BEST BOOKS!

Life: Enjoy the Ride by Lee Monday Life: enjoy the ride! Good advice? Definitely  And what better title for a book that gets to the heart of how to take pleasure in each day by employing simple precepts to help navigate life's twists and turns. An illustrated tale that follows the main character, turtle, as he discovers how to make the most of his life on the river.

Virtual Vintage: The Insider's Guide to Buying and Selling Fashion Online Audrey, Jackie, Grace: Fashion trifecta In an age when the word is grossly overused, they remain, incontrovertibly, icons: Elegance embodied, high fashion at the dawn of the television era, with charmed lives and striking beauty. 

Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoi nette Wore to the Revolution presents Marie Antoinette as a hapless 14-year-old whose mother, Empress Maria Theresa, warned her, "All eyes will be fixed on you." In the end, as we all know, she miscalculated. "Yet for the moment," Weber writes, "the larger society she sought out proved an avid market for her iconoclastic, elegant image. For the staunchest devotees of the modes she launched, neither printed matter nor in-store gossip could compare with a direct sighting of Marie Antoinette."

*The Female Brain, by Dr Luan Brizendine  Women talk three times as much as men, says study...  But what the male brain may lack in conversation and emotion, they more than make up with in their ability to think about sex....  

*The Scorecard: How to Fix Your Man in One Year or Less.  by Julie Bell, Donna Brown, Judith Newman  The women detail their goal-oriented technique of prioritizing and then clearly articulating the changes necessary in their marriages before they would reconcile with their husbands.

*Love Your Looks:  How to Stop Criticizing and Start Appreciating Your Appearance  Carolynn Hillman  If I only looked like that . . . How many times have you had that thought, longing to look a beauty? 

*"On Becoming Fearless" Fearlessness, says political pundit and writer Arianna Huffington, is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of fear.  It's really learned behavior. You know, nobody's born fearless. I mean, I was afraid of everything."