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Addiction by Prescription
Joan Gadsby
2003 |
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Addiction by Prescription is a tale of triumph over addiction to benzodiazepines—prescription drugs that include sleeping pills and tranquilizers—and fight for change. These medications are now considered the best-selling drugs in the history of medicine.
Despite known and often severe physical, cognitive and emotional side effects of such drugs, hundreds of prescriptions are written everyday, and millions of people are becoming addicted. Gadsby’s book outlines a powerful call to action, being a victim of such prescriptions herself. In the book, the author recounts her own addiction and withdrawal horrors after being prescribed anti-depressants when she lost her four-year old son to cancer.
Filled with historical and current international research, the book is an educational and inspiring read to those suffering or bordering on dependency to anti-depressants, and an eye-opener for the rest of us. |
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Harmonic Wealth
James Arthur Ray
2008 |
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This breakthrough book by self-made millionaire James Arthur Ray tells readers that true wealth, ironically, has very little to do with money. To achieve what you truly want in life, all of your ‘basic pillars’ must be set in perspective from relational, spiritual, mental, physical down to financial wealth. This balance, or harmony, in all of life’s aspects, as Ray more importantly stresses, is the key to overall success.
One part of the book instructs readers to list down everything they would dare to dream; through a series of assessment questions and tips, Ray is able to teach readers to become visionaries. “Think big – really, really big.
Don’t censor yourself,” the author says.
Brace yourself for a host of brave ideas that will possibly challenge everything you’ve been taught. Harmonic Wealth is a both enjoyable and edifying read; and if you let it, life-changing as well. |
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The Necklace
Cheryl Jarvis
September 2008 |
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This refreshing new fiction from journalist and essayist Cheryl Jarvis is an interesting take on women’s desires, highly expensive jewelry, friendship and life transformation.
In The Necklace, Jonell McClain convinces 12 other women to split the purchase price of a $37,000 diamond tennis necklace and together, they set up a system for sharing it. What started as an innocent experiment paved the way for a sorority-like friendship that teaches them about love, life and happiness. The author Jarvis herself describes her work as “the story of 13 women who transformed a symbol of exclusivity into a symbol of inclusivity and, in the process, remapped the journey through the second half of their lives.”
Dubbed by The New York Times, as a fun, inspirational, bling book that means to position itself somewhere between “The Five People You Meet in Heaven” and “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants”, this book will make an enriching read not only for diamond aficionados but women from all walks of life. |
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