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The Daily Telegraph reviews
"This is not a book to be hurried. It repays slow, careful reading, and your copy may, like mine, end up with underlinings and scribbles highlighting juicy...
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The Guardian (UK) reviews
"There are moments, admittedly, when her ability to look suffering squarely in the eye and describe it in all its horror can be enough to make you take a...
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The Times (London) reviews
" At the centre is Maya’s Cuba, and the single memory that defines it. Its power is evident only after events have destroyed it – and possibly only after you...
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Washington Post Book World reviews
"Recent postcolonial novels explore the cultural bouillabaisse: characters of various national origins, creeds and colors, living in an international capital...
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Publishers Weekly reviews
In a post-James Frey world, it’s wise for humor author Spitznagel (Planet Baywatch) and his publisher to include a disclaimer stating that “some elements have been...
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Midwest Book Review reviews
  Victoria Zackheim's The Bone Weaver is a superbly written generational story, told from great-grandmother to grandmother to mother, about their lives and...
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San Francisco Chronicle reviews
The human body is a tough machine. Women's bodies in Victoria Zackheim's straight-up, affable anthology, "For Keeps," are put to the test, experiencing...
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Globe and Mail reviews
Women will do anything for love. That much is clear in Victoria Zackheim's revealing - and riveting - collection of female-authored essays in The Other Woman. The...
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Publishers Weekly reviews
For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies,Growing Older, and Acceptance Edited by Victoria Zackheim. Seal, $15.95 paper (256p) ISBN978-1-58005-204-7 Nora...
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The New York Times reviews
In The Phantom Father, Mr. Gifford has chosen to go after literary rather than historical effect and, to a degree, to re-mystify his dad. The result, alongside the...
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Cutbank reviews
With his books Human Rights, and the latest Broken World, Joseph Lease has created a body of work which is wholly innovative and musically alive. Perhaps more than...
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Amazon Reviews reviews
5 out of 5 stars This memoir is really two stories braided together. First, the writing. Many blogketeers today have a disregard for proper English. I approached...
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Kirkus reviews
With its focus on overcoming adversity and creating positive situations, the narrative could devolve into a blathering self-help book, but Kohler and co-author...
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EW, PW, The Independent reviews
“Based loosely on D.H. Lawrence's 1924 pilgrimage to Taos, N.M., where he hoped to create an artists' utopia, Amy Boaz's diamond-cut debut, A Richer Dust, follows...
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EW, PW, The Independent reviews
“Based loosely on D.H. Lawrence's 1924 pilgrimage to Taos, N.M., where he hoped to create an artists' utopia, Amy Boaz's diamond-cut debut, A Richer Dust, follows...
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ReadersFavorite.com reviews
Pepe and Po live on the streets after a fire destroys their apartment building. They find shelter in an abandoned building along with other street kids. Jose is a...
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Orlando Sentinel reviews
Sentinel staffer Jean Patteson weighs in today, with a look at Jeffrey Zaslow's The Girls From Ames, out today. If you’re a woman reading The Girls from Ames, you...
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Penguin.com reviews
Meet the Ames Girls: eleven childhood friends who formed a special bond growing up in Ames, Iowa. As young women, they moved to eight different states, yet managed...
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New Pages reviews
Girl on a Bridge Poetry by Suzanne Frischkorn Main Street Rag Books, March 2010 ISBN-10: 1599482266 ISBN 13: 978-1-59948-226-2 Paperback: 57pp; $14.00 Review by...
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Dasha's Journal
'Viewpoint', Vol. 16, No. 1, Spring 2009 reviews
Authored by T.O. Daria, the mother of a son with autism and daughter with Asperger’s syndrome, “Dasha’s Journal: A Cat Reflects on Life, Catness and Autism”...
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