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By Gail Sheehy Random House Price: $12.48 Check it out at Amazon.com Hillary's Choice renders America's First Lady fully human for the first time. The story of the Clinton presidency has always been the story of the Clinton marriage. Delving deep into a relationship that is both supportive and destructive, Sheehy answers the constantly asked question "Why does she stay with him?" How has Hillary preserved her spirit through repeated cycles of Clinton's seduction, betrayal, and repentance? Sheehy peels back the layers of public masks and private denials, showing through one vivid scene after another how Hillary became addicted to Bill, and how desperately Bill depended on Hillary to teach him how to fight and to bring him back again and again from the political dead.
By Saxton Freymann, Joost Elffers Arthur a Levine Price: $11.17 Check it out at Amazon.com Join the legion of families who've already learned the delights of this pantry gone mad, and hailed the creators as the Picasso of Pumpkins, the Rodin of Rutabagas, the Calder of Cabbages. On each page, laid out in signature crisp style, are wild food sculptures that embody each emotion more fluidly and expressively than any human face could. The text is simple and funny, designed to start a conversation between adult and child about feelings — call it eggplant empathy, call it laughing at limes.
More of Mike Milken's Favorite Recipes for Fighting Cancer and Heart Disease By Beth Ginsberg, Mike Milken CaP CURE Price: $19.25 Check it out at Amazon.com This cookbook combines nutritional guidelines for people living with cancer with great tasting, thoroughly tested, easy-to-prepare recipes. Using sidebars, photographs and illustrations, the book shows how to read labels and how to get the most cancer-fighting potential from any diet. It demonstrates that it is possible to eat well while still eating healthily and meets the challenge to find ways to keep food delicious while following principles of sound nutrition.
By Harriet Rubin HarperCollins Price: $16.10 Check it out at Amazon.com Harriet Rubin provides inspiring advice for professionals dreaming of crossing over from a corporate world of prescribed boundaries to the limitless opportunities of soloing. She describes how people can do great things — things they would never be able to accomplish inside the corporate structure — when they manage or lead no one. As one successfully navigates the passage toward a truer sense of self that Rubin describes, four invaluable freedoms await: regaining your sense of identity; independence; income; and illumination.
By Martin Yate Adams Media Corporation Price: $10.36 Check it out at Amazon.com To excel at a job interview you need to have carefully prepared in advance not just "good" answers to the interview questions — but answers that make you really stand out from the other candidates in a positive way. In Knock 'em Dead, Martin Yate gives you the best answers to 200 difficult interview questions. Learn how to give winning responses to profile questions, stress questions, and entry-level questions. Learn the techniques an interviewer uses to find out whether you will fit into the company and the department, and most important, whether you are a good person to work with.
Annie Leibovitz, Susan Sontag Random House Price: $45.00 Check it out at Amazon.com The photographs by Annie Leibovitz in "Women", taken especially for the book, encompass a broad spectrum of subjects: a rap artist, an astronaut, two Supreme Court justices, farmers, coal miners, movie stars, showgirls, rodeo riders, socialites, reporters, dancers, a maid, a general, a surgeon, the First Lady of the United States, the secretary of state, a senator, rock stars, prostitutes, teachers, singers, athletes, poets, writers, painters, musicians, theater directors, political activists, performance artists, and businesswomen. "Each of these pictures must stand on its own," Susan Sontag writes in the essay that accompanies the portraits. "But the ensemble says, So this what women are now — as different, as varied, as heroic, as forlorn, as conventional, as unconventional as this."
By Cheryl Mendelson Scribner Price: $24.50 Check it out at Amazon.com For the first time in nearly a century, a sole author has written acomprehensive book about housekeeping. This is not a dry how-to manual,nor a collection of odd tips and hints, a cleaningbook, a history book, or an arid encyclopedia compiled by a committee or aninstitute.Home Comforts is a readable explanation for both beginners and experts ofall the domestic arts — choosing fabrics, keeping the piano in tune, caring for books, making agood fire in thefireplace and avoiding chimney fires, ironing and folding, setting up agood reading light, keepingsurfaces free of food pathogens, and everything else that modern peoplemight want to do forthemselves in their homes.
Harvard Medical School, Anthony L. Komaroff Simon & Schuster Price: $28.00 Check it out at Amazon.com The "Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide" is the first health guide written specifically to empower readers in the era of managed care, it is the culmination of 200 years of clinical care, health education, and medicalresearch — bringing you the expertise of more than 7,000 health professionals from some of the nation's most esteemed hospitals and research centers. In this book, they have gathered the most authoritative, comprehensive, easy-to-understand, up-to-the-minute information about the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease in every stage of life.
By Dalai Lama Viking Press Price: $17.47 Check it out at Amazon.com "The Path to Tranquility", a fresh and accessible introduction to his inspirational wisdom, offers words of quidance, compassion, and peace that are as down to earth as they are rich in spirit. It covers almost every aspect of human life, secular and religious — happiness, intimacy, loneliness, suffering, anger and everyday insecurities — with endearing informality, warmth, and practicality.
By William J. Bennett, Chester E. Finn, Jr., John T. E. Cribb, Jr. Free Press Price: $21.00 Check it out at Amazon.com The Educated Child places you squarely at the center of your young one's academic career and takes a no-nonsense view of your responsibilities. It empowers you as mothers and fathers, enabling you to reclaim whathas been appropriated by "experts" and the education establishment. It out-lines questions you will want to ask, then explains the answers — or non-answers — you will be given. No longer will you feel powerless before the education "system." The tools and advice in this guide put the power where it belongs — in the hands of those who know and love their children best.
By Dr. Joy Browne Crown Publishing Price: $16.10 Check it out at Amazon.com "It's a Jungle Out There, Jane" can help you understand why guys act, think, talk, love, stay, stray, tune out, and tune in the way that they do. Dr. Joy can even tell you why they don't help much around the house. So, if you've ever wondered "Why did he (or I) do that?" here's the information you need, all served up in a no-nonsense, wonderfully fun manner.
An Entrepreneur's Guide to Launching and Managing a New Business By William J. Stolze Career Press Price: $14.44 Check it out at Amazon.com Start Up, 4th Edition is indispensable, whether you're about to embark on anew venture, have started a business within the past few years or are a seasoned pro. It addresses key problems that are crucial to the success of the small business owner, including How much money is enough? How do you write a successful business plan? and How do you pick a mentor? The new edition also reflects detailed responses to reader inquiries and demand for the most comprehensive business plan format.
By Sherri Eldridge Dell Books Price: $9.56 Check it out at Amazon.com The voices of adopted children are poignant, questioning. And they tell afamiliar story of loss, fear, and hope. This book, written by a woman who was adopted herself, gives voice to children's unspoken concerns, and shows adoptive parents how to free their kids from feelings of fear, abandonment, and shame. With warmth and candor, Sherrie Eldridge reveals the 20 complex emotional issues you must understand to nurture the child you love — that he must grieve his loss now if he is to receive love fully in the future — that she needs honest information about her birth family no matter how painful the details may be — and that although he may choose to search for his birth family, he will always rely on you to be his parents.
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