Published Reviews

Publishers Weekly reviews I Can't Complain: (All Too) Personal Essays by Elinor Lipman In charming and often self-deprecating fashion, novelist Lipman (The View from Penthouse B) has penned an engaging and moving series of essays about her life—... Read More »	Kirkus Reviews reviews I Can't Complain: (All Too) Personal Essays by Elinor Lipman "Accomplished novelist Lipman exposes her journalistic roots by collecting over 30 "(all too) personal" essays and columns that have appeared in a number of... Read More »
Barbara Ann Mojica's Blog on Wordpress reviews How the Moon Regained Her Shape by Janet Ruth Heller Read More »	Gypsy Escapades The Telegraph (newspaper), Calcutta, India reviews Gypsy Escapades by William Jackson GYPSY ESCAPADES (Rupa, Rs 250) by William J. Jackson is the story of four friends from different cultures who travel across India — the “land of poverty and... Read More »
Gypsy Escapades Kirkus Reviews reviews Gypsy Escapades by William Jackson An American graduate student in India teams up with an intelligence agent and others to prevent a crisis that could spark bloody chaos. When Jill Rothchild, an... Read More »	Mysteries in Paradise reviews Death Lies Beneath by Pauline Rowson Pauline Rowson is an excellent constructor of false trails and DEATH LIES BENEATH is no exception. Ex-con Darryl Woodley's death results in a funeral which... Read More »
Stanford Law Review reviews Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz by Barbara Babcock Called “Portia of the Pacific,” Clara Shortridge Foltz, who lived from 1849 until 1934, was the first woman admitted to the practice of law in California, and... Read More »	Salt in Our Blood:The Memoir of a Fisherman's Wife www.seafoodnews.com reviews Salt in Our Blood:The Memoir of a Fisherman's Wife by Michele Longo Eder "What makes this book such compelling reading? It is that Michele exposes to us all what that sense of risk on the sea is all about. All of us think... Read More »
Shelf Awareness reviews Birds of Paradise Lost by Andrew Q Lam The 13 stories in Andrew Lam's Birds of Paradise Lost soar like birds in mid-flight, bridging the space between the dreamscape of Vietnam and the glass... Read More »	IndieReader reviews Depth of Deception (A Titanic Murder Mystery) by Alexander Galant Galant masterfully weaves together a multi-layered plot that doles out clues to keep the reader hooked and guessing. Each chapter moves from the story of one... Read More »

Against the Grain reviews American Countercultures: An Encyclopedia of Nonconformists, Alternative Lifestyles, and Radical Ideas in U.S. History by Gina Misiroglu American Countercultures: An Encyclopedia of Nonconformists, Alternative Lifestyles, and Radical Ideas in U.S. History is another title that should have broad... Read More »	Library Journal reviews Old Man River: The Mississippi River in North American History by Paul Schneider Schneider, Paul. Old Man River: The Mississippi River in North American History. Holt. Sept. 2013. 416p. ISBN 9780805091366. $35; ebk. ISBN... Read More »
Library Journal reviews The Light in the Ruins by Chris Bohjalian "Thoroughly gripping, beautiful, and astonishingly vengeful, this novel is a heartbreaker. Bohjalian's latest turn to historical fiction is immensely rewarding." Read More »	North Carolina Literary Review reviews For One Who Knows How to Own Land by Scott Owens Most of the poems in For One Who Knows How to Own Land convey the pain of people learning to endure the circumstances of their life. However, the collection is a... Read More »
DWED Reviews reviews Blood Drama by Christopher Meeks I loved this book from page 1. As the story begins we meet Ian a man who is on edge as he finds himself losing everything he has worked so hard to obtain. As he... Read More »	420 Characters Bookweb reviews 420 Characters by Lou Beach Edgy and funny, smart, dark and thought-provoking. Beach’s short-short stories reveal worlds of meaning in single paragraphs. While perhaps not for everyone, they... Read More »
Western New York Heritage magazine reviews Joseph Bennett of Evans and the Growing of New York’s Niagara Frontier by Kevin H Siepel Kevin Siepel set himself the difficult task of transforming the journal entries into a biography and setting that personal story, in context, within the larger... Read More »	Grand Rapids Press reviews Rebel: The Life and Times of John Singleton Mosby by Kevin H Siepel In Rebel, Kevin Siepel treats us to a perceptive history of Mosby--during and after the Civil War. Siepel's Mosby is a complicated man, a combination of Southern... Read More »
The Believer reviews Ovenman by Jeff Parker "Ovenman’s considerable charm and clout lie in this combination of the specific absurdities of Thinfinger’s day-to-day and his often thwarted search for meaning." Read More »	Goodreads reviews The River of Winged Dreams by Aberjhani What I particularly noticed was the commentary on historical events, such as 9/11. There were also tributes to figures in American life past and present, figures... Read More »