Do You Tweet Facebook LinkedIn?

The Social Media Marketing Book

By Dan Zarella

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Published November 25, 2009 (Paperback) O’Reilly Media

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OMG – I am so happy this book arrived today!  Out of the blue, of course — the books I want to see always do.  It’s that magical Law of Attraction — I just put the word out yesterday to a few friends that I wanted to learn more about how to use Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.  I have a couple of friends who are having monster success on LinkedIn.  I update at this trio, more because I love to write, than knowing what the hell I’m doing.  Well, now I have Dan Zarella’s genius The Social Marketing Book.

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Affordable Food Like Mom Used to Make

Taste of Home Cookbook: Cooks Who Care Edition

Edited by Catherine M. Cassidy and Diane Werner

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Published September 8th, 2009 (Hardcover) Reader’s Digest

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The top of my refrigerator is bedecked with dozens of unthumbed cookbooks, but there’s something about The Taste of Home Cookbook: Cooks Who Care Edition that makes me feel — well, home.  I interviewed one of the editors today, Catherine Cassidy.  She says the cookbook is for novice cooks all the way up to the experts.  There are more than 1,400 affordable recipes — all from readers, and then tested in the Taste of Home kitchens.

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Talking with a Memoir Queen – Mary Karr

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LIT: A Memoir

By Mary Karr

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Published November 3, 2009 (Hardcover) Harper

She’s tough, wise-cracking, and I wouldn’t have been surprised if she’d pulled a lady-like pistol from her purse while routing for a pen, at Powell’s City of Books, where we met for the interview.

The closest ex-Texan Mary Karr comes to that image is Read the rest of this entry »

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But I Trusted You — Ann Rule Strikes Again

But I Trusted You…and Other True Cases.  Ann Rule’s Crime Files: Vol. 14

By Ann Rule


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Published November 24, 2009 (Paperback) Pocket Books

I adore Ann Rule.  Let’s just get it out there.  She is the slightly-older female relative who always tells the truth.  I’ve interviewed her in person at least a half-dozen times, maybe more, and every time,  I am spellbound by her stories.  These cases that she profiles that — to me — are psychologically mysterious.  As in, how could that man do that, and how could that woman believe him?

There was one December, I recall, in the back of a chilly bookstore, after our interview, Read the rest of this entry »

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Lit — Mary Karr’s Third Stunning Memoir

Lit: A Memoir

By Mary Karr

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Published November 3, 2009 (Hardcover) Harper

Mary Karr changed the rules of memoir when she wrote The Liars’ Club, she continued that tone in Cherry, and topped it off with her newest memoir, LIT .

In LIT, she brazenly reprises enough of her earlier life to set the stage for the emotional strip she does for the current memoir.  Karr exposes Read the rest of this entry »

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Confessions of a Public Speaker

Confessions of a Public Speaker

By Scott Berkun

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Published November 10, 2009  (Hardcover) O’Reilly Media

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First, Scott Berkun busts the myths in Confessions of a Public Speaker.  It is lost in the annals of history who first said to imagine your audience naked — or why.  He argues that imagining seeing your audience naked will be useful only if you are deadly-dull.  Otherwise, that method is going send scattered crazy thoughts through your head, likely making it impossible to focus.

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The Gentle Art of Blessing

The Gentle Art of Blessing: A Simple Practice That Will Transform You and Your World

By Pierre Pradervand

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Published November 10, 2009 (Paperback) Atria Books/Beyond Words

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My mind churns out dozens of thank yous in a day, in addition to those I say verbally.  And, this puts me in a lovely, almost unshakably powerful place.  But nothing prepared me for the stunning prescription this book provides, The Gentle Art of Blessing.  The transformational power of blessing is as immutable as is the law of gravity.

For the past week, I’ve been troubled.  Read the rest of this entry »

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Even Psychics Can Have Relationship Addictions

You Know Your Way Home

By Suzanne Jauchius

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When I know I’m going to interview a psychic, that abused little girl that I was, gets giddy, thinking she is finally going to be rescued.  But this afternoon, as soon as I heard Suzanne Jauchius’ voice, my power snapped back, filling my body once again.

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Is It Love or Is It Addiction?

Is It Love or Is It Addiction? The Book That Changed the Way We Think About Romance and Intimacy

By Brenda Schaeffer

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Published May 2009 (Paperback, Third Printing) Hazelden

In this space that used to be my dining room, I have this fabulous stack of new and nearly new books.  Today, I was compelled to read Is It Love or Is It Addiction?

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You Better Not Cry

You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas

By Augusten Burroughs

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Published October 27, 2009 (Hardcover) St. Martin’s Press

First thing to know.  You Better Not Cry is not a children’s book.  Even if it does open with Augusten Burroughs as a kid pondering the relationship between Santa and Jesus.  He writes, “It’s just that, most of the year, Jesus is naked except for his little rag and his thorn hat, and then on Christmas, he puts on his good red suit.”

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