Published Reviews

Publishers Weekly reviews Dosed: The Medication Generation Grows Up by Kaitlin Bell Barnett Call them Generation M—for medicated. In this sometimes disturbing and often heartbreaking debut, journalist and blogger (PsychCentral.com) Barnett chronicles... Read More »	Sunday New York Times Book Review reviews Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America's First Imperial Adventure by Julia Flynn Siler "...a solidly researched account of an important chapter in our national history, one that most Americans don’t know but should. It will probably provoke... Read More »
Publishers Weekly reviews Rooted in Danger by Terry Odell The suspense is an ever-present force, with danger enhancing the sensual and very real romance between a most unlikely couple. Read More »	Publishers Weekly reviews A Bitter Veil by Libby Fischer Hellmann The Iranian revolution provides the backdrop for this meticulously researched, fast-paced stand-alone from Hellmann (Set the Night on Fire). Anna Schroder, an... Read More »
Erotica Revealed reviews Best Women's Erotica 2012 by Remittance Girl "Next in the book is the astounding “Pleasure's Apprentice” by Remittance Girl. In measured, polite, almost distant prose, the author introduces ex-college... Read More »	Miraculous! reviews Love At Absolute Zero by Christopher Meeks Love At Absolute Zero is the story of Gunnar Gunderson, a 32-year-old physicist at the University of Wisconsin. The moment he's given tenure at the university, he... Read More »
Cocktails and Books reviews Love At Absolute Zero by Christopher Meeks This was a book that had me laughing and then cringing because Gunnar reminded me of some individuals I know who resembled poor Gunnar in more ways than one.... Read More »	San Francisco Chronicle reviews The Edge of Maybe by Ericka Lutz It was bound to happen: a novel that skewers all that we enlightened Bay Area folk hold dear, from organic food and green tea to yoga and husbands who cook... Read More »
LITSEEN reviews The Edge of Maybe by Ericka Lutz The Edge of Maybe is a wonderful portrait of East Bay culture that examines what happens when outsiders pierce the tenuous bubbles of lifestyle and family, with... Read More »	Women's Voices for Change reviews The Edge of Maybe by Ericka Lutz The Edge of Maybe speaks to those spaces in-between, both geographically and spiritually, that we mostly don’t think exist in the certainty of youth. In... Read More »

http://www.public-republic.net reviews PACKING LIGHT: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Marilyn Kallet "Marilyn Kallet, author of 14 books, opens her anticipated selected poems with "Jonah on Oprah," a dramatic monologue that epitomizes how through wit, rhythm, and... Read More »	Orange County Weekly reviews Impure: Poems by Tony Barnstone Beneath the electric bill, discarded beer caps and spilled ashtray in the disaster I call my car, Impure-a collection of poetry by Whittier College prof and local... Read More »
The Irish Times reviews The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman by Margot S. Mifflin “One can read this work of non-fiction as if it were a sensational novel – with progressive feminist implications.” Read More »	Historical Novels Review reviews Stones for my Father by Trilby Kent "This slim volume is a beautiful evocation of South Africa – of a time, a culture, a geography – and it is also a human story that offers no clear-cut heroes and... Read More »
The Melbourne Age, Australia reviews The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy by Bill Hayes Not many 19th-century textbooks are referenced in the title of a television series. But such is the literary afterlife and continuing medical relevance of Gray's... Read More »	The Washington Blade, Chicago Outlines, Girlfriends Magazine, Recommended Reading/True Review reviews AfterShocks by Jess Wells "AfterShocks is an achievement. There are lines that are so filled with beauty and truth that they are sheer pleasure to read. Jess Wells is obviously... Read More »
The New York Times reviews The Subway Chronicles (edited by Jacquelin Cangro) "AN EGG SALAD SANDWICH ON THE RED LINE" essay by Anastasia M Ashman "Anyone who has ever been exasperated by an out-of-towner who lacked the chops for New York life will empathize with Anastasia Ashman's story about a sofa-... Read More »	DruidKirk.org reviews A World Full of Gods by John Michael Greer In this book, Greer reaches out to the theologians and philosophers of today who have scarcely taken polytheism seriously or even given it much thought, answering... Read More »
Kirkus Reviews reviews A Place Far Away by Vahan Zanoyan “Zanoyan illuminates the seedy world of sex trafficking in the newly independent states of the former USSR. … The rarely discussed subject matter from a... Read More »	Locus Magazine reviews Righteous Blood by Cliff Burns "...an astonishing feat of fictive shape-changing...an amazement to behold. Cliff Burns plays his hand well and the whole book's a surprise well worth the... Read More »