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The Witch From The Sea
Rakes & Rogues reviews
"Lisa Jensen writes a highly enjoyable tale of Tory Lightfoot and her coming of age on the high seas. Her story has a little bit of everything - adventure, humor,...
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The Witch From The Sea
Booklist reviews
"Jensen combines action and romance in this gritty and realistic portrait of life on the seas."
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The Witch From The Sea
Book jacket copy reviews
"The Witch From The Sea is that rare creation, an historical romance with guts as well as glamour. Wild-spirited Tory is an irresistible character."
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The Witch From The Sea
Reading Rocks, YA Fiction Review reviews
"I am in love with this book.   No, seriously. It was awesome. Such an adventure, it was, full of romance and piracy and danger! The author writes with a deep...
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The Witch From The Sea
The Historical Novel Society Review reviews
"Jensen's fast-paced debut novel stands out for its satisfyingly well-drawn characters and strong historical sense of time and place. I highly recommend this book...
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Smartish Pace reviews
The Circus PoemsRosy Cole    The Circus Poems by Alex Grant -Lorimer Press2010 $16.95    Adults are inclined to the illusion that all...
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HARPIES' FEAST
The Lambda Literary Review reviews
Morganstein layers all of this together with mounting creepiness and impending dread, leading to a surprising twist of an ending, which also leaves the door open...
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Married To A Geek reviews
Sleeper's Run (written by Henry Mosquera) is an action political thriller that has you in suspense the entire time you are reading it.
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The Spring Mount 6 Pack reviews
It is one of the first times that I got so emerged in the story that I found myself looking over my shoulder, as if I was actually involved in the story.
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Child of the Flame
Sent via Email reviews
I received the following emailed review from Zimbabwean author Virginia Phiri, Highway Queen: "Never in my life have I been challenged by a book such as this...
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Kindle and Nook available now; print available September 17
Goodreads reviews
FIVE STARS! It has been a long time since I read a book and laughed this much. The premise is fantastic--science guy searches for love using the scientific method...
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A SILENCE OF MOCKINGBIRDS: The Memoir of a Murder
MonstersandCritics.com reviews
If indeed, it “takes a village to raise a child” then it follows that a community can, through a series of mistakes made for a variety of reasons, fail to protect...
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Kindle and Nook available now; print available September 17
Musings of a Bookish Kitty reviews
You wake up one morning and everything seems typical. It's just an ordinary day. You expect the worst only to be rewarded with a promotion--or in Gunnar's case,...
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I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon
New York Times reviews
I'LL SLEEP WHEN I'M DEAD: THE DIRTY LIFE AND TIMES OF WARREN ZEVON by Crystal Zevon. The Los Angeles '70s rock scene, quite literally in a nutshell: an oral...
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MIDNIGHT AT THE PALACE: My Life as a Fabulous Cockette
Kirkus Reviews reviews
The radical politics, sexual rebellion, and theatrical extravagance of a spontaneously combusting, gender-bending San Francisco troupe, remembered here by one of...
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Hannah Is My Name
New York Times reviews
Told with great style and touching detail  
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Publishers Weekly reviews
The Crying Tree Naseem Rakha. Broadway, $22.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7679-3140-3 This complex, layered story of a family's journey toward justice and forgiveness comes...
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Mirror of Fire and Dreaming
School Library Journal reviews
In this sequel to The Conch Bearer (Roaring Brook, 2003), Anand and Nisha have just begun their schooling in magic when their mentor, Abhaydatta, is sent on a...
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Library Journal reviews
This book-length study of "The Tale of Sir Thopas" is the second of a proposed three-volume explication of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Cullen's (Chaucer's Host)...
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The Beheading Game
The Washington Blade reviews
How does a straight grandmother end up writing a gay male love story? Not intentionally, in the case of Brenda Webster, a 69-year-old writer from...
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