Published Reviews

SF Chronicle reviews Birds of Paradise Lost by Andrew Q Lam Elizabeth Rosner March 31, 2013 Birds of Paradise LostStoriesBy Andrew Lam(Red Hen; 200 pages; $15.95 paperback) Several decades have passed since harrowing... Read More »	Publishers Weekly reviews I Can't Complain: (All Too) Personal Essays by Elinor Lipman In charming and often self-deprecating fashion, novelist Lipman (The View from Penthouse B) has penned an engaging and moving series of essays about her life—... Read More »
Kirkus Reviews reviews I Can't Complain: (All Too) Personal Essays by Elinor Lipman "Accomplished novelist Lipman exposes her journalistic roots by collecting over 30 "(all too) personal" essays and columns that have appeared in a number of... Read More »	Barbara Ann Mojica's Blog on Wordpress reviews How the Moon Regained Her Shape by Janet Ruth Heller Read More »
Gypsy Escapades The Telegraph (newspaper), Calcutta, India reviews Gypsy Escapades by William Jackson GYPSY ESCAPADES (Rupa, Rs 250) by William J. Jackson is the story of four friends from different cultures who travel across India — the “land of poverty and... Read More »	Gypsy Escapades Kirkus Reviews reviews Gypsy Escapades by William Jackson An American graduate student in India teams up with an intelligence agent and others to prevent a crisis that could spark bloody chaos. When Jill Rothchild, an... Read More »
Mysteries in Paradise reviews Death Lies Beneath by Pauline Rowson Pauline Rowson is an excellent constructor of false trails and DEATH LIES BENEATH is no exception. Ex-con Darryl Woodley's death results in a funeral which... Read More »	Stanford Law Review reviews Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz by Barbara Babcock Called “Portia of the Pacific,” Clara Shortridge Foltz, who lived from 1849 until 1934, was the first woman admitted to the practice of law in California, and... Read More »
Salt in Our Blood:The Memoir of a Fisherman's Wife www.seafoodnews.com reviews Salt in Our Blood:The Memoir of a Fisherman's Wife by Michele Longo Eder "What makes this book such compelling reading? It is that Michele exposes to us all what that sense of risk on the sea is all about. All of us think... Read More »	Shelf Awareness reviews Birds of Paradise Lost by Andrew Q Lam The 13 stories in Andrew Lam's Birds of Paradise Lost soar like birds in mid-flight, bridging the space between the dreamscape of Vietnam and the glass... Read More »

The Momus Report reviews All You Bastards Can Go Jump Off a Bridge! by J Marc Schmidt "...heartfelt and occasionally raw in its observational detail." "All You Bastards... shows how far Schmidt is willing to push the boat out to develop his craft -... Read More »	Times Live reviews The Book of War by James Whyle IF YOU READ ONE BOOK THIS WEEK 'The Book of War', by James Whyle (Jacana), R140 A BRILLIANT, unforgettable debut. Steeped in carnage, Whyle's poetic... Read More »
RomFan Reviews reviews A Highland Werewolf Wedding by Terry Spear Terry Spear and given us another hit to her Werewolf Series. I don’t think I will ever get bored with her books as each one brings a new a delightful hero... Read More »	CatholicMom.com reviews What I Love About You, Mom by Kate Marshall Imagine giving your mother a gift that is born of the emotions in your own heart and hand-created simply for her, to share not only the love you feel, but the many... 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 »	Book List reviews A Highland Werewolf Wedding by Terry Spear In her newest novel chronicling the lives of the MacNeill werewolf brothers, Spear (A Howl for a Highlander... Read More »
NPR.org reviews Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex by Ellen Sussman NPR.org, July 2, 2008 · There are books, and then there are "Books We Like." Each week in Books We Like, our critics review their top picks for new fiction and... Read More »	BookPage reviews All the Pretty Girls by JT Ellison Taylor Jackson and Whitney Connolly are two sides of the same coin. While both are beautiful blondes from the wealthy Nashville neighborhood of Belle Meade, the... Read More »
The New York Times reviews The Satanic Verses: A Novel by Salman Rushdie Talent? Not in question. Big talent. Ambition? Boundless ambition. Salman Rushdie is a storyteller of prodigious powers, able to conjure up whole geographies,... Read More »	Spokesmen Journal reviews THE CRYING TREE by Naseem Rakha A powerful and stunning debut novel...replete with insights into the delicate family dynamics and suppressed emotions of those left behind. Written with wisdom and... Read More »