Published Reviews

www.ecataromance.com reviews A Sensible Match by Teryl S Cartwright Teryl Cartwright’s A Sensible Match takes us back to a world of arranged marriages and uncertain futures. Abby wanted love in her marriage and did not want to... Read More »	J magazine reviews Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California by Frances L Dinkelspiel Isaias Hellman might not have the Jewish name recognition of a Levi Strauss or an Adolph Sutro in California history, but he almost single-handedly launched the... Read More »
FOREWORD reviews When I Was Elena by Ellen Urbani The author arrived in Guatemala in 1991 a fresh-faced twenty-two-year-old, straight from life as a southern belle at the University of Alabama. She left at the... Read More »	The Seattle Times reviews When I Was Elena by Ellen Urbani The Peace Corps volunteers I've met are a singularly humble bunch. They never brag of bravery, rarely name-drop diseases and usually refrain from dazzling language... Read More »
School Library Journal reviews When I Was Elena by Ellen Urbani Adult/High School–Arriving in Guatemala in 1992 in clothes color-coordinated with her blueberry backpack and sleeping bag, Ellen Urbani, 22, was never expected to... Read More »	The Independent reviews When I Was Elena by Ellen Urbani Every now and then a work of nonfiction prose comes along that suggests the power of the written word over a documentary. This may well be the case with When I Was... Read More »
BOOKLIST reviews When I Was Elena by Ellen Urbani This book could use a subtitle, something along the lines of “What I Learned in Guatemala as a Peace Corps Volunteer.” The title alone says little about the book,... Read More »	Publisher's Weekly reviews When I Was Elena by Ellen Urbani In 1991, Hiltebrand, then 22, jettisoned her Southern belle sorority life for two years in rural Guatemala, armed with her dog, fluency in Spanish, and a well-... Read More »
Families in Society, Vol 89, No 2 reviews When I Was Elena by Ellen Urbani As a social work student, I have been fortunate to discover my two dedicated passions, in both my professional and personal life—international social work and... Read More »	Kirkus reviews Waiting for the Apocalypse: A Memoir of Faith and Family by Veronica Chater Short-story and magazine writer Chater brings an ear for dialogue and an eye for the absurd to this tragicomic debut memoir about coming of age in the 1970s in an... Read More »

In These Times reviews Everything but the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks by Bryant Simon Opening Lines: When Bryant Simon’s book, Everything but the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks (University of California Press, 2009) arrived in my... Read More »	Scifichick.com reviews Geoffrey Thorne's DREAMNASIUM by Geoffrey Thorne "...Thorne has created a variety of engaging tales with depth and substance. Each story makes you pause and think, and are memorable long afterward. " Read More »
Judging the Book by Its Pages reviews Dreaming of the Wolf by Terry Spear Alicia only want one thing to throw the men who killed her mother behind bars but when that plan goes terribly wrong can she trust her fate in the arm of a wolf.... Read More »	WildMoo Books reviews Hunted by Cheryl Rainfield "If you like The Hunger Games or The Book Thief, you'll probably love HUNTED, too. Hunted has an original plot, strong characters, steady pacing, and a consistent... Read More »
New York Times Book Review reviews Daughters of the Revolution by Carolyn Cooke In the opening chapter of Carolyn Cooke’s “Daughters of the Revolution,” two young men go kayaking off the coast south of Boston. It is 1963 and both men are... Read More »	The New York Times reviews The Beautiful Anthology by Elizabeth Collins Like a David Cronenberg movie, this offbeat anthology zeros in on beauty's dark and complicated side. Another bonus: it mostly features good writers you've never... Read More »
Publishers Weekly reviews Undercurrent by Pauline Rowson In British author Rowson’s sturdy ninth police procedural featuring Det. Insp. Andy Horton (after 2012’s Death Lies Beneath), Horton investigates the death of... Read More »	The Desert Sun reviews The Way Home by Allison Johnson Allison Johnson writes about people on the edge. In particular, people in Southern California who are living on the fringe, physically, emotionally, and mentally.... Read More »
Publisher's Weekly - starred review reviews You're Not the Boss of Me: Adventures of a Modern Mom by Erika Schickel Candid and largely unapologietic, Los Angeles writer and mother of two Schickel indulges herself first, her kids next and arbiters of proper motherhood never in... Read More »	January Magazine reviews Runoff by Mark Coggins "[O]pens with one of the most original action sequences I’ve read ... This creative set piece and the chase that follows through the streets of Chinatown--a... Read More »