by Site Owner | Jan 18, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Self-Help
by Pema Chodron Shambhala Publications, $14.00, 148 pages When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chodron reads as part biographical remembrances and part well-written lessons on delving into Buddhism. The chapters are broken into key...
by Site Owner | Dec 29, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
By Kristina Riggle, William Morrow, 352 pages “I gasped. He must have thought it was delight and surprise. It was more like a falling dream; a sickening plunge. A stepmother? Me? I thought of myself drunk at the bottom of a stairwell or puking my guts out in a...
by Site Owner | Dec 29, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Business & Investing, Self-Help
By Harvard Business Review, 185 pages “As leaders, sometimes we are truly on and sometimes we are not.” On Managing Yourself from the Harvard Business Review is a book comprised of a compilation of various articles by an array of authors. Each article has...
by Site Owner | Dec 20, 2011 | Young Adult
By Patricia McCormick, Push, 176 pages “You lean forward, place a box of tissues in front of me, and your black leather chair groans like a living thing.” Cut by Patricia McCormick is a novel that sheds light on the very real problem of cutting. Callie is...
by Site Owner | Jul 22, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, True Crime
By Tim Philbin, Prometheus Books, $20.00, 263 pages “This book will not be everyone’s cup of tea. But for true crime fans who like to take their murder stories straight, it would be hard to think of anything more appealing…” I, Monster by Tim...