of the most unusual, and readable, crime-fiction... Read More »	New York Times Book Review reviews The World of Normal Boys by K.M. Soehnlein ...Soehnlein makes the familiar strange. Read More »
San Francisco Chronicle reviews You Can Say You Knew Me When by K.M. Soehnlein In "You Can Say You Knew Me When," K.M. Soehnlein's engaging new novel, Jamie Garner returns from his father's funeral to his childhood home in... Read More »	CMIS Evaluation (WA Education Department) reviews Hal Spacejock 03 Just Desserts by Simon Haynes The satire is great, the plot oddities continue to fascinate and readers are fairly sure that the 'heroes' will somehow get out of every mess they get into. Read More »

The Girls From Ames Huffington Post reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women & a Forty-Year Friendship by Wall Street Journal columnist Jeffrey Zaslow tells the remarkable story of the 40-year... Read More »	So Many Precious Books, So Little Time reviews The Brightest Moon of the Century by Christopher Meeks In this bright and intelligent book, we follow Edward Meopian from the age of 14 to 45 years old (1968-1999). His mother died when he was young and his father does... Read More »
Amazon.com reviews The Fairies of Bladderwhack Pond by Debbie Bishop 5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous Family Fun, November 17, 2008 We were given this book on the last day of Comic Con 2008. It is a great book for family bedtime story... Read More »	Booklist reviews The Last Bridge by Teri Coyne Summoned home after a 10-year absence by a neighbor's shocking phone call, Cat enters the farmhouse where she wasn't so much raised as pummeled into submission . A... Read More »
Romance Reviews Today reviews The Forbidden Daughter by Shobhan Bantwal Beautifully written, with realistic dialogue and characters who will make your heart ache at times, THE FORBIDDEN DAUGHTER is a worthy successor to Ms. Bantwal's... Read More »	Bookchase reviews Theft of the Master by Ted Davison Edwin Alexander’s complicated plot is filled with memorably unique characters that are, at times, more fun than the plot itself but, by the end of Al Hersey’s... Read More »
Merry Genre Go Around Reviews reviews To Tempt the Wolf by Terry Spear The third werewolf romance (see DESTINY OF THE WOLF and HEART OF THE WOLF) is an enjoyable action-packed thriller from the fiery onset to the mystery of what is... Read More »	The Agony Column, Bookotron.com reviews Ice Song by Kirsten Imani Kasai Kasai's prose is up to the challenge of a setup reminiscent of the genre-changing classic by Ursula K. Leguin, 'The Left Hand of Darkness.' 'Ice Song'; is a... Read More »
DarqueReviews.com reviews To Tempt the Wolf by Terry Spear To Tempt the Wolf is the third installment in the werewolf series by Terry Spear. Each release has been even more exciting than the last, and they can also be... Read More »	Entertainment Weekly reviews I'm Down by Mishna Wolff All of Wolff's experiences funnel into this buoyant memoir, which is rich in detail but never feels overembellished. Memories about the struggle to fit in can seem... Read More »