Published Reviews

Quill & Quire reviews The Stubborn Season by Lauren B. Davis "Lauren Davis’s debut novel, The Stubborn Season, is as close as you'd want to get to the Depression without being there ... meticulous research informs... Read More »	The Toronto Star reviews The Stubborn Season by Lauren B. Davis "A gleaming debut … a terrific first novel … compelling social history … This is a wonderful novel … every character is sincerely drawn; these sentences just... Read More »
Quill & Quire (Starred Review) reviews Our Daily Bread by Lauren B. Davis With her new novel, Montreal-born writer Lauren B. Davis, who currently lives in Princeton, New Jersey, has created a powerful, harrowing and deeply unsettling... Read More »	GLBT Bookshelf reviews "Heart" (in the anthology FOOL FOR LOVE). by 'Nathan Burgoine If you asked me which of these short stories was my favorite, I don’t believe that I would be able to give you an answer. Each touched me in a different way: ‘... Read More »
Library Journal reviews Keep on Pushing: Black Power Music From Blues to Hip-Hop by Denise Sullivan Sullivan (The White Stripes: Sweethearts of the Blues) combines impressive research and wide-ranging interviews in a multilayered narrative about the power of... Read More »	Kirkus Reviews reviews Keep on Pushing: Black Power Music From Blues to Hip-Hop by Denise Sullivan A pleasing survey of soul music, from Lead Belly to Johnny Otis to Michael Franti to Louis Farrakhan. Read More »
Pop Matters reviews Keep on Pushing: Black Power Music From Blues to Hip-Hop by Denise Sullivan Tellingly, Sullivan paints with condensed strokes, documenting in succinct sections how the music segued with powerful protest movements to smash disfranchisement... Read More »	Historical Novels Review reviews Stones for my Father by Trilby Kent "This slim volume is a beautiful evocation of South Africa – of a time, a culture, a geography – and it is also a human story that offers no clear-cut heroes and... Read More »
BookFinds.com reviews Painting The Invisible Man by Rita Schiano What is often talked about in fiction writing is that every novel has pieces of the author's life hidden in the details. In Rita Schiano's emotionally riveting... Read More »	www.amazon.com reviews Country Joe and Me by Ron Cabral 10 Reviews for Country Joe and Me are at www.amazon.com Read More »

San Francisco Chronicle Book Review reviews Towers of Gold: How One Jewish Immigrant Named Isaias Hellman Created California by Frances L Dinkelspiel "carefully researched and superbly written." Read More »	Book-Club-Queen reviews Twenty-Five Years Ago Today by Stacy Juba Stacy Juba has written a page-turner! This has to be one of my favorite mystery books that I've read this year. The characters are well written and have so much... Read More »
VOYA reviews HARLEY'S NINTH by Cat Bauer Harley Columba first appeared in Harley, Like a Person (Winslow, 2000/VOYA October 2000) where readers were introduced to her very difficult family life-her... Read More »	The Jewish Journal of Greater LA reviews Cool Jew: The Ultimate Guide for Every Member of The Tribe by Lisa Alcalay Klug February 25, 2009 Uncool Jew By David Suissa “Where are you from?” is a simple enough question. But when I asked Lisa Alcalay Klug the other day, she did... Read More »
Fast Company reviews The G Quotient by Kirk Snyder USC B-School professor Kirk Snyder discovered that employees of gay white-collar males aren’t just happier with their jobs than other workers, they’re also more... Read More »	Woking Class Studies Newsletter Fall 2009 reviews The Long River Home: A Novel by Larry R. Smith Read More »
Tucson Weekly reviews Cold Black Hearts by Jeffrey J. Mariotte You will keep reading, though. This is Mariotte's great talent: His writing hooks you, and you just have to see how things end. And Annie, much in the vein of the... Read More »	Peace Corps Writers reviews When I Was Elena by Ellen Urbani "...As with any memorable story about an "other" place, [Urbani] extends a generosity of attention that allows readers to create their own sense of... Read More »
Prepublication Review reviews Experiencing Abortion: A Weaving of Women's Words by Eve Kushner Eve Kushner compassionately and insightfully orchestrates a rich chorus of women's voices in a groundbreaking experiential study of abortion. She takes us beyond... Read More »	Mystery Scene Magazine reviews Rabbit in the Moon by Deborah Shlian "This thriller is at times so fast-paced it leaves you breathless, yet the scene-setting is so superb that you’ll want to slow down to reread various pages, and... Read More »