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Caught Between the Pages reviews
I’ve really been looking forward to reading more novels like this lately so when I had the opportunity to read Sleeper’s Run I jumped on it! I got the action and...
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Beautiful Lies by Rob Loughran
Amazon Review reviews
I definitely enjoyed this book. It's a great story, one that explores the dark side of "normal" people who might think about doing something "wrong" but never...
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Beautiful Lies by Rob Loughran
Smashwords.com reviews
"Beautiful Lies" a hard-boiled crime novel by Rob Loughran is a carefully written and ingenious glimpse into the mind of a thrill killer, what he is thinking,...
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"Beautiful Soon Enough"
Poetry International/ Issue 18/19/ 2012 reviews
Beautiful Soon Enough  "The stories in this prize-winning collection are all about sex. They’re tactile, explosive, hilarious, rueful, and knowing. They’re...
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aethlon reviews
  Although the term "fan fiction" might strike some as praise that is as faintly damning as "journeyman pitcher" or "utility infielder," the stories in Final...
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Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World by Aberjhani
Amazon Reviews reviews
From the strong, eye-catching cover showing two black angels, male and female, designed by Luther Vann, to the last page of "Christmas When Music Almost Killed...
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ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love
Amazon Reviews reviews
Elemental is an excellent collaboration between poet and artist. Aberjhani constructs beautiful visions through the creative task of placing words in a most...
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The American Poet Who Went Home Again
Amazon Reviews reviews
The American Poet Who Went Home Again will make me do something I never do--I will re-read this soul-exploring book again and maybe again. Going home is never easy...
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The American Poet Who Went Home Again
Amazon Reviews reviews
  I love this marvelous book and recommend it, with pleasure, to one and all. Mr Aberjhani's voice should be heard around the world... 
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The River of Winged Dreams
Goodreads reviews
What I particularly noticed was the commentary on historical events, such as 9/11. There were also tributes to figures in American life past and present, figures...
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Birds of Paradise Lose
Chicosol.com reviews
  By Lindajoy Fenley © chicoSol  posted April 5 Andrew Lam's short story collection, "Birds of Paradise Lost," lured me into a labyrinth of past and...
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White Snake and Other Stories
City Pages reviews
In Yan's stories it is the small kindness, the brief, tender moment, that surmounts the walls. At these times her characters, no matter how recalcitrant, breathe...
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The Singers of nevya
Publisher's Weekly reviews
"A rich story of cultural revolution. The singers of the ice planet Nevya use their musical psi-powers to hold back the deadly cold. In Sing the Light, young...
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Woman Lawyer
Stanford Law Review reviews
Called “Portia of the Pacific,” Clara Shortridge Foltz, who lived from 1849 until 1934, was the first woman admitted to the practice of law in California, and...
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The Lost Daughter of Happiness
Contemporary Literature - Volume 47, Number 4, Winter 2006, pp. 570-600 reviews
Although the name Yan Geling may mean very little to U.S.-based academics, Yan is often commended by scholars in mainland China and Taiwan as one of the most...
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The Lost Daughter of Happiness
The Economist reviews
There is no single authentic voice of Chinese fiction.  And that may very well be a good thing.   ONE clear fact emerged from the controversy over Gao...
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The Banquet Bug
The Asian Review of Books reviews
Yan leads the readers into a labyrinth of "phoney" things: freelance journalists from phantom newsgroups, flashing cameras that produce no photograph,...
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East Eats West
Scribd.com reviews
  Barros, Corina 07-78921 September 29, 2010 Prof. Jose Y Dalisay Jr CL 111 The Image of Displacement when East Meets West Palmistry or the characterization...
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The Lost Daughter of Happiness
The New York Times reviews
Yan's use of shifting perspectives -- including that of the narrator herself, who confesses her ''surprise'' at the unpredictable behavior of her imagined...
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Mobile Mansions
January Magazine reviews
It wasn't long after our love affair with the car developed that we managed to combine it with another passion: travel. That seems an obvious statement since cars...
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