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Braided: A Journey of a Thousand Challahs
Beth Ricanati is impressive. An Ivy League graduate, a practicing medical doctor, a mother, a wife, a writer, a clinician at prestigious hospitals, she presents as super-woman. Even as she describes sneaking glances at her Blackberry at a mother-and-child Hebrew class, we know she has it all, right? […]
Reviewed by: D Ferrara
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Fiction
After Happily Ever After
Is marriage for life? Even if it gets boring? Even if he ignores you while a younger fox grabs your attention? We could go on for hours, discussing the importance of contemporary fidelity and whether it’s even realistic, and that’s exactly what Leslie A. Rasmussen has done in […]
Inspirational
Write a Poem, Save Your Life: A Guide for Teens, Teachers, and Writers of All Ages
As a California Poet in the Schools, Meredith Heller teaches poetry workshops “for kids of all ages in both public and private schools.” She says, “Writing poems helps people believe in themselves.” It’s evident in all the examples shared by students in the book that they have learned […]
Memoir and Autobiography
Love in Any Language: A Memoir of a Cross Cultural Marriage
A young American woman joins the Peace Corps and completes a stint in Peru. She finds love with young Peruvian man, whom she marries; they embark on a life adventure. This sounds like a movie or a novel, but it’s the real-life story of Evelyn Kohl La Torre […]
Reviewed by: Janilyn Kocher
Like Love
Michele Morano’s memoir Like Love provides readers an exploratory look at what that four-letter L word means from childhood to adulthood. It’s a meandering adventure that takes the reader through the intricacies of relationships that come in many forms, from what happens when a mother leaves a father […]
Reaching for Normal
At twenty-six, Amy Daniels is a new mother with an exceedingly cranky baby. She and her husband, Dave, decide to get their daughter checked out by medical professionals, and when they do, they’re told seven-month-old Emily has a brain tumor the size of an orange sitting right in […]
Reviewed by: Katherine Itacy
