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“Conscious Parenting” Provides Emotional Support and a Personal Toolkit

The author Robert A. Saul, MD starts off his informative guide to parenting, Conscious Parenting: Using the Parental Awareness Threshold (Koehler Books), with a perfect quote from the Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen: I need a clue ‘Cause I’m flying blind And making this up as I go.” No doubt…

Jim AlkonAugust 10, 2021

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An Inspirational Journey From Traumatic Childhood to Wholeness Through God

“To look at us, you would have thought we were the great American family,” Cheryl Glaiser writes in the first pages of her memoir, Use It, Don’t Abuse It (Gatekeeper Press). She goes on to set an idyllic scene of growing up in the 1960s in the small town of…

Barbara WilkovDecember 13, 2021

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Susan Lax’s Poetry Invites Peace, Poignance and Presence in All Life’s Moments

A Heart’s Landscape: An Invitation to the Garden of Moments is a meditative, healing debut by the lyrical Susan Lax. The author pens contemplative poems that aim to uncover some of life’s most important yet least gaudy occasions; tranquil pictures reinforce the themes. This one’s just waiting to live on…

Judy MorenoJanuary 12, 2022

Better Self Nonfiction

“Functional Dysfunction: From Sour Grapes to Fine Wine” Proves Life Can Be Salvaged and Savored

Errol Ball was trapped in the wilderness of his own life. His marriage was tenuous, he was questioning his religious beliefs and was doing reckless things in hope of producing reckless outcomes. He likened his situation to the part in the movie The Ten Commandments when, despite hesitancy from the…

BookTribJuly 16, 2021

Better Self Nonfiction

“The Little Book of Big Knowing” Offers a Lighting-Round of Wisdom

That’s what author Michele Sammons asks readers at the outset of The Little Book of Big Knowing. It’s a fair question to anyone engaged in or considering a journey under the general heading of self-help. In order to help yourself, Sammons suggests, you need to do a little reaching beyond…

Jim AlkonMay 12, 2021

Better Self Nonfiction

A Celebration of Life: She Survived to Not Only Tell Her Story, But to Help Others Tell Theirs

She will never forget walking into that setting and seeing GRAY — walls, carpeting, draperies, and folding chairs positioned around gray oblong tables. “Everything looked gray,” says Addario, “even the people.” In her mind, contracting cancer isn’t about dying, it’s about living, “and nobody was living in that room,”…

Carole ClapsMay 18, 2021

Better Self Nonfiction

“No Sugar In Me” Offers Lifestyle Changes For the Sweetener’s Devotees

People across the globe are consuming more sugar than ever. The fallout of this worldwide added, processed and refined sugar addiction comes at a very high price: our health. Brad Woodgate, self-made serial entrepreneur and nutrition industry expert, is taking on sugar with his first book, No Sugar in Me,…

BookTribJune 23, 2021

Better Self Nonfiction

You Embody One of “The Seven Gifts” That Inspire Humanity

A “Gift Map” featuring assorted images, from a Humpback Whale to a set of salt and pepper shakers, greets you when you open this book. What does this have to do with wisdom? It’s a funny little teaser (gorgeously illustrated Syed Muhammed Waqas) that draws you in and makes you…

Judy MorenoJuly 13, 2021

Better Self Business Nonfiction

Don’t Quit Your Daydream (And Other Secrets to Surviving Math Class and Writing Books)

When I was about four my mother, who had recently been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, took me across the country by truck. We hitchhiked from truck stop to truck stop from New York to California. Meanwhile my father, who had full custody of me, went to the police to put…

Eliza VanCortMay 13, 2021

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Ed Hajim’s “On the Road Less Traveled” Takes Us on an Unforgettable Journey

“A bend in the road,” says Ed Hajim, “is not the end of the road.” He should know. At the age of three, Hajim was kidnapped by his father, driven cross-country, and told that his mother was dead. He pressed his face against the car window, watched the miles pass…

Jim AlkonMarch 1, 2021

Fiction

Jennifer Rosner Takes Us Inside Gripping “The Yellow Bird Sings”

Emotional, heartbreaking and hopeful, The Yellow Bird Sings (Flatiron Books) by Jennifer Rosner touches the music of your soul. It is 1941 Poland; Roza and Shira, mother and daughter, are Jews, hidden in a barn by farmers. After their family was violently taken from them, they have no choice but…

Jennifer BlankfeinMarch 3, 2020

Fiction

The Multi-Generational Journey to Make the World “A Better Place”

Before he wrote A Better Place (Mandevilla Press), Steven M. Forman made a name for himself with the Boca trilogy, a series of mystery novels set in Forman’s own Boca Raton. This novel, an epic 400-plus-page saga spanning most of the twentieth century and revolving around the story of one…

BookTribDecember 4, 2019

Fiction

Teddi Leaves Everything to Chance in Amy Sue Nathan’s Newest Novel

I am a sucker for places in real life and settings in books that spark my imagination. When visiting a new town in person or in the pages of a book, I imagine the vast and different lives I could take on in these new geographies. In these places, I…

Brandi GranettNovember 27, 2017

Fiction

Tall Poppies Review: Sometimes “Little Broken Things” Have a Big Impact…

Tender descriptions of Minnesota lake picnics, boathouse romances and childhood memories cloak simmering shame and mysterious motives in this slow unraveling of community secrets, Little Broken Things, from author Nicole Baart. When Quinn’s sister Nora brings a troubled child to the door of her small cottage, telling her not…

Kelly SimmonsNovember 30, 2017

Fiction

Take a Trip to 1968 via “The Road to Delano”

What the average American knows about the Delano Grape Strike would probably fit on the head of a pin. Most of us can quote a sentence or two from Martin Luther King Jr.’s impassioned “I’ve got a dream” speech. We can call up an image of Ghandi, clad in his…

Sherri DaleyMarch 6, 2020

Fiction

Science and Humor Explode in Weike Wang’s ‘Chemistry’

I was pleasantly surprised at how much I loved the book Chemistry! Author Weike Wang’s unnamed narrator, a Chinese-American Ph.D. student, lives with her redheaded boyfriend behind her traditional parents’ backs. Despite the high expectations for their daughter to become a chemist, she is unable to be successful in her research,…

Jennifer BlankfeinAugust 15, 2017

“Conscious Parenting” Provides Emotional Support and a Personal Toolkit

An Inspirational Journey From Traumatic Childhood to Wholeness Through God

Susan Lax’s Poetry Invites Peace, Poignance and Presence in All Life’s Moments

“Functional Dysfunction: From Sour Grapes to Fine Wine” Proves Life Can Be Salvaged and Savored

“The Little Book of Big Knowing” Offers a Lighting-Round of Wisdom

A Celebration of Life: She Survived to Not Only Tell Her Story, But to Help Others Tell Theirs

“No Sugar In Me” Offers Lifestyle Changes For the Sweetener’s Devotees

You Embody One of “The Seven Gifts” That Inspire Humanity

Ed Hajim’s “On the Road Less Traveled” Takes Us on an Unforgettable Journey

Jennifer Rosner Takes Us Inside Gripping “The Yellow Bird Sings”

The Multi-Generational Journey to Make the World “A Better Place”

Teddi Leaves Everything to Chance in Amy Sue Nathan’s Newest Novel

Tall Poppies Review: Sometimes “Little Broken Things” Have a Big Impact…

Take a Trip to 1968 via “The Road to Delano”

Science and Humor Explode in Weike Wang’s ‘Chemistry’

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