Reviews

Imagine being thirteen years old, and being called up at your Bat Mitzvah, summoned to recite the blessings before and after the Torah reading. For many Jewish teenagers, this coming of age ritual ceremony mark... Read More...

Review of Listen to the Wind by Susanne Dunlap

Amy Wilhelm

Reviews

Susanne Dunlap's Listen to the Wind is an engaging work of historical fiction replete with sympathetic characters. The novel is set in thirteenth-century Languedoc, a time when families are torn apart by religi... Read More...

E A Aymar’s latest thriller probes the depths of the human psyche

Maria Riegger

Reviews

The Unrepentant: A Thriller by E.A. Aymar is a fiction novel that is not for the faint of heart. It deals with sex trafficking and paints what is likely a realistic picture of how women who find themselves in bad personal situations get drawn into that terribl... Read More...

An Interview with Kim Hooper, Author of Cherry Blossoms

Maribel Garcia

Interviews, Reviews

Can someone truly abandon their will to survive? And if they do, how does ordinary life test that will? From the author of the critically-acclaimed debut novel People Who Knew Me comes the story of thirty-four-... Read More...

An Interview with the author Sarahlyn Bruck

Maribel Garcia

Interviews, Reviews

An Interview with the author Sarahlyn Bruck If you are, like so many of us, obsessed with a good book and home design shows, well, then Sarahlyn Bruck’s Designer You just may b... Read More...

Harriet Levin’s My Oceanography reviewed by L. Shapley Bassen

Maribel Garcia

Reviews

What do you know about Modernism? The Process Art Movement? How do you feel about Modern Art? You don’t have to answer to see that MY OCEANOGRAPHY is a collection of excellent poems, but it helps to know something just as it does to wear those headphones in a ... Read More...

Books We Love: Our 2018 Gift Guide

Kristin Jacobson

Literary Lagniappe, Reviews

Do you have a book lover on your holiday shopping list? Here are a few recommendations from our very talented literary critics that are sure to please even the most discerning reader. Kelly Sarabyn... Read More...

The Artist: Can Love Save a Man from Himself?

Maria Riegger

Reviews

The Artist is a compelling, richly written novel created by an author with the heart of a true artist. Lyra Shanti is a novelist, poet, playwright, and songwriter. She is the author of the science fiction Sh... Read More...

Lucky Broken Girl is about so much more than you think…An Interview with Ruth Behar

Maribel Garcia

Interviews, Reviews

Lucky Broken Girl is the story of Ruthie Mizrahi and her family. They have recently emigrated from Castro’s Cuba to New York City. In this story, we encounter a young child who is finally beginning to gain confidence in her mastery of English in a new country... Read More...

Jodi Picoult’s – A Spark of Light

Tabitha Lord

Reviews

Our guest reviewer today is Leah DeCesare. Leah is the award-winning author of Forks, Knives, and Spoons and the non-fiction series Naked Parenting. You can visit her at www.LeahDeCesare.com. Thank you, Leah!... Read More...