Published Reviews
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Chow.com reviews
The personal chef journal is everywhere these days (thank you, Anthony Bourdain). Haven’t got your fill? Here’s a new twist: a chef on a boat. Mediterranean Summer...
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Kirkus reviews
San Francisco foodie Shalleck pleasantly recreates his sweat-and-glamour season toiling as chef on a yacht cruising the Côte d’Azur.
At the time, he was an...
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The New York Times reviews
Summer reading has more to do with charmed lives, blue skies and location, location, location.
Just put a chef on a yacht on the Riviera and you have a 327-page...
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Kirkus Reviews reviews
by Lisa McMann
Dealing with an alcoholic single mother and endless hours of working at Heather Nursing Home to raise money for college, high-school senior Janie Hannagan...
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Publishers Weekly reviews
by Vicki Delany
Publishers Weekly:
Delany's intriguing series opener introduces young constable Molly Smith, who almost literally stumbles across a rare murder victim in peaceful...
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Kirkus Reviews reviews
by Vicki Delany
In the Shadow of the Glacier
Kirkus Reviews:
A plan to build both a memorial park for Vietnam draft dodgers and a fancy new resort tears a small Canadian town...
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Front Page San Francisco Chronicle Book Review reviews
by Alan Kaufman
Alan Kaufman is a survivor. It took him nearly half a century to realize it.
As a kid, he believed ``there was no difference between a victim and a survivor,'' he...
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Peace Corps Writers reviews
by Ellen Urbani
"...As with any memorable story about an "other" place, [Urbani] extends a generosity of attention that allows readers to create their own sense of...
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Seattle Weekly reviews
by Ellen Urbani
"...[Urbani's] account is a testament to the tenacity of the human spirit - her own and that of the unbreakable Guatemalans. Potential Peace Corps do-gooders...
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Nature: The Int'l Weekly Journal of Science reviews
by Bill Hayes
[In addition to telling the stories of Henry Gray and H.V. Carter,] The Anatomist also concerns the progress of a third anatomist: Hayes himself. Early on in his...
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Frontiers Magazine/Los Angeles reviews
A wonderful writer by the name of Kergan Edwards-Stout has delivered a simply stunning work of fiction, Songs for the New Depression... This tale of love and life...
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Daily Mail (UK) reviews
With just two books, Michelle Richmond has established herself as mistress of the kind of literary mystery that packs the punch of a fine thriller, but with added...
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Bookchase reviews
by Ted Davison
Edwin Alexander’s complicated plot is filled with memorably unique characters that are, at times, more fun than the plot itself but, by the end of Al Hersey’s...
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rainbo electronic reviews reviews
by stan g scott
The small fictitious California town of Fernville in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains was the beneficiary of the Defense Department's spending sprees...
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Southbridge (MA) News reviews
Civil War buffs abound and this book is a must for them. It will also be found interesting to people who are interested in character studies and to quite another...
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The Wall Street Journal reviews
To see a pure example of audacity and enterprise turn to Rebel: The Life and Times of John Singleton Mosby by Kevin H. Siepel. It is a dramatic account...
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VOYA reviews
by A.S. King
Although a melange of piracy, reincarnation, dog-training tips, and prosaic family drama seems an unlikely basis for a young adult novel, King weaves an unusual...
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BookLoons reviews
How do you say wondrous in Latin? I wish I knew so I could pay the proper homage to Kelli Stanley's first in what I hope will be a long series. From the partridge...
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L.A. Times Book Review reviews
BOOK REVIEW
'Waiting for the Apocalypse' by Veronica Chater
A memoir of growing up in a fanatic fight against the Catholic Church's Vatican II reforms.
By Laura...
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3cr radio 855 Melbourne reviews
"This is a fun book... very engaging, beautifully funny. Recommended."
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