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1. Too Much of a Good Thing: Raising Children of Character in an Indulgent Age
By Dan Kindlon
Miramax, $13 paper
Information for raising well-balanced children in an age of increasing wealth.
2. The Glass Castle: A Memoir
By Jeannette Walls
Scribner, $9.80 paper
About surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric and severely misguided family.
3. The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
By Sidney Poitier
HarperCollins, $11.96 paper
Actor Sidney Poitier reflects on life.
4. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
By Lisa See
Random House, $9.77 paper
A language kept a secret for a thousand years forms the backdrop for this novel of two Chinese women whose friendship and love sustains them through their lives.
5. The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
By Alexander McCall Smith
Anchor, $9.07 paper
This first novel in the series tells the story of Botswana private detective Precious Ramotswe, who is drawn to her profession to “help people with problems in their lives.”
