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Virtual Book Tour with Gayle Forman

by phyllis, September 21, 2011

Today we’re delighted to welcome journalist and author, Gayle Forman, to our Virtual Book Tour. In full disclosure, at one time I carpooled Gayle to school with my kids. I think you’ll find her as engaing now as I did then: Nourishing Relationships: Young-adult books like yours seem to be gaining a much wider readership than just young adults – what is the appeal? Gayle Forman: A book is a book is a book and a good book is a good book. It’s a golden time right now for YA … Continue reading →

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Maureen Hancock, The Medium Next Door

by rosemary, August 24, 2011

We want to welcome Maureen Hancock to our Virtual Book Tour today. She’s here to talk about her book, The Medium Next Door: Adventures of a Real-Life Ghost Whisperer. Maureen has lots to tell us about her unusual vocation so let’s not waste any time getting started: NR: You have a new book out. What’s the book about and where can readers get it? MH: My new book, The Medium Next Door is about the adventures of a real life ghost whisperer. It’s basically part memoir about my life as … Continue reading →

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Juicy Tomatoes, Women 50 and Beyond

by phyllis, March 30, 2011

Good morning Sandwiched Boomers! Today we are delighted to welcome Susan Swartz to our Virtual Book Tour. A talented journalist, author, public radio commentator and blogger, she has written two books about women 50 and beyond. She’s here to talk about her ‘Juicy Tomatoes’ books so lets get started, Susan. Nourishing Relationships: First off, who or what is a Juicy Tomato? Susan Swartz: It’s a term I came up with for mature middle aged women to counter those over-the-hill stodgy predictable stereotypes. Juicy Tomatoes are ripe, still on the vine, … Continue reading →

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Virtual Book Tour: Dr. Gary Small

by phyllis, January 26, 2011

Today we are delighted to welcome Gary Small, M.D., director of the UCLA Memory and Aging Center and professor of psychiatry at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine. He’ll be answering our questions – and yours as well – about the book he recently wrote with his wife, Gigi Vorgan, “The Naked Lady Who Stood On Her Head: A Psychiatrist’s Stories of His Most Bizarre Cases.” Nourishing Relationships: Several of the stories in your book deal with how the mind affects the body. One of them gets into your experiences … Continue reading →