Self-Help Books - Fiction

History Lesson For Girls by Aurelie Sheehan

In 1975, Alison Glass, age thirteen, moves to Connecticut with her bohemian parents and her hours, Jazz. Shy, observant, and in a back brace for scoliosis, Alison finds strength in an unlikely friendship with Kate Hamilton, the charismatic but troubled daughter of an egomanical new age guru and his substance-loving wife. Set against the backdrop of the distrubingly reckless and often hilariously tacky 1970s History Lesson for Girls is a coming=-of-age story rich in humor an dheartbreak, and an elegy to a friendhsip that meant everything. (From the Back Cover)

I Never Saw Paris: A Novel of the Afterlife by Harry I. Freund

On his way to a department store in Manhattan, 64-year-old businessman, Irving Caldman, is waiting at the intersection of Park Avenue with three other pedestrians, when a driver jumps the curb and runs them all over. Bound together for a week with Malakh, before their souls will be allowed to move on for judgment, Irving and his fellow victims must all tell the group their life stories, in order to evaluate and justify their earthly existence. As their insecurities and deepest secrets are exposed, they argue at length, and yet come to a strange peace, in this unexpected parable. (From the Jacket Cover)