Linda Stankard
Content by Linda Stankard
-
Of course, if you're beyond the scrounging stage and need more sustenance than Twinkies and Doritos to keep your mind sharp and your stomach from growling, we've got a few more books to keep you
Read more »
-
Being happily single is wonderful.
Read more »
-
If you've had enough of reveling in your single state and marriage is on your mind, you'll need The List: 7 Ways to Tell If He's Going to Marry You In 30 Days or Less! by Mary Corbett and Shei
Read more »
-
Misery loves company If you, or someone you know, has the dating game blues50 Boyfriends Worse Than Yours by Justin Racz can lighten things up with its oh-so-apropos photos of 50 boyfri
Read more »
-
We Americans have long been privy to the peaks and valleys in the Kennedy family story; we’ve watched them on TV, read about them, listened to their speeches and, at times, been appalled by t
Read more »
-
Remember the old adage: Good, better, best; never let it rest until your good is better and your better is best ?
Read more »
-
To: Jen_Lancaster@homeFrom: Linda_Stankard@homeSubject: Review of your latest soon-to-be-bestseller
Read more »
-
Jane Austen's Guide to Dating, by Lauren Henderson, offers an Englishwoman in America's perspective on love.
Read more »
-
Imagine it: One day, having grown up as the only child of two loving parents, you stumble upon a photograph that shatters your perceptions of your identity and the past.
Read more »
-
Novelist Robert Morgan focuses on the nation's first war Rape, murder, disguise, deception the opening pages of Robert Morgan's new novel, Brave Enemies, have all the elements of a modern-day
Read more »
-
With your sentiments suitably primed, A Very Southern Christmas: Holiday Stories from the South's Best Writers, edited by Judy H. Tucker and Charline R.
Read more »
-
"These poems need to be released from their cages." With these words the eminent poet Robert Bly beseeched Coleman Barks, then a teacher of 20th-century American poetry, to take on the t
Read more »
-
Larry McMurtry has written so vividly and prolifically about the opening of the American West, he has become as legendary as his fictional heroes and heroines.
Read more »
-
There's no need to feel guilty sipping a margarita while sunning yourself if you're reading Hannah Keeley's Total Mom Makeover, since you'll be coming home renewed and ready to follow this fas
Read more »
-
Writing Motherhood: Tapping into Your Creativity as a Mother and a Writer by Lisa Garrigues, a workshop leader in memoir and personal narrative, offers an inspiring yet pragmatic approach
Read more »
-
New from the hilarious author of Daddy Needs a Drink comes Tales from the Teachers' Lounge, in which Robert Wilder again masterfully turns his firsthand experience into a narrative tha
Read more »
-
“The blunt truth is that men still run the world.” A baker’s dozen years into the 21st century, despite all the strides women have made toward equality (and despite being half the
Read more »
-
<B>Advice on taking care of man's best friends: Pets are people, too</B> As John Ruskin so insightfully wrote, There is in every animal's eye a dim image and a gleam of humanity.
Read more »
-
As John Ruskin so insightfully wrote, There is in every animal's eye a dim image and a gleam of humanity.
Read more »
-
<B>Advice on taking care of man's best friends: Pets are people, too</B> As John Ruskin so insightfully wrote, There is in every animal's eye a dim image and a gleam of humanity.
Read more »
-
<B>Advice on taking care of man's best friends: Pets are people, too</B> As John Ruskin so insightfully wrote, There is in every animal's eye a dim image and a gleam of humanity.
Read more »
-
College students may have varying degrees of cooking experience, cooking equipment and/or money to spend on ingredients, but they usually share one thing in common: They like to eat.
Read more »
-
Liberation isn't always freeing.
Read more »
-
Phyllis Theroux’s captivating new work, The Journal Keeper, is a multi-dimensional pleasure.
Read more »
-
When Approximately Heaven opens on an ordinary Saturday morning in a small Tennessee town, protagonist Don Brush describes himself as "unemployed and not especially ambitious to improve
Read more »
-
Issue:
Douglas Edwards was “employee number 59,” the director of consumer marketing and brand management at Google from 1999 to 2005.
Read more »
-
Silas House has done it again.
Read more »
-
Fresh Off the Boat, the new memoir by rising culinary star Eddie Huang, is one roller coaster of a ride.
Read more »
-
The Voice of Knowledge: A Practical Guide to Inner Peace, by Don Miguel Ruiz, is a small, but mind-expanding book based on ancient Toltec wisdom.
Read more »
-
Just to prove you're not the only one who's wacko about your furry companion, we've rounded up several of the more bizarre entries in this season's new pet books.
Read more »
-
Just to prove you're not the only one who's wacko about your furry companion, we've rounded up several of the more bizarre entries in this season's new pet books.
Read more »
-
Just to prove you're not the only one who's wacko about your furry companion, we've rounded up several of the more bizarre entries in this season's new pet books.
Read more »
-
If you are anticipating the 14th of February with about as much eagerness as a visit from the Grim Reaper, I Hate Valentine's Day offers a hilarious antidote for the red-heart blues.
Read more »
-
Choosing Happiness: Life and Soul Essentials by Stephanie Dowrick has a title that implies a premise that runs through all four books: that happiness is a choice, not something to merely be
Read more »
-
Pack light. That's first-hand advice (and words to live by) from Mary Kay Shanley and Julia Johnston's Survival Secrets of College Students.
Read more »
-
The Christmas Almanac, edited by Natasha Tabori Fried and Lena Tabori, has a little bit of everything you could possibly want to know about the holiday season.
Read more »
-
It’s the ’70s. Laura Bell graduates from college a pretty and promising young woman, but success nevertheless eludes her.
Read more »
-
Women who are mothers writing about motherhood what better way to celebrate Mother's Day than to read or share a book like that?
Read more »
-
By the early 1970s, the comforting idealism of the ’60s was already morphing into terrifying reality, bombarding a generation of young people with visually convincing scenarios of catastrophe
Read more »
-
Issue:
Move over, timing; you can’t be everything, because context is a pretty powerful something too!
Read more »
-
For Anne Rivers Siddons, who counts Up Island and Low Country among the 14 previous titles to her credit, Islands is her first since 2000.
Read more »
-
Are your jingle bells already jangled? Has "Bah, humbug!" already crossed your lips? Relax.
Read more »
-
If scrapbooking is not your bag, you might prefer Sherri Haab's Designer Style Handbags.
Read more »
-
It's beginning to look a lot like Grisham, everywhere you go You know the feeling. It's December. You are in the throes of shopping.
Read more »
-
"I've been to the mountain; I've been to the valley," sings out L. Ray Flowers, the self-appointed preacher in Clyde Edgerton's latest novel, Lunch at the Piccadilly.
Read more »
-
Billed as the most complete guide to scrapbooking ever published, Encyclopedia of Scrapbooking, edited by Tracy White, has page after page of eye-appealing photos from actual scrapbooks in a
Read more »
-
“Do one thing every day that scares you.” Most people reading that quote by Eleanor Roosevelt, if at all disenchanted with themselves for leading less than robust lives, would feel a mo
Read more »
-
Take charge with advice geared to help you survive raising children Snakes, public speaking, flying, death: many people cite one of these as their greatest fear, but obviously parenting was not liste
Read more »
-
Take charge with advice geared to help you survive raising children Snakes, public speaking, flying, death: many people cite one of these as their greatest fear, but obviously parenting was not liste
Read more »
-
Take charge with advice geared to help you survive raising children Snakes, public speaking, flying, death: many people cite one of these as their greatest fear, but obviously parenting was not liste
Read more »
-
Take charge with advice geared to help you survive raising children Snakes, public speaking, flying, death: many people cite one of these as their greatest fear, but obviously parenting was not liste
Read more »
-
Kaye Gibbons, whose debut, Ellen Foster, was chosen for Oprah's Book Club, Divining Women is her first novel since 1999.
Read more »
-
Issue:
Struggling to cope with her mother’s sudden death, Donia Bijan finds a source of solace and inspiration (fittingly) in her mother’s kitchen.
Read more »
-
Issue:
“If you go back far enough,” Megan Smolenyak points out in her latest book, Hey, America, Your Roots Are Showing, “we’re all cousins.” In fact, &ldquo
Read more »
-
Languishing in a cynical "poor me" mode and unable to move forward after a painful relationship meltdown, I was looking forward to my latest book review assignment: self-help books for th
Read more »
-
The author of six novels and two short story collections, Mary Gordon has again integrated her unflinching, fiercely honest prose style with elements of biography and memoir, (as she did to much a
Read more »
-
There's a new entry among hot self-help topics.
Read more »
-
In her previous memoir, the award-winning Here If You Need Me, Kate Braestrup established herself as a warm, witty and deeply moving writer, revealing how the devastating loss of her husband
Read more »
-
To dye or not to dye? That is the question posed by Anne Kreamer's Going Gray.
Read more »
-
As writer Mary-Lou Weisman points out, "Nobody wants to hear about your vacation unless you've had a terrible time." Let's face it: having a trip go terribly wrong is a fairly com
Read more »
-
What is love? We look for it, long for it, lose it and anxiously chase after it again. We ought to know its definition, but just when we think we've pinned it down, it changes.
Read more »
-
What is love? We look for it, long for it, lose it and anxiously chase after it again. We ought to know its definition, but just when we think we've pinned it down, it changes.
Read more »
-
What is love? We look for it, long for it, lose it and anxiously chase after it again. We ought to know its definition, but just when we think we've pinned it down, it changes.
Read more »
-
What is love? We look for it, long for it, lose it and anxiously chase after it again. We ought to know its definition, but just when we think we've pinned it down, it changes.
Read more »
-
What is love? We look for it, long for it, lose it and anxiously chase after it again. We ought to know its definition, but just when we think we've pinned it down, it changes.
Read more »
-
Ever since the Rosie the Riveters of WWII blew the lid off of what was considered “women’s work” and moved with skill and determination into “men’s jobs,” women
Read more »
-
Sarah Vowell’s subversive wit and heady take on history are well known from her previous best-sellers such as The Wordy Shipmates and Assassination Vacation, as well as her
Read more »
-
Anne Roiphe, author of 15 books including Up the Sandbox and Fruitful, asks in her moving memoir, Epilogue: "If life is a cabaret shouldn't there always be another act
Read more »
-
For a book guaranteed to brighten your perspective, try Holiday Lights! Brilliant Displays to Inspire Your Holiday Celebration, by David Seidman.
Read more »
-
It's Valentine's Day again, and men and women alike are measuring their relationships (or lack thereof) against the picture-perfect images presented by jewelers, candy makers and Hallmark cards.
Read more »
-
It's Valentine's Day again, and men and women alike are measuring their relationships (or lack thereof) against the picture-perfect images presented by jewelers, candy makers and Hallmark cards.
Read more »
-
It's Valentine's Day again, and men and women alike are measuring their relationships (or lack thereof) against the picture-perfect images presented by jewelers, candy makers and Hallmark cards.
Read more »
-
Dr. Neil Clark Warren, the founder of eHarmony.com, a popular dating website that's made many successful matches, has assembled his relationship advice in a new book.
Read more »
-
A working mother of two boys, Katherine Ellison gives us The Mommy Brain: How Motherhood Makes Us Smarter.
Read more »
-
Joel Osteen's book Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential, offers an outline for a higher level of existence in the here and now.
Read more »
-
Daydreaming may seem a little self-indulgent in these difficult times, but curling up with a glossy book on a dreary November day may be just the catalyst you need to re-envision and revitalize y
Read more »
-
Daydreaming may seem a little self-indulgent in these difficult times, but curling up with a glossy book on a dreary November day may be just the catalyst you need to re-envision and revitalize y
Read more »
-
Daydreaming may seem a little self-indulgent in these difficult times, but curling up with a glossy book on a dreary November day may be just the catalyst you need to re-envision and revitalize y
Read more »
-
Daydreaming may seem a little self-indulgent in these difficult times, but curling up with a glossy book on a dreary November day may be just the catalyst you need to re-envision and revitalize y
Read more »
-
Daydreaming may seem a little self-indulgent in these difficult times, but curling up with a glossy book on a dreary November day may be just the catalyst you need to re-envision and revitalize y
Read more »
-
<B>My Therapist's Dog</B> <B>My Therapist's Dog: Lessons in Unconditional Love</B> by Diana Wells is the story of how Wells, devastated by the loss of her son and siste
Read more »
-
Nevada Barr is sporting a new hat.
Read more »
-
In his new book, A Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America, Dudley Clendinen, a former national reporter and editorial writer for the New York Times,
Read more »
-
If Between Two Rivers, by acclaimed novelist and poet Nicholas Rinaldi, were a classic martini, it would be served in a properly chilled glass, contain top-shelf gin with a hint of vermouth an
Read more »
-
All your gal pal travel buddies will want to borrow My First Five Husbands . . .
Read more »
-
Another award-winning actress, Victoria Rowell (aka Drucilla Winters on The Young and the Restless ), has also written a memoir.
Read more »
-
If you think Santa is a jolly old elf, consider this statistic: "Seventy-five percent of children from eleven months old to age three scream and cry at the sight of Santa." Ed Butchart learned th
Read more »
-
The three most important words in real estate may be "Location, location, location!" but in parenting they are "Patience, patience, patience!" Patience is like toilet paper; you're always running ou
Read more »
-
The three most important words in real estate may be "Location, location, location!" but in parenting they are "Patience, patience, patience!" Patience is like toilet paper; you're always running ou
Read more »
-
The three most important words in real estate may be "Location, location, location!" but in parenting they are "Patience, patience, patience!" Patience is like toilet paper; you're always running ou
Read more »
-
The three most important words in real estate may be "Location, location, location!" but in parenting they are "Patience, patience, patience!" Patience is like toilet paper; you're always running ou
Read more »
-
The three most important words in real estate may be "Location, location, location!" but in parenting they are "Patience, patience, patience!" Patience is like toilet paper; you're always running ou
Read more »
-
The three most important words in real estate may be "Location, location, location!" but in parenting they are "Patience, patience, patience!" Patience is like toilet paper; you're always running ou
Read more »
-
I remember laying my first-born child down on our bed when we brought him home from the hospital.
Read more »
-
I remember laying my first-born child down on our bed when we brought him home from the hospital.
Read more »
-
I remember laying my first-born child down on our bed when we brought him home from the hospital.
Read more »
-
I remember laying my first-born child down on our bed when we brought him home from the hospital.
Read more »
-
I remember laying my first-born child down on our bed when we brought him home from the hospital.
Read more »
-
Pop quiz: what are Magnolia and Nashville and what do they have in common with Larry Brown's new novel, The Rabbit Factory? Answer: Magnolia and Nashville (a 1975 Robert A
Read more »
-
Dearest Reader, It is my sincerest hope you will not consider me a shameful gossip if I whisper to you in these brief lines some of the subjects elucidated in Janet Gleeson's Privilege and Scandal
Read more »
-
There's something to the old saying, "Idle hands are the devil's workshop." Crafty people know the pleasure, pride and peaceful satisfaction derived from creating something by hand.
Read more »
-
There's something to the old saying, "Idle hands are the devil's workshop." Crafty people know the pleasure, pride and peaceful satisfaction derived from creating something by hand.
Read more »
-
There's something to the old saying, "Idle hands are the devil's workshop." Crafty people know the pleasure, pride and peaceful satisfaction derived from creating something by hand.
Read more »
-
There's something to the old saying, "Idle hands are the devil's workshop." Crafty people know the pleasure, pride and peaceful satisfaction derived from creating something by hand.
Read more »
-
“Life goes fast,” Lee Kravitz observes in Unfinished Business: “Click. You are fifteen. Click, click. You are fifty-five. Click, click. You are gone.
Read more »
-
<B>Renaissance man's Revolutionary tale</B> Like many prominent Revolutionary figures John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson former president Jimmy Carter is a Renaissance man
Read more »
-
If you're feeling stressed, but can't afford that getaway weekend in the Caribbean don't despair.
Read more »
-
You won't find the women in Faith Sullivan's new novel wringing their hands and moaning What's a woman to do?
Read more »
-
It gets hot here in Tennessee. And dry.
Read more »
-
ust when you're sitting waist deep in oyster shells and about to give up hope of finding that elusive gem, voila!, you open one more and there it is a pearl, long envisioned in your mind's eye, yet br
Read more »
-
t voyeurism if the voyeur, the watcher, has permission to watch?
Read more »
-
Muriel Spark, a prolific Scottish writer, critic and satirist, is probably best-known for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), a controversial novel which also became an acclaimed film.
Read more »
-
Feathering your nest for spring The nesting spirit is contagious.
Read more »
-
Feathering your nest for spring The nesting spirit is contagious.
Read more »
-
eathering your nest for spring The nesting spirit is contagious.
Read more »
-
eathering your nest for spring The nesting spirit is contagious.
Read more »
-
re videos, camcorders and digital cameras, there was the quilt.
Read more »
-
magine if you and your nearest neighbors had chalkboards hanging outside your homes and rather than communicating by talking, you wrote messages to each other on these boards.
Read more »
-
weet dreams: books to help you make friends with the night Hypnos, the Greek god of sleep, usually slips in quietly, delivers his blissful gift of slumber then melts humbly, silently away into the sh
Read more »
-
weet dreams: books to help you make friends with the night Hypnos, the Greek god of sleep, usually slips in quietly, delivers his blissful gift of slumber then melts humbly, silently away into the sh
Read more »
-
t dreams: books to help you make friends with the night Hypnos, the Greek god of sleep, usually slips in quietly, delivers his blissful gift of slumber then melts humbly, silently away into the shado
Read more »
-
weet dreams: books to help you make friends with the night Hypnos, the Greek god of sleep, usually slips in quietly, delivers his blissful gift of slumber then melts humbly, silently away into the sh
Read more »
-
ate yourself before school starts: books to help you help your childA new school year is a lot like New Year's Day; it offers the chance to wipe the slate clean and make a fresh start, the chance to m
Read more »
-
ing the most from schoolOf course, no matter how confident you are in your parenting skills, "letting go" of your child for the first time can be an event faced with trepidation and angst.
Read more »
-
ducate yourself before school starts: books to help you help your child A new school year is a lot like New Year's Day; it offers the chance to wipe the slate clean and make a fresh start, the chance
Read more »
-
ing your child to the topLet's face it: not every child is a happy, self - motivated, eager learner.
Read more »
-
ing outside of the classroomIn Guerilla Learning: How to Give Your Kids a Real Education With or Without School Grace Llewellyn and Amy Silver focus on homeschooling, or education outside the t
Read more »
-
Flowers and expressions of love go hand in hand, and with Mother's Day coming up, Peter Loewer's latest book, Loves Me, Loves Me Not: The Hidden Language of Flowers is an especially timely
Read more »
-
Charles Dickens would be appalled to learn that the dark corners of cruelty to defenseless children that his novels exposed back in the 19th century still lurk behind the glitz and glamour of the 2
Read more »
-
Bibliophile Paul Collins finds a town that shares his passion If you're reading this, you probably love books to one degree or another.
Read more »
-
Brooke Astor was only in her mid - 50s when her wealthy husband, Vincent Astor, died, leaving her the sudden heir to a trust fund worth more than $60 million.
Read more »
-
There are stories hidden in the hills and hollers of Appalachia, and you can find them if you do your homework.
Read more »
-
Magellan, Amundsen, Armstrong: If the mere mention of these names ignites your passion for exploration, discovery and adventure, James M.
Read more »
-
Issue:
I’ve always wanted to hit the open road, but my dreams always included having all the comforts of home around me in the form of a well-stocked RV.
Read more »
-
Geneen Roth's The Craggy Hole in My Heart and the Cat Who Fixed It is a story of self-discovery and a struggle to fully and freely embrace the joys of living even while suffering its pain
Read more »
-
Embedded in Sue Miller's new novel, The World Below, is the drama of a marriage founded on misconceptions and faulty assumptions.
Read more »
-
Books to light your path to personal growth Is your life like a three-dollar bottle of champagne gone flat? Would you like to expand your sense of personal choice and freedom? Are you unhappy?
Read more »
-
Books to light your path to personal growth Is your life like a three-dollar bottle of champagne gone flat? Would you like to expand your sense of personal choice and freedom? Are you unhappy?
Read more »
-
Books to light your path to personal growth Is your life like a three-dollar bottle of champagne gone flat? Would you like to expand your sense of personal choice and freedom? Are you unhappy?
Read more »
-
Books to light your path to personal growth Is your life like a three-dollar bottle of champagne gone flat? Would you like to expand your sense of personal choice and freedom? Are you unhappy?
Read more »
-
Books to light your path to personal growth Is your life like a three-dollar bottle of champagne gone flat? Would you like to expand your sense of personal choice and freedom? Are you unhappy?
Read more »
-
Books to light your path to personal growth Is your life like a three-dollar bottle of champagne gone flat? Would you like to expand your sense of personal choice and freedom? Are you unhappy?
Read more »
-
"Under all is the land." This is the first tenet learned in real estate courses, but it could also serve as a fitting adage for the flyleaf of Silas House's latest novel, The Coal Tattoo, set
Read more »
-
But what if you never had a chance to know your own mother?
Read more »
-
<B>The Philosoher's Dog</B> If your brow is high enough and your quest for a deeper understanding of the intricate bond between animal and human life is strong enough, <B>The P
Read more »
-
Photography is an amazing thing. It takes a real-time moment and captures it in a two-dimensional image we can look at again and again.
Read more »
-
Photography is an amazing thing. It takes a real-time moment and captures it in a two-dimensional image we can look at again and again.
Read more »
-
Photography is an amazing thing. It takes a real-time moment and captures it in a two-dimensional image we can look at again and again.
Read more »
-
Photography is an amazing thing. It takes a real-time moment and captures it in a two-dimensional image we can look at again and again.
Read more »
-
From Ken Linder, an attorney and career counselor for some of the country's most prominent journalists, comes Crunch Time: 8 Steps to Making the Right Decisions When it Counts.
Read more »
-
<b>The Quilter's Recipe Book</b> For an old-fashioned, tried and true hobby, consider the beauty and creativity reflected in a quilt.
Read more »
-
Issue:
Glamour has called them “the Saints of Somalia, equal parts Mother Teresa and Rambo.” It’s a fitting description of Dr. Hawa Abdi and her two doctor daughters.
Read more »
-
We can't stay 49 forever.
Read more »
-
Maya Angelou, the renowned poet, writer, performer, teacher and director, calls on each of us to do nothing short of "something wonderful for humanity" in her new autobiographical book, <
Read more »
-
In 50 Best Girlfriends Getaways in North America, travel expert Marybeth Bond outlines a bevy of flexible female friendly itineraries that will allow you the time you need to really r
Read more »
-
As a real estate agent, I've seen homes in many price ranges.
Read more »
-
As a real estate agent, I've seen homes in many price ranges.
Read more »
-
As a real estate agent, I've seen homes in many price ranges.
Read more »
-
In her preface to Must You Go?, Antonia Fraser characterizes her latest work, a memoir about her life with the Nobel Prize-winning playwright and political activist Harold Pinter,
Read more »
-
Because I Said So, edited by Kate Moses and Camille Peri, is a searing collection of essays from 33 women facing the challenges of motherhood in the 21st century, when automatic, autocratic pa
Read more »
-
"Let's face it: Parents should come with an instruction booklet," Sarah O'Leary Burningham tells teens.
Read more »
-
<B>When chocolate isn't enough: how to add love to your life</B> <B>Dateworthy: Get the Relationship You Want</B>, by Dennie Hughes, author of <I>USA Weekend's</I&g
Read more »
