In a courageous and honest look at her experience, actress Brooke Sheilds shares the reality of postpartum depression in Down Came the Rain. After enduring a miscarriage and multiple procedures just to become pregnant, Ms. Shields certainly was overjoyed at the news of her pregnancy and like any expectant mother, looked forward to the birth. From the time of her labor and delivery, however, things were not picture perfect.

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There is always an element of magic in Alice Hoffman's books, and "Blue Diary" is no exception. Ms Hoffman has an uncanny ability to transform the most ordinary and mundane of settings into a stronghold of possibilities transcending the rigidity of normalcy.

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"Year of Wonders"  by Geraldine Brooks

Based upon the people and  actual occurrences in the village of Eyam (Derbyshire, England) during an outbreak of the Plague, "Year of Wonders" is a testament of faith and endurance against all odds.

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"What Falls Away"
by Mia Farrow

It is infrequent that a biography of a "celebrity" includes passages or events that resonate on such a personal level with the rest of us, but "What Falls Away" could have been any woman's story (minus the Hollywood element, of course). There is, most certainly, name-dropping and anecdotes involving the famous and infamous, but this biography is more a woman's story than that of a celebrity.