Published Reviews

New York Times Book Review reviews Music Through the Floor by Eric Puchner 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…... Read More »	http://www.hachettebookgroupusa.com/authors/32/725/critical_praise.html reviews Flash House by Aimee Liu "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... Read More »
Library Journal reviews Cloud Mountain by Aimee Liu Warner Books, which has been highly successful with such bittersweet romances as Robert James Waller's The Bridges of Madison County and Nicholas Sparks's The... Read More »	The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Vol. 297 No. 18, pp. 1955-2044 reviews Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders by Aimee Liu With uninhibited truthfulness Aimee Liu reveals incidents in her own life which propelled her into anorexia... She believes the greatest asset any of us possess is... Read More »
PsycCRITIQUES Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books reviews Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders by Aimee Liu Liu's book, Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders, immediately grabbed our attention because it focuses on life after a person overcomes an eating... Read More »	For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance Story Circle Book Reviews reviews For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance by Aimee Liu For Keeps is not an easy book to read. It is not about pretty women with perfect bodies who find easy acceptance in a beauty-obsessed culture. No. It is an... Read More »
Los Angeles Times reviews It's My F---king Birthday by Merrill Markoe "Funny in a sly, true, painful way." Read More »	The New York Times reviews What the Dogs Have Taught Me by Merrill Markoe Merrill Markoe has a keen eye for the little lunacies of modern living. Hers is a special talent, desperately needed these days. Read More »
Los Angeles Times reviews Walking in Circles Before Lying Down: A Novel by Merrill Markoe There was a time when Merrill Markoe worried that Stupid Pet Tricks, the goofy segment she created for “Late Night With David Letterman,” would be the sum total of... Read More »	Kirkus Reviews reviews Dream of the Blue Room by Michelle Richmond A complex and nimbly fashioned first novel. Read More »

The Girls From Ames Minneapolis Star Tribune reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow When the movie "10" came out, a group of high school girlfriends in Ames, Iowa, decided that Karen, the one with the longest hair, should be transformed into Bo... Read More »	The Girls From Ames AMES TRIBUNE ARTICLE reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow “The Girls from Ames” is a book about friendship, a theme to which we can all relate. What makes this story more relevant is that it began in our own community,... 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 Northfield News reviews The Girls From Ames by Jeffrey Zaslow NORTHFIELD — For much of her life, Northfield resident Kelly Zwagerman has shared a 40-year friendship with 10 other women from her high school. They’ve been there... Read More »
People's Book Prize reviews The Ghosts of Eden by Andrew JH Sharp Magical language. Wonderfully drawn characters. Fascinating narrative that stops you from putting down this book before you've read it from cover to cover. A rich... Read More »	Five Books reviews The Ghosts of Eden by Andrew JH Sharp ... It is a wonderful story following two children: one colonial, one native African. It’s just out – very new. I thought: yes, this is a pretty rare book; whoever... Read More »
Out -numbered 3 to 1 reviews The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos by Margaret Mascarenhas Irene dos Santos disappeared at age 15. Believed to have drowned while on holiday with her best friend, Lily Martinez, her body was never found. Now, years later,... Read More »	Front page of book reviews Mass Casualties: A Young Medic's True Story of Death, Deception, and Dishonor in Iraq by Michael Anthony "From traumatic injuries to anthrax shots, Michael Anthony has captured in intricate detail life in a combat zone operating room. As someone who's done two tours... Read More »
South Florida Sun-Sentinel reviews City of Dragons by Kelli Stanley Unconventional characters provide the backbone of the mystery genre. And Kelli Stanley's riveting new series about 1940s San Francisco private investigator Miranda... Read More »	Harriet Klausner, Genre-Go-Around reviews Seduced by the Wolf by Terry Spear "No one makes werewolves seem real better than romantic urban fantasist Terry Spear continually does with her “Wolf” saga (see Legend of the White Wolf, To Tempt a... Read More »