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Published Reviews

Island Girl
Winnipeg Free Press reviews
This is Toronto author Simmons' second novel. The first, Getting Rid of Rosie, came out in 2009. Set in Muskoka, it featured a quirky love story whose main...
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Island Girl
Publishers Weekly reviews
"Simmons exhibits an exquisitely deft understanding of the extraordinary difficulties that unite a family, and her portrayals of the three women, told in...
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The Sandcastle Girls
Good Housekeeping reviews
"The Sandcastle Girls" is one of the Summer's "Best Books to Read on Vacation," a beach book that will "carry you away."
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Fort Worth Star-Telegram reviews
All the themes in the novel are richly drawn and universal — love, "saving" someone, the question of what reality really is, loneliness, betrayal. The conflicting...
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www.knowledge.wpcarey.asu.edu reviews
Author Steve Bergsman is a real estate investment junkie much as others are political or sports junkies. His 2009 book, "After the Fall," subtitled "Opportunities...
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Geographies of Light
Literary Mama: Reading for the Maternally Inclined reviews
  Geographies of Light takes us to a place both shockingly foreign and familiar as a heartbeat, a place of breastfeeding babies, childhood afternoons on...
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The Post-War Dream [2008]
Los Angeles Times reviews
Hollis' scouring memories of war are dramatic and evocative, to be sure, but it's the little things, like Hollis' unearthing green plastic toy soldiers in his...
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Shaggy Muses
Temple Grandin , author of Animals in Translation reviews
An intimate look into the lives of famous women authors whose lives were more difficult than we would ever have imagined. Their dogs helped them to survive and...
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Wall Street Journal reviews
The DNA Dilemma Grappling With Bad News From Genetic Testing By LAURA LANDRO April 5, 2008; Page W8 Pretty Is What Changes By Jessica Queller Spiegel & Grau,...
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Sunday New York Times reviews
"An eye-opening, astonishing, honest and funny collection from those who really have lived on the edge in a parallel universe… Unpretentious and riveting, their...
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Wayworn Wooden Floors
The Montreal Review of Books reviews
  Mark Lavorato is a seasoned traveller, and his first poetry collection, Wayworn Wooden Floors, feels a bit like a suitcase stuffed with souvenirs...
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Miss Kansas City: A Novel
San Francisco Chronicle reviews
Joan Frank's novel, "Miss Kansas City" . . . is an assured first novel by an irrepressibly talented Northern California writer, and though it arrives...
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