Published Reviews

Retirement Rocket reviews How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free: Retirement Wisdom That You Won't Get from Your Financial Advisor by Ernie J. Zelinski Two of the world's most famous philosophers, Socrates and Plato, advocated a life of total leisure. So does author Ernie Zelinski, and, although he’s not as... Read More »	The Boston Globe reviews Further Fenway Fiction by Matthew Michael Hanlon Read More »
vice-versa reviews Fenway Fiction by Matthew Michael Hanlon Read More »	Rattle reviews Chains & Mirrors by Alex Grant Alex Grant is a native Scot currently living in North Carolina. His manuscript, Chains & Mirrors, won the 2006 Randell Jarrell/Harperprints poetry contest and... Read More »
The Pedestal Magazine reviews Chains & Mirrors by Alex Grant It’s easy to see why Alex Grant’s chapbook Chains & Mirrors won both the 2006 Randall Jarrell/Harperprints Poetry Contest and the 2007 Oscar Arnold Young... Read More »	Library Journal reviews Captivity by Debbie Lee Wesselmann Primatologist Dana Armstrong is passionate about making a difference in the lives of the animals living at a South Carolina chimpanzee sanctuary. But a break-in... Read More »
Publishers Weekly reviews Captivity by Debbie Lee Wesselmann A South Carolina chimpanzee sanctuary affiliated with a university provides the unusual setting for Wesselmann’s powerful second novel (after 1997’s Trutor &... Read More »	Elle Magazine reviews Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex by Ellen Sussman LEXICON OF THE LIBIDO From Lucky Pierre to Dirty Sanchez, here's a reference work that might just still manage to get itself banned in Boston Much kinky knowledge... Read More »
Library Journal reviews Negotiation Generation by Lynne Griffin Many parenting experts agree that spanking is never a good way to discipline a child. In its stead, they have recommended using methods like time-outs and... Read More »	Bay Area Poets Seasonal Review reviews The Short Fall from Grace by Stewart Florsheim "What makes this is a powerful book is the knowledge of where the author has been emotionally; while the poems of travel, of growing through relationships, of... Read More »

Publishers Weekly reviews A Double Life, Discovering Motherhood by Lisa C. Harper “Harper’s elegant, thoughtful writing makes this a must-read for expectant parents: there is both affirmation and information, such as a scientific explanation of... Read More »	Book Chase reviews Love At Absolute Zero by Christopher Meeks "Love at Absolute Zero" is about a brilliant man naïve to the ways of the world. He might be an inspired scientific researcher but, when it comes to women, Gunnar... Read More »
The Faster Times reviews Lola,California by Edie Meidav Meidav succeeds brilliantly in creating an authentic friendship between Lana and Rose, one that is messy, captivating, and durable. The Lolas are their most... Read More »	The New Brunswick Reader reviews The Radiant City by Lauren B. Davis "Beautifully wrought style of prose. . . an intensity of images and ideas not easily left behind with the closing of the back cover . . . a story of modern times... Read More »
Library Journal reviews Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America's First Imperial Adventure by Julia Flynn Siler Library Journal gives Lost Kingdom a starred review, calling it “…a sweeping tale of tragedy, greed, betrayal, and imperialism. The depth of her research shines... Read More »	420 Characters Publishers Weekly reviews 420 Characters by Lou Beach By turns cheeky and cherubic, these 420-character shorts from the author’s Facebook page encapsulate in pithy form entire plotlines or character studies. Known... Read More »
Salty Ink reviews Wayworn Wooden Floors by Mark Lavorato Wayworn Wooden Floors showcases what Mark Lavorato’s writing style, which is simple and down to earth; he is telling stories but not fluffing them up beyond... Read More »	Kirkus Reviews reviews The Living End: A Memoir of Forgetting and Forgiving by Robert Leleux THE LIVING END (reviewed on December 1, 2011)A memoir of Alzheimer’s during its final stages and of a family’s attempt to provide support for a spirited... Read More »
The Globe Corner Bookstore reviews Pearl Jacket and Other Stories: Flash Fiction from Contemporary China by Shouhua Qi "The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories is full of short-shorts with this biting irony or crisp, cruel social criticism. However, it also shares with the readers... Read More »	Newsweek reviews Finn by Jon Clinch Clinch's Pap is a convincingly nightmarish extrapolation of Twain's. He's the mad, lost and dangerous center of a world we'd hate to live in--or do we still live... Read More »