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Joani Elliott’s “The Audacity of Sara Grayson” is Poignant, Playful and Perceptive

“Audacity,” writes Sara’s mother from the grave. “A word with superb meaning and long overlooked as a girl’s name.” And something that Sara Grayson is pretty sure she does not have. Things happen quickly in Joani Elliott’s debut novel The Audacity of Sara Grayson (Post Hill Press). Sara wanders through…

Sherri DaleyMay 25, 2021

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Add Books to Your Mental Health Care Routine

October 10 is World Mental Health Day! The first commemoration was in 1992 with an aim for support and outreach, but it was the beginning of a new era: between the early nineties and today, destigmatization initiatives, care choices and availability, advocacy, awareness foundations and research have, thankfully, made leaps…

Judy MorenoOctober 8, 2021

Better Self Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

“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 Better Self - Featured Nonfiction

Vignettes Paint a Colorful Mosaic of Life Lessons That Can Serve Anyone and Everyone

A 50-year-old woman is beginning to resign herself to a life without romantic love. She moves to Tulsa for work, without knowing anyone, and attends a Toastmasters District Conference with the intention of just meeting potential friends. At the event, she strikes up a conversation with some friendly women, and…

BookTribNovember 17, 2021

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“Purpose and Possibilities: How to Transform Your Life” Gets to the Heart of Healing

The subtitle of this book, Purpose and Possibilities (BG Publishing), is “How to Transform Your Life.” And who doesn’t want to transform their life, especially after the year that we’ve had? This is the perfect book at the perfect time — if you’re willing to do the work. This is…

Barbara WilkovJuly 21, 2021

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

“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

Fiction

Review: ‘The Underground Railroad’ is the Best Book of the Year — Maybe the Decade

Decades before the Civil War, a slave woman named Cora risks her life and runs off a cotton plantation in Georgia. Colson Whitehead’s hero in The Underground Railroad is afraid to take a gamble on so much until she realizes she wouldn’t be risking that much to begin with. Being…

Matt GillickNovember 17, 2016

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: Capturing a Time, an Emotion, and Your Attention

There’s so much to love about a novel that gives us insight into what it was like to be a woman during a certain time in history. Even better if that time was pivotal, unforgettable and hovering on the brink of seismic shifts that will leave the world forever changed.…

Jessica StrawserJuly 22, 2021

Fiction

TGIT Recaps – What to Expect From Your Fave Shonda Shows

Warning: Major spoilers for the latest episodes of Grey's Anatomy, Scandal, and How to Get Away with Murder ahead! Last Thursday was the ABC winter finales of all of our favorite Shonda Rhimes shows – otherwise known as TGIT. Thank goodness it was Thursday, indeed. The winter finale event kicked…

Rachel CarterNovember 23, 2017

Fiction

Summer Reading: Books for Firefly Evenings

It is a truth universally acknowledged that fireflies are one of the best things about summer. They’re the beautiful glowy harbingers of lazy evenings that you stay outside to watch, even if the mosquitoes are getting at your ankles. So, as summer dwindles down, let’s take a moment to…

Katie HiresAugust 19, 2016

Fiction

Strange World, Faithful Friends — and Monsters Await “Beneath the Ruins”

It’s getting dark. Residents of Arkdale soon will shelter for long weeks behind their town’s locked gates until the weak sun begins to shine again. Even in the light time of year, only the brave — or foolhardy — venture out to explore the nearby ruins of an unknown civilization,…

Joanna PoncavageJuly 19, 2021

Joani Elliott’s “The Audacity of Sara Grayson” is Poignant, Playful and Perceptive

Add Books to Your Mental Health Care Routine

“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

Vignettes Paint a Colorful Mosaic of Life Lessons That Can Serve Anyone and Everyone

“Purpose and Possibilities: How to Transform Your Life” Gets to the Heart of Healing

“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

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

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

Review: ‘The Underground Railroad’ is the Best Book of the Year — Maybe the Decade

TGIT Recaps – What to Expect From Your Fave Shonda Shows

Summer Reading: Books for Firefly Evenings

Strange World, Faithful Friends — and Monsters Await “Beneath the Ruins”

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