Published Reviews

Wall Street Journal reviews First Girl Scout, The Life of Juliette Gordon Low by Ginger Wadsworth "...a good-looking volume, illustrated with historical photographs, set on pages that resemble pale green embroidered linen and sparkling with the force of Low's... Read More »	Publisher's Weekly reviews North of Hope: A Daughter's Arctic Journey by Shannon Huffman Polson In her debut, Polson offers a memoir of her journey down a river of grief, set against the sparkling beauty of the wilderness of her native Alaska..Polson shares... Read More »
MungBeing Magazine reviews "Iron" by Zarina Zabrisky "It’s rare to find so many layers in a collection of short stories that draw from so many elements such as myth, pathos, symbolism, philosophic thought, tragedy... Read More »	Dallas Morning News reviews What Happened To My Sister by Elizabeth Flock "I honestly thought Me & Emma was about as perfect a book as I could ever want to read, with absolutely no need for a follow-up. But now that I’ve read What... Read More »
The Writer Magazine reviews The Plot Whisperer Book of Writing Prompts: Easy Exercises to Get You Writing by Martha Stockton Alderson Martha Alderson, a.k.a "The Plot Whisperer," has been a nationally recognized plot consultant for 15 years. Here she offers loads of exercises to help writers... Read More »	A Mommy's Place reviews My Life Map: A Journal to Help You Shape Your Future by Kate Marshall Here’s what’s up with the BlogHer Book Club these days: My Life Map: A Journal to Help You Shape Your Future by Kate and David Marshall. Not so much a book to... Read More »
Angela Amman reviews My Life Map: A Journal to Help You Shape Your Future by Kate Marshall Untangling the different strands of my life goals can seem daunting at times. With only so many hours in a day and so many weeks in a year, I can fall into the... Read More »	lil' Burghers reviews My Life Map: A Journal to Help You Shape Your Future by Kate Marshall If you asked me what I wanted to be when I was 5, I would have said a veterinarian. When I was 18, that changed to a teacher. Now at 29, I am happy in... Read More »
Kapachino reviews My Life Map: A Journal to Help You Shape Your Future by Kate Marshall I’m someone who thrives when I have goals and a plan in place to get there. Not just for the big stuff like my family, education, and career, but for little things... Read More »	Unintentially Brilliant reviews My Life Map: A Journal to Help You Shape Your Future by Kate Marshall When I was in high school, we had a project where we had to make a timeline of our life. Birth to death, and everything in between. I got married, had two children... 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 »	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 »
CBS Money Watch reviews Stand Up For Yourself Without Getting Fired: Resolve Workplace Crises Before You Quit, Get Axed, Or Sue the Bastards by Donna Ballman You've reported sexual harassment to HR. You get a call from the VP of human resources. The company attorney and he want to meet with you to interview you about... Read More »	City Pages reviews White Snake and Other Stories by Geling Yan In Yan's stories it is the small kindness, the brief, tender moment, that surmounts the walls. At these times her characters, no matter how recalcitrant, breathe... Read More »
Felix Palma reviews Jaclyn the Ripper by karl alexander "H. G. Wells meets the Computer Age in this fascinating variation on the time-travel theme. A dazzling succession of plots, adventures and hairpin turns, smoothly... Read More »	T. Jefferson Parker and Clive Cussler reviews Jaclyn the Ripper by karl alexander “Alexander’s novel is everything you’d expect in a sequel to Time After Time. The sweep of history through time travel is dazzling, the characters are... Read More »
Contemporary Literature - Volume 47, Number 4, Winter 2006, pp. 570-600 reviews The Lost Daughter of Happiness by Geling Yan Although the name Yan Geling may mean very little to U.S.-based academics, Yan is often commended by scholars in mainland China and Taiwan as one of the most... Read More »	Sunday Herald reviews Koolaids: The Art of War by Rabih Alameddine A book that refuses despair by the sheer exuberance and inventiveness of its style. The topics may seem gloomy---the impact of the Aids epidemic and the... 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 »	New York Times Book Review reviews The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy by Bill Hayes Henry Gray, the man behind Gray’s Anatomy (he had the help of a fellow doctor who created the drawings), became Hayes’s obsession. He finds out as much as he can... Read More »