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Published Reviews

Country Fried Soul: Adventures in Dirty South Hip-Hop
Sister 2 Sister reviews
Music journalist Tamara Palmer left no stone untuned when writing Country Fried Soul: Adventures in Dirty South Hip-Hop . . . Teemoney's book is 'bout it, fa' sho!
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Country Fried Soul: Adventures in Dirty South Hip-Hop
iDJ (International DJ) reviews
An insider's guide to Dirty South hip-hop. It's a game of two halves: the "A-Side" features all the artist profiles and background info you could...
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Country Fried Soul: Adventures in Dirty South Hip-Hop
Black Beat reviews
Country Fried Soul digs deep into the history of hip-hop in the South, chronicling the forefathers and inovators of the genre and what the future has in store....
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Country Fried Soul: Adventures in Dirty South Hip-Hop
Flaunt reviews
Palmer is no slouch when it comes to hip-hop knowledge, but this book isn't geared toward the serious underground head. Poignant, funny, and easily digestible,...
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Dragging the Lake
San Francisco Chronicle reviews
“Dragging the Lake” is Thomas’ second volume of poetry, building on the strengths of the first, “Door to Door.” The latter demonstrated his verbal and...
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Game of Shadows
The New York Times reviews
In the spring of 2001, as Barry Bonds was blasting balls out of ballparks in his steamrolling drive to overtake Mark McGwire's home-run record, he was peppered...
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Country Fried Soul: Adventures in Dirty South Hip-Hop
The Fader reviews
Writer/DJ Tamara Palmer smartly avoided the urge to attempt a be-all, end-all retrospective tome with her first book. Instead, she compiled a pause-tape style...
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San Francisco Chronicle reviews
What marks us, and how do we react to our impressions, both large and small, of life? These are the questions asked by Michelle Richmond in her wonderful second...
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Denver Post reviews
A good part of what makes "The Year of Fog" compulsively readable is the voice of its narrator. Abby's tone is quietly conversational, almost as though...
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San Francisco Examiner reviews
Involving, heart-rending and immediately readable…Richmond captures the spirit of life in The City.
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Starquest
The Pen and Muse reviews
This wonderful tale takes place in a trouble time. A time in which the Union’s stranglehold on Earth is strong and the enemy, the Grakk's have spies lurking in...
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Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict (UK cover art)
The Guardian reviews
"highly diverting"
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Books and Needlepoint reviews
She’s fascinated by wolves – but they are obsessed with her Tessa Anderson doesn’t know why wolves are attracted to her, and she certainly doesn’t know that...
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What Feeds Us
Women Writers reviews
The reader realises soon that not for nothing do fat yellow and black bees crawl over the fruit on the cover of Lockward’s book. In a poem entitled, “Invective...
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Livejournal book reviews reviews
Painting from Life is a story of obsession, like it should be when you are talking of art, since only a work born from an artist who suffered to create it is...
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BARNES & NOBLE Review reviews
What's so special about the 11 women who grew up together in Ames, Iowa, who are the subject of Jeffrey Zaslow's The Girls from Ames: A Story of Women and a Forty-...
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USA Weekend reviews
In his just-out "The Girls From Ames," Zaslow uses his reporter's skills to investigate the often-fraught subject of friendship -- specifically, the lifelong bonds...
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More Magazine reviews
Jeffrey Zaslow, a Wall Street Journal columnist, took a year off from his job so he could travel around the country to study the 40-year friendship of 11 women...
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Ice Song
Fantasy Book Critic reviews
"A strange but wonderful novel and highly, highly recommended "Ice Song" is a book that establishes Ms. Kasai as an author to follow and get any new book asap. I...
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