Book Reviews

This Month: You'll have some laughs and fall in love (with yourself) with this month's selections:

This Month: Fifty is the New Fifty: 10 Life Lessons for Women in Second Adulthood by Suzanne Braun Levine (Viking, 2009)

This Month: Second Acts That Change Lives by Mary Beth Sammons (Conari Press, 2009)

Strategies for Successful Career Change: Finding Your Very Best Next Work Life by Martha E. Mangelsdorf (Ten Speed Press, 2009)

This Month: The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship by David Whyte (Riverhead Books, 2009)

In a new book, “The Girls From Ames: A Story of Women and a 40-Year Friendship” (Gotham), Jeffrey Zaslow tells the story
childhood friends who scattered from Iowa to eight different states. Despite the distance, their friendships endured through college and marriage, divorce and other crises, including the death of one of the women in her 20s.  Read an excerpt inside.