Published Reviews

Library Journal reviews The True Sources of the Nile by Sarah Stone This stunning first novel, set in contemporary Africa, begs to be compared to Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible and Ronan Bennett's The Catastrophist yet... Read More »	Tertulia Magazine reviews Alms for Oblivion: A Poem in Seven Parts by Bryce Milligan In general, good poetry contains stark images and simple word use. It is written to be read aloud, rewards bibliophiles but does not punish... Read More »
Bloomsbury Review reviews Alms for Oblivion: A Poem in Seven Parts by Bryce Milligan 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... Read More »	Orion Magazine reviews Yellowcake by Ann Cummins 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... Read More »
The Feminist Review reviews Edge and Fold by Paul Hoover 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... Read More »	The Great American Pinup. reviews Edge and Fold by Paul Hoover 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... Read More »
Stride Magazine reviews Poems in Spanish by Paul Hoover 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... Read More »	Pleiades 27.2 (2007): 211-215 reviews Poems in Spanish by Paul Hoover 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... Read More »
Publishers Weekly reviews Paradise Farm by Brenda Webster 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... Read More »	San Francisco Chronicle reviews The Last Good Freudian by Brenda Webster ``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,... Read More »

Midwest Review reviews To Tempt the Wolf by Terry Spear "To Tempt the Wolf is an extremely enjoyable and fascinating read. I am impressed with the way Spears has added her own unique twist, mixing it into the realm of... Read More »	Rob around Books reviews War on the Margins by Libby Cone With so many other distractions vying for my time and attention over the past couple of weeks it’s taken me longer than it should have, but I finally got around... Read More »
Beat The Bloomsbury Review (Vol. 29, Issue 5) reviews Beat by amy l. boaz Beat AMY BOAZ The Permanent Press, $26.00 cloth, ISBN 978-1-57962-186-5 A book person of note, when asked how he could tell whether a manuscript was any good,... Read More »	ReadersFavorite.com reviews Pepe by Robby Charters Pepe and Po live on the streets after a fire destroys their apartment building. They find shelter in an abandoned building along with other street kids. Jose is a... Read More »
The Girls From Ames Detroit Free Press reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow 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... Read More »	The Girls From Ames Sun Chronicle reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow While Jane Nash and her girlfriends from childhood have always cherished their enduring friendship, she says they never thought it was all that unique or... Read More »
The Girls From Ames Ladies' Home Journal reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow 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... Read More »	The Girls From Ames Assocated Content reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow 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.... Read More »
AMAZON reviews THE 1969 MIRACLE METS: THE IMPROBABLE STORY OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST UNDERDOG TEAM by Steven Robert Travers Steven Travers has produced a certifiable masterpiece with this portrayal of those Amazin' '69 Mets; the team that inspired the imagination of fans everywhere by... Read More »	Newsblaze reviews Shimmer by Eric Barnes Eric Barnes has a smash debut novel hitting upon a subject that is clearly newsworthy. Shimmer is based upon one of the oldest money-making plots known as "The... Read More »