Published Reviews

Amazon.com reviews The Smartest Kid in Petaluma by Rob Loughran Most Helpful Customer Reviews Smart kid with a problem May 31, 2012 By Charles T. Markee The Smartest Kid in Petaluma Norman... Read More »	Booklist reviews The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian "A powerful and moving story based on real events seldom discussed. It will leave you reeling." Read More »
Publishers' Weekly reviews The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian "Powerful. . .Bohjalian’s storytelling makes this a beautiful, frightening, and unforgettable read." Read More »	DEUS LOCI reviews Middle-East Mezze by David Radavich by David Radavich David Radavich, in his latest book of poems, Middle-East Mezze, has created a work that begins in commentary on these twentieth-century places and ends in the... Read More »
Mail & Guardian reviews The Book of War by James Whyle "One is thrown ... into the heart of the action, in a state of dread and fascination induced by the dire events, the pristine setting and the perfection of... Read More »	Wired.com's Geek Mom reviews Next Stop: A Memoir of Family by Glen Finland It’s always fascinating to read about struggles that I’ve never faced myself. We’ve had several posts on GeekMom that were related to autism and raising autistic... Read More »
Boston Globe reviews The Enduring Shore: A History of Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket by Paul Schneider Good history it is, covering the territory well....Written with a good storyteller's eye and ear for the incident that will stick in the mind long after summer's... Read More »	The Buffalo News reviews Bonnie and Clyde: The Lives Behind the Legend by Paul Schneider “Bonnie and Clyde: The Lives Behind the Legend” by Paul Schneider is the best thing I’ve read this year — it puts truer faces on the duo than Warren Beatty and... Read More »
O, the Oprah Magazine reviews Bonnie and Clyde: The Lives Behind the Legend by Paul Schneider In a biography so intimate it feels like an act of ventriloquism, Paul Schneider uses a wealth of primary sources--oral and written testimony from relatives,... Read More »	Los Angeles Times reviews Bonnie and Clyde: The Lives Behind the Legend by Paul Schneider "Paul Schneider gets much closer to his subjects in "Bonnie and Clyde: The Lives Behind the Legend." Noted for his novelistic approach to nonfiction in such... Read More »

Brad Steiger - Author reviews 9 Life Altering Lessons: Secrets of the Mystery Schools Unveiled by Kala Ambrose "Have you always wanted to study esoterica under a master teacher in one of the ancient mystery schools, but didn't know where to go or who to ask? Kala Ambrose... Read More »	Los Angeles Review of Books reviews East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres by Andrew Q Lam Of Refugees and Cosmopolites Ever since childhood, I have had an odd aversion to reading any book with the word "dream" in its title, doubly... Read More »
BookPage reviews The True Sources of the Nile by Sarah Stone A ghastly scene in Sarah Stone's fascinating first novel, The True Sources of the Nile, starkly illustrates the saying that one death is a tragedy and a million... Read More »	TimeOut (New York) reviews Koolaids: The Art of War by Rabih Alameddine By the time Eleanor Roosevelt rips into Tom Cruise and tells him to just shut up, it’s clear that Koolaids: The Art of War is not exactly a linear novel. In... Read More »
Poetry Quebec reviews Wayworn Wooden Floors by Mark Lavorato I was particularly moved by the poem “Swallow.” Some Christian paintings use swallows to symbolize saved souls. To sailors, a swallow represents... Read More »	Highland Church, Louisville, KY reviews The Enoch Factor: The Sacred Art of Knowing God by Dr. Steve McSwain McSwain’s anchor to a big and beautiful God gives him courage to explore the depth and breadth of religious topics that few dare to broach. More than a collection... Read More »
Philadelphia Bulletin reviews 101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting by Ernie J. Zelinski Here’s a book you can fall in love with just by reading the table of contents. It’s entitled 101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting by... Read More »	BarnesandNoble.com reviews Accidental Cowgirl: Six Cows, No Horse and No Clue by Mary Lynn I. Archibald www.barnesandnoble.com/reviewAccidental Cowgirl: Six Cows, No Horse and No Clue by Mary Lynn Archibald(Paperback)Customer Rating for this product is 5 out of 5 A... Read More »
Kirkus Indie reviews Explode: Epic Poetry by E Maria Shelton Speller Speller explores the intersections of race, sex, violence, and art in this experimental poetry collection… Many of these poems use dialogue as their... Read More »	NEW YORK POST BLOG reviews The Last Icon: Tom Seaver and His Times by Steven Robert Travers A New York Post sportswriter once referred to Tom Seaver as “the last of the non-adulterous ballplayers.” A fascinating new book, “The Last Icon: Tom Seaver and... Read More »