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November 2018
The Healthier Plate
A new twist on keto: The fat-burning power of ketogenic eating meets the clean green benefits of a plant-centric plate in Will Cole’s Ketotarian: The (Mostly) Plant-Based Plan to Burn Fat, Boost Your Energy, Crush Your Cravings, and Calm Inflammation. Celebrate the gorgeous and delicious possibilities of plant-based southern cuisine in Timothy Pakron’s Mississippi Vegan: Recipes and Stories from a Southern Boy’s Heart. Latin Comfort Foods Made Healthy offers exactly what the title suggests: comfort foods—the kinds of food Latinos were raised with and crave,…
Food as Culture
Virginia Sole-Smith’s The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America is an exploration, both personal and deeply reported, of how we learn to eat in today’s toxic food culture.…
Talking About Grief
Gabriell Birkner’s and Rebecca Soffer’s brutally honest and inspiring Modern Loss invites us to talk intimately and humorously about grief, helping us confront the humanity (and mortality) we all share.…
Prevent Psycho-spiritual Damage
Dr. Laurie Nadel’s The Five Gifts: Discovering Hope, Healing and Strength When Disaster Strikes is like an emergency “Go-Kit” for the mind, packed with information and insight that can minimize and prevent long-term psycho-spiritual damage from a traumatic event.…
Everyday Joy
What If This Were Enough?: Essays by Heather Havrilesky is an impassioned collection tackling our obsession with self-improvement and urging readers to embrace the imperfections of the everyday. In Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness, designer and TED star Ingrid Fetell Lee explains how to cultivate a happier, healthier life by making small changes to your surroundings.…
Living Your Best Life
Founder of the international movement, Daybreaker, Radha Agrawal presents Belong: Find Your People, Create Community, and Live a More Connected Life, a creative blueprint for bringing this most important dimension back into our lives. Born of moral indignation, informed by decades of study, and seasoned by a life of devoted self-cultivation, Monk Yun Rou’s Mad Monk Manifesto has the answers we’re looking for, organically cohering personal prescriptions and calls to social and political action in one powerful document.…
On Judaism Today
Tal Keinan’s God Is in the Crowd: Twenty-First Century Judaism is a bold proposal for discovering relevance in Judaism and ensuring its survival, from a pioneering social activist, business leader, and fighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force.…
Living Your Best Life
John Leland’s Happiness Is a Choice You Make: Lessons from a Year Among the Oldest Old is an extraordinary look at what it means to grow old and a heartening guide to well-being. The End of Old Age: Living a Longer, More Purposeful Life, Dr. Marc Agronin, the acclaimed author of How We Age, presents a hopeful and practical model of aging, as well as a guide to understanding how we can all make the journey better.…
Live Your Best Life
James Mustich’s 1,000 Books to Read Before You Die moves across cultures and through time to present an eclectic collection of titles, each described with the special enthusiasm readers summon when recommending a book to a friend. The Joys of Travel: And Stories that Illuminate Them is a collection of Thomas Swick’s personal essays about what he has identified as “the seven joys of travel.” In Sailing to the Edge of Time, John Kretschmer shares his simple profundities that will inspire those who live to sail,…
Narraciones para estos tiempos
El novelista y periodista peruano Jorge Eduardo Benavides presenta El asesinato de Laura Olivo –XIX Premio Fernando Quiñones-, novela en la que un expolicía intenta resolver el crimen de una exitosa agente literaria. Renato Cisneros, narrador, poeta y periodista nacido en Perú, finalista en la II Bienal de Novela Mario Vargas Llosa, llega con Dejarás la tierra, obra que se adentra por los secretos oscuros de una prominente familia peruana, y la narradora, poeta y editora venezolana Keila Vall de la Ville,…
The Children are Our Future
In The Power of Presence: Be A Voice in Your Child’s Ear Even When You’re Not With Them, Joy Thomas Moore explores seven pillars of presence that all parents can use to positively influence their children. In conversation with Ana Veciana Suarez.…
Helping Your Children Live Their Best Lives
In The Stigmatized Child: “Mommy, am I stupid?”: Helping Parents Overcome the Stigma Attached to Learning Disabilities, ADHD, and Lack of Social Skills Anne Ford explores the different forms of stigma, such as the stigma faced by children from classmates and friends and from society.…