Free to Love, Free to Heal by David Simon

The author guides you on a five step process that has helped me to release my emotional pain, find freedom from the past, and reclaim my health and happiness. We must identify, mobilize, and release the life-damaging beliefs, that contribute o anxiety, addictive behaviors, chronic pain, depression, obesity, chronic fatigue, irritable bowel syndrome and many more emotional and physical health problems.

The reader must be prepared to become an active partner in her own healing journey.

This book will help you to heal your emotions and your body.

A must read!!!!!

How To Get What You Want and Want What You Get by Joel Gray

This book presents a brilliantly innovative program for achieving personal success. The wisdom and techniques in these pages enabled me to feel greater joy, love, confidence and peace. I learned:

*Your experience of the world reflects your inner state.

*When you aren't getting what you need, you are always looking in the wrong direction.

*Find your soul's desire and start getting everything that you want.

*Material success can only make you happy if you are already happy.

*The power to get what you want comes from confidence, positive feeling and desire.

*You have the power to change. No one can do it for you.

YOU HAVE TO WORK AT CREATING THE LIFE THAT YOU WANT!!!!!

Are You There, Vodka? It's Me Chelsea! By Chelsea Handler

The book consists of true stories written by comedian Chelsea Handler.

I really did not like the book. It made the author seem rather useless.

WAR HORSE by MICHAEL MORPURGO

It is 1914, and Joey, a farm horse is old to the army and thrust into the midst of World War I on the Western Front. When Joey is dragged away, his heart aches for Albert, the farmer's son that he is forced to leave behind.

In the army, the beautiful rd-bay horse is trained to charge the enemy, drag the heavy artillery and carry wounded soldiers not much older than Albert off the battlefields.

Amongst the clamoring, of guns and while plodding through the cold mud, Joey wonders if the war will ever end.

And if it does, will he ever find Albert again?????

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

This is the perfect book for anyone who knows that compassion isn't only for humans and that the relationship between two souls who are meant for each other never really comes to an end. (Enzo, Denny, Zoe, Eve).

The book is perfect, a dog who speaks and thinks and is a philosopher, the thrill of competitive racing, a meditation on humility and hope in the face of despair.

Nemesis by Philip Roth

In the stifling heat of Newark, a terrifying epidemic is raging threatening the children of the New Jersey City with maiming, paralysis, lifelong disability and even death. This is the story of a wartime polio epidemic in the summer of 1944 and the effect that it has on a closely knit family oriented Newark community and its children.

At the center of the book, is a vigorous twenty-three year old playground director named Bucky Cantor. Focusing on Cantor's dilemmas as polio begins to ravage his playground and on the everyday realities that he faces, Roth leads us through every inch of emotion that polio brought to a community. Roth depicts a decent energetic man with the best intentions struggling in his own private war against the epidemic. Roth is tenderly exact at every point about Cantor's passage into personal disaster.

Questions are posed such as, what kind of choices fatally shape a life? How does the individual withstand the onslaught of circumstance?

The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman

Josef Kohn is a successful New York obstetrician who still dreams of his first wife, Lenka, an art student he left behind in Czechoslovakia while fleeing the Nazis.

Lenka, who he believes died during the war, continues to haunt his dreams, while his second wife, Amalia, remains more of a ghost to him than is Lenka. As we follow Lenka's journey to the ghetto of Terezin, where she is forced to draft technical drawings for the Germans and is a witness to the secret paintings of an underground group of artists involved in their own form of resistance against their captors, we see not only the endurance of the human spirit, but also of the artist, whose desire to create and document, cannot be extinguished.

From the glamourous of pre-war Prague, to the ensuing horrors of the Nazi Europe, we experience both the dawning of Lenka's and Josef's love affair to its tragic unraveling. Each character must forge their own path for survival and each must struggle to adapt to post-war America, while their secrets, their past and the ghost of their first marriage are only known to them.

The First Wife is a story that explores the depth......the power of first love, the resilience of the human spirit, and our capacity to remember.