Adult

How to classify this book? Featuring a supermodel, this is not your typical cookbook. Great photos, fun stories and some recipes that are sure to put a smile on your face this holiday season.

Here’s a stocking stuffer for that football fanatic in your house. Actually, Tebow inspires readers to acknowledge life’s detours and not let setbacks define one’s destiny. Perfect book for anyone itching to start on early New Year’s resolutions.

Am I the only person who has considered moving to Waco just so I could enlist the services of Chip and Joanna Gaines? Their HGTV show Fixer Upper is mandatory viewing in my household, and this books takes us behind the scenes in Chip and Joanna’s inspiring journey together.

Ever want to reinvent yourself? Eleanor Flood knows her life is a mess, and Semple’s brilliantly funny novel will leave you feeling good about your own place in the universe.

Dogged by the rat race? Who doesn’t seek balance and purpose? Do yourself a favor and turn shelf help into self help by checking out the tips Fields offers in this insightful guide that will hopefully prompt you to take action at improving areas of your life where you may feel emptiness.

So race relations have been suffering lately, and I wanted to find something to lighten the mood while addressing important issues. Rae is delightful, as her self-effacing humor is the perfect antidote to camera-hogging, reality misfits that rule today’s airwaves.

Club member Mike Dalton recommended this book. He says: “In this book, Rees basically outlines how humanity has a 50-50 chance of surviving the next century given the possibility of errors and the technological monsters, particularly bio-weapons, that are currently in development.  Rees also talks about what we are doing to the environment and how all of these pose a serious threat.  At times, he gets a little hysterical.  I think he probably wrote this a little drunk after talking to some colleague at Cambridge who managed to scare the (insert imagination here) out of him.”

“The work of an entrepreneur,” Gerber writes, “is to wonder…to imagine and dream.” What most entrepreneurs do not understand is that creating one’s own business takes a lot of smart, hard work done the right way. Gerber provides budding entrepreneurs with a blueprint on how to take their ideas and make them profitable businesses. Not a new book, but one every person in search of personal financial freedom should read.

Undernourished by the media’s sensational yet sparse coverage of the war in Syria, I grabbed this book to get a better understanding of the catastrophic war in Syria. Truly enlightening read.

If you ever have the chance to see Ruben speak, GO. He is one of my favorite speakers. The story of how he became a four-time Olympian competing in the luge is hilarious and uplifting and offers a glimpse into the power of one’s indomitable spirit.

This book is REQUIRED reading for anyone who travels a lot. Tomsky provides all sorts of amazing ideas on ways to get upgrades and other goodies from hotels.

Remarkable story of Brownie Wise, the founder of Tupperware. Truly inspirational!

Readers keep on asking me to include more mystery recommendations, so here is a nice series to keep you busy for a little while (there are five books so far in the series). Ambrose Bierce, of course, was a famous 19th century American journalist, and this latest mystery takes him to Colonel Studley’s Wild West Show in San Francisco. Yup, there’s a murder, and yup, there’s a ton of suspects. Another fun tale in this series narrated by Bierce’s own Dr. Watson-like character, Tom Redmond.

Here’s one for the ladies: female bonding at its finest. Hinton crafts a tale of women brought together through a cookbook collaboration, and she manages to tackle a lot of issues with love and tenderness.

I am traveling throughout Ireland in July, so I have been enjoying as many stories taking place in Ireland that I can. Bowen is a crafty writer, and this is her first entry in a historical series about a 19^th century heroine known as Molly Murphy. Bowen’s writing makes turning pages easy.