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Alms for  Oblivion by Bryce Milligan
Bloomsbury Review reviews
Embarking on an ambitious, solemn, and passionate quest into a maze of his own making, the muse-poet in Bryce Milligan's latest collection of...
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Yellowcake
Orion Magazine reviews
Kinds of damage and forms of compensation propel this engaging debut novel by Ann Cummins. She avoids cheap rhetoric and easy judgments about a local environmental...
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Edge and Fold:  Two Poems
The Feminist Review reviews
Paul Hoover, author of Edge and Fold, amazes his readers with postmodern poetry.  His newest work is a compilation separated into two poems:  "Edge and Fold...
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Edge and Fold:  Two Poems
The Great American Pinup. reviews
The title of Paul Hoover’s Edge and Fold suggests that the lines of poetry that run through the book approach the limit of the page (the edge) or are cut off in...
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Poems in Spanish
Stride Magazine reviews
Poems in Spanish is haunted by a ghostly presence throughout, whether it be of the poet's dead father or a kind of landscape of the mind, which is also, one feels...
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Poems in Spanish
Pleiades 27.2 (2007): 211-215 reviews
The title of Paul Hoover's ninth collection of poetry is misleading.  Poems in Spanish is not, in fact, written in Spanish.  Instead, Hoover presents a variety of...
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Paradise Farm
Publishers Weekly reviews
Using a spare prose style resonant with clues to the catastrophic times ahead, Webster deftly conveys a period of social history when women began voicing their...
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The Last Good Freudian
San Francisco Chronicle reviews
``I was born and brought up to be in psychoanalysis and, as a result, much of my adult life was spent on the couch.'' Thus begins Brenda Webster's new memoir,...
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Sins of the Mothers
San Francisco Chronicle reviews
More than any novel of recent memory, Sins of the Mothers is reminiscent of Sue Kaufman's Diary of a Mad Housewife. Novels about women...
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Red Ant House
The San Francisco Chronicle reviews
Part of the pleasure of this collection is the way Cummins pushes the boundaries of language, transforming the mundane into something strikingly new.
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Bloodstorm
Booklist reviews
  “Irish crime writer, Sam Millar (The Redemption Factory) is back with a brand new anti-hero, Karl Kane… Thirty years ago Robert Mitchum and Michael Winner...
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The Bibliophilic Book Blog reviews
5-star review: An intense and compelling novel, Sleeper’s Run will make you look twice at the people around you. Mr. Mosquera has created a novel that will be a...
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Winning the Highlander's Heart
Lighthouse Literary Reviews reviews
Winning the Highlander's Heart is a most delightful story. Anice and Malcolm are sweet likeable characters that are very easy to fall in love with. I loved the...
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Amazon Reviews reviews
5 out of 5 stars This memoir is really two stories braided together. First, the writing. Many blogketeers today have a disregard for proper English. I approached...
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Detroit Free Press reviews
Zaslow, who lives in West Bloomfield and writes a column for the Wall Street Journal, is the guy who made the world poignantly aware of Dr. Randy Pausch, the...
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Kirkus reviews
Through his popular "Moving On" column in the Wall Street Journal, which focuses on transitions in women's friendships, Zaslow (co-author: The Last Lecture, 2008)...
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Orlando Sentinel reviews
Sentinel staffer Jean Patteson weighs in today, with a look at Jeffrey Zaslow's The Girls From Ames, out today. If you’re a woman reading The Girls from Ames, you...
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Ladies' Home Journal reviews
Are you heading to a reunion this summer? Thanks to Facebook, Evite and other online tools, perhaps you know who's attending, what they look like, and what they've...
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Assocated Content reviews
The Girls from Ames is a new book written by Wall Street Journal Writer Jeffrey Zaslow. The story of the girls came from one of Zaslow's columns about friendship....
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Bing West reviews
"A raw, honest narrative by a young soldier thrust into an atmosphere that demanded care for the wounded, yet seemingly deprived of leaders who understood their...
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