Published Reviews
South China Morning Post reviews
FOR YEARS KIM Wong Keltner cruised
bookshops, looking for contemporary fiction
featuring heroines with whose experiences
she could identify. She saw countless...
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Kirkus Reviews reviews
A summer holiday in glorious Cornwall turns into a ghost-plagued nightmare.
Talented musician Ringan Laine and his theatrical producer and longtime lover Penny...
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Publishers Weekly reviews
Still Life with Devils Deborah Grabien. Drollerie (Ingram, dist.), $15.95 paper (218p) ISBN 978-0-9798-0810- 4
Grabien (New-Slain Knight) turns to supernatural...
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The New Yorker reviews
Hemmings channels the voice of her befuddled middle-aged hero with virtuosity...
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The Guardian reviews
Kaui Hart Hemmings's first novel manages to both be shockingly irreverent and funny while exerting that all-important emotional tug.
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BookPage reviews
Kathi Kamen Goldmark has written a fast-paced, wisecracking debut novel that takes readers on the road and backstage for an intimate look at the country music...
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Publisher's Weekly reviews
Goldmark takes an offbeat spin through the world of country music in her charming debut...the combination of Goldmark's playful humor, her smooth prose style and...
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The Christian Science Monitor reviews
by Tamim Ansary
On Sept.12, Tamim Ansary, an Afghan American who lives in the Bay Area, listened with dismay as men and women phoned in to a talk radio show, calling for the US to...
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Boston Globe reviews
“Leslie Larson gives an 82-year-old assisted living resident an unforgettable voice: caustic, profane, searingly honest….Cora Sledge is an unlikely heroine. She’s...
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Edge reviews
impressive memoir...this book, "quiet" by industry standards, is more gripping than most big press memoirs that are efficiently marketable with the one-line blurb...
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Good Family Reads reviews
by Stacy Juba
A very easy to read format, a few long words that are very well explained will not only entertain but teach kids of all ages. I was very happy that the Flag Facts...
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Darhk Portal reviews
by Terry Spear
Okay, apparently the book gods saw me in my distress over my dilema with the less than hotness level in the recent books...
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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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San Francisco Chronicle reviews
by John Pipkin
In Texas writer John Pipkin's excellent debut novel, "Woodsburner," the hardware store owner in 19th century Concord, Mass., points out the town eccentric and...
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Midwest Book Review, Vol. 4, No. 2 reviews
by Ron Dakron
Insects were never thought of by anyone as 'sexy'. "Mantids" takes a look into the love life of the mantis, and a certain male of the species who can't seem to get...
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School Library Journal reviews
VAN LIESHOUT, Maria. Splash!: A Little Book About Bouncing Back. illus. by author. unpaged. Feiwel & Friends. 2008. Tr $12.95. ISBN 978-0-312-36914-9. LC...
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Long and Short Romance Reviews reviews
by Terry Spear
Deidre's premonitions are her gift, as well as her secret; because just how uncool is it to have visions? In Deidre's Secret, our heroine's second sight becomes...
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