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October 29, 2010

The Nine Rooms of Happiness

Filed under: book — Tags: — katherine @ 7:47 am

“By helping you find grace in the metaphorical emotional rooms of your life, The Nine Rooms of Happiness walks you through the lifelong process of finding joy and health.”
—Dr. Mehmet Oz, bestselling author and host of The Dr. Oz Show

Ask any woman how she’s feeling. Even when things look pretty great from the outside, chances are that at least one thing is nagging at her. Whether it’s the size of our thighs or our bank accounts, there always seems to be something that isn’t measuring up to our high standards.

In The Nine Rooms of Happiness, Lucy Danziger and Catherine Birndorf use the metaphor of a house to release us from this troubling phenomenon.

•    The Basement: Memories
•    The Family Room: Your nearest and dearest
•    The Living Room: Friendship
•    The Office: When work follows you home
•    The Bathroom: Body image
•    The Bedroom: Intimacy and relationships
•    The Kitchen: Nourishment and the division of chores
•    The Kid’s Room: Parenting
•    The Attic: Expectations

The Day I Shot Cupid

Filed under: book — Tags: — katherine @ 7:38 am

For any woman who has ever bought a self-help book and wondered why she bothered. (P.S. Now that I know he’s just not that into me, where do I go from there? Yeah, thanks for that advice.)

Jennifer Love Hewitt is a self-proclaimed “love-aholic” and a hopeless romantic (her middle name is Love, after all!). She has been lucky and unlucky in love, and lived to tell—and she’s done it all in the spotlight. Much has been written about her love life—some true, most made up to sell magazines. Now Hewitt shares the real story of what she’s learned navigating the dangerous dating waters.

In The Day I Shot Cupid, Hewitt offers her hard-won wisdom and tells us how to embrace love with both feet on the ground. Funny, quirky, and empowering, The Day I Shot Cupid deserves a place on every woman’s nightstand, bookshelf, or coffee table, or tucked inside her oversized designer handbag.

October 26, 2010

Anatomy of Ghosts

Filed under: book — katherine @ 10:03 pm

Read an excerpt

1786, Jerusalem College, Cambridge

The ghost of Sylvia Whichcote is rumored to be haunting Jerusalem ever since student Frank Oldershaw claimed to have seen the dead woman prowling the grounds and was locked up because of his violent reaction to these disturbed visions.

Desperate to salvage her son’s reputation, Lady Anne Oldershaw employs John Holdsworth, author of The Anatomy of Ghosts—a stinging account of why ghosts are mere delusion—to investigate. But his arrival in Cambridge disrupts an uneasy status quo as he glimpses a world of privilege and abuse, where the sinister Holy Ghost Club governs life at Jerusalem more effectively than the Master, Dr. Carbury, ever could. And when Holdsworth finds himself haunted—not only by the ghost of his dead wife, Maria, but also by Elinor, the very-much-alive Master’s wife—his fate is sealed. He must find Sylvia’s murderer, or else the hauntings will continue. And not one of this troubled group will leave the claustrophobic confines of Jerusalem unchanged.

CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger winner Andrew Taylor returns with an outstanding historical novel that will simultaneously keep the reader riveted, and enchant with its effortless elegance.

October 25, 2010

Jodie Gould

Filed under: author — katherine @ 2:55 pm

Jodie Gould is an award-winning journalist and author of six books, including Date Like a Man: To Get the Man You Want. Her articles have appeared in Family Circle, Elle, Redbook, American Health, and the New York Times Syndicate, among many other publications and Web sites. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University, where she was awarded a Pulitzer Fellowship and an Alfred I. duPont Fellowship for Broadcast Journalism.

Marie Pasinski, M.D.

Filed under: author — katherine @ 2:53 pm

Marie Pasinski, M.D., graduated from Harvard Medical School and completed her residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She is currently a staff neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and a faculty member at Harvard Medical School. Since 1991, she has been the consulting neurologist for the Massachusetts General Hospital Health Care Centers. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and has raised two wonderful sons.

Beautiful Brain, Beautiful You: Look Radiant from the Inside Out by Empowering Your Mind

Filed under: book — Tags: — katherine @ 2:50 pm

Unlock the adult brain’s surprising potential—and look radiant from the inside out!

Have you lost your healthy glow and that sparkle in your eyes? Is it becoming harder to recall names, faces, and where you left your keys? Has your life become routine? Are you so overwhelmed by work, family, finances (or all three) that you feel exhausted at the end of every day? If you answered “yes” to one or more of these questions, chances are you are in need of a brain/beauty makeover!

Beautiful Brain, Beautiful You is for any woman who suffers from “Bad Brain Days.” Harvard neurologist Marie Pasinski, M.D., gives women lifestyle advice proven to help them look younger and healthier without a trip to the cosmetic counter or plastic surgeon. Dr. Pasinski will show you how to tap into your brain’s remarkable ability to change and redesign itself, giving you better mental clarity, as well as more energy and confidence. She will reveal how a sharper, stronger, and healthier brain can transform your life—at home, at work, and at play.

By following the simple steps in Dr. Marie Pasinski’s program, you will:

  • discover why your brain is the essence of your beauty
  • lose weight, sleep better, get fit
  • make “Mommy Brain” or “Senior Moments” a thing of the past
  • feel rejuvenated and more energized
  • experience a new sense of control over your body and mind
  • reveal the inner joy that comes from a beautiful brain

Beautiful Brain, Beautiful You explains why beauty begins from the inside out. When your brain isn’t at its best, you can’t look your best. With its inspiring, easy-to-follow program and compelling scientific evidence, this breakthrough book will help you think, look, and feel ten years younger.

What Americans Really Want … Really

Filed under: book — Tags: , — katherine @ 2:39 pm

“When Frank Luntz invites you to talk to his focus group, you talk to his focus group.”
—Presidential candidate Barack Obama, spoken on June 28, 2007, to a PBS-sponsored focus group following the Democratic presidential debate at Howard University

“If words are weapons, Frank Luntz is a samurai.”
Time

This is America. From restaurant booths to voting booths, pollster Frank Luntz has studied our private habits, our public interests, and our hopes and fears. What are the five things Americans want the most? What do we really want from our government? For our families? From companies? For our future? And how does understanding what Americans really want allow businesses to thrive?

In this fascinating book, based on a decade of face-to-face interviews with 25,000 people and telephone polls with one million more, Luntz disassembles the preconceived notions we have about one another and lays all the pieces of the American condition out in front of us, openly and honestly. What Americans Really Want . . . Really is a real, if sometimes scary, discussion of Americans’ secret hopes, fears, wants, and needs.

October 21, 2010

One Amazing Thing

Filed under: book — Tags: — katherine @ 3:31 pm

“Ingeniously conceived and intelligently written, this novel is a fable for our time.”
–Ha Jin, author of A Free Life and the National Book Award-winning Waiting

“[A] jewel of a story.”
–Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone

“Hauntingly beautiful.”
Houston Chronicle

One catastrophic event. Nine strangers. One amazing story.

The scene: Late afternoon in a passport and visa office in an unnamed American city. Most customers and even most office workers have come and gone, but a punky teenager, an upper-class Caucasian couple, a young Muslim-American man, and five others remain. Out of nowhere, an earthquake rips through the lull, trapping these nine disparate people together, with little food and no way to escape the slowly flooding office. When the psychological and emotional stress becomes nearly too much for them to bear, the young graduate student suggests that each tell a personal tale, “one amazing thing” from their lives, which they have never told anyone before. And as their surprising stories of romance, marriage, family, political upheaval, and self-discovery unfold against the urgency of their life-or-death circumstances, the novel proves the transcendent power of stories and the meaningfulness of human expression itself.

October 19, 2010

A Captain’s Duty

Filed under: book — Tags: — katherine @ 1:53 am

“I share the country’s admiration for the bravery of Captain Phillips and his selfless concern for his crew. His courage is a model for all Americans.”
–President Barack Obama
April 12, 2009 on Captain Phillips’ Rescue

It was just another day on the job for fifty-three-year-old Richard Phillips, captain of the Maersk Alabama, a United States-flagged cargo ship. That all changed when armed Somali pirates boarded the ship, setting off a tense five-day standoff and a series of life-or-death feats by Captain Richard Phillips and the group of Navy SEALs who would ultimately rescue him. While the ending of the story is no surprise, the heart-stopping details of his near week-long captivity remained untold—until now. In A Captain’s Duty, follow Richard Phillips’ adrenaline-packed tale of adventure and courage during those six days as a hostage off the gun-plagued shores of Western Africa. When the pirates boarded his ship, Captain Phillips put his experience into action, doing everything he could to safeguard his crew. And when he was held captive, he marshaled all his resources to ensure his own survival, withstanding intense physical hardship and an escalating battle of wills with the pirates. This was it: the moment where training meets instinct and where character is everything. Richard Phillips was ready.

October 18, 2010

More Make It Fast, Cook It Slow: 200 Brand-New, Budget-Friendly, Slow-Cooker Recipes

Filed under: book — Tags: — katherine @ 6:39 pm

The New York Times bestselling author of slow-cooker cookbook Make It Fast, Cook It Slow returns with budget (and gluten-free!) meals that will satisfy the entire family. Stephanie O’Dea’s 200 delicious recipes include

•    Baked Herbed Feta
•    Smoky Bean and Corn Soup
•    Maple-Glazed Pork Chops
•    Moroccan Chicken with Lentils
•    Apple-Pecan Bread Pudding
•    Orange and Honey Tilapia
•    Chocolate Pot de Crème with Ganache

—and many more. More Make It Fast, Cook It Slow is the perfect cookbook for easy-to-prepare meals that don’t take a toll on the family budget.

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