DIAL DOWN THE DRAMA: Rebuild a Healthy Mother-Daughter Relationship, Colleen O’Grady
The average Mom and her teenage daughter fight with each other more than 20 times every single month. This endless cycle of screaming, door slamming, and tears seems like a force beyond control and leaves Moms (and their daughters) exhausted and hurting. According to licensed family and marriage therapist, and popular workshop leader, Colleen O’Grady, […]
What’s an Agent to do in August?
August always presents a quandary, at least to this agent. None of us is immune to the slowdown during the summer, and August is when we really feel it. You reach out to an editor only to receive an “out of office” message. The contract for a book doesn’t arrive because the contracts person is […]
DAUGHTERS OF DIVORCE, Terry Gaspard and Tracy Clifford
Licensed clinical social worker, teacher, and relationship blogger, Terry Gaspard, and her daughter Tracy Clifford’s DAUGHTERS OF DIVORCE, a guide for the millions of women who are haunted by their experiences growing up in divorced households and are struggling to heal the wounds of the past and build lasting, happy relationships as adults. (Sourcebooks, Fall […]
IS YOUR JOB MAKING YOU FAT? Ken Lloyd, PhD and Stacey Lloyd
An eye-opening guide to identifying and analyzing all of the key causes of on-the-job weight gain that provides a highly innovative and productive strategy to deal with this growing problem: applying your businesslike mindset and skill-set to managing your weight. (Skyhorse/World/Fall 2015)
BLOOD IN SNOW, by Robert Evert, now available on Net Galley
For the final installment in the epic RIDDLE IN STONE saga, click here: https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/show/id/49489
MOM TO VENTURE MOM: 12 Weeks Until Your First Customer, Holly Hurd
Serial entrepreneur, founder of VentureMom, and Mamapalooza contributor Holly Hurd offers a simple, clear, week-by-week plan for mompreneurs to launching a business, from seed to the first sale. Hurd demystifies the process and features stories of women who have successful created businesses while raising a family, without a business plan or outside funding. From finding […]
THE COUNTERFEIT FAMILY TREE OF VEE CRAWFORD-WONG, L. Tam Holland
Newcomer L. Tam Holland’s well-received novel, now in paperback (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers/July 8, 2014 release). This “first-rate,” hysterically funny debut novel “that belongs on every multicultural reading list” (Kirkus Reviews) is one of Kirkus’s Best Books of 2013. When Vee Crawford-Wong’s history teacher assigns an essay on his family history, Vee […]
Shakespeare Reading with Linda Bamber
Tufts professor and author Linda Bamber will be reading from her recent collection of Shakespeare stories, Taking What I Like, “No Holds Bard”: Contemporary Work Inspired by Shakespeare” tomorrow night, June 18, 7:30 pm, at Medicine Show Theater, 549 West 52nd St. (near 11th Ave), NYC.
BE NOBODY, Lama Marut
We are all desperately trying to be somebody, to be “special”. We collect “friends” and “followers” online as symbols of our worth. We hunt fame and visibility. But maybe we’ve got it all wrong. With his edgy tone and radical perspective, Lama Marut follows up A Spiritual Renegade’s Guide to the Good Life by calling for […]
FREEDOM FROM OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER, Updated Edition, Jonathan Grayson
Available in paperback, ebook and audiobook! The second edition of FREEDOM FROM OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER: A Personalized Program for Living with Uncertainty (Berkley, 2014) updates Dr. Jonathan Grayson’s revolutionary program to help sufferers make sense of their own compulsions through frank, unflinching self-evaluation-providing the tools, instructions, and knowledge for changing their cycles of overwhelming fear and […]