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February Flowers
The Tablet (UK) reviews
by Fan Wu
This first novel (February Flowers) commands our attention if we want to understand contemporary China...Yan is perhaps...the bipolar characteristics of...
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February Flowers
Financial Times Book Review(UK) reviews
by Fan Wu
"a novel that turns its eye away from imagined audiences and keeps it trained on the story at hand...the ease with which it (the novel) shakes off the...
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February Flowers
The Asian Review of Books reviews
by Fan Wu
"A fresh, original work that strikes a fine balance between intimacy and restraint, and shatters several stereotypes along the way….The author's control of...
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February Flowers
The Bulletin (Australia) reviews
by Fan Wu
"Characters, plot, and Chinoiserie combine in a debut novel that shines…animated by unforgettable characters, and infused with emotional honesty, Fan Wu's...
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Deep Water: The Epic Struggle over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment
Columbia Journalism Review reviews
... Deep Water is not a book about dams, as it were, but about three people whose lives have been lived in the tall shadows of dams. This makes all the...
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Deep Water: The Epic Struggle over Dams, Displaced People, and the Environment
OnEarth Magazine reviews
Leslie has written a volume that is heir, both in organization and in power, to Encounters With the Archdruid, John McPhee's classic profile of Brower and...
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The Goddess of Happiness
Midwest Book Review reviews
A compilation of stories, insights, and humor "If you only have time (and the energy) for one self-help, self-improvement book for personal growth, then make...
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The Goddess of Happiness
Publisher's Weekly reviews
".... a perfect gift for girlfriends on the go."
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Monsters and Critics reviews
Recently, in those nanotech & multiverse-rich intersections of science fiction, reality, and pop culture reporting, there's been a lot of talk about the...
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Big City, Bad Blood
WGN Radio reviews
Not only a great crime novel, but also a great Chicago novel. I absolutely love this book.
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Echoes of History reviews
THE RAGE OF ACHILLES is Terence Hawkins’ first novel. Within its pages, he vividly brings to life the glory and guts of a long forgotten era. He recounts this...
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Star Crossed Romance reviews
Terry Spear has written another great werewolf story. I know. I say that every time but when it's true, it's true. Ms Spear writes fantastic action/adventure/...
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Long and Short Romance Reviews reviews
Heart of the Highland Wolf embraces the best of what romance has to offer with characters that jump off the pages and into a reader’s heart. The writing is crisp,...
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Dean Rader, Works & Days, Winner 2010 T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry
Rattle reviews
It’s hard to say what I love most in this glorious debut volume; is it the glorious Frog & Toad poems, the love poems, or the one-on ones with mentors—Stevens...
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On A Silver Platter
AfterEllen.com reviews
Linda Morganstein’s Alexis Pope mystery series is filled with intrigue, humor and genuine suspense...As with the two previous Alexis Pope books, On A Silver...
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Barnes & Noble reviews
The story of Keith, a man who goes in for therapeutic hypnosis and wakes up in another man's body - an ugly man who lives a very different life from Keith's...
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Authonomy reviews
This is hilarious and brilliant. I love the beginning when he is hanging out of the window, just so funny, brilliant, brilliant writing.
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Terrain - A Journal of the Built & Natural Environment reviews
Regardless of the elemental source—Lit Windowpane is full of earth and air and water—each poem settles over us like a fine dew—not suffocating, but synaptic and...
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New York Times Book Review reviews
“I once set fire to the woods,” Henry David Thoreau laconically confided to his journal in 1850, six years after he torched approximately 300 acres of Concord...
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Kirkus Reviews reviews
An inglorious episode in the life of 19th-century author and environmental saint Henry David Thoreau is the subject of Pipkin’s impressive debut novel. In 1844, a...
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