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35-year-old yoga instructor, graduate degree candidate and Chicagoan, Robyn Okrant, sets out to follow all of the instructions that Oprah Winfrey issues on her show, website and magazine for one year. Okrant proposes to investigate what living Oprah’s billionaire lifestyle will have on ardent followers with average and middle class incomes. Anything that comes out [...]
In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks author Rebecca Skloot tells the story of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman who escaped an arduous life picking cotton – on the same farmland that her family worked as slaves – to move to Baltimore, Maryland. Though she had a troubled marriage to her first cousin, David Lacks, [...]
It is 1960 in the memoir, A Gift From Brittany, when Marjorie leaves her parents and boyfriend in order to fulfill her lifelong dream of going to Paris to paint for what she thinks will be a few months. As an artist, she cannot be complete without that experience, and even though she doesn’t speak [...]
Paula Butturini and her husband John Tagliabue grew up in a rich Italian tradition that both celebrates and takes equal comfort in the preparation and sharing of meals with family members and friends. When they met, they seemed like a natural match for one another, and spent four happy years as a couple, holding down [...]
Stacy Parker is just 18 years old and attending George Washington University when she starts as an intern in the office of George Stephanopolous. A native of Detroit, Stacy has always excelled at school, and she quickly falls into a routine riddled with varying levels of constant stress while she tries to do the best [...]
When Bill Buford started investigating the extreme violence among the soccer “firms” in the UK he was early into his tenure of being an American in England and as a result looked upon as an outsider when approaching the members of the different groups. With perseverance through continued attendance at soccer matches and his presence [...]
Part self help book, part meditation on the number seven and the way that it has popped up time and again throughout the course of history, Jacqueline Leo’s new book is a thoroughly enjoyable read. Leo covers a wide range of topics that try as I might to summarize leave my powers of summary in [...]
“The subject of his book was umami, a Japanese word that translates as “perfection”, usually as it relates to food. Umami also translates as “the fifth taste”, best described for Westerners as “savory”. The other tastes are sweet, sour, salty and bitter. Umami is the feeling of mouthwatering deliciousness during, and complete satiety after, a [...]
Either You’re In Or You’re In the Way: Two Brothers, Twelve Months, and One Filmmaking Hell-Ride to Keeping a Promise to Their Father, by Logan & Noah Miller is published by HarperCollins and is Highly Recommended. Noah and Logan Miller are twin brothers who both had dreams of playing major league baseball and when that [...]
The Road of Lost Innocence, by Somaly Mam Publisher: Spiegel & Grau Publication Date: September 9, 2008 Format: Hardcover, 208 pages Rating: Highly Recommended Somaly Mam lost her parents at a young age in Cambodia. Having no idea of what her name was or her age, Mam grew up in war torn Cambodia as an [...]
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