Published Reviews

About.com patient empowerment column and forum reviews The Empowered Patient: Hundreds of life-saving facts, action steps and strategies you need to know by Julia A. Hallisy Guide Rating - ***** The bureaucracy of American healthcare has gotten so far out of hand that patients are being injured or made sicker. In order to make it... Read More »	Health Beat by Maggie Mahar reviews The Empowered Patient: Hundreds of life-saving facts, action steps and strategies you need to know by Julia A. Hallisy Julia Hallisy Recently sent me her book, The Empowered Patient. It is at once one of the most pragmatic and one of the most moving healthcare books that I have... Read More »
Compassion In Dying Magazine reviews Dying Unafraid by Fran Moreland Johns The thing about a good story is it grows on you and stays with you for days. The stories of the dying in Fran Moreland Johns' new book are like that. But this isn'... Read More »	The Association for the Study of Play Review, Vol. 30, No. 3 reviews Outdoor Play: Teaching Strategies with Young Children by Jane P Perry In this era of high-stakes testing, play is viewed by a growing number of school officials as a misuse of instructional time. I regularly receive emails from... Read More »
Library Journal reviews Waking Lazarus by TL Hines (STARRED REVIEW) This taut inspirational thriller will keep readers guessing as to the identity of the perpetrator. Some disturbing scenes of children in peril may... Read More »	Publisher's Weekly reviews Waking Lazarus by TL Hines Hines handles the numerous flashbacks and switches in point of view well, and has a deft touch in knowing just how much information to give and how much to... Read More »
Publisher's Weekly reviews The Dead Whisper On by TL Hines A miner-turned-garbage collector is the refreshingly different protagonist of this sophomore horror outing by Hines (Waking Lazarus)...Hines writes with wry humor... Read More »	Library Journal reviews The Dead Whisper On by TL Hines Hines excels at writing gripping supernatural thrillers with plenty of twists and turns; he'll pull you in from page one. Read More »
Library Journal reviews Waking Lazarus by TL Hines Hines's intricate thriller about a man declared dead several times offers plenty of twists and turns without sacrificing character development. Supernatural... Read More »	San Francisco Examiner reviews Mediterranean Summer by David Shalleck I couldn't put down David Shalleck's account of working as the sole cook on a 125-foot schooner owned by an extravagantly wealthy Italian couple as it sailed along... Read More »

Publishers Weekly reviews To Serve a King by Donna Russo Morin Genevieve Gravois was raised to be the perfect 16th-century spy and assassin—motivated by Henry VIII to kill the French king, François I, as revenge for the death... Read More »	Mysterious Reviews (Hidden Staircase Mystery Books) reviews Theft of the Master by Ted Davison Edwin Alexander's debut novel, Theft of the Master, is an engrossing international thriller that effectively blends historical fact with a fictional story.... Read More »
Love Romances & More reviews Nox Dormienda (A Long Night for Sleeping) by Kelli Stanley What sets this book a step above many others is that it keeps the reader guessing and is fast paced enough to never incite boredom. Ms Stanley must have done a... Read More »	Foreword Magazine reviews Waiting for the Apocalypse: A Memoir of Faith and Family by Veronica Chater Chater, a widely published essayist, gives us an impressionistic portrait of a family immersed in extreme Catholic traditionalism. Written from the perspec-tive of... Read More »
The Los Angeles Times reviews Who Lives? (A Play) by Christopher Meeks March is National Kidney Month, which makes the docudrama "Who Lives?" only appropriate. Christopher Meeks' fact-based play about an anonymous citizens committee... Read More »	The Oxford Times reviews Restitution by Eliza Graham HELEN PEACOCKE talks to Eliza Graham, whose latest novel is a love story of two refugees struggling to survive in the chaos of post-war Germany When Eliza Graham’... Read More »
The Historical Novels Review reviews Restitution by Eliza Graham Eliza Graham, Macmillan New Writing, 2008, £14.99/C$24.95, 393pp, 9780230709133 In January 2006 Alix is tracked down by her birth son, Michael. He asks the... Read More »	Publishers Weekly reviews Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow by Zak Smith Much like Pynchon's acclaimed 1974 novel, Smith's extraordinary visual tribute can seem both too big and too good to be true. The 750 or so hallucinatory drawings... Read More »
Amazon.com reviews The Brightest Moon of the Century by Christopher Meeks Christopher Meeks has produced up to now two of the finest, most intelligent, entertaining, and socially sensitive collections of short stories: THE MIDDLE-AGED... Read More »	Booklist reviews Ice Song by Kirsten Imani Kasai Kasai’s debut is a boldly adventurous tale depicting a richly detailed world. The aspect of Traders shifting gender brings Ursula K. LeGuin’s The Left Hand of... Read More »