Amy Scribner
Content by Amy Scribner
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For a first-time novelist, tackling a book that traces the intertwined stories of several generations of Jewish immigrants is ambitious, to say the least.
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How does an author face the daunting task of following up a debut novel that is a critical and commercial sensation?
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If you choose just one novel to read in these waning days of summer, it should be the lovely and terrifically paced The Lace Reader.
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We all know people who are completely, sometimes compulsively, devoted to their pooches. The ones who let the dog sleep under the covers with them and actually encourage those sloppy doggie kisses.
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<B>A child's strange disappearing act</B> Readers might not know exactly what to think of Anne Ursu's new novel, <B>The Disapparation of James</B>.
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In her first book, the best-selling First They Killed My Father, Loung Ung recalled her Cambodian childhood under the violent reign of the Khmer Rouge army.
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Frederica Hatch is no ordinary teenager.
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In an age of whiny novels about 30-something singletons whose sole goal in life seems to be snagging a decent man, Must Love Dogs is a refreshing antidote.
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She was one of the nation’s first celebrities— a miniature human who hobnobbed with presidents, queens and Rockefellers. P.T. Barnum showcased her in his American Museum, and her wedding knocked news of the Civil War off the front pages of newspapers.
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Pull up your rocking chairs and gather around the porch. This Southern-fried tale of a family filled with beguiling women is as sweet as pecan pie.
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Elinor Mackey's perfect marriage begins its slow disintegration when she picks up the phone and overhears her husband planning a non exercise-related rendezvous with his personal trainer, Gina.
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My first thought upon seeing the title of this book was, wow, talk about preaching to the choir.
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Flipping through the channels one recent morning, I landed on a cable infomercial showing a 14-month-old strapped in his high chair, sippy cup by his side.
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Haven Kimmel is nothing if not versatile. She proved she could be intensely funny in her best-selling memoir A Girl Named Zippy.
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Anna Fiore has a bad habit of finding those she loves in the most compromising situations. First her beloved Aunt Rose has an affair with Anna's father.
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When Entertainment Weekly senior editor Karen Valby was assigned to find a place in America untouched by popular culture, she landed in Utopia, a tiny and isolated farming town in Texas.
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In the beginning of Abundance, Sena Jeter Naslund's astonishing, richly imagined novel, 14-year-old Maria Antonia stands naked on an island in the Rhine River, neutral territory between he
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Although she’s been writing for years, The Weird Sisters is Eleanor Brown’s first novel, and her joy at being published is almost palpable.
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So it's 1979. Ronald Reagan is about to take over the presidency. Hostages are being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Rod Stewart rules the airwaves.
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Washington, D.C., is a city of paradoxes. It teems with ambitious career-climbers, yet maintains a laid-back Southern vibe.
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<B>A young widow's triumphant journey through grief</B> During the first few months of Sophie Stanton's life as a widow, she goes to work dressed in her bathrobe, finds herself sobbing
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Look and feel 10 years younger in 10 weeks. Sound too good to be true?
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The most comprehensive pregnancy guide imaginable, The Whole Pregnancy Handbook covers fertility, nutrition, prenatal yoga, miscarriages, labor and plenty more in between.
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Eating Well When You're Expecting is the newest offering from the rapidly growing What to Expect dynasty of books, and it's a useful addition dedicated solely to nutrition during pregnancy and
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With his white beard and twinkling smile, Andrew Weil bears more than a passing resemblance to a certain North Pole denizen.
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Lisa Scottoline answers her phone. “Hello?” she says. “Hello?” At least, I think that’s what she says.
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First, block out the fact that the book in your hands was written by a well-known Hollywood actress (formerly Alison from Melrose Place and currently starring in According to Jim ).
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In Rochelle Jewel Shapiro's thoroughly charming debut novel, Miriam the Medium, phone psychic Miriam Kaminsky takes calls from her Great Neck, New York, home office, offering clairvoyance and
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Where to start with Laura Munson’s wise, introspective and maddening memoir, in which she recalls the summer of her husband’s discontent?
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An intensely private, bookish woman meets a charming but aimless man who is the least accomplished sibling in a dynastic political family.
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You can be forgiven for being distracted these days.
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In House Rules, Jodi Picoult explores one of the more polarizing and confounding issues facing parents today: Are childhood vaccines somehow linked to the hauntingly frequent diagnoses of au
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Claire Dederer admits to an occasional, tiny bit of anxiety.
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Naomi Judd is nothing if not honest. In Naomi's Guide to Aging Gratefully, she shares her secrets for keeping family close, keeping romance alive and keeping mind and body nimble.
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Actress and yoga enthusiast Mariel Hemingway will always be known as one of the famous descendants of Ernest Hemingway, but she is carving out her own niche as a proponent of healthy living.
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Just in time for the holidays, a treasure of a short novel by Pete Hamill is being reissued.
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Surely one of the more untraditional collections of short stories published in recent memory, A Kudzu Christmas, is a beguiling set of 12 supremely spooky Southern mysteries.
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History has all too often dismissed Marie Antoinette as a simple, frivolous queen with expensive taste.
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When Kate Racculia finished her master’s in fine arts from Emerson College, her first thought was, wow, this is great, now I can be a writer and write fulltime! “Then I realized I
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Blue Nights, it must be said, is almost unbearably sad. As in 2005’s The Year of Magical Thinking, for which she won the National Book Award, Joan Didion here writes starkly about the death of a loved one.
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What is it about sea turtles that make them so mysterious? Is it the laborious egg-laying process, in which thousands of females lumber up the beach to deposit their eggs? Is it their immense size?
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How many of us have said with a shrug, "I'm just not good at math"? Untrue, says mathematician John Mighton, who contends that anyone can succeed in math.
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Alice Sebold certainly knows how to grab her readers' attention.
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Ivy Ingram Larson was just 22 when she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
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Those who aren't enamored with hounds can pick up The Cat Fanciers' Association Complete Cat Book, edited by pet expert Mordecai Siegal.
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While staying physically fit is important, so too is preserving mental fitness. Two new books explore ways to keep your mind as healthy as your body.
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As a first-time mother trying to make sense of a colicky newborn—one who seemingly needed only a few minutes of sleep every 24 hours—only one thing saved me from running screaming from
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A few weeks ago, author Dani Shapiro, her atheist husband and their young son went to hear a children’s choir perform on a village green near their New England home.
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Author Amy Tan created her own subgenre of popular literature back in the late 1980s (sweeping, semi-autobiographical stories of family, loyalty and love set in various Asian times and cultures), b
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Humans lose up to 30 percent of muscle mass by age 70, and without some work, it goes even further downhill from there. An expert in movement therapy, author D.
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Loosely based on Charlotte Brontë’s beloved classic Jane Eyre, the newest gem from acclaimed novelist Margot Livesey follows the trials of a determined young orphan as she searches to find her place in the world.The Flight of Gemma Hardy is every bit as enchanting as Livesey’s previous novels . . .
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Warning: Jeanne Ray's novel Eat Cake is so much fun that it easily lends itself to silly baking metaphors like "sweet as chocolate" or "smooth as icing." Don't wo
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Finding the perfect gift for Mother's Day can be about as much fun as shopping for, say, new tires. Does your mom really need another coffee mug, or yet another bottle of bubble bath?
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First novel sure to make a splash The story of Noah and the flood is so entrenched in our culture that most people at least know the basics: God visits a pious old man and instructs him to build a h
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Finally, for those who indulge a bit too much in holiday goodies, there is the hilarious, heartfelt The Sound of One Thigh Clapping, Meredith Clair's meditation on the eternal fight against fa
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Prudence Whistler is the kind of woman who lives by lists and plans. Tucked into her meticulously organized day planner, she keeps a list of the pros and cons offered by her boyfriend, Rudy Fisch.
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Author Jennifer Chiaverini has earned quite a following with her folksy Elm Creek Quilt series.
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After their own son died in a Christmas Eve car accident, Patricia and Mark Addison couldn't bring themselves to acknowledge the holiday.
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Karen Kingsbury continues her immensely popular Red Glove series with Hannah's Hope.
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A treasure trove of short stories from an astonishing array of distinguished writers, The Ecco Book of Christmas Stories features tales from two dozen authors including Muriel Spark, Graha
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Mammals of North America is the latest entry in the Kaufman Focus Guides series, launched to much acclaim last year with Kenn Kaufman's Birds of North America.
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In the midst of a heated public debate about whether girls do better in school without the distraction and competition of boys comes a perfectly timed book that offers a fascinating peek into the wor
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Although it's long been known that Marie Antoinette was hardly the extravagant, hateful woman often depicted in history, she just hasn't been able to shake her let them eat cake image, even after m
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By the time we meet Molly Divine Marx in the opening pages of The Late, Lamented Molly Marx, she is dead.
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Part historical novel, part love letter to New Orleans, A Separate Country is the remarkable new novel by Robert Hicks, author of the bestseller The Widow of the South.
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Please note that the subtitle of I'm Too Young to Be Seventy is And Other Delusions.
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Elinor Lipman proves laughter is the best medicine To hear Elinor Lipman tell it, the colorful characters who populate her novels practically whisper their stories in her ear.
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Women in Amy Boesky’s family die young, and they die specifically. The threat of ovarian cancer has hung over the heads of Amy and her two sisters for as long as they can remember.
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Only six women can count themselves as members of the Dirty Girls Social Club a group of 20-something Latina women who met at Boston University.
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Portia Nathan has been a college admissions officer for more than a decade. And not at just any school—she works behind the gilded gates of Princeton University.
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Hattie Kong is a Chinese-American descendent of Confucius who lives in a small New England town.
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Doctors Michael F. Roizen and Mehmet C.
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Most air travelers these days dread their flights, knowing they'll be crammed in the plane for a journey that likely will feature too few refreshments and too many delays.
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If exercising has turned into drudgery (and at this point, who isn't a little sick of treadmills and free weights?), try injecting some fun into your workout with Elena Rover's The Chelsea Pie
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If you seem to be losing your keys with unsettling regularity, Mind Power might be the book for you.
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The premise of this newest essay collection by mother-daughter writing team Lisa Scottoline and Francesca Serritella may be shaky—that moms and daughters the world over are best friends who s
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Mother of the bride can be an exhilarating yet somewhat thankless role: Mom helps foot the bill and plan the event, then stands back on the big day in her bland mother-of-the-bride dress.
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For those of us who have only been to Los Angeles to visit Disneyland - and whose main source of information about the City of Angels is supermarket tabloids - it seems a mysterious and slightly bi
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I don't know if there is a sound lonelier than the silence of everybody gone.
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For a more light-hearted take on the challenges of motherhood, turn to From Here to Maternity by Beth Teitell.
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Christian author and minister Max Lucado is among the nation's most popular and prolific inspirational writers, and The Christmas Candle shows why readers are drawn to his warm, simple sto
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Are we raising a generation of great test-takers but uninspired thinkers? Stacy DeBroff thinks so.
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As host of programs "Surprise Gardener" and "Outer Spaces" on Home and Garden Television, Susie Coelho knows how to make a space look effortlessly beautiful, even if for most people there's nothing e
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Reproductive choice. Disabilities. Divorce. Cutting. Our tort-happy nation. Jodi Picoult has never been one to shy away from hot-button issues.
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Plato said, "The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life." With so much at stake, it's no wonder that helping students succeed is a daunting task for all involved.
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Plato said, "The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life." With so much at stake, it's no wonder that helping students succeed is a daunting task for all involved.
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Plato said, "The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life." With so much at stake, it's no wonder that helping students succeed is a daunting task for all involved.
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No one who has ever lived through the hormonal coming-of-age known as senior prom is likely to forget it.
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Betsy Carter's young heroine finds her place under the sea Betsy Carter is no stranger to hard times.
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Has Anna Quindlen achieved more success as a novelist or a columnist? It's a toss-up.
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Audrey Hepburn never wrote her autobiography, despite pleas from friends and agents, fearing her life was too "plain" to make for good reading.
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<B>Remembering history's heroines</B> Virtually anyone who has taken an American history course knows something about Sojourner Truth, the former slave who became a powerful abolitioni
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To get yourself into the holiday spirit, start with an irreverent, yet wise take on facing Christmas when the kids are grown and life isn't exactly what you expected.
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While we're on the subject of chick lit for the mature woman, Joan Medlicott is back with A Covington Christmas.
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In Elizabeth Berg's lyrical recasting of the story of Mary and Joseph, The Handmaid and the Carpenter, we are reminded that the parents of Jesus were a startlingly young, humble couple.
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his wife of 20 years succumbs to cancer, Robin Meredith retreats into the exhausting but familiar work of tending his English farm. He can't eat anything more substantial than a hunk of cheese.
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uth Rothwax is the kind of woman who wears a portable microphone while she jogs so she can record lists of things to do.
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I still remember when my elementary school librarian pointed out that the Little House series was shelved in the fiction section. It blew my 10-year-old mind.
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Looking for a blow-by-blow account of Condoleezza Rice’s years as George W. Bush’s secretary of state?
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Kate Atkinson has spent her afternoon stuck in traffic.
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When a speeding car slammed into Molly Birnbaum while she was out for a run, she broke her pelvis, fractured her skull and ripped tendons in her knee.
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It is said that marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
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Some of the best books are the ones in which it’s clear the author had as much fun writing the book as you do reading it.
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I was expecting Cum Laude, the “grown-up” novel by the author of the Gossip Girl series, to be a guilty pleasure of the variety you hold on your lap at the coffee shop,
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Growing up first in rural Puerto Rico, then later in the very poorest sections of New York City, Esmeralda Santiago was a young girl with seemingly few options, both oppressed and comforted by her
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In her beloved and powerful memoir, Reading Lolita in Tehran, author Azar Nafisi wrote about using literature as a source of strength while she lived under the oppressive government of Iran.
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Nothing is more miserable—or more exhilarating—than a good case of lovesickness. But what does it mean to be lovesick?
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Any mother who lives in the suburbs knows about car culture. Strap screaming toddler/infant into minivan/SUV/late-model station wagon, drive 20 minutes to coffee shop/library/play date.
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By 1880s American standards, Margaret Mayfield is an old maid.
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Whether you're looking to overhaul your home's outdated colors and tired furniture, or you simply enjoy living vicariously through the good taste of others, the latest batch of design books offers pl
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Whether you're looking to overhaul your home's outdated colors and tired furniture, or you simply enjoy living vicariously through the good taste of others, the latest batch of design books offers pl
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Whether you're looking to overhaul your home's outdated colors and tired furniture, or you simply enjoy living vicariously through the good taste of others, the latest batch of design books offers pl
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When Audrey Litvinoff’s famous liberal-lawyer husband Joel falls victim to a stroke, she is left behind to deal with their rapidly unraveling family and a secret that makes her second-guess t
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It seems somehow inappropriate to call a book so mired in war and misery magical, but in the case of When the Elephants Dance, there's no other word for it.
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How does an author follow up one of the most phenomenal bestsellers in recent publishing history?
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As a longtime reporter and newspaper columnist, Jacquelyn Mitchard couldn't help but wonder what happens to victims of high-profile violence after the headlines fade away and the camera crews dis
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Tom Perrotta's new novel may be called Little Children, but this darkly hilarious and deeply satisfying suburban tale delves into strictly adult matters of the heart.
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The leaking, cavernous home in the English countryside where The Sister is set is so cold, so musty and mysterious, you practically feel the damp coming up off the pages.
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Laura Hillenbrand first encountered Louis Zamperini while researching her 2003 bestseller Seabiscuit—and how lucky for us that she did.
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Reading Crazy U—journalist Andrew Ferguson’s hilarious, scary account of his son’s college application process—made me think my own children should get crac
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Adriana Trigiani enjoys the kind of zealous fan base reserved for a handful of contemporary authors.
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Okay, so maybe you don't know anyone whose true pet passion is the pig.
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Only two cents of every dollar African Americans spend in America go to black-owned businesses.
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The weather outside is decidedly not frightful in balmy Savannah, Georgia, where Weezie Foley is gearing up for what she hopes is her best Christmas ever.
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We've seen "Sex and the City." Now it's time for sex in the suburbs. The Position isn't exactly the frothy take on love offered by the famous HBO series.
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When his wife of 20 years succumbs to cancer, Robin Meredith retreats into the exhausting but familiar work of tending his English farm.
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The dread that infuses Strangers at the Feast starts quietly.
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Andie Miller is not the type to see ghosts, let alone talk to them.
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The so-called Queen of the Topical Novel (as crowned by the Miami Herald) is back.
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<B>The legacy of a brother's crime</B> She used to be Cady Miller, until her brother committed a brutal crime that sent him to prison for life and ruined their family.
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Just breathe. It's almost holiday time again.
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Still reeling from his mother's death in a freak car accident, Mark Smart loses his college scholarship and his job, and becomes estranged from his indifferent father.
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While most of us mere mortals could never afford a lavish wedding fit for royalty, we still like to see what one looks like.
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What is more fleeting, more elusive than happiness? First-time novelist Anne Giardini delivers a powerful story that answers that question as clearly as anyone ever can.
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If you’ve never pored over the real estate section long after your coffee has gone lukewarm, or gone to an open house for a place you have absolutely no intention of buying, you are a better
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In the pantheon of popular fiction, Kingsolver is queen. Or close to it.
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Some novels leave you wishing you knew people as cool as the characters.
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An outsider might surmise that Rachel Jensen's life is eye-rollingly perfect. She has a good marriage, a golden child of a daughter, a big house in the suburbs.
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Who would have thought it? A prim 1930s British gumshoe is one of the freshest, most modern heroines in recent memory.
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In a time when even superb SAT scores and valedictorian status don't necessarily secure a spot at a top college, The Cooper Hill College Application Essay Bible offers useful insight into w
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Children's author Sam Swope decided he needed a challenge and did he ever find one.
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So whatever happened to the Olympians? You know, the 12 Greek immortals who lived on Mount Olympus: Dionysus, god of wine. Aphrodite, goddess of love and fertility. Apollo, god of prophecy.
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Many of today's brides and grooms are looking beyond a traditional church wedding for unique ceremonies that reflect their personalities.
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Ron Clark begins The Excellent 11: Qualities Teachers and Parents Use to Motivate, Inspire, and Educate Childrenby recalling his most terrifying teacher, a science teacher of singular intensit
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Much like Betty Friedan’s groundbreaking The Feminine Mystique unveiled “the problem that had no name” in 1963, Marriage Confidential tackles a modern-day social dil
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Anyone who’s ever read an Adriana Trigiani book—oh, who are we kidding? No one ever reads just one of Trigiani’s wonderfully quirky tales.
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As we pick up with Valentine Roncalli in this follow-up to the vibrant bestseller Very Valentine, she is taking over the family business from her grandmother, who has, in her 80s, remarried
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With an estimated one in 10 new mothers experiencing some degree of postpartum depression (PPD), Brooke Shields' candid memoir of her experience with the condition shows just how debilitating it can
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How's this for confidence? Authors Chris Crowley and Harry Lodge begin their new volume on helping women age well by declaring, This is a book that can change your life.
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Sara Gruen keeps her cat's ashes in an urn behind her desk and donates a portion of her book royalties to animal charities.
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Disregard the in-your-face title—Yoga Bitch is actually a hilarious, thoughtful and only occasionally profane account of one young woman facing mortality and bad habits head
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The comparisons are inevitable: Bright young Brit pens a sharply observed story about life for an immigrant family in modern-day London. Accolades and awards ensue.
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When last we left Jackson Brodie, the excellently quirky retired police detective in Kate Atkinson's equally excellent series, he was stranded in Edinburgh during the Scottish summer arts festival,
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Several years ago, author Lisa Grunwald came across a photo online that stopped her cold.
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Adam and Eve most definitely lived in Ohio. Or China. Or the North Pole, or Mesopotamia.
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If you'd rather walk on the wilder side, The Encyclopedia of Animals: A Complete Visual Guide chronicles all six animal groups, with special attention paid to conservation efforts for endanger
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Edie Boyd's three children are finally grown and living on their own.
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<B>You'd better think</B> According to Brian Wansink, author of the fascinating, informative <B>Mindless Eating</B>, we make more than 200 decisions about eating every day.
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<B>Zippy' author goes home again</B> Reeling from a failed romance, Langston Haverman ditches her Ph.
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