Dear Readers, Dear Colleagues, Dear Friends:

First, let me thank you for your generosity in response to my annual fundraising appeal.

Second, let me share my blessings with you. An American Bride in Kabul has received two new and rather wonderful reviews in 2014. One appeared in The New English Review on 1/1/14 and the second appears today, on 1/3/14 in The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT). Bride received its first pre-publication review in June, 2013 and this is seven months later and the reviews still keep on coming. Here are the links to both reviews (today's in the IPT and yesterday's in the New English Review) and to a QNA with me at New English Review as well. Thanks to my two excellent reviewers, Jerry Gordon and Abigail Esman, and thanks to Steve Emerson who publishes the IPT.