November 2011
BookPage on Robert Morgan’s Lions of the West:
“Morgan…writes with an enviable clarity that makes personalities, issues and events come alive on the page…This authoritative and enlightening book engages the reader from the first page and holds our attention until the last.”
October 31
The Buffalo News interviews William Alexander, author of 52 Loaves
October 30
The Richmond Times-Dispatch on Hillary Jordan’s When She Woke:
“The author works carefully to nurture realistic characters who break the political mold.”
October 28
Book Notes features Donia Bijan’s playlist for Maman’s Homesick Pie
October 27
Jonathan Evison’s West of Here is named the Best Book of the Year by Hudson Booksellers
October 27
The Indianapolis Star profiles Amy Stewart’s Wicked Bugs in time for Halloween
October 26
Book Notes features Martha Southgate’s playlist for The Taste of Salt
October 26
Brown Girl Book Speak interviews Martha Southgate, author of The Taste of Salt
October 24
The Detroit News reviews Amy Stewart’s Wicked Bugs
October 23
The Globe and Mail on Hillary Jordan’s When She Woke:
“The story is well-paced and keeps the reader turning pages to find out what will happen to Hannah, but you will also be intrigued by the imagined world.”
October 23
Watch Lions of the West author Robert Morgan on C-SPAN’s Book TV
October 21
The Austin American Statesman interviews Hillary Jordan about When She Woke:
October 19
Expressnightout.com interviews Wicked Bugs author Amy Stewart
October 16
The Wichita Eagle on Donia Bijan’s Maman’s Homesick Pie:
“Quietly compelling stories of an ordinary family dealing with extraordinary circumstances. Memories of family are inextricably linked to food — the smells, the flavors, the look and feel of a dish — and Bijan brings foods both mundane and exotic to life in the pages.”
October 15
OregonLive.com features Richard Louv’s The Nature Principle
October 14
The Charlotte Observer on Robert Morgan’s Lions of the West:
“Robert Morgan should be declared a national treasure, and his latest work, Lions of the West, is bound to become a classic in the study of American westward expansion.”
October 11
The Minneapolis Star Tribune on Hillary Jordan’s When She Woke:
“An inventive tale about a new America that has lost its way … When She Woke is, at its heart, a tense, energetic and lively paced story about self-discovery and reclamation in the wake of enormous shame. It is a story about the price of love.”
October 10
The Shelf Life profiles Lions of the West author Robert Morgan
October 9
The Eureka Times-Standard profiles the zoo exhibit based on Amy Stewart’s Wicked Bugs
October 9
Sign On San Diego interviews Wicked Bugs author Amy Stewart
October 8
The Iowa City Press-Citizen on Robert Morgan’s Lions of the West:
“[Morgan’s] detailed storytelling is rather poetically fascinating. He reminds us that all figures in history were more than what they accomplished — that many led the lives of everyday men…I now see the men behind the America I’ve always known.”
October 7
Chron.com on Amy Stewart’s Wicked Bugs:
“I found the wild tales … deliciously entertaining. They read like educational thrillers.”
October 6
SheKnows names Hillary Jordan’s When She Woke one of Fall’s Five Best Fictions
October 2011
O: The Oprah Magazine on Hillary Jordan’s When She Woke:
“[A] chilling futuristic novel.”
October 2011
O: The Oprah Magazine names Martha Southgate’s The Taste of Salt one of ten books to pick up now.
October 2011
Essence on Martha Southgate’s The Taste of Salt:
“Martha Southgate delivers her most personal work ever … In a virtuoso balancing act, Southgate tells this poignant story from other points of view.”
October 2011
Family Circle on Hillary Jordan’s When She Woke:
“[A] provocative, politically charged novel…[Hannah's] journey to reclaim herself is equally chilling and riveting.”
September 28
FoxNews.com gives a rundown of deadly gardens and a shout out to Amy Stewart’s Wicked Plants
September 26
Publisher’s Weekly on Naomi Benaron’s Running the Rift:
“Benaron accomplishes the improbable feat of wringing genuine loveliness from unspeakable horror … It is a testament to Benaron’s skill that a novel about genocide … conveys so profoundly the joys of family, friendship, and community.”
September 26
People Magazine on Martha Southgate’s The Taste of Salt:
“Four voices tell this poignant story, making each page ache with a different shade of loneliness.”
September 25
Martha Southgate’s The Taste of Salt is featured in NPR’s New In Paperback column:
“[The Taste of Salt] hauntingly explores how the mistakes people make affect everyone around them.”
September 20
The Christian Science Monitor on Martha Southgate’s The Taste of Salt:
“Southgate brings a thoughtful intelligence to her downbeat tale.”
September 14
BookPage on Hillary Jordan’s When She Woke:
“It reads like a thriller, and one that makes you think hard, to boot. I’ve already placed this one on my favorite-books-for-book-clubs list.”
September 14
Entertainment Weekly on Martha Southgate’s The Taste of Salt:
“Southgate writes with a minor-key melancholy that comes on softly, but lingers long after.”
September 13
The Washington Post on Amy Stewart’s Wicked Bugs:
“A cavalcade of terrors … [Wicked Bugs] makes for an entertaining tour of creeply-crawly territory.”
September 12
The Daily Beast names Naomi Benaron’s Running the Rift one of the Best Debut Novels of Fall 2011:
“An auspicious debut … Having worked extensively with genocide survivor groups in Rwanda, Benaron clearly acquired a very lucid sense of her characters’ lives and of the horrors they endured. Her story tells, with compelling clarity, of Rwandan Tutsi youth, Jean Patrick Nkuba—who dreams of becoming Rwanda’s first Olympic medalist. It’s a dream he must postpone for more than a decade as the internecine savagery, Hutu vs.Tutsi, slaughters millions and derails the lives of countless others. While it would be counterintuitive to pronounce this a winning, feel-good story, there is something to be said for hope restored. And Naomi Benaron’s characters say it well.”
September 12
Julia Alvarez’s In The Time of the Butterflies is referenced in The New York Times in the context of the new Memorial Museum of Dominican Resistance
September 10
The Nature Principle author Richard Louv is featured in an editorial by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristoff
September 9
The Dallas Morning News on David Anthony’s Something For Nothing:
“Reading Anthony’s prose is effortless and enjoyable…Something for Nothing is close to being a comic novel of [Donald] Westlakean proportions. Anthony’s story is virtually airtight, and his writing is sharp and witty.”
September 4
The Denver Post on David Anthony’s Something For Nothing:
“Something for Nothing is a character-driven comic thriller, and readers will hammer along as much to find out what happens next as to see Martin absorb life’s punches. Because he’s so much fun to watch, here’s hoping Anthony brings him back for a second round.”
September 1
The Nature Principle author Richard Louv is featured in the New York Times column Dot Earth
August 29
Brock Clarke’s Exley is featured on NPR’s New In Paperback roundup:
“Clarke’s narrative assurance and unfailingly realistic characters make this novel the best work of his career.”
August 23
The Washington Post on David Anthony’s Something For Nothing:
“Something for Nothing is a character-driven comic thriller, and readers will hammer along as much to find out what happens next as to see Martin absorb life’s punches. Because he’s so much fun to watch, here’s hoping Anthony brings him back for a second round.”
August 16
The Chicago Tribune reviews Penelope Rowlands’ Paris Was Ours for a Paris books round-up
August 10
Richard Louv, author of The Nature Principle, is featured on Today.msnbc.com
August 1
Pete Nelson’s I Thought You Were Dead tops The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel’s “Dog Stories for the Dog Days of Summer” list
July 25
Scientific American features a review of Wicked Bugs and an interview with author Amy Stewart:
“This book covers many of the gross, frightening, disgusting, and awful things that bugs can do to you. And it’s COOL … Bugs become less gross, and a lot more interesting, when put into the context of how they have changed human history.”
July 25
Author Alexandra Fuller calls Elisabeth Tova Bailey’s The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating her “favorite summer read-ever“:
“Lyrical, universal, deeply felt, and with an enormously generous soul, the gently told story grants readers a heightened appreciation for the ever-shrinking, ever-fascinating, secretive parts of our unkempt world.”
July 12
An essay by Heather Lende, author of Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs, is featured on CNN
July 12
Style Substance Soul interviews John Donohue, author of Man With a Pan
July 10
The Denver Post reviews Tayari Jones’ Silver Sparrow
July 10
The Los Angeles Times on Tayari Jones’ Silver Sparrow:
“Astonishing … It’s Jones’ talent for these two voices, so vulnerable and deep-hearted, and for plot … that makes her novel impossible to put down until you find out how these sisters will discover their own versions of family.”
July 9
Silver Sparrow author Tayari Jones is featured on Write Place, Write Time
July 8
The New York Times on Steve Stern’s The Frozen Rabbi:
“[A] voraciously comic novel of faith and redemption.”
July 7
The Root profiles mixed race authors, including Heidi Durrow, author of The Girl Who Fell From The Sky
July 6
The Seattle P-I on Heather Lende’s Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs:
“It will leave the reader spellbound, and encourage one to look at life with peace and equanimity and to count blessings each step of the way.”
July 5
The New York Times profiles Heidi Durrow, author of The Girl Who Fell From The Sky
July 3
David Anthony’s Something For Nothing makes The New Jersey Star-Ledger’s summer reading list
July 3
Silver Sparrow author Tayari Jones is The Root’s new ‘It’ Girl
July 2011
Richard Louv’s The Nature Principle makes O’s Summer Reading List
July 2011
Oprah.com on Richard Louv’s The Nature Principle:
“Combining fascinating personal anecdotes (a trip bear-sniffing with his family in Alaska) with the latest relevant studies (hospital patients in rooms with tree views had shorter stays and less need for pain medication than those with brick views) with practical ways to bring nature back into your life (what he calls “deep green exercise”), The Nature Principle manages to both teach and delight. Think of it as a refreshing hike for the mind and soul.”
