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Published Reviews

Music Through the Floor
New York Times Book Review reviews
How exhilarating to come across a young writer as technically gifted and emotionally insightful as Eric Puchner…The nine stories in his debut collection are…...
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Flash House, 2003
http://www.hachettebookgroupusa.com/authors/32/725/critical_praise.html reviews
"Set in tumultuous post-WWII Asia, Liu's third novel is an espionage thriller that traces a woman's efforts to find her husband after he disappears into the...
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Cloud Mountain, 1997
Library Journal reviews
Warner Books, which has been highly successful with such bittersweet romances as Robert James Waller's The Bridges of Madison County and Nicholas Sparks's The...
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The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Vol. 297 No. 18, pp. 1955-2044 reviews
With uninhibited truthfulness Aimee Liu reveals incidents in her own life which propelled her into anorexia... She believes the greatest asset any of us possess is...
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PsycCRITIQUES Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books reviews
Liu's book, Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders, immediately grabbed our attention because it focuses on life after a person overcomes an eating...
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Story Circle Book Reviews reviews
For Keeps is not an easy book to read. It is not about pretty women with perfect bodies who find easy acceptance in a beauty-obsessed culture. No. It is an...
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It's My F---king Birthday
Los Angeles Times reviews
"Funny in a sly, true, painful way."
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What the Dogs Have Taught Me
The New York Times reviews
Merrill Markoe has a keen eye for the little lunacies of modern living. Hers is a special talent, desperately needed these days.
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Walking in Circles Before Lying Down: A Novel
Los Angeles Times reviews
There was a time when Merrill Markoe worried that Stupid Pet Tricks, the goofy segment she created for “Late Night With David Letterman,” would be the sum total of...
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Dream of the Blue Room
Kirkus Reviews reviews
A complex and nimbly fashioned first novel.
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Esquire Magazine reviews
"It is perhaps surprising that a man and a writer as famously combative as Norman Mailer would inspire such a generous, loving and even tender portrait; but the...
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AOL's Gadling Travel reviews
Author Shelley Seale’s discovery of this human tragedy led her life in a whole new direction, and it is this that gives the book its impetus. Besides her personal...
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Do They Know I'm Running?
Fresh Fiction reviews
"David Corbett's grainy realities bring these characters to life . . . dragging the reader on a journey he or she won't soon forget."
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YouTube reviews
Dating in Miami can be a bit tough. Miami Beach native and author of How to Get Divorced by 30, Sascha Rothchild, gives us some friendly advice on how to take on...
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Amazon reviews
This collection of stories is fun from beginning to end. Hank Quesne has a Pratchett-like gift for extracting humour from science fiction and fantasy settings and...
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East Bay Express reviews
"She prefers to write in bed, but the beds in which Laura Glen Louis dreamed up the lines in her haunting debut poetry collection 'Some, like elephants'; her 2001...
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Rebel: The Life and Times of John Singleton Mosby
Fredericksburg (VA) Free-Lance Star reviews
This is a fine book about the Confederate hero who ran the Yankees ragged in Northern Virtginia--and many of his friends the same way in the years following...
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Roadwork
Oakland Press reviews
Filled with anecdotes, insights and frank opinions, Roadwork is a breezy and warm insider's view of the music world told by someone who loved the life and the...
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Thorn in the Flesh
Untreed Reads website reviews
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Cartwheels in a Sari
People Magazine reviews
The story of Tamm’s birth—that she pressed her hands together in prayer at barely an hour old—was as festooned with mythology as the spiritual leader Sri Chinmoy,...
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