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MIDNIGHT AT THE PALACE: My Life as a Fabulous Cockette
Kirkus Reviews reviews
The radical politics, sexual rebellion, and theatrical extravagance of a spontaneously combusting, gender-bending San Francisco troupe, remembered here by one of...
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Leadership Quarterly reviews
What is it about leadership that excites the minds of scholars and practitioners that so many of them, Joe Raelin being the latest, can continue to reformulate...
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Hamilton Spectator reviews
You're at wit's end trying to motivate your employees. You've dangled carrots and threatened to use sticks. You've scheduled formal meetings and had informal water...
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Leadership and Organizational Development Journal reviews
Joseph Raelin believes that leadership is potentially the most desperate problem we face in organisational life today but that, conceived in a different way,...
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Music Through the Floor
New York Times Book Review reviews
How exhilarating to come across a young writer as technically gifted and emotionally insightful as Eric Puchner…The nine stories in his debut collection are…...
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Flash House, 2003
http://www.hachettebookgroupusa.com/authors/32/725/critical_praise.html reviews
"Set in tumultuous post-WWII Asia, Liu's third novel is an espionage thriller that traces a woman's efforts to find her husband after he disappears into the...
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Cloud Mountain, 1997
Library Journal reviews
Warner Books, which has been highly successful with such bittersweet romances as Robert James Waller's The Bridges of Madison County and Nicholas Sparks's The...
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The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Vol. 297 No. 18, pp. 1955-2044 reviews
With uninhibited truthfulness Aimee Liu reveals incidents in her own life which propelled her into anorexia... She believes the greatest asset any of us possess is...
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PsycCRITIQUES Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books reviews
Liu's book, Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders, immediately grabbed our attention because it focuses on life after a person overcomes an eating...
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Story Circle Book Reviews reviews
For Keeps is not an easy book to read. It is not about pretty women with perfect bodies who find easy acceptance in a beauty-obsessed culture. No. It is an...
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AMES TRIBUNE ARTICLE reviews
“The Girls from Ames” is a book about friendship, a theme to which we can all relate. What makes this story more relevant is that it began in our own community,...
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Northfield News reviews
NORTHFIELD — For much of her life, Northfield resident Kelly Zwagerman has shared a 40-year friendship with 10 other women from her high school. They’ve been there...
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People's Book Prize reviews
Magical language. Wonderfully drawn characters. Fascinating narrative that stops you from putting down this book before you've read it from cover to cover. A rich...
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Out -numbered 3 to 1 reviews
Irene dos Santos disappeared at age 15. Believed to have drowned while on holiday with her best friend, Lily Martinez, her body was never found. Now, years later,...
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Front page of book reviews
"From traumatic injuries to anthrax shots, Michael Anthony has captured in intricate detail life in a combat zone operating room. As someone who's done two tours...
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CITY OF DRAGONS ...  next Valentine's Day, leave more than your heart in 1940 San Francisco.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel reviews
Unconventional characters provide the backbone of the mystery genre. And Kelli Stanley's riveting new series about 1940s San Francisco private investigator Miranda...
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Harriet Klausner, Genre-Go-Around reviews
"No one makes werewolves seem real better than romantic urban fantasist Terry Spear continually does with her “Wolf” saga (see Legend of the White Wolf, To Tempt a...
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The Journal of Family Life reviews
How do people negotiate their transitions to parenthood? Do they simply step into a role similar to what they have seen in sitcom families, mothers nurturing the...
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Publisher's Weekly reviews
Sixteen-year-old Sydney has just learned that a casual fling has left her pregnant (“I hadn't felt like I knew him well enough to remind him about the condom issue...
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AOL's Gadling Travel reviews
Author Shelley Seale’s discovery of this human tragedy led her life in a whole new direction, and it is this that gives the book its impetus. Besides her personal...
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