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Book Review: Past Tense By Shawn Kilgarlin

PAST TENSE 365 Daily Tools for Putting Stress Behind You – for Good! By:  Shawn Kilgarlin Published:  April 1, 2013 **** In this reader- and consumer-friendly, stress-beating, daily dose of relief book, Shawn Kilgarlin (with help from her husband Ron and crackerjack editor Skip Press) provides solutions to any triggered stress response that may darken…
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Book Review: Coconut Oil: The Quick and Easy Guide By Chris Reichert and Joey Cardillo

COCONUT OIL The Quick and Easy Guide By: Chris Reichert and Joey Cardillo eBook Published: February 5, 2013 *** By reading this book you’ll discover exactly why you should be eating more coconut oil – plain and simple! This book also covers which coconut oil to buy, the many coconut oil benefits, and why coconut…
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Book Review: Unglued Devotional by Lysa TerKeurst

UNGLUED DEVOTIONAL 60 Days of Imperfect Progress By: Lysa TerKeurst Published: December 18, 2012 Nonfiction/Christian  From Goodreads: This companion devotional to the bestselling book Unglued provides encouragement to help readers handle emotional struggles. Including a daily opening Scripture, Thought for the Day, devotion, and closing prayer, this book helps readers begin a 60-day journey in learning…
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Book Review: Clean Cuisine By Ivy Ingram Larson and Andrew Larson

CLEAN CUISINE An 8-Week Anti-Inflammatory Nutrition Program That Will Change the Way You Age, Look and Feel By:  Ivy Ingram Larson and Andrew Larson Published: February 5, 2013 **** There is a diet and exercise plan that covers all the bases—food we should eat and food that tastes good; what is best for our bodies…
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Book Review: Iconic Spirits by Mark Spivak

ICONIC SPIRITS An Intoxicating History By: Mark Spivak Published: November 6, 2012 **** From the epidemic of gin consumption that almost brought down the British empire, to Gaspare Campari toiling away in his workshop to infuse sixty herbs, spices, barks, and fruit peels into a mixture of alcohol and distilled water, to Sidney Frank waking…
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Book Review: Becoming the Confident Mom You’ve Always Wanted to Be By Susan Heid

BECOMING THE CONFIDENT MOM YOU’VE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE 31 Strategies to Improve Your Confidence as a Woman, Mother, and Family Manager. By:  Susan Heid Published:  January 3, 2013 ***** How many times have you felt something is lacking in your family life? You just can’t keep up with the daily demands of managing a…
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Book Review: Saving Each Other by Victoria Jackson and Ali Guthy

SAVING EACH OTHER A Mystery Illness A Search for a Cure A Mother Daughter Love Story By Victoria Jackson and Ali Guthy Published:  October 16, 2012 **** On the surface, Victoria Jackson is the American Dream personified: from a troubled childhood and unfinished high school education she overcame immeasurable odds to create a cosmetics empire…
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Book Review: My Journey As A Combat Medic By Patrick Thibeault

MY JOURNEY AS A COMBAT MEDIC By:  Patrick Thibeault Published:  July 24, 2012 *** My Journey as a Combat Medic is a no-holds-barred look at the modern medic in the US Army, allowing us a glimpse at the training as a soldier and as a specialist, as well as deployment and front line duties and the…
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Book Review: Smart Chefs Stay Slim by Allison Adato

SMART CHEFS STAY SLIM Lessons in Eating and Living from America’s Best Chefs By: Allison Adato Forward by Art Smith Published:  December 31, 2012 **** Chefs are around delicious, tempting food all day. So how do they manage to look good while eating so well? When People magazine editor Allison Adato found covering the restaurant…
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Book Review: The End of Your Life Book Club By Will Schwalbe

THE END OF YOUR LIFE BOOK CLUB By:  Will Schwalbe Published:  October 2, 2012 **** “What are you reading?”That’s the question Will Schwalbe asks his mother, Mary Anne, as they sit in the waiting room of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. In 2007, Mary Anne returned from a humanitarian trip to Pakistan and Afghanistan suffering…
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Stacie's bookshelf: read-in-2023

The Lazy Genius Kitchen: Have What You Need, Use What You Have, and Enjoy It Like Never Before
Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'
The Royal Governess: A Novel of Queen Elizabeth II's Childhood
Food Fight
Spare
Foster
This Time Tomorrow
To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings
Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge: Intimate Confessions from a Happy Marriage
Save What's Left
Remarkably Bright Creatures
The Galveston Diet: The Doctor-Developed, Patient-Proven Plan to Burn Fat and Tame Your Hormonal Symptoms
Golden Hills
The Girl with the Louding Voice
The Favor
Small Things Like These
This Is How I Lied
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
Audrey L and Audrey W: Best Friends-ish: Book 1
Audrey L and Audrey W: True Creative Talents: Book 2
Chasing Giants: In Search of the World's Largest Freshwater Fish
The Puzzler: One Man's Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life
In Conclusion, Don't Worry About It
It Is Well With My Soul: My Story
Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don’t Want to Forget to Remember
Book Lovers
A Girl Called Samson
Finn and the Feline Frenemy
The Levee
The Golden Spoon
Only the Beautiful
Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories
The Sisters Sweet
Fish in a Tree
This Tender Land
Intermittent Fasting Transformation: The 45-Day Program for Women to Lose Stubborn Weight, Improve Hormonal Health, and Slow Aging
The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar
Ben Y and the Ghost in the Machine
The Great Gilly Hopkins
BenBee and the Teacher Griefer
We Should Not Be Friends: The Story of a Friendship
Blue Highways: A Journey into America
Beyond the Point
The Family
Hamnet
The Bookstore Sisters
And Finally: Matters of Life and Death
The Cactus
Black Cake
Ban This Book
Passing
I'm Glad My Mom Died
These Precious Days: Essays
Evidence of the Affair
The Night Travelers
Out of the Corner
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
One Day in December

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