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Buddha Baby
asianconnections.com reviews
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The Dim Sum of All Things
San Francisco Chronicle reviews
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Buddha Baby
South China Morning Post reviews
FOR YEARS KIM Wong Keltner cruised bookshops, looking for contemporary fiction featuring heroines with whose experiences she could identify. She saw countless...
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New Slain Knight
Kirkus Reviews reviews
A summer holiday in glorious Cornwall turns into a ghost-plagued nightmare. Talented musician Ringan Laine and his theatrical producer and longtime lover Penny...
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Still Life With Devils
Publishers Weekly reviews
Still Life with Devils Deborah Grabien. Drollerie (Ingram, dist.), $15.95 paper (218p) ISBN 978-0-9798-0810- 4 Grabien (New-Slain Knight) turns to supernatural...
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Descendants
The New Yorker reviews
 Hemmings channels the voice of her befuddled middle-aged hero with virtuosity...
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Descendants
The Guardian reviews
Kaui Hart Hemmings's first novel manages to both be shockingly irreverent and funny while exerting that all-important emotional tug. 
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BookPage reviews
Kathi Kamen Goldmark has written a fast-paced, wisecracking debut novel that takes readers on the road and backstage for an intimate look at the country music...
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Publisher's Weekly reviews
Goldmark takes an offbeat spin through the world of country music in her charming debut...the combination of Goldmark's playful humor, her smooth prose style and...
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West of Kabul, East of New York
The Christian Science Monitor reviews
On Sept.12, Tamim Ansary, an Afghan American who lives in the Bay Area, listened with dismay as men and women phoned in to a talk radio show, calling for the US to...
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Eating Steve
Playback: STL reviews
Eating Steve is certainly the sweetest little zombie book I've ever read. Schmidt tells a very realistic coming of age story while using the idea of a zombie and a...
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San Francisco Chronicle reviews
In Texas writer John Pipkin's excellent debut novel, "Woodsburner," the hardware store owner in 19th century Concord, Mass., points out the town eccentric and...
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Fierce
The Globe and Mail reviews
"Holborn's double high-wire act leaps effortlessly between funny and tragic...(her)visuals are cinematic..."
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Mantids, a new novel by Ron Dakron
Midwest Book Review, Vol. 4, No. 2 reviews
Insects were never thought of by anyone as 'sexy'. "Mantids" takes a look into the love life of the mantis, and a certain male of the species who can't seem to get...
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A Dangerous Man: gritty gay fiction from Anne Brooke
Chroma Journal reviews
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SPLASH!
School Library Journal reviews
VAN LIESHOUT, Maria. Splash!: A Little Book About Bouncing Back. illus. by author. unpaged. Feiwel & Friends. 2008. Tr $12.95. ISBN 978-0-312-36914-9. LC...
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Deidre's Secret
Long and Short Romance Reviews reviews
Deidre's premonitions are her gift, as well as her secret; because just how uncool is it to have visions? In Deidre's Secret, our heroine's second sight becomes...
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Dancing With Fate
The Romance Studio reviews
Terpsichore/Cora fell in lust at first site with Myrddin, loved him more for saving her from the Ellylldan/Goblin fire. Seems her half brother Ares, the god of war...
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Ice Song
Armchair Interviews reviews
Author Kirsten Imani Kasai has created a rich world in her first book Ice Song. I found myself mesmerized by the genetic mutations that have changed the world, and...
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Forgetting English
Mark Kramer, Founding Director and Writer-in-Residence, Nieman Program on Narrative Journalism, Harv reviews
“Midge Raymond turns her elegant, austere sentences precisely, forcing unmediated, intimate connection with readers of her exotic tales. It's nothing short of...
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