Monday, January 4, 2010

Mailbox Monday - January 4th

Thanks to host Marcia at The Printed Page I'm participating in the Mailbox Monday round up. This week I received the following advance review copies:

1) One Amazing Thing by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. Amazon Product Description. Late afternoon sun sneaks through the windows of a passport and visa office in an unnamed American city. Most customers and even most office workers have come and gone, but nine people remain. A punky teenager with an unexpected gift. An upper-class Caucasian couple whose relationship is disintegrating. A young Muslim-American man struggling with the fallout of 9/11. A graduate student haunted by a question about love. An African-American ex-soldier searching for redemption. A Chinese grandmother with a secret past. And two visa office workers on the verge of an adulterous affair.

When an earthquake rips through the afternoon lull, trapping these nine characters together, their focus first jolts to their collective struggle to survive. There's little food. The office begins to flood. Then, at a moment when the psychological and emotional stress seems nearly too much for them to bear, the young graduate student suggests that each tell a personal tale, "one amazing thing" from their lives, which they have never told anyone before. And as their surprising stories of romance, marriage, family, political upheaval, and self-discovery unfold against the urgency of their life-or-death circumstances, the novel proves the transcendent power of stories and the meaningfulness of human expression itself. From Chitra Divakaruni, author of such finely wrought, bestselling novels as Sister of My Heart, The Palace of Illusions, and The Mistress of Spices, comes her most compelling and transporting story to date. One Amazing Thing is a passionate creation about survival--and about the reasons to survive.

Thanks to Hyperion via Shelf Awareness.

2) Beyond Blue by Therese J. Borchard. Amazon Product Description. Therese Borchard may be one of the frankest, funniest people on the planet. That, combined with her keen writing abilities has made her Beliefnet blog, Beyond Blue, one of the most trafficked blogs on the site.

BEYOND BLUE, the book, is part memoir/part self-help. It describes Borchard's experience of living with manic depression as well as providing cutting-edge research and information on dealing with mood disorders. By exposing her vulnerability, she endears herself immediately to the reader and then reduces even the most depressed to laughter as she provides a companion on the journey to recovery and the knowledge that the reader is not alone.

Comprised of four sections and twenty-one chapters, BEYOND BLUE covers a wide range of topics from codependency to addiction, poor body image to postpartum depression, from alternative medicine to psychopharmacology, managing anxiety to applying lessons from therapy. Because of her laser wit and Erma Bombeck sense of humor, every chapter is entertaining as well as serious.

3) Prime-Time Health by William Sears, MD. Amazon Product Description. Twelve years ago, renowned physician and author Dr. William Sears was diagnosed with cancer. He, like so many people, wanted-and needed-to take control of his health. Dr. Sears created a comprehensive, science based, head-to-toe program for living a long, fit life-and it worked. Now at the peak of health, Dr. Sears shares his program in PRIME-TIME HEALTH. This engaging and deeply informative book will motivate readers to make crucial behavior and lifestyle changes. Dr. Sears explores how to keep each body system healthy and delay those usual age-related changes. Written in Dr. Sears's wise, accessible, and entertaining voice, PRIME-TIME HEALTH is a practical program to help you live your best life possible-pain-free, disease-free, stress-free, and medication-free.

Thanks to Hachette Book Group.

11 comments:

  1. Great mailbox as always :D
    Enjoy them!

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  2. One Amazing Thing seems to be the Book of the Week for reviewers. Hope you enjoy it!

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  3. Great books - I am looking forward to One Amazing Thing. Enjoy

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  4. I got One Amazing Thing as well. Wanting ti read that one soon.

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  5. Many of us received One Amazing Thing. It looks good. Happy reading!

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  6. These all sound great....enjoy!

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  7. I also have Beyond Blue and Prime Time Health.

    I've been wanting to read One Amazing Thing.

    Mine's Here

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  8. Nice crop! I read quite a few of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's books and I really like them!

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  9. Another One Amazing thing. I look forward to reading what you all think of it, before checking it out.

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  10. Happy reading! One Amazing Thing sounds interesting, and I'm looking forward to your thoughts.

    --Anna
    Diary of an Eccentric

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