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|  | | Black and Blintzes: Growing Up Not Quite Jewish On The Lower East Side
Coming of age in New York City.
div id="postBodyPS">In 1970, an African-American family moved from Vladeck City Housing Projects on Manhattan’s Lower East Side to a predominantly white, Jewish neighborhood along the East River. The advantages of exposing their only child to a middle class environment also created for her a struggle to straddle cultural lines of race and class. br />
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Torn from a beloved private school and tossed into the murky depths of public education, bullied for not being “black enough” and walking the thin line of perpetual outsider in a new community, Black and Blintzes shap | |  | | Cheaper Than Therapy: The Lesson of the Chopsticks
The Lesson of the Chopsticks is the second in Gina Greenlee's series of inspirational and motivational gift books that star inanimate objects as metaphors for enhancing the way we live. This time, Gina invites us to use chopsticks to practice skills for embracing experiences that will propel us toward our best lives.
Through lively illustrations, gina guides us through the thoughts and feelings that surface when we learn how to eat with chopsticks to prepare us to seize the opportunities in life that matter most.
i>a href="http://www.ginagreenlee.com/prod/pages/chopsticks.html">Cheaper Than Therapy: How to Take Risks to Create the Life You Want/a> /i>is a playful yet thought-provoking catalyst for people everywhere who are ready to act on their dreams. | |  | | Cheaper Than Therapy: The Lesson of the Paper Clips
Cheaper Than Therapy: How to Keep Life's Small Problems from Becoming Big Ones is the first in a series of inspirational and motivational gift books that uses inanimate objects as metaphors for enhancing the way we live.
In this lighthearted look at personal problem-solving patterns, i>Cheaper Than Therapy: How to Keep Life's Small Problems from Becoming Big Ones /i>illustrates i>The Lesson of the Paper Clips/i>. Gina Greenlee uses playful images of pliant paper clips to show how choosing what seems to be the easy way out of life's small problems often results in bigger, more overwhelming ones.
When paper clips hook onto each other and wind up tangled on our desks, Gina invites us to examine our interaction with these modest fragments of wire to uncover the metaphor for transfor | |  | | Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments in New York
Take a spirited journey through the hearts of women who made one of the world's greatest cities their own.
In Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments in New York, 35 women ages 24 to 72 join Gina Greenlee in sharing life-enhancing experiences while traveling solo in one of the world's most fascinating cities. Whether they blitzed through a long weekend, pit-stopped en route to another destination, conducted business or decided to move in, these intrepid travelers embraced the excitement of new experiences, the opportunities that spring from resourcefulness and the life altering freedom born from being exactly who they are. Let Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Momen | |  | | Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road
Journey with Gina Greenlee and other women travelers as they share 118 "postcards" filled with life lessons learned while traveling on their own. Whether they drove to New Jersey, hopped a freighter to Bora Bora, or biked across Alaska, women from age 20 to 72 discover the joy of honoring their own rhythms, the confidence of knowing they can take care of themselves and the reward of making lasting life changes.
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Jupiter Remembered
by Myra Darwish
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 A passionate and poignant memoir written by a woman whose life has been guided by the words: "I am here to learn how to love well." The book is a deep examination of relationships, family, motivation, and honoring of the Self. |
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