Published Reviews

Publisher's Weekly reviews Waking Lazarus by TL Hines Hines handles the numerous flashbacks and switches in point of view well, and has a deft touch in knowing just how much information to give and how much to... Read More »	Publisher's Weekly reviews The Dead Whisper On by TL Hines A miner-turned-garbage collector is the refreshingly different protagonist of this sophomore horror outing by Hines (Waking Lazarus)...Hines writes with wry humor... Read More »
Library Journal reviews The Dead Whisper On by TL Hines Hines excels at writing gripping supernatural thrillers with plenty of twists and turns; he'll pull you in from page one. Read More »	Library Journal reviews Waking Lazarus by TL Hines Hines's intricate thriller about a man declared dead several times offers plenty of twists and turns without sacrificing character development. Supernatural... Read More »
San Francisco Examiner reviews Mediterranean Summer by David Shalleck I couldn't put down David Shalleck's account of working as the sole cook on a 125-foot schooner owned by an extravagantly wealthy Italian couple as it sailed along... Read More »	Los Angeles Times reviews The Post-War Dream (Hardcover) [2008] by Mitch Cullin Hollis' scouring memories of war are dramatic and evocative, to be sure, but it's the little things, like Hollis' unearthing green plastic toy soldiers in his... Read More »
Friends of Radio 3 reviews Rejoice Burning - New South African Plays by James Whyle "The contrasts between black and white are understated: an old world and a new; the enterprising Rejoice has more to him than the prosaic Warren; the... Read More »	The Metro (Silicon Valley) reviews Beer, Blood & Cornmeal by Bob Calhoun "(Beer, Blood and Cornmeal) just makes you want to don a leopard skin and get paid 20 bucks to go in the ring and beat up a dude... Read More »
Library Journal reviews Pretty Is What Changes by jessica queller Two weeks after Queller's maternal grandmother died from kidney failure, her mother was diagnosed with metastasized ovarian cancer. Eleven months after she, too,... Read More »	Kirkus Reviews reviews Pretty Is What Changes by jessica queller Television writer Queller recalls testing positive at age 34 for the BRCA-1 gene mutation and her subsequent decision to undergo a double mastectomy. In 2002, the... Read More »

Victoria College Library reviews The Virtual Mummy by Sarah U. Wisseman "This slim (60 page) volume describes an interdisciplinary research project on an approximately 2,000 year old Egyptian mummy acquired by the Spurlock Museum on... Read More »	Guernica Magazine reviews The Possibility of Everything by Hope Edelman Hope Edelman’s memoir, The Possibility of Everything, out this week, wooed me completely. Edelman, who wrote Motherless Daughters and Motherless Mothers, best... Read More »
LA Times reviews The Possibility of Everything by Hope Edelman Motherless Daughters," "Motherless Mothers," "Mother of My Mother," "Letters From Motherless Daughters": These four books have earned Hope Edelman the title of... Read More »	Poemeleon reviews The Gravity Soundtrack by Erin Keane Unlike my ex-girlfriends, The Gravity Soundtrack didn’t disappoint me at all. It’s an engaging, pleasurable read, from cover to cover. Keane, a graduate of... Read More »
Mainstream Fiction reviews The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos by Margaret Mascarenhas In Venezuela, fifteen year old Irene Dos Santos is on vacation with her best friend Lily Martinez when she vanishes. Everyone assumes she probably drowned though... Read More »	RTE 1 Arena reviews The Dark Place by Sam Millar “Millar is possibly unique among crime writers, that I know of, and the real world that he experiences. He was in the Maze prison, on The Blanket,... 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 »	AV Club - The Onion reviews Lola,California by Edie Meidav A decades-old murder in New Age-inflected Berkeley forces a reunion between two high-school best friends in Edie Meidav’s textured, disquieting third novel. Lola,... Read More »
Dust Bunny In The Wind reviews Sleeper's Run by Henry Mosquera It will make you call in sick to work and keep you riveted well into the wee hours because you can't wait to see what is going to happen to the hero Eric Caine... Read More »	Publisher's Weekly reviews Hystera by Leora Skolkin-Smith "Poetic, strange and evocative. A poignant prose-poem," Read More »