Published Reviews

The Boston Phoenix reviews Chief Bender's Burden by Tom Swift "Journalist Tom Swift has crafted a substantial, vivid story of one of the best pitchers of the game's early years. ... As we look forward to the 2008 campaign... Read More »	Booklist reviews Chief Bender's Burden by Tom Swift "In Swift's hands, Bender’s life unfolds gradually, as though he were a character in a novel, and the prejudice he experienced, though never justified, is set... Read More »
Chicago Sun-Times reviews Chief Bender's Burden by Tom Swift "A wonderful and impressively thorough new biography ... Swift's mission is to reassert Bender as an important figure in the history of the game, both as a player... Read More »	Publishers Weekly reviews Rock & Roll Never Forgets (A JP Kinkaid Mystery) by Deborah Grabien "...the rocking first of a new series...Grabien has created a down-to-earth hero who delivers a brisk upbeat message." - Publishers Weekly Read More »
Kirkus Reviews reviews Rock & Roll Never Forgets (A JP Kinkaid Mystery) by Deborah Grabien An aging rock star and his live-in lady become involved in a murder. John “JP” Kinkaid plays the guitar in Blacklight, a wildly successful British rock band with... Read More »	The New York Review of Books reviews Lelia, by George Sand, translation by Maria Espinosa “Maria Espinosa’s translation . . . is remarkable for coming very close to the resonant vocabulary and its extraordinary images.” —V.S. Pritchett, The New York... Read More »
San Antonio Express-News reviews Incognito: Journey of a Secret Jew by Maria Espinosa “. . . A richly textured story in which Alfonso and his family struggle to retain their values and traditions in the face of relentless and bloody persecution... Read More »	Vanity Fair reviews Madapple by Christina Meldrum Vanity Fair featured MADAPPLE in Elissa Schappell's "Hot Type," saying, "In debut novelist Christina Meldrum's mesmerizing literary mystery MADAPPLE (Knopf), the... Read More »
Midwest Book Review reviews The First Mother's Fire - Book One of The Soulstealer War by W.L. Hoffman Kenneth McNary just wanted a hike on an Appalachian Trail. Nice, peaceful hike, maybe find some inspiration as he did so. "The Soulstealer War: The First Mother's... Read More »	New Orleans Times-Picayune reviews 7 Tattoos: A Memoir in the Flesh by Peter Trachtenberg "Mr. Trachtenberg is a splendid, if curious, raconteur--world-class at literate whining . . . and close to that in assuming the comical stance of aesthete/thug (... Read More »

OurHenHouse.com reviews Our Farm: By the Animals of Farm Sanctuary by Maya Gottfried Continuing with our childlike theme, we will talk with children’s book author and animal advocate, Maya Gottfried, about her new book, Our Farm, which is a... Read More »	Meagan Brothers, Author of Debbie Harry Sings in French reviews Bone Worship by Elizabeth Eslami "In a voice at once acerbic and lyrical, Elizabeth Eslami deftly navigates the choppy waters of a cross-cultural father-daughter relationship bowing beneath the... Read More »
The Urbanite reviews Daughters of Empire: A Memoir of a Year in Britain and Beyond by Jane Satterfield "A slim collection of essays, Daughters of Empire gains narrative coherence via an accretion of personal details—Satterfield’s pregnancy and her daughter’s birth,... Read More »	Kirkus Reviews reviews To Hell in a Handbasket by Beth Groundwater A family's ski vacation turns deadly when they find out their social connections are a little more connected than they thought. All gift-basket designer Claire... Read More »
Library Journal reviews I Was the Jukebox: Poems by Sandra Beasley Think Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath as read by Dorothy Parker, and you'll hear the fine-always passionate, sometimes sexual-ironies that make up Beasley's... Read More »	Xtra! reviews "First Touch" (in the anthology I LIKE IT LIKE THAT). by 'Nathan Burgoine Burgoine has another take. "Here in Canada," he says, "I would say the queer male condition is one of change. In my life, I've seen such amazing strides — gay... Read More »
Bibliobabes reviews The Prodigal Hour by Will Entrekin This book has got a really REALLY cool idea driving it; and while I was reading, I found myself thinking, "This would make and EPIC movie!" So I definitely... Read More »	The Telegraph reviews Leaving the World by Douglas Kennedy Whatever else one may think of Douglas Kennedy as a novelist, there is no denying that he is generous to the point of profligacy with his plotting. His latest... Read More »
Now Dig This, UK reviews Race With The Devil: Gene Vincent's Life In The Fast Lane by Susan VanHecke A moving account... [A] damned good read. Read More »	THe Independent UK reviews Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient with Recipes by Jennifer McLagan Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, with Recipes is much more than a cookery book. McLagan explains and debunks the received wisdom about how bad... Read More »