Published Reviews

Voya reviews Going Nowhere Faster by Sean Beaudoin VOYA-Starred Review April 2007 Beaudoin, Sean. Going Nowhere Fast. Little,... Read More »	Breast Cancer Action News reviews Help Me Live: 20 Things People with Cancer Want You to Know by Lori Hope Hope [is] first and foremost is a great storyteller. If you invited her to a dinner party, you would actually encourage her to share her observations on cancer as... Read More »
CURE magazine reviews Help Me Live: 20 Things People with Cancer Want You to Know by Lori Hope Even though I am a 20-year survivor, I needed to be reminded about what people in the throes of cancer need, and Lori Hope’s book is... Read More »	McSweeneys.net reviews Famous Fathers & Other Stories by Pia Z. Ehrhardt Readers of the quarterly know Ms. Ehrhardt's stories from Issues 14 and 16, and now there's a whole book of them together in one place, which is very convenient.... Read More »
Time Out Chicago reviews Famous Fathers & Other Stories by Pia Z. Ehrhardt Her characters, all living in or around New Orleans, are flawed and selfish, and yet it’s impossible to avert one’s gaze. Each story is like a perfectly wrapped... Read More »	Narrative Magazine reviews Famous Fathers & Other Stories by Pia Z. Ehrhardt On occasion, the narrator looks around the room, and Ehrhardt has a gift for lucid description that has the hyperreal effect of a still life, causing one to... Read More »
The Philadelphia Inquirer reviews Famous Fathers & Other Stories by Pia Z. Ehrhardt Refreshingly, Ehrhardt doesn't string the reader along with inflated prose or over-the-top characterizations. Her stories are clean, sharp-edged, and imbued with... Read More »	The New York Times reviews Famous Fathers & Other Stories by Pia Z. Ehrhardt The collection’s most successful story, “The Longest Part of the Day,” moves between the point of view of 15-year-old Jilly, who goes missing when she takes a ride... Read More »
New Orleans Times-Picayune reviews Famous Fathers & Other Stories by Pia Z. Ehrhardt All readers recognize it when they hear it -- the siren song of the truth teller, the voice that will lead you someplace new, summoning you to an experience that... Read More »	The Washington Post reviews The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy by Bill Hayes Like any good teacher, Hayes has a knack for metaphor. The still, close air in an anatomy lab is "like the gym of the dead." A lung is "a wet mound... Read More »

The Girls From Ames BORDERS's Shortlist Interview reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow The co-author, with Randy Pausch, of the inspiring bestseller The Last Lecture, Jeffrey Zaslow offers another charming book of wisdom and life lessons in The Girls... Read More »	Bitten by Books reviews The Dragons of Hazlett by Michelle L. Scott The Dragons of Hazlett is a delightful novel of intrigue, mystery and a world unlike any I’ve seen before. Read More »
Library Journal reviews The Successful Retirement Guide by R. Kevin Price The Library Journal gave The Successful Retirement Guide a "starred" review, commenting: "The beauty of retiree Price's book is its simplicity—one can pick a... Read More »	Kirkus reviews This Lovely Life by Vicki Forman Forman explores the many issues of premature birth without presuming to offer solutions or comfort, drawing directly from the raw outrage, torment and profound... Read More »
Thoughts in Progress reviews The Accidental Highland Hero by Terry Spear The beautiful scenery and flowing dialect will draw you in. The story will hold you captive as author Terry Spear takes you on a fantastic journey back in time for... Read More »	Time Out Delhi reviews The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos by Margaret Mascarenhas The Chinese philosopher Zhuangzi identified a fundamental confusion when he related a dream in which he was a butterfly. On awakening, he wondered if he was... Read More »
Martha's Bookshelf reviews Seduced by the Wolf by Terry Spear 4.5!! I really liked the alpha characters of Cassie and Leidolf. The author does a good job building the tension as they dance around their attraction for each... Read More »	myshelf.com reviews The Shadows of Youth: The Remarkable Journey of the Civil Rights Generation by Andrew B. Lewis For many of us the Civil Rights movement is epitomized by Martin Luther King, Jr. It is unfortunate that we seldom recall the contributions and sacrifices made by... Read More »
Goodreads.com reviews The Story of Saint Catrick by Robby Charters As one reads this book there are many different things that can come to one’s mind. When I first started reading the first thing I seen in the story line was a... Read More »	www.smilepolitely.com reviews The House of the Sphinx by Sarah U. Wisseman "Wisseman’s books are of interest for a number of reasons: she lives and works right here in Champaign-Urbana, the novels are fast-paced and carefully constructed... Read More »