Published Reviews

Publishers Weekly reviews How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance by Marilyn Yalom In this enchanting tour of French literature—from Abélard and Héloïse in the 12th century to Marguerite Duras in the 20th and Philippe Sollers in the 21st—Yalom... Read More »	The Washington Independent Review of Books reviews The Warsaw Anagrams by Richard Zimler The Warsaw Anagrams is an interesting mystery in itself, but Zimler is after bigger game. He hopes to prevent us from forgetting about the victims of the Nazis’... Read More »
Midwest Book Review reviews Stand Up For Yourself Without Getting Fired: Resolve Workplace Crises Before You Quit, Get Axed, Or Sue the Bastards by Donna Ballman Stand Up For Yourself Without Getting Fired focuses on how to resolve workplace issues without endangering one's job, and comes from an attorney who provides... Read More »	Dallas Morning News (syndicated column) reviews Stand Up For Yourself Without Getting Fired: Resolve Workplace Crises Before You Quit, Get Axed, Or Sue the Bastards by Donna Ballman Ballman's experience as an employment law attorney shows that employees don't know much about their employment rights. They rely on their employers to know... Read More »
Poetry London reviews White Sheets by beverley bie brahic "Brahic is at her strongest in 'Ancient History'. This contemplation of the ephemeral nature of time avoids all manner of clichés, as she mixes the death of her... Read More »	Stanford Magazine reviews The Seventh Gate by Richard Zimler COMING OF AGE IN AN AGE OF INSANITY The Seventh Gate, Richard Zimler, MA '82; Overlook, $26.95. Sophie, retelling her teen years from the vantage point of the 21st... Read More »
The Culture Trip (cultural website) reviews The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon by Richard Zimler As one of the prominent areas of genre fiction, the thriller simultaneously engages, educates and scares its readers. Those who write within the genre need to be... Read More »	Publishers Weekly reviews Death Lies Beneath by Pauline Rowson Rowson’s solid eighth police procedural featuring Det. Insp. Andy Horton (after A Killing Coast) opens with the funeral of 47-year-old Daryl Woodley, whose... Read More »
http://www.fictitiousmusings.com reviews Dark Knowledge by Keith Pyeatt Pyeatt has created an intense tale of horror that is one of the most gripping reads I’ve read this year. From the very first page, you are thrust into a story that... Read More »	The Chronicle Review reviews Wayworn Wooden Floors by Mark Lavorato Lavorato is one of a new breed of multi-talented Canadian artists who integrate many gifts effortlessly between genres. He is novelist, photographer, composer and... Read More »

TIME OF SINGING reviews By the Way: Poems over the Years by David Radavich "David Radavich has given us a thought-provoking and intriguing volume. Many pieces contain fine music that glows with reading aloud. The initial poem, '... Read More »	India Today reviews A Journey Interrupted: Being Indian in Pakistan by Farzana Versey It’s a troubling journey into a complex society trapped between western liberalism and radical Islam, where distortions about India and Indian Muslims dominate... Read More »
The Hollins Critic reviews COMING TO REST by Kathryn Stripling Byer Coming to Rest By Kathryn Stripling Byer. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. $16.95 (pa.) In her latest collection, Coming to Rest, North... Read More »	RevistaFusion.com reviews The Art of Living: A Practical Guide to Being Alive by Claire Elizabeth Terry Desde las páginas de esta cuidada edición Mijaíl Gorvachov nos habla del optimismo que le impulsa a no aceptar lo establecido, la psicoterapeuta Arvick Baghramian... Read More »
Sunday New York Times Book Review reviews Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America's First Imperial Adventure by Julia Flynn Siler "...a solidly researched account of an important chapter in our national history, one that most Americans don’t know but should. It will probably provoke... Read More »	asianconnections.com reviews Buddha Baby by Kim Wong Keltner Read More »
$math.gif$ Book List reviews Math Rashes, and Other Classroom Tales by Douglas Evans Gr. 2-4. Homework makes no sense to Hari. Consequently, he eagerly trades one of his five senses to a gnome for doing his lessons. That arrangement works well--... Read More »	Book reviews Healing and Transformation Through Self Guided Imagery by Leslie Davenport Leslie Davenport has trained many health professionals to be able to offer guided imagery to hospitalized patients. Through this groundbreaking leadership, she has... Read More »
Chicago Tribune Books Section reviews Virgins And Martyrs by Earl Merkel Chicago Tribune Books Section June 21, 2008 Virgins and Martyrs By E.L. Merkel(Five Star, $25.95) The third mystery/thriller from Chicagoan Earl Merkel explores a... Read More »	San Francisco Chronicle reviews The Edge of Maybe by Ericka Lutz It was bound to happen: a novel that skewers all that we enlightened Bay Area folk hold dear, from organic food and green tea to yoga and husbands who cook... Read More »