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Published Reviews

First Girl Scout, The Life of Juliette Gordon Low
Wall Street Journal reviews
"...a good-looking volume, illustrated with historical photographs, set on pages that resemble pale green embroidered linen and sparkling with the force of Low's...
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Publisher's Weekly reviews
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...
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"Iron"
MungBeing Magazine reviews
"It’s rare to find so many layers in a collection of short stories that draw from so many elements such as myth, pathos, symbolism, philosophic thought, tragedy...
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Dallas Morning News reviews
"I honestly thought Me & Emma was about as perfect a book as I could ever want to read, with absolutely no need for a follow-up. But now that I’ve read What...
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The Plot Whisperer Book of Writing Prompts: Easy Exercises to Get You Writing
The Writer Magazine reviews
Martha Alderson, a.k.a "The Plot Whisperer," has been a nationally recognized plot consultant for 15 years. Here she offers loads of exercises to help writers...
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My Life Map
A Mommy's Place reviews
Here’s what’s up with the BlogHer Book Club these days: My Life Map: A Journal to Help You Shape Your Future by Kate and David Marshall. Not so much a book to...
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My Life Map
Angela Amman reviews
Untangling the different strands of my life goals can seem daunting at times. With only so many hours in a day and so many weeks in a year, I can fall into the...
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My Life Map
lil' Burghers reviews
If you asked me what I wanted to be when I was 5, I would have said a veterinarian. When I was 18, that changed to a teacher. Now at 29, I am happy in...
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My Life Map
Kapachino reviews
I’m someone who thrives when I have goals and a plan in place to get there. Not just for the big stuff like my family, education, and career, but for little things...
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My Life Map
Unintentially Brilliant reviews
When I was in high school, we had a project where we had to make a timeline of our life. Birth to death, and everything in between. I got married, had two children...
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East Eats West
Asian American Literary Review reviews
  The year 2010 marked a turning point for Vietnamese American literature.  Monique Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth, Andrew Lam’s East Eats...
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BC Bookworld reviews
In life, one of Sarah’s goals was to understand China and its people, and she succeeds. In "The Empress and Mrs. Conger", Hayter-Menzies succeeds at understanding...
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Some Secrets Should Stay Buried
BookPage reviews
Taylor Jackson and Whitney Connolly are two sides of the same coin. While both are beautiful blondes from the wealthy Nashville neighborhood of Belle Meade, the...
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Some Secrets Should Stay Buried
Library Journal reviews
With this debut thriller, Ellison puts her mentoring by Lee Child to good use. A serial killer named the Southern Strangler is making the rounds of several...
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9 Life Altering Lessons: Secrets of the Mystery Schools Unveiled
Kinetics Magazine reviews
Editors Pick of the Month - Books on Spiritual Sustainability - 9 Life Altering Lessons: Secrets of the Mystery Schools Unveiled by Kala Ambrose
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THE ELEPHANT TALKS TO GOD
Fantasy & Science Fiction May 1990 reviews
REVIEW OF FIRST EDITION: Dale Estey's The Elephant Talks to God is, first and foremost, a witty, satirical book about the relationship between mortals and an...
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The Lost Daughter of Happiness
Contemporary Literature - Volume 47, Number 4, Winter 2006, pp. 570-600 reviews
Although the name Yan Geling may mean very little to U.S.-based academics, Yan is often commended by scholars in mainland China and Taiwan as one of the most...
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Publishers Weekly reviews
A divorced gay man's vanquished paternalism returns when he reconnects with his long-lost stepdaughter in Lipman's hilarious and moving 10th novel. Set in New York...
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Publishers Weekly reviews
Jones’s excellent new historical (after the prequel, White Heart) reimagines the world of 13th-century Europe and the dramatic true story of four sisters who...
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The Painting
Rocky Mountain News reviews
Best Reason to Read: For Schuyler's stylistic versatility. The author's richly imagined Japanese sections resemble Japanese art with their delicate strokes and her...
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