Published Reviews

ALAN Online reviews A Difficult Boy by Michele P. Barker "Daniel, or “Paddy,” a 15-year-old indentured servant, has been through a lot in his short life: immigration from Ireland to America, subsistence farming with his... Read More »	School Library Journal reviews A Difficult Boy by Michele P. Barker "How Ethan and Daniel bolster each other and escape Mr. Lyman's tyranny makes for a memorable tale of friendship and a fascinating glimpse into mid-19th-century... Read More »
Kirkus Reviews First Fiction Special Issue, page 17 reviews A Difficult Boy by Michele P. Barker "What was the life of an indentured servant but that of a slave? M.P. Barker brings it ringingly, cringingly to life...A Difficult Boy hinges on the efforts of two... Read More »	Seattle Post Intelligencer reviews Oxygen by Carol Cassella "Write what you know" remains the quintessential advice to aspiring writers, especially those hoping to pen a novel. Carol Wiley Cassella certainly is following... Read More »
The Denver Post reviews Oxygen by Carol Cassella Anesthesiologist Carol Cassella is obviously at home in the medical world that houses her vibrant debut, "Oxygen." And it isn't until the last quarter of the book... Read More »	MYSTERY SCENE MAGAZINE reviews TOROS & TORSOS by Craig McDonald “McDonald's sophomore effort is a lot of fun, as the author effortlessly and credibly incorporates his characters and storyline into such real life happenings as... Read More »
School Library Journal reviews THE HAPPINESS TREE: Celebrating the gifts of trees we treasure by Andrea Alban Gosline “Beautiful…the jewel-toned illustrations of the natural world immediately draw the eye….handsomely illustrated.” Read More »	Gifted and Talented Child Blog reviews THE HAPPINESS TREE: Celebrating the gifts of trees we treasure by Andrea Alban Gosline “ ... this is a book that sings! The rhyming text is unique and musical and the illos are vibrant and melodious. This is not your average picture book. In it,... Read More »
Kirkus Reviews reviews THE HAPPINESS TREE: Celebrating the gifts of trees we treasure by Andrea Alban Gosline “ ... gorgeous jewel-toned illustrations featuring anthropomorphized trees are sure to be pored over by young readers, who will be taken in by their fairy-forest... Read More »	Mom is Just a Nickname reviews The River, By Moonlight by Camille Marchetta This book earned a prize for the Eric Hoffer Award for Excellence in Independent Publishing in 2008 and it’s easy to see why. The story is told beautifully, and... Read More »

Rocky Mountain News reviews Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West by Scott Martelle When the Democratic National Committee announced that Denver had been selected to host the 2008 Democratic convention, it appeared for a while that those plans... Read More »	The Pioneer reviews Simran by Rajesh Talwar It’s a common name in many Sikh families. Simran Kaur. Simran means, to remember. This book remembers her; idealistic, tempestuous, scholarly Simran hiding the... Read More »
Publishers Weekly reviews The Last Bridge by Teri Coyne The Last Bridge Teri Coyne. Ballantine, $22 (288p) ISBN 978-0-345-50731-0 Coyne's compelling debut shines an unnerving light on the fallout from a childhood rooted... Read More »	Lighthouse Book Reviews reviews The Dead Sea Codex by Sarah U. Wisseman "What a wonderful story! Author Sarah Wisseman takes us on a journey with archaeologist Lisa Donahue, as she arrives in Jerusalem to arrange for artifacts to be... Read More »
School Library Journal June 2009 reviews Looking After Pigeon (Permanent Press, 07/2009) by Maud Carol Markson School Library Journal June 2009 Adult/High School The narrator of this novel, seemingly set in the early 1970s, is five-year-old Pigeon. She observes her... Read More »	www.blogcritics.org reviews Seducing the Spirits by Louise Young As the reader, you will find yourself unable to avoid the seduction and allure created by the author, Louise Young, who has a natural sensitivity and suavity for... Read More »
Rainbow Reviews reviews The Bones of Summer paperback (US) by Anne Brooke Read More »	www.fully-caffeinated.blogspot.com reviews The Possibility of Everything by Hope Edelman Amazing author, mother, wife and human, Hope Edelman, has a new book coming out, THE POSSIBILITY OF EVERYTHING. Can enough be made of that title alone? It's the... Read More »
The Smoking Poet reviews Cracked - Timeless Topics Of Nature, Courage And Endurance by Alice Shapiro There are one hundred nine poems in this volume and the book is a page turner. I found myself gulping down the words in each of her poems. I read through the... Read More »	Booklist reviews Bone Worship by Elizabeth Eslami “A realistic and heartfelt depiction of a young woman at a crossroads wondering “What’s next?” Eslami’s debut deftly limns a young woman’s exploration of her roots... Read More »