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Published Reviews

First Girl Scout, The Life of Juliette Gordon Low
Wall Street Journal reviews
"...a good-looking volume, illustrated with historical photographs, set on pages that resemble pale green embroidered linen and sparkling with the force of Low's...
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Publisher's Weekly reviews
In her debut, Polson offers a memoir of her journey down a river of grief, set against the sparkling beauty of the wilderness of her native Alaska..Polson shares...
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"Iron"
MungBeing Magazine reviews
"It’s rare to find so many layers in a collection of short stories that draw from so many elements such as myth, pathos, symbolism, philosophic thought, tragedy...
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Dallas Morning News reviews
"I honestly thought Me & Emma was about as perfect a book as I could ever want to read, with absolutely no need for a follow-up. But now that I’ve read What...
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The Plot Whisperer Book of Writing Prompts: Easy Exercises to Get You Writing
The Writer Magazine reviews
Martha Alderson, a.k.a "The Plot Whisperer," has been a nationally recognized plot consultant for 15 years. Here she offers loads of exercises to help writers...
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My Life Map
A Mommy's Place reviews
Here’s what’s up with the BlogHer Book Club these days: My Life Map: A Journal to Help You Shape Your Future by Kate and David Marshall. Not so much a book to...
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My Life Map
Angela Amman reviews
Untangling the different strands of my life goals can seem daunting at times. With only so many hours in a day and so many weeks in a year, I can fall into the...
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My Life Map
lil' Burghers reviews
If you asked me what I wanted to be when I was 5, I would have said a veterinarian. When I was 18, that changed to a teacher. Now at 29, I am happy in...
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My Life Map
Kapachino reviews
I’m someone who thrives when I have goals and a plan in place to get there. Not just for the big stuff like my family, education, and career, but for little things...
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My Life Map
Unintentially Brilliant reviews
When I was in high school, we had a project where we had to make a timeline of our life. Birth to death, and everything in between. I got married, had two children...
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Kristi's Book Nook reviews
Book Review: How the Moon Regained Her Shape, Posted by Kristi Bernard, Monday, May 14, 2012, website http://kristisbooknook.blogspot.com   Title: How the...
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Writing as a Sacred Path
Story Circle Book Reviews reviews
I believe writing is a spiritual practice, and so I was drawn to the title of Jill Jepson's book. She approaches writing through four gateways to the sacred: the...
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Bookforum reviews
The remarkable fluency that Valles attains and maintains over nearly six hundred pages may owe something to her complete immersion in the translation process over...
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Barnes & Noble reviews
Wrought with strikingly sublime humor and a decidedly quirky cast of characters, Headley’s first novel details a week in the life of a young man as he struggles...
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Washington Post reviews
Populating this absorbing novel is a vivid cast of characters, each with his own story. Raleigh, the bigamist’s best friend and a substitute father to the girls,...
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Come, Thief
ORION MAGAZINE reviews
Come, Thief Poems by Jane Hirshfield reviewed by Afaa M. Weaver Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. $25, 108 pages. Review published in the November/December 2011 issue...
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Blooming Red
Amazon.com reviews
Award winning and happily espoused poets, Carolyn Howard-Johnson and Magdalena Ball, have teamed up once again, to help celebrate their love of the holidays with...
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Lost Kingdom, forthcoming from Atlantic Monthly Press in January, 2012
Fortune magazine reviews
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…”
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Publishers Weekly reviews
Like many, Goodman (French Dirt) moved to New York City in search of a home, a place in which he might feel comfortable and thrive. He found it "against the...
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