Beacon Press, January 2010 Review by Suzanne Kamata It takes a certain kind of woman to up and move from Arizona to a war-torn, wet country on the other side of the world. Such a woman is Adele Barker, who, in 2001, shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States, brings – drags? [...]

Travelers’ Tales, 2008 Review by Suzanne Kamata The traveler’s tale my husband and I tell most often is about the time an arsonist set fire to our Vancouver hotel and I was rescued by hook and ladder. It was a small fire, no one was injured, and we got a story out of it that [...]

Crown Publishing Group, February 2006 Review by Vanessa Dora Murray It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over! Cupcake Brown, an attorney who worked at one of the 25th largest law firms in the nation, has traveled all over the country to deliver a motivational speech. “My goal is to hopefully inspire as many people as I [...]

Academy Chicago Publishers, 2005 Review by Cheryl A Townsend A travelogue of hilarious and sometimes perilous escapades for the adventurous woman Tamara Sheward is an Aussie-born adventurer with a penchant for taking the road less traveled when vacationing. When she overhears a fellow Aussieman talk of his travels in remote areas of Asia, she immediately [...]

Finishing Line Press, 2007 Review by GA. A. Banks-Martin The True Portrait of AIDS Julene Tripp Weaver first studied Creative writing at City University of New York before moving to Seattle where she received her Masters in Applied Behavioral Science from The Leadership Institute of Settle. Since that time she has become a passionate practitioner [...]

Seal Press, February 2007 Review by Misty K. Ericson Feeling trapped in the daily grind of her Seattle tech job, twenty-eight-year-old Maliha Masood set out abroad to ease her restless spirit; but after several months traveling through Europe, she finds herself drawn to a place she never imagined going: the Middle East. The story of [...]

Seal Press, January 2007 Review by Misty K. Ericson When Linda opens her lunchbox to find that her mother has packed homemade rice balls rather than the more popular sandwich like her friends have, she is horrified. After all, she is trying desperately to fit in. But as part of the only Japanese family in [...]

Waveland Press, 2006 Review by Elizabeth Crachiolo This book resists categorization: it is not purely a memoir, an ethnography of childbirth in West Africa, an account of one Malian woman’s life, or a love story. It’s all of these things, and it’s also informative, poignant, and funny. Kris Holloway spends two years in the Peace [...]

North Atlantic Books, Berkeley c.2000 Anne Waldman’s introduction to Strange Big Moon describes Joann Kyger’s journal, part travelogue, part poetic and personal introspection, as a “surprisingly, surreptitiously, feminist tract as well.” Living and writing as she did, however, with and among the greatest male writers of both the San Francisco Renaissance and the Beat movement, [...]