Published Reviews

The Miami Herald reviews Stand Up For Yourself Without Getting Fired: Resolve Workplace Crises Before You Quit, Get Axed, Or Sue the Bastards by Donna Ballman The holidays are over, your boss is still a jerk and now you’re deciding whether to set him straight about how to treat you in 2013. What you do next could cost... Read More »	amazon reviews Perfect Red by Jennie Nash Jennie Nash has written a book about a young woman's ambition at a time when women weren't raised to want more than a MRS. Degree, which back then could be... Read More »
The Compulsive Reader reviews Perfect Red by Jennie Nash Through Lucy Lawrence, the 21 year old heroine of Perfect Red, author Jennie Nash shows present-day readers what it was like to be an intelligent young... Read More »	Peeking Between the Pages reviews Perfect Red by Jennie Nash Perfect Red by Jennie Nash was a great read for me! I have read one other of Jennie’s books ( The Only True Genius in the Family ) and I... Read More »
Kirkus Reviews reviews Brothers and Bones by James Hankins "A prosecutor and a homeless man team up against a murderous conspiracy in this rollicking thriller... The two settle into an entertaining dynamic as ... Hankins... Read More »	China Insight reviews Sweet and Sour: Life in Chinese Family Restaurants by John Jung The “Chop Suey Craze” that engulfed large American and Canadian cities in the early decades of the 20th century (see http://www.asian-studies.org/eaa/... Read More »
Huffington Post reviews Barbed-Wire Butterflies by Jessica Kristie On first glance, Jessica Kristie's debut novel has a distinct Dickens' like narrative: Kidnapped pre-teen children living out a meager existence as slave labor of... Read More »	PowellsBooks.Blog http://www.powells.com/blog/contributors/my-favorite-poetry-books-of-the-past-year reviews "Between Soul and Stone" by Margo Berdeshevsky "One of my all-time favorite poets...Her latest book, Between Soul and Stone, is incredible. This may sound trite, but I can't help but identify Berdeshevsky's... Read More »
http://ghettosun.com/2012/12/19/soulful-ii-in-review/ reviews "Iron" by Zarina Zabrisky "And then there was the Russian literary sensation Zarina Zabrisky. I could use a thousand fancy adjectives to describe how amazing her performance was but... Read More »	Los Angeles Review of Books reviews How the French Invented Love: Nine Hundred Years of Passion and Romance by Marilyn Yalom DID THE FRENCH INVENT LOVE? Or would it be more true to say that love is endlessly reinvented every moment, in every culture, every epoch? What the French did is... Read More »

BOOKLIST ONLINE reviews Enchantment: New and Selected Stories by Thaisa Frank The title of this collection hints at its contents—delectable stories with touches of the surreal as well as many plot twists and surprises. From short-short story... Read More »	Washington Post reviews Blood of Paradise by David Corbett Before he began writing novels, David Corbett spent 15 years as an operative with a San Francisco private investigation firm, an experience that left him without... Read More »
The Oregonian reviews THE CRYING TREE by Naseem Rakha More than a novel detailing the oft-chronicled and frequently patsied nature of forgiveness, this is a colorful and creative biography of hate -- about its... Read More »	BASEBALL AMERICA reviews THE 1969 MIRACLE METS: THE IMPROBABLE STORY OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST UNDERDOG TEAM by Steven Robert Travers By Steven Travers (The Lyons Press, $24.95). On its 40-year anniversary, the story of the ultimate underdogs. Read More »
Rain Taxi reviews Poeta en San Francisco by Barbara Jane Reyes Barbara Jane Reyes's second book, Poeta en San Francisco, explores the translatable and untranslatable collisions of writing self and culture. We immediately... Read More »	NPR reviews Master of Ceremonies: A True Story by David Henry Sterry The BEST book I've read  this year is David Henry Sterry's Master of Ceremonies. Sterry was the Master  of Ceremonies of Chippendale's (the male strip club) in the... Read More »
SONS OF STEVE GARVEY reviews Dodgers Past & Present by Steven Robert Travers rlier this year, the Sons were sent a copy of Steven Travers' Dodgers Past & Present (MVP Books, 144 pages, $25). One in a series of similar books (along with... Read More »	Eureka Pride reviews New Normal by Jeffrey A Ricker "...It is rare that I am given so much to think about from having read a story. For that I owe Jeffrey Ricker a great deal. Even more than that, this story is... Read More »
ANGLICAN THEOLOGICAL REVIEW reviews Middle-East Mezze by David Radavich by David Radavich "David Radavich's aptly named collection of poems transports readers to the Orient in all its complexity. The poems take their inspiration from the wealth of... Read More »	The Inkslinger reviews Bone Worship by Elizabeth Eslami "Elizabeth Eslami’s debut novel is a culture clash from the get-go, but it’s a beautifully written clash filled with the most familiar kinds of yearning, both... Read More »