Published Reviews

The Guardian reviews The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings Kaui Hart Hemmings's first novel manages to both be shockingly irreverent and funny while exerting that all-important emotional tug. Read More »	BookPage reviews And My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You by Kathi Kamen Goldmark Kathi Kamen Goldmark has written a fast-paced, wisecracking debut novel that takes readers on the road and backstage for an intimate look at the country music... Read More »
Publisher's Weekly reviews And My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You by Kathi Kamen Goldmark Goldmark takes an offbeat spin through the world of country music in her charming debut...the combination of Goldmark's playful humor, her smooth prose style and... Read More »	The Christian Science Monitor reviews West of Kabul, East of New York by Tamim Ansary On Sept.12, Tamim Ansary, an Afghan American who lives in the Bay Area, listened with dismay as men and women phoned in to a talk radio show, calling for the US to... Read More »
Seattle Weekly reviews West of Kabul, East of New York by Tamim Ansary ON SEPT. 12 of last year, a San Franciscan named Tamim Ansary was driving to work as talk-radio callers demanded, among other things, a nuclear assault on... Read More »	The New York Times reviews West of Kabul, East of New York by Tamim Ansary In the weeks after Sept. 11, when the television screens were filled with the certainties and chiseled uncertainties of the talking heads —... Read More »
"O" Magazine reviews And My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You by Kathi Kamen Goldmark If your secret desire is to live in a world where bad men are punished and your girlfriends rule and the best cure for a broken heart is to throw back your head... Read More »	New York Times Book Review reviews You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett WHATEVER troubles me about the nine stories in Adam Haslett's first collection, or about the sensibility of their youngish author (he's in his early 30's), has... Read More »
Booklist reviews THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE by Julie Buxbaum In the space of a few weeks, Emily Haxby breaks up with her longtime boyfriend, leaves her job at a corporate law firm, and learns that her beloved grandfather... Read More »	NewPages.com reviews Brown Glass Windows by devorah major Brown Glass Windows by Devorah Major is one of those novels told partly through the confines of the conventional prose story form and... Read More »

Booklist reviews Do They Know I'm Running? by David Corbett Starred Review: "[I]n this powerful, evocative, character-driven novel, [Corbett] has written what should be a breakout success. . . Readers who devour and then... Read More »	Boston Globe reviews Breaking Out of Bedlam: A Novel by Leslie Larson “Leslie Larson gives an 82-year-old assisted living resident an unforgettable voice: caustic, profane, searingly honest….Cora Sledge is an unlikely heroine. She’s... Read More »
Good Family Reads reviews The Flag Keeper by Stacy Juba A very easy to read format, a few long words that are very well explained will not only entertain but teach kids of all ages. I was very happy that the Flag Facts... Read More »	My Springfield Mommy reviews Sleeper's Run by Henry Mosquera Wow! This book is very intense--I simply couldn't put it down. I read way into the night but I simply wanted to know what was going to happen next. I felt the... Read More »
Sunshiney Daze reviews Sleeper's Run by Henry Mosquera This book started out at a fast-pace. I immediately started to like Eric Caine, and his flaws. I enjoyed the story-line and really liked all the... Read More »	Silkki's Reviews reviews Sleeper's Run by Henry Mosquera There are so many great aspects in this book the thrills and suspense keep you on the edge of your seat... Read More »
Publishers Weekly reviews Do Chocolate Lovers Have Sweeter Babies: The Surprising Science of Pregnancy by Jena Pincott Science writer Pincott (Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?) began her research when she was pregnant; her daughter was born during the writing process, and she... Read More »	Terrain: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments reviews Lit Windowpane by Suzanne Frischkorn Moving through Girl on a Bridge, we experience a general progression through time: the teenager of “Great Lash” becomes an adult becomes a wife becomes the mother... Read More »
The Daily Cross Hatch reviews Eating Steve: A Love Story by J Marc Schmidt "Surprisingly warmhearted" Read More »	Playback: STL reviews Eating Steve: A Love Story by J Marc Schmidt Eating Steve is certainly the sweetest little zombie book I've ever read. Schmidt tells a very realistic coming of age story while using the idea of a zombie and a... Read More »