Make the Connection / Bob Green and Oprah Winfrey 240 p. USA Today Bestseller Challenge

Bob Green and Oprah Winfrey discuss weight issues.  Each present a side.  Oprah shares her personal stories of her weight ups and downs.  She and Bob provide ten simple steps towards a healthier and

happier existence.  

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Who Moved My Cheese / Spencer Johnson, M.D. 94 p. USA Today Bestseller

Dr. Spencer Johnson offers this parable about 4 characters in a maze, searching for the cheese, as a way to suggest how to accept, manage, and even look for change.

Change affects each character significantly and each respond differently.  Cheese represents what one's goals and the maze the place where one makes one's way.

Appeal factors are thought-provoking, business writing.

Readers may be interested in works by Ken Blanchard or Fish! a Proven Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results.

Beach Music / Pat Conroy 628 p. USA Today Bestseller

Pat Conroy relates the story of Jack McCall, incorporating many facets of southern living as well as all the happenings of his brothers, his Holocaust-surviving in-laws, his poor white trash mother, the 60's, Vietnam War, as well as the reasons behind his flight to Rome to raise his 2 year old daughter.

Jack returns to Charleston, S.C. when his mother is dying of leukemia.  He finds himself learning more about his mother than he ever did.  He gradually develops more in-depth look at his in-laws, his childhood friends, and his late wife.  It is interesting to see how he grows and relates to issues that drove him away.

This will appear to readers of moving family sagas, with lovely descriptions of Southern living, characters, and intricate plots.