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Published Reviews

The Election
Amazon reviews
This is a great story that will help children learn the importance of elections, as well as friendships, all while enjoying a fun story. Learning can be fun
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San Francisco Chronicle reviews
  Author Richard Zimler has been deservedly called "an American Umberto Eco," and has his own high standards to live up to. With his latest novel, "The...
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Live to Read Blog reviews
This story has many twists and surprises; the reader will not be bored. The plot is interesting enough and the events are fairly fast-paced; this book will not...
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In Interest reviews
As I usually review YA books, I was not sure of what to expect from this book and maybe I was guilty of forming preconceptions of the book that were not completely...
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Sizzling Hot Book Reviews reviews
Finding Felicity is a great read. The story between the past and the present are closely intertwined as we learn that Marco has become Father Marco at the...
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Muriel's War: An American Heiress in the Nazi Resistance
Jerusalem Post reviews
"With Muriel’s War, Sheila Isenberg has performed an act of historic justice, at long last giving Muriel Gardiner the credit she deserves...
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Muriel's War: An American Heiress in the Nazi Resistance
Chicago Jewish Star reviews
“A new biography Muriel’s War … is a story of courage and heroism. Chicago-born Muriel Gardiner was the daughter of a Protestant mother and a Jewish father, and...
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Muriel's War: An American Heiress in the Nazi Resistance
San Diego Jewish World reviews
“The life of Muriel Gardiner … is truly heartwarming – the number of lives she saved, or at least had a hand in saving, was incredibly great. And the saga of her...
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Muriel's War: An American Heiress in the Nazi Resistance
BOSTON GLOBE reviews
  “Terrible times can elicit extraordinary deeds even from ordinary people, and Muriel Gardner was anything but ordinary … If some portion of Gardiner’s...
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Charlotte Observer reviews
Scott Owens' new poetry collection, "Something Knows the Moment," wastes no time submerging readers in his theme, a candid investigation, sometimes raw and...
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The Historical Novels Review reviews
Eliza Graham, Macmillan New Writing, 2008, £14.99/C$24.95, 393pp, 9780230709133 In January 2006 Alix is tracked down by her birth son, Michael. He asks the...
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The Possibility of Everything
Guernica Magazine reviews
Hope Edelman’s memoir, The Possibility of Everything, out this week, wooed me completely. Edelman, who wrote Motherless Daughters and Motherless Mothers, best...
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The Possibility of Everything
LA Times reviews
Motherless Daughters," "Motherless Mothers," "Mother of My Mother," "Letters From Motherless Daughters": These four books have earned Hope Edelman the title of...
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The Little Russian
Library Journal reviews
“Sherman’s extraordinary debut novel plunges her readers into the bitter cold, deprivation, and upheaval of early 20th-century wartime Russia.  Berta is a...
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American Son: A Novel (W.W. Norton)
Salon.com reviews
In a searing look at the immigrant experience, two half-Filipino brothers navigate a California of small-time thieves, Mexican gangsters and attack dogs trained...
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The Journal of the Lincoln Heights Literary Society Miscellanea and Ephemeron reviews
"...This is an exciting story, full of human characters and people brought out of history books as living beings. I’m going to be doing more reading about Cornelis...
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New York Journal of Books reviews
Anya’s War is a tender coming-of-age tale of a Jewish girl whose family escaped to Shanghai from the impending Nazi takeover of their home in Russia. ... Alban’s...
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San Francisco Chronicle reviews
Remember this name: Michelle Richmond...impressive talent and emotional range...Richmond writes with grace, calm, a refreshing sense of playfulness
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No One You Know
The Daily Mail (UK) reviews
This story about two sisters - one of whom is randomly murdered - is a terrific literary mystery. But it's also a story about story-telling, the way stories shape...
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Booklist reviews
High-spirited and precocious Freya is the only child of her late-in-life, widowed mother, who waits until Freya is a coltish seven to finally return to Manitoba ,...
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