Book Review: Spare Change by Robert B. Parker

A Sunny Randal novel When a serial killer dubbed the Spare Change Killer shows up in Boston after a thirty year hiatus, retired cop Randall is brought into the task force, since he had been the lead investigator during the earlier killings. He asks his daughter, Sunny, to join him in cracking the

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Book Review: The Birth House

For a truly remarkable and historical tale pick up a copy of Ami Mckay’s “The Birth House”. Climb the time machine back to World War I and travel to Nova Scotia, Canada to read a tale of love, birth, sex and women’s issues. The Birth House tells us, from Dora Rare’s point of view, what l

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Book Review: “Cesar’s Way” by Cesar Millan, with Melissa Jo Peltier

Cesar Millan, host of National Geographic Channel’s “Dog Whisperer”, brings his knowledge and technique to millions more through his new book, “Cesar’s Way.” This engaging and comprehensive non-fiction work begins with Cesar’s life story growing up in Mexico and the steps that brought

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Book Review of Yoga; the Iyengar Way by Silva, Mira and Shyam Mehta

This is a wonderful book to add to your yoga library. It is well put together with expressive photographs and explanations that create a clear understanding. This is a great book for a beginner, but it also offers solid information for someone who has been practicing for a while. What I appreciat

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Book Review of Yoga; the Iyengar Way by Silva, Mira and Shyam Mehta

This is a wonderful book to add to your yoga library. It is well put together with expressive photographs and explanations that create a clear understanding. This is a great book for a beginner, but it also offers solid information for someone who has been practicing for a while. What I appreciat

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Book Review: The Secret by Rhonda Byrne

Despite many self-help books filling my shelves with promises of health, happiness and energy, I still could not resist buying The Secret. It suddenly appeared in front of me in the bookstore, at a time when I desperately needed it. Going through a flare up of fibroymalgia, I found its promises appe

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Book Review: ‘Lemon Meringue Pie Murder’

I adore reading, always have, but these days I find I’m limited on what I can read. The brain fog means I can’t handle anything too complex or long and my fragile mental health means I shouldn't read anything that could upset me. My muscle weakness means hard-backs are impossible and since it’

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Book review: ‘Size 12 Is Not Fat’ by Meg Cabot

From the woman famous for ‘The Princess Diaries’ comes a new series about a washed up teen idol who finds herself, for the first time in her life- a size 12. Without any career prospects and completely on her own, Heather Wells takes a job as the assistant director of a college dorm (excuse me,

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Book review: ‘Size 12 Is Not Fat’ by Meg Cabot

From the woman famous for ‘The Princess Diaries’ comes a new series about a washed up teen idol who finds herself, for the first time in her life- a size 12. Without any career prospects and completely on her own, Heather Wells takes a job as the assistant director of a college dorm (excuse me,

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Book Review:The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

Last fall, Anne Fadiman came to my school to gave a terrific talk about her book- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, which prompted me to go out and read this book. I was not disappointed. It is the story of a young girl, Lia Lee, with a severe form of epilepsy. She is the daughter of Hmong

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