Published Reviews

Chow.com reviews Mediterranean Summer by David Shalleck 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... Read More »	Kirkus reviews Mediterranean Summer by David Shalleck 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... Read More »
The New York Times reviews Mediterranean Summer by David Shalleck 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... Read More »	Kirkus Reviews reviews WAKE 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... Read More »
Publishers Weekly reviews In the Shadow of the Glacier 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... Read More »	Kirkus Reviews reviews In the Shadow of the Glacier 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... Read More »
Front Page San Francisco Chronicle Book Review reviews Jew Boy 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... Read More »	Peace Corps Writers reviews When I Was Elena 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... Read More »
Seattle Weekly reviews When I Was Elena 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... Read More »	Nature: The Int'l Weekly Journal of Science reviews The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy 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... Read More »

Frontiers Magazine/Los Angeles reviews Songs for the New Depression by Kergan Edwards-Stout 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... Read More »	Daily Mail (UK) reviews The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond 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... Read More »
Bookchase reviews Theft of the Master 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... Read More »	rainbo electronic reviews reviews The Winged and Garlanded Nike 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... Read More »
Southbridge (MA) News reviews Rebel: The Life and Times of John Singleton Mosby by Kevin H Siepel 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... Read More »	The Wall Street Journal reviews Rebel: The Life and Times of John Singleton Mosby by Kevin H Siepel 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... Read More »
VOYA reviews The Dust of 100 Dogs 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... Read More »	BookLoons reviews Nox Dormienda (A Long Night for Sleeping) by Kelli Stanley 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... Read More »
L.A. Times Book Review reviews Waiting for the Apocalypse: A Memoir of Faith and Family by Veronica Chater 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... Read More »	3cr radio 855 Melbourne reviews Eating Steve: A Love Story by J Marc Schmidt "This is a fun book... very engaging, beautifully funny. Recommended." Read More »