Published Reviews

RPGNow reviews Ninja Burger: The RPG 2nd Edition by Michael L Fiegel Ninja Burger: The Roleplaying Game is great. I picked it up mainly out of curiousity. Once I started reading it, I couldn't put it down (figuratively speaking, of... Read More »	Underkoffler's Overview reviews Ninja Burger Honorable Employee Handbook by Michael L Fiegel (W)orth purchasing if you play a Ninja Burger game, or if you're the sort of person who has bought or would buy Real Ultimate Power: the Official Ninja Book. While... Read More »
Smithsonian's Notable Books for Children 1995 reviews Fernando's Gift by Douglas R Keister The author traveled "deep inside the rain forest in Costa Rica" to document the life of a family committed to saving that country's remnant of old-growth... Read More »	Booklist reviews Fernando's Gift by Douglas R Keister Ages 5-8. Set deep in the Costa Rican rain forest, this bilingual (English and Spanish) story introduces young Fernando and his family. His mother takes care of... Read More »
Sunset Magazine reviews Stories in Stone: A Field Guide to Cemetery Symbolism and Iconography by Douglas R Keister Keister has done for cemetery exploration what Audubon did for birding. Read More »	Absinthe Literary Review reviews below the low-water mark by Ryan Masters below the low-water markRyan MastersPudding House PublicationsJohnstown, OH29 pp. $8.95 Seawater runs through Ryan Masters new chapbook below the low-... Read More »
Children's Literature reviews Mouth Moths, More Classroom Tales by Douglas Evans Kids and teachers alike will recognize most (if not all) of the students starring in each chapter of this funny collection of classroom tales. ...Funny and easy to... Read More »	$math.gif$ Book List reviews Math Rashes, and Other Classroom Tales by Douglas Evans Gr. 2-4. Homework makes no sense to Hari. Consequently, he eagerly trades one of his five senses to a gnome for doing his lessons. That arrangement works well--... Read More »
Monterey County Weekly reviews The Anthology of Monterey Bay Poets by Ryan Masters Masters put out a call for poetry and got 800 submissions. Of those, he took almost a hundred, and with Aptos-based publisher Susana “Suki” Wessling, of Chatoyant... Read More »	Kirkus Reviews reviews The Elevator Family by Douglas Evans From Kirkus Reviews: An endearingly eccentric family settles into the elevator and hearts of the patrons and employees at the San Francisco Hotel in this over-the-... Read More »

The Girls From Ames KARE 11 TV reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow Eleven childhood friends who formed a special bond growing up in Ames, Iowa, are now the focus of a very popular book out right now. The Girls From Ames follows... Read More »	AMAZON reviews A TALE OF THREE CITIES: THE 1962 BASEBALL SEASON IN NEW YORK, LOS ANGELES, AND SAN FRANCISCO by Steven Robert Travers Steven Travers captures the essence of the 1962 season in Major League baseball, while painting a vivid picture of the changes taking place in American society.... Read More »
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE reviews Barry Bonds: Baseball's Superman by Steven Robert Travers IT SOUNDED like a terrific opportunity, chronicling Giants superstar Barry Bonds in what would become perhaps the best single-season performance in baseball... Read More »	The New York Times Book Review reviews ITHAKA: A Daughter's Memoir of Being Found by Sarah Saffian "A multilayered memoir that probes profound questions of identity...Saffian explores this complicated material in beautifully nuanced prose to create a book that... Read More »
Romance Reviews Today reviews The Forbidden Daughter by Shobhan Bantwal Beautifully written, with realistic dialogue and characters who will make your heart ache at times, THE FORBIDDEN DAUGHTER is a worthy successor to Ms. Bantwal's... Read More »	Louisville Magazine reviews The Gravity Soundtrack by Erin Keane “I have strong ties to Louisville because I’ve lived here for 13 years, but I never really felt tied to Kentucky itself as a place the way so many Kentucky writers... Read More »
The Front Table reviews The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos by Margaret Mascarenhas Within these pages is an artfully constructed novel written by a classic storyteller, Margaret Mascarenhas. The story, reminiscent of a modernized selection from... Read More »	Bookpage reviews The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos by Margaret Mascarenhas In The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos, Margaret Mascarenhas’ American debut, the feminine mystique is juxtaposed with revolutionary chaos in the remote rural... Read More »
David Bellavia reviews Mass Casualties: A Young Medic's True Story of Death, Deception, and Dishonor in Iraq by Michael Anthony "Anthony's painful account of his time at war is at times difficult to read. This coming of age war memoir details the very gut wrenching journey he takes into... Read More »	Bookreporter.com reviews City of Dragons by Kelli Stanley In Kelli Stanley’s extremely capable hands, the tale told in CITY OF DRAGONS is a picture- and pitch-perfect account of a complex and gripping tale set in a San... Read More »