by Site Owner | Jul 18, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
By Laura Moriarty Riverhead Books, $26.95, 371 pages Cora Carlisle is a quiet, proper wife in 1920s Wichita, Kansas who decides to volunteer to be the chaperone for a young girl spending a month in New York City. So begins The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty. The girl is...
by Site Owner | Jul 12, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
By Claire McMillan Simon & Schuster, $25.00, 244 pages Eleanor Hart is a beautiful, young, socialite who leaves Cleveland for a suitable husband in New York City only to return years later as a divorcée with one goal: a new wealthy husband. Difficulties arise as...
by Site Owner | Jul 11, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
By Natalie Wexler Fuze Publishing, LLC, $19.95, 272 pages Barb, Susan, and Amanda are the mothers of daughters in their senior year at Barton Friends, an elite private school in Washington, D.C. They are tasked with putting on the annual mother/daughter show, a song...
by Site Owner | Jul 6, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Self-Help
By Debbie Stoller & Laurie Henzel Stewart, Tabori & Chang, $29.95, 368 pages BUST magazine has been the go-to magazine for independent women since 1993. How nice then to see that they’ve applied their get-it-done attitude to a book that neatly solves a wide...
by Site Owner | Jul 6, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Body, Mind & Spirit
By Jon Kabat-Zinn Sounds True, $21.95, 166 pages Jon Kabat-Zinn is one of the pioneers of mindfulness meditation and his book Wherever You Go There You Are is one of the best introductions available to the practice. His program Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction at...
