Kirkus Quotes

#1. A spectacular novel of colonial China that should put this first-time author on the map." - Kirkus Reviews

Milena Banks

#2. Some of the most effective segments are interviews with various staff members, including Aila, who works for the center's legal department. She explains the difficulties of rape prosecution, concluding that "only the survivor" can truly define justice. - Kirkus Review

Robert Uttaro

#3. An engaging examination of a painful subject, with a focus on healing and forgiveness. - Kirkus Review

Robert Uttaro

#4. Ciabattari is a master of transformation as she gives these stories of loss, woe, crisis and collapse the salutary and sometimes bracing pleasures of plain good fiction.
Kirkus Reviews

Jane Ciabattari

#5. Material Witness - book 1 (**Named one of Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2012) Nothing But Trouble (Contemporary Western Romance)

Lisa Mondello

#6. Kirkus Star Review stated of Behind the Lines: "An excellent history that should catapult Miller to the top tier of popular historians.

Jeffrey B. Miller

#7. In terms of environmental impact, Samasource jobs are very green. Our product is human intelligence, and it's transported through the Internet rather than via carbon-intensive trucking, shipping, and warehousing.

Leila Janah

#8. Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy,

Joe Biden

#9. It may be, after all," said the Student Anselmus to himself, "that the superfine stomachic liqueur, which I took somewhat freely in Monsieur Conradi's, might really be the cause of all these shocking phantasms, which tortured me so at Archivarius Lindhorst's door.

E.T.A. Hoffmann

#10. Love heals. Heals and liberates.

Maya Angelou

#11. You can't think your way into acting positively, but you can act your way into thinking positively.

Nido R. Qubein

#12. To let something go is to participate in a much greater dance that we call life.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#13. ~EDITORIAL REVIEW~
" ... Wickard will have readers on edge ..."
" ... a methodical, white-knuckled grip of the throat, the tension getting tighter."
"A leisurely paced but ultimately rewarding, riveting thriller."

Douglas Wickard

#14. Small chains wound their way through the trigger guards with little bronze locks at the end of each row. It was like a chain gang for weapons. Some of them might be good, some of them might be bad, but there was no way to tell until somebody picked them up.

Craig Johnson