The Book of Why : A Novel (Hardcover)

from twileteyes

First, my complaints. I'm not a fan of self-help books, which is unfortunate since this book is close to a quarter self-help. The main character is a self-help guru, and numerous chapters start out with a page or two of self-help advice which is used to give details about the main character or to...

from bkwurm

In A Nutshell The Book of Why is one of those rare books that is exactly what it claims to be: It's a book of questions... But with very few answers. The Whole Enchilada "This is a self-help book. Didn't think it was, but it is. It's also a revision, a question, a confession, an apology, a love l...

from ElleJennison

Eric Newborn is a disillusioned self-help writer and widower living alone with his female German Shepherd named Ralph. "I didn't know, when I thought I knew it all, that I would join the chorus of askers," he says at one point in the book. Sam Leslie who comes looking for him is one of those aske...

from JolleyG

This novel about the Law of Attraction, as espoused by Esther and Jerry Hicks, Wayne Dyer and so many others, asks the question whether we really can control what happens to us in life or whether there is a degree of destiny that we cannot avoid. The hero of the story, Eric Newborn, is an expert ...

from csayban

Eric Newborn has turned around millions of lives with his bestselling self-help books. That is until he loses his wife to cancer and he abruptly stops believing in his own advice. Eric disavows his past teachings and lives as a recluse in Martha's Vineyard. But when a determined fan tracks him do...