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The Book Connection reviews
THE RIVER, BY MOONLIGHT is a powerful, gripping story. Exquisitely written, filled with diverse, well developed characters, and brimming with rich descriptions,...
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nycBigCityLit_Reviews reviews
Margo Berdeshevsky achieves an unusual trinity in her first book of poems, But a Passage in Wilderness. The collection is wonderfully experimental, exceptionally...
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Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex
Penthouse reviews
Ellen Sussman has compiled the outrageous book we all wish we could've snuck into our school bookbags. — Penthouse
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Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex
Elle Magazine reviews
School's out, but you can still expand your mind and possibly your repertoire by picking up Ellen Sussman's DIRTY WORDS: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex (Bloomsbury...
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Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex
Self Magazine reviews
"sensual yet sophisticated" Provocative definitions and stories from noted writers can inform and inspire you.
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Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex
Oprah's O Magazine reviews
A Handful of Lust ORGY IS A WORD that fills your mouth like a wild oyster that's just a little too big to (comfortably) swallow." That's one of many juicy-or...
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NYT, SF Chronicle, BOOKLIST, LAMBDA reviews
"Set mostly in rural Minnesota, this debut collection's stories are aching, spare studies of survival and desire. . . . Several of the central characters are girls...
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Amazon.com reviews
Witnessing, April 23, 2008 By Akilah Oliver (New York, NY) As I read these gorgeously written poems, I am observing these tough wildernesses or I am in ritual...
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Midwest Book Review reviews
The difference between pornography and erotic literature is the literary quality of the writing, how the subject matter of human sexuality is treated as simple (...
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Newsarama.com reviews
This issue is a very dense and intense retelling of Helena Bertinelli’s early childhood and it does not waste any time getting into the thick of things. Her family...
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The Feminist Review reviews
The poet and essayist Jane Satterfield writes a hauntingly discontinuous prose-poem about a sort of exile. To those of us with dual citizenship—or, perhaps, to...
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Dream Chaser, A Novel That Reaches Beyond the Veil of Time
Amazon Review reviews
    I was drawn into DREAM CHASER by a quick glance at the prologue, set in August 1944. As a WWII buff, I enjoyed Ed, a daredevil RAF Spitfire pilot,...
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"Paper Cuts" in New York Times reviews
"It’s a fascinating book for the story it tells, but I would pay the cover price just for its amazing photographs."
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Washington Post reviews
If you were to cast this stunt as a war movie, co-authors Eric Martin and Stephen Elliott would be the wily tricksters who don fake uniforms to slip behind enemy...
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The Midwife's Confession
Tatiana de Rosnay, NYT bestselling author of Sarah's Key and A Secret Kept reviews
"A beautiful novel about mothers and daughters, about secrets, friendship, love and loss, how we bring our children into this world and how we raise them. It will...
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700+ pages of jokes. $2.99
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/60538 reviews
Review by: dullens on March 26, 2012 : This book has many jokes. A LOT! (on kindle, the total location is bigger...
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Race With The Devil
Brian Setzer, Grammy-winning guitarist reviews
I loved it! I couldn't put it down!
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Red Adept's Kindle Reviews reviews
5 Stars The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea, by Christopher Meeks, is a short story collection with thirteen stories. It is a collection with the central theme of...
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Months and Seasons & Other Stories
Today.com reviews
I’m not an avid fan of short story collections, but I have to say I enjoyed Months and Seasons by Christopher Meeks. The stories are versatile, interesting, keen...
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The Entire Predicament
the Portland Mercury reviews
"If prudence allowed, I would populate this review with nothing but passages from Lucy Corin's mesmerizing collection of stories, The Entire Predicament. My notes...
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