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Bookshelf

Wikler Classics, The Best of Dr. Meir
Wikler's Heartwarming and Inspirational
True Stories
By Dr. Meier Wikler '65
Philipp Feldheim, April 15, 2016
Wikler Classics, The
Best of Dr. Meir Wikler's
Heartwarming and
Inspirational True
Stories collects, in one
volume, the best stories
from Dr. Wikler's '65
three classic books-
Aishel, Einei Hashem
and Zorei'a Tzedakos. In Aishel: Stories of
Contemporary Jewish Hospitality Dr. Wikler, a
psychotherapist and family counselor in
Brooklyn, N.Y., turned his ear for detail to the
art of storytelling. In an effort to encourage
others to become more actively involved in
practicing hospitality he collected 14 true
heartwarming, humorous and inspiring
accounts of ordinary people who have
extraordinary experiences by inviting guests
to their home. Einei Hashem recalls the
Biblical teaching that, literally translated from
the Hebrew, the "eyes of God" are always on
the Land of Israel. In this book Dr. Wikler
presented 25 accounts of miracles from the
Holy Land. The stories in Dr. Wikler's book
Zorei'a Tzedakos illustrate how ordinary lives
have been touched in extraordinary ways by
Divine Providence.
Radiant Bride: The Beauty, Diet, Fitness,
and Fashion Plan for Your Big Day
By Alexis Wolfer '02
Running Press, January 5, 2016
In Radiant Bride: The
Beauty, Diet, Fitness,
and Fashion Plan for
Your Big Day Alexis
Wolfer '02 provides a
guide for looking and
feeling better than ever
on your wedding day.
Wolfer is the founder and editor-in-chief of
TheBeautyBean.com, an online women's
magazine founded in 2009 to bring women
healthy and empowering beauty, fitness and
wellness information. She has since become
an internationally-known beauty, fashion, and
lifestyle expert. Radiant Bride is Wolfer's
holistic guide to beauty, diet, fitness, and
fashion designed to make the wedding
journey-or any journey-gorgeous and sane.
You'll stop counting calories, obsessing over
hours spent (or not spent!) at the gym, and

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trying crazy beauty fads. The book offers
readers access to the insider tips the
holistically-minded author shares with
celebrities and her clients and includes expert
advice on: personalized detox and diet plans;
gown-shopping to help find the most flattering
options; fitness routines; hair and makeup
guides; meal plans for beauty from the inside
out and much more. A great guide, even if a
wedding is not in your plans.
Chasing the Last Laugh:
Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive
Round-the-World Comedy Tour
By Richard Zacks '73
Doubleday, April 19, 2016
Mark Twain, the
highest-paid writer in
America in 1894, was
also one of the nation's
worst investors. "There
are two times in a man's
life when he should not
speculate," he wrote.
"When he can't afford it
and when he can." The
publishing company Twain owned was failing;
his investment in a typesetting device was
bleeding red ink. After losing hundreds of
thousands of dollars back when a beer cost a
nickel, he found himself neck-deep in debt. His
heiress wife, Livy, took the setback hard. Twain
vowed to Livy he would pay back every penny.
And so, just when the 59-year-old, bushybrowed icon imagined he would be settling
into literary lionhood, he forced himself to
mount the "platform" again, embarking on a
round-the-world stand-up comedy tour-
something no author had ever done before. In
Chasing the Last Laugh author Richard Zacks
'73 tells the story of how Twain trekked across
the American West and onward by ship all the
way to Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, India,
Ceylon, and South Africa, telling his cherrypicked best stories, such as stealing his first
watermelon and buying a bucking bronco.
The great American writer added many
more adventures to his personal experiences
in his travels to these countries and while
aboard ship. but he also fought off numerous illnesses and travel nuisances to circle
the globe and earn a huge payday and a
tidal wave of applause. Word of his success,
however, traveled slowly enough that one
American newspaper reported that he had
died penniless in London. That's when he
famously quipped: "The report of my death
was an exaggeration."

Zacks, whose historical writing has covered
President Theodore Roosevelt and America's
17th and 18th century pirates, drew extensively
on unpublished material in notebooks and
letters from the University of CaliforniaBerkeley's ongoing Mark Twain Project. In
Chasing the Last Laugh Zacks chronicles a
poignant chapter in the author's life-one
that began in foolishness and bad choices but
culminated in humor, hard-won wisdom, and
ultimate triumph. Wrote the St. Louis Post
Dispatch, "Twain could not have picked a better
chronicler than Zacks.... [H]e brings a deep
knowledge of U.S. history to the task of viewing
the late-19th century world through the eyes of
one of the keenest literary minds America ever
produced.... Zacks' writing...shines." $

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