Published Reviews

Western New York Heritage magazine reviews Joseph Bennett of Evans and the Growing of New York’s Niagara Frontier by Kevin H Siepel Kevin Siepel set himself the difficult task of transforming the journal entries into a biography and setting that personal story, in context, within the larger... Read More »	Buffalo Artvoice reviews Joseph Bennett of Evans and the Growing of New York’s Niagara Frontier by Kevin H Siepel What emerges through this book by Kevin H. Siepel is a fascinating and highly readable portrait of our area as harsh wilderness slashed through with mud (and later... Read More »
Lockport (NY) Union-Sun & Journal reviews Joseph Bennett of Evans and the Growing of New York’s Niagara Frontier by Kevin H Siepel I ventured into this book with some prejudice. Upon beginning to read, I suddenly found myself intrigued. I found it such easy reading and such informative... Read More »	The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record reviews Joseph Bennett of Evans and the Growing of New York’s Niagara Frontier by Kevin H Siepel The author does a skillful job of telling the story, weaving text from the journal with narrative and background information. He adds extensive historical detail... Read More »
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 »

Powerful Latinas reviews The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos by Margaret Mascarenhas A stunning debut in which pregnant Lily, confined to bed rest, is surrounded by loved ones who each tell a story to coax the baby out. Read More »	The Poet's Quarterly reviews Daughters of Empire: A Memoir of a Year in Britain and Beyond by Jane Satterfield Why a memoir? Why Daughters of Empire? I'm probably what you'd call an "accidental" memoirist. Although I've always loved reading memoir and have been drawn... Read More »
The Portand Oregonian reviews Mornings with Mailer by Dwayne Raymond Norman Mailer looked in Dwayne Raymond's grocery basket and read him like a book. Dwayne Raymond and Norman Mailer in 2006.Mailer, then 80 and living in... Read More »	Montserrat Review reviews By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives by Judith Tannenbaum ...the book does not ask for forgiveness. It does not set out with an agenda to condemn the prison system, create a social polemic, nor does it ask that we as... Read More »
http://www.gayalliance.org/emptycloset/2010/07/book-review-blood-strangers/ reviews BLOOD STRANGERS: A Memoir by Kathy Briccetti Blood Strangers does what I had previously thought impossible of a memoir. It tells a story that is simultaneously heart-wrenching and heart-warming, profound and... Read More »	Hamptons.com reviews The Art of Devotion by Samantha C Bruce-Benjamin "Haunting...a beautifully rendered window into one family's dark and complex history on an island in the Mediterranean Sea from the turn of the century until the... Read More »
Whispered Thoughts Review reviews Heart of the Highland Wolf by Terry Spear My Review: I couldn't put this book down. Something made Ian so hot as you read through this book. And generally, I can't wrap my brain around thinking someone... Read More »	Kirkus Reviews reviews Anya's War by Andrea Alban Gosline "Anya's Shanghai is richly chaotic, polyglot and packed with refugees. Russian, Yiddish, Hebrew, Mandarin Chinese and Italian pepper the dialogue. Meanwhile,... Read More »
Pridesource reviews "Heart" (in the anthology FOOL FOR LOVE). by 'Nathan Burgoine But it's the newcomers that give this fine book its the-future-of-queer-lit-is-good edge. Among them: Josh Helmin on high school attraction, 'Nathan Burgoine on... Read More »	Long and Short Romance Reviews reviews Dreaming of the Wolf by Terry Spear The aura of romance reached out and grabbed me as soon as Jake spied Alicia and followed her like a lost puppy in the first chapter. Ms. Spear set up the... Read More »