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The Mom factor

Author aims to help mothers and daughters understand each other

Let's get this straight right away. Julie Halpert loves her mom dearly. It's just that, well, no one can make an adult daughter feel less like an adult than her mother.

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Food for thought, and then some
May. 4th — Food is so much more than nourishment. It is entertainment to the nth power. Stir in the magic ingredient of travel and you will have so much more than a strained waistband; you will have an endless supply of food for thought.
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‘He's Yours', an adoption story
Apr. 29th — There was a time in Cheryl Dieter's life when she thought being the mother of one child would be enough. "I wanted to travel the world," the freelance writer says. "I thought I wouldn't be able to that with children."
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Poet examines life and a death
Apr. 26th — In the opening pages of her memoir, "The Florist's Daughter," Patricia Hampl sits determinedly by a hospital bed, holding her unconscious mother's hand while writing the obituary of this difficult woman with her other hand.
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Glittering world of 1899 Manhattan, with a twist at the end
Apr. 6th — "The Luxe,” by Anna Godbersen, released February 2008, is a novel for young adults — but one adults will equally enjoy, too. It’s a novel you just can’t put down.
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A season for reading
Spring books preview
Mar. 30th — If facts are your bag, be forewarned — many of spring 2008's nonfiction books are two shades darker than somber. But wait! Julie Andrews, the Mary Poppins of our collective mind, has a new memoir out.
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Carole, Carly, Joni: 'Girls Like Us'
May. 2nd — Carole King was married, pregnant and cranking out hit songs at age 17. Joni Mitchell gave up her baby girl and started composing the most heart-wrenching songs of her life. Carly Simon's list of lovers reads like a "Who's Who" of the entertainment industry. Their stories are all chronicled, in juicy detail, in a new book by Sheila Weller.
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Why we all gather in the kitchen
New book looks at how kitchen has changed over past century
Apr. 28th — It used to be that you knew your neighbors by the aromas wafting from their kitchen windows. If it was oregano and tomato, you knew the family was Italian. If the fragrance was of paprika, they were Hungarian.
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'Our Bodies, Ourselves' continues to educate women
Apr. 10th — Things were happening to her body that Dorothy Robinson couldn't quite understand. She works out regularly and strives to eat right, yet it was more difficult to keep her weight under control.
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Finding renewal after 50
Apr. 4th — Helen Dennis believes, and so do I, that this generation of women - highly educated, career-minded - is confused and unwilling to face retirement. We are the first generation affected by the women's movement. Heck, some of us started the movement.
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Professor looks for love, finds it in religions
Mar. 25th — "Encyclopedia of Love." The title alone sounds like an author's hot ticket to "Oprah" or "The View." But the new, illustrated reference book, edited by Rollins College professor Yudit Kornberg Greenberg, is more ecumenical than racy.
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