Published Reviews

Bay Area BusinessWoman News reviews Help Me Live: 20 Things People with Cancer Want You to Know by Lori Hope I read Hope's book, Help Me Live, as though I had a loving sister on my shoulder, murmuring in my ear that what I have to offer is enough: Just slow down, listen... Read More »	San Francisco Chronicle reviews The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry by Alan Kaufman For Alan Kaufman, the late San Francisco vagabond wordsmith Jack Micheline represented the true spirit of poetry. ``He would beg destiny for a break,'' recalls... Read More »
Kirkus Reviews reviews Baba: A Return to China Upon My Father's Shoulders by Belle Yang The tension between ancient rituals and modern reality elevates these tales from the merely beautiful into an astonishing personal vision, and a unique portrait ... Read More »	Library Journal reviews The Odyssey of a Manchurian by Belle Yang Yang recounts the trek her father made down the length of China to escape civil war and hunger as Mao Zedong Communist battled Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist for... Read More »
Voya reviews Going Nowhere Faster by Sean Beaudoin VOYA-Starred Review April 2007 Beaudoin, Sean. Going Nowhere Fast. Little,... Read More »	Breast Cancer Action News reviews Help Me Live: 20 Things People with Cancer Want You to Know by Lori Hope Hope [is] first and foremost is a great storyteller. If you invited her to a dinner party, you would actually encourage her to share her observations on cancer as... Read More »
CURE magazine reviews Help Me Live: 20 Things People with Cancer Want You to Know by Lori Hope Even though I am a 20-year survivor, I needed to be reminded about what people in the throes of cancer need, and Lori Hope’s book is... Read More »	McSweeneys.net reviews Famous Fathers & Other Stories by Pia Z. Ehrhardt Readers of the quarterly know Ms. Ehrhardt's stories from Issues 14 and 16, and now there's a whole book of them together in one place, which is very convenient.... Read More »
Time Out Chicago reviews Famous Fathers & Other Stories by Pia Z. Ehrhardt Her characters, all living in or around New Orleans, are flawed and selfish, and yet it’s impossible to avert one’s gaze. Each story is like a perfectly wrapped... Read More »	Narrative Magazine reviews Famous Fathers & Other Stories by Pia Z. Ehrhardt On occasion, the narrator looks around the room, and Ehrhardt has a gift for lucid description that has the hyperreal effect of a still life, causing one to... Read More »

Publishers Weekly reviews Heart of the Wolf by Terry Spear Red werewolf Bella flees her adoptive pack of gray werewolves when the alpha male Volan tries forcibly to claim her as his mate. Her real love, beta male Devlyn,... Read More »	Esquire.com reviews Yes, Yes, Cherries by Mary Otis "Yes, Yes, Cherries offers an intriguing batch of imperfect characters and unstable conditions. Otis has a sharp eye for people’s habits. She knows how to draw... Read More »
Association of American Colleges and Universities reviews Men and Feminism by Shira Tarrant With this concise overview of men’s role in feminism, Shira Tarrant makes a substantial contribution to the project of ally-building across gender lines. Tarrant... Read More »	Richmond Times-Dispatch reviews DOWN AT THE DOCKS by rory nugent New Bedford remains the largest commercial fishing port in the United States, but it has fallen on hard times, writes Rory Nugent in his riveting DOWN AT THE DOCKS... Read More »
Night Owl Romance reviews To Tempt the Wolf by Terry Spear Tessa Anderson is determined to find the person who killed her brother's girlfriend. Unfortunately Tessa's brother, Michael, was convicted of first-degree murder.... Read More »	EW, PW, The Independent reviews A Richer Dust by amy l. boaz “Based loosely on D.H. Lawrence's 1924 pilgrimage to Taos, N.M., where he hoped to create an artists' utopia, Amy Boaz's diamond-cut debut, A Richer Dust, follows... Read More »
Seriously Reviewed reviews Legend of the White Wolf by Terry Spear Review: WHEW!!! What a thrilling, engaging, wonderful ride. Ms Spear does such a great job in her telling of a good story that you really feel like you are right... Read More »	The Girls From Ames Chicago Sun-Times (Q&A) reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow Call it a girl thing. There's just something special about female friendships -- girlfriends who are there for you through thick and thin, no matter what. Much of... Read More »
The Girls From Ames BORDERS's Shortlist Interview reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow The co-author, with Randy Pausch, of the inspiring bestseller The Last Lecture, Jeffrey Zaslow offers another charming book of wisdom and life lessons in The Girls... Read More »	The Girls From Ames The Capital reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow all started with an e-mail from Jennifer Litchman six years ago. The Annapolis resident sent the message to Wall Street Journal columnist Jeffrey Zaslow after he... Read More »