Kirkus Reviews Quotes

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

Milena Banks

#2. 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.
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Jane Ciabattari

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

Lisa Mondello

#4. In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.

Venus Williams

#5. Death doesn't end our devotion. It only makes it stronger.

James W. Bodden

#6. Im just not really attracted to black chicks.

Zach Braff

#7. I want you to be my wife. There's no one else I want to spend the rest of my life with. We can live out here, you, me, our kids, and Bo. But I get it now, Anna. My decisions affect you, too. So now you have one of your own to make. Will you marry me?

Tracey Garvis-Graves

#8. Take note, Anderson. Size and martial ability do not need to come with a correlating decrease in intelligence.

Kelley Armstrong

#9. She stroked my hair and told me I was beautiful, but I was old enough by then to know not to believe it anymore.

Sarah Dessen

#10. religions attempt to influence our mind-sets in the moment of temptation by incorporating different moral reminders into our environment.

Dan Ariely

#11. Often, you'll fail. But, as my mother also taught me, failure isn't the opposite of success - it's a stepping stone to success.

Arianna Huffington

#12. Sometimes I feel like I am on top of the world. Other times it feels like the world is on top of me.

Raegan Butcher

#13. Oxtail soup, summer greens tossed with pecans, grapes, red fennel, and crumbled cheese, hot crab pie, spiced squash, and quails drowned in butter.

George R R Martin

#14. Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance ...

John Calvin

#15. ~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