Published Reviews

Christian Science Monitor print edition reviews Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America's First Imperial Adventure by Julia Flynn Siler The Christian Science Monitor picks Lost Kingdom as an Editor’s Choice, calling it “a fascinating and authoritative tale of intrigue and imperialism…” Read More »	Published in January 2012 issue of International Journal on Multicultural Literature, ISSN 2231-6248 reviews Waiting for Manna by Sarojini Sahoo “It is easy to flow with the current, it makes no demands, and it costs no effort… But who fight the current and struggle it, know what... Read More »
Amazon.com reviews High Steaks by Rob Loughran Not since I read The Milagro Beanfield War and The Hotel New Hampshire have I encountered such eclectic, quirky characters in a story that is so much fun to read... Read More »	Sacramento/San Francisco Book Review reviews Dreaming in Darkness by Jessica Kristie “Jessica Kristie dazzles in this new collection of poems. … each section in this collection starts off slow and staccato and builds slowly as time moves on,... Read More »
Pulsar Poetry Webzine, Edition #8 (60) reviews Finnish-American Poetry by Rauhala, Vartnaw, Hagelberg by Bill Vartnaw I'll be honest about this. I had no idea what to expect. My knowledge of Finland and its culture is pretty much limited to knowing that Nokia come from... Read More »	The Bohemian reviews Finnish-American Poetry by Rauhala, Vartnaw, Hagelberg by Bill Vartnaw 'Finnish-American Poetry' features works by Johanna Rauhala, Bill Vartnaw and Don Hagelberg in a small volume of open-format poetry. Rauhala's poetry is set... Read More »
http://www.indiapost.com/a-whodunit-and-the-tale-of-contemporary-afghanistan/ reviews AN AFGHAN WINTER by Rajesh Talwar It’s one thing to spin off a fictional story set against a historical backdrop but quite another to fictionalize life in a contemporary war zone. You see, it... Read More »	Fortune magazine reviews Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America's First Imperial Adventure by Julia Flynn Siler Fortune magazine’s Weekly Read column calls Lost Kingdom “…a riveting and intimate look at the rise and tragic fall of Hawaii’s royal family…” Read More »
San Francisco Chronicle reviews Lost Kingdom: Hawaii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America's First Imperial Adventure by Julia Flynn Siler The San Francisco Chronicle leads its Sunday review section with Lost Kingdom, praising it as a story told with “agitating freshness” and “a powerful act of... Read More »	Silkki's Reviews reviews Sleeper's Run by Henry Mosquera There are so many great aspects in this book the thrills and suspense keep you on the edge of your seat... Read More »

The Buddha Diaries, Huffington Post reviews The Complete Idiot's Guide to Buddhism by Gary G Gach You may find these to be times when despair and withdrawal seem to be the only rational answers.... Read More »	Huff Post Books reviews Sugar Zone by Mary Mackey It is difficult to resist the temptation to compare, if not the style of poems, then simply the location of Mary Mackey's Sugar Zone to Elizabeth Bishop's series,... Read More »
NewPages.com reviews Brown Glass Windows by devorah major Brown Glass Windows by Devorah Major is one of those novels told partly through the confines of the conventional prose story form and... Read More »	Strange Adventures (U.K.) reviews The Reality Machine by Cliff Burns "At last Canada has found a literary equivalent to David Cronenberg." Read More »
Gothic Beauty magazine reviews Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues by Loren Rhoads Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues is a good read for those looking for salacious and dark material, and for people who tend to think in terms of "What if...?"... Read More »	Leadership Quarterly reviews Creating Leaderful Organizations: How to Bring Out Leadership in Everyone by Joe Raelin 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... Read More »
labloga.blogspot.com reviews A Movie in My Pillow/ Una Pelicula en mi Almohada by Jorge Argueta A Movie in My Pillow/ Una película en mi almohada is a collection of 21 poems written by Salvadoran author Jorge Argueta. In these poems Jorge Argueta evokes the... Read More »	The Cedar Street Times reviews Fortune's Way, or Notes on Art for Catholics (and Others) by Steve Hauk `` . . . beautifully written and brilliantly conceived . . . engaging, insightful, educational and most pleasurably entertaining. . . This is the way to teach... Read More »
New West reviews The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman by Margot S. Mifflin “As Margot Mifflin demonstrates in her absorbing book, The Blue Tattoo, the truth about Olive Oatman is more complicated than the many fictions about her.” Read More »	Pacific Sun reviews The Beheading Game by Brenda Webster In the medieval epic Gawain and the Green Knight, a monstrous knight, all in green, appears at King Arthur's Camelot. Anyone there may chop off his... Read More »