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(Photo Credit: St. Martin’s Griffin) One of the most common behaviors when we are stuck in a job that doesn’t gratify us anymore is to hold on to it, waiting for a change of luck or better times and opportunities to come around. In a general climate of uncertainty and economic downturn, perseverance [...] 
If you’re planning to buy for your mom the -nth recipe book or that biography that was highly acclaimed by the critics but will bore your mom to tears, freeze right there! You want to celebrate the upcoming Mother’s Day with a gift that will entertain, uplift, inform, educate and evaluate the most important [...] 
(Photo Credit: Viking Adult) “…angels existed on hearth as well as in heaven…” The Bible refers to them as “Sons of God” (Genesis 6:1-4): in terms as controversial as cryptic, we are told that at some point during the antediluvian era, God’s heavenly creatures “saw” the daughters of men, took them as wives [...] 
(Photo Credit: St. Martin’s Griffin “Marriage, the last vestige of Church and State, is the testimony to our commitment to each other and the culmination of profound love.” Or is it? In her latest book, The Nine Phases Of Marriage: How To Make It, Break It, Keep It, bestselling author and gender expert [...] 
Called Again is the story of one remarkable woman’s quest to live life at one hundred percent, all the while, hiking America’s 2,181-mile Appalachian Trail in record speed. Photo credit: Beaufort Books I have to admit: I was intimidated when I began reading Jennifer’s novel knowing that the author’s physical fitness, mental strength [...] 
(Photo Credit: St. Martin’s Griffi Do marriages come with an expiration date? Is the holy matrimony the obvious and safe choice it used to be in the past or a terminable institution? After all, we live in an age that allows women, more than ever before, to live a purposeful life and reinvent [...] 
(Photo Credit: Kensington Books) Several media events have been planned this year to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen‘s masterpiece and literary darling Pride And Prejudice, from a set of commemorative stamps featuring her published work to several festivals and European tours of her hometown and film locations. Be it an [...] 
(Photo Credit: Quandary Publishing, LLC) When a newcomer author is able to showcase a promising talent and polished writing skills right from her debut novel, reading becomes a refreshing experience, and even more invigorating when that author diligently incorporates in her work a flair for drama and the realism of a memoir. It’s [...] 
(Photo credit: St. Martin’s Griffin) “…a witch with an empty heart…who yearned for something as extraordinary, and yet entirely normal, as love.” “…a pathological workaholic insomniac with no soul…he needed magic in the most literal sense…” Justine Hoffman owns and runs Artist’s Point, a successful bed-and-breakfast on the Pacific Northwest island of Friday [...] 
(Image Credit: Greg Higgins) Imagine sitting down with a book that begins like an episode of the Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch and ends with one pondering the pathway taken in life. Then imagine that everything in between educated you on how one should approach life, the calm beauty of West Seattle, the traffic-filled [...] |
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May 16th, 2013 
