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Publishers Weekly reviews Publishers Weekly Review of 'Naked... by Anonymous

Ganahl’s writing is sassy, fiery (the prose equivalent of her red hair and love of rock and roll), and many...

The New York Times reviews The Men Who Made the... by William J. Broad

This book is a major work of historical synthesis that brings to life the men and machines that gave us...

San Francisco Chronicle reviews Reviews in Brief: The Tattoo... by John Freeman

If Michel Foucault wrote fiction he might have composed something resembling The Tattoo Hunter, Juvenal Acosta's feverish first novel.

San Francisco Chronicle reviews Good Grief by Tiffany Vigil

Good Grief, about Sophie, a young grieving widow, begins with such gloomy intensity that it’s a relief when, during a...

Publishers Weekly reviews My Horizontal Life: A Collection... by Reed Business Information

Opening with a cute story from when she was seven and photographed her parents having sex, stand-up comedian Handler goes...

San Francisco Chronicle reviews Digressions on blood, the fluid... by Steve Kettmann

Bill Hayes is on his way to becoming one of those rare authors who can tackle just about any subject...

Library Journal

This stunning first novel, set in contemporary Africa, begs to be compared to Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible and Ronan...

Los Angeles Times

"What’s charming beyond the humor of this memoir is that it remains affectionate even in the weakest, most tenuous moments...