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Published Reviews

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon
New York Times reviews
"...“I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead,” a no-holds-barred oral history that captures a lovable but wildly aberrant personality, draws upon a fascinatingly diverse...
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I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon
Publishers Weekly reviews
"For those who know them, the brilliant, dark songs of Warren Zevon (1947-2003) inspire nothing short of adoration; for those who don't, this stunning...
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I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon
New York Times reviews
I'LL SLEEP WHEN I'M DEAD: THE DIRTY LIFE AND TIMES OF WARREN ZEVON by Crystal Zevon. The Los Angeles '70s rock scene, quite literally in a nutshell: an oral...
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Richmond Times-Dispatch reviews
"With urban edginess, realistic characters, a feisty and sympathetic heroine and a big heart, Simon spins a frightening tale that will have you postponing...
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MIDNIGHT AT THE PALACE: My Life as a Fabulous Cockette
Kirkus Reviews reviews
The radical politics, sexual rebellion, and theatrical extravagance of a spontaneously combusting, gender-bending San Francisco troupe, remembered here by one of...
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Leadership Quarterly reviews
What is it about leadership that excites the minds of scholars and practitioners that so many of them, Joe Raelin being the latest, can continue to reformulate...
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Hamilton Spectator reviews
You're at wit's end trying to motivate your employees. You've dangled carrots and threatened to use sticks. You've scheduled formal meetings and had informal water...
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Leadership and Organizational Development Journal reviews
Joseph Raelin believes that leadership is potentially the most desperate problem we face in organisational life today but that, conceived in a different way,...
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Music Through the Floor
New York Times Book Review reviews
How exhilarating to come across a young writer as technically gifted and emotionally insightful as Eric Puchner…The nine stories in his debut collection are…...
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Flash House, 2003
http://www.hachettebookgroupusa.com/authors/32/725/critical_praise.html reviews
"Set in tumultuous post-WWII Asia, Liu's third novel is an espionage thriller that traces a woman's efforts to find her husband after he disappears into the...
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The Journal of Family Life reviews
How do people negotiate their transitions to parenthood? Do they simply step into a role similar to what they have seen in sitcom families, mothers nurturing the...
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Eating Steve
Playback: STL reviews
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...
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POETRY reviews
Perhaps as a countercurrent to the disintegration constantly threatening its speakers, Jukebox is filled with efforts to catch and clench. A woman presses her hand...
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Gertrude's Broken Wand (Marmalade Book 1)
Lynchburg Coupon Mama reviews
Marmalade is a book that today’s child is sure to love! Just from the back cover, I felt a flood of memories come back about books and movies including Alice in...
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Santa's Birthday Gift
Biblio Reads Children's Book Review reviews
I gotta tell you that I really love Sherrill's rhyme and way with words. This is the second book of hers that I have reviewed and I heartily recommend her as a...
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My Springfield Mommy reviews
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...
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Amazon.com reviews
"I have become a bit obsessive about how many Hull trawlers went down over the years. They say that it was more dangerous to be a trawlerman than a miner." So...
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Authonomy reviews
What a great beginning. No introduction, no preamble, smash, straight into poor Stevie's world. You are a great writer, extremely accomplished, sorry, I threw...
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Heart of the Wolf
ParaNormal Romance Reviews reviews
"You’ll be drawn into the story from the first page to the last, wanting to know how everything will turn out. I love how Ms. Spear has intertwined true...
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About.com: Special Needs Children reviews
"This memoir, full of fear and rage and disappointment and acceptance and advocacy and ferocious love, offers plenty of touchstones for parents who have dealt with...
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