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October 26 • 2017

HEALTH, RELIGION
AND SPIRITUALITY
1:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 5
Rabbi Joseph H. Krakoff, with
illustrations by Dr. Michelle
Y. Sider: Never Long Enough:
Finding Comfort and Hope
Amidst Grief and Loss
For a time when there are
seemingly no words, Rabbi Joseph
Krakoff, senior director at the
Jewish Hospice and Chaplaincy
Network, created a guide offering
ways to speak about death and
those who have passed, and how
to offer comfort to those who
remain.

11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 10
Amy Silverstein: My Glory
Was I Had Such Friends
Amy Silverstein had just learned
that her heart was about to fail.
For any chance of survival, she
would need to immediately go to
California and begin preparations
for surgery.
That is where Joy, Jill, Leja,
Jody, Lauren, Robin, Valerie, Ann
and Jane stepped in. These nine
friends stopped everything and
went with Amy, where they did
whatever was needed, from sleep-
ing beside her bed to massaging
her back to filling her room with
decorations to keep up her spirits.
My Glory Was I Had Such
Friends is the story of a group of
extraordinary women (many of
whom had never even met) who
stepped forward to help a friend
in the most difficult of times.

1 p.m. Friday, Nov. 10
Cathryn Jakobson Ramin:
Crooked: Outwitting the Back
Pain Industry and Getting on the
Road to Recovery
Back pain affects the quality of
life of millions of people around
the world.
There are physicians, chiroprac-
tors, medicines, therapies, surger-
ies, exercises and injections that
provide help — or do they really?
Cathryn Jakobson Ramin spent
many years and a great deal of
money in an effort to deal with
her back pain. She became an
expert on what works, what
doesn’t, what may cause harm
and how to start on the road to
recovery.
This invaluable guide will chal-
lenge everything you know about
back pain and its cures while
showing who and what to avoid,
and how to save time, money and
suffering. •

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NON-FICTION
3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 5
Howard Markel: The Kelloggs:
The Battling Brothers of Battle
Creek
When Amelia Earhart and
Warren G. Harding were
plagued by health issues, they
came to Battle Creek. There,
in a sanitarium run by John
Harvey Kellogg, with assistance
from brother Will, they sat
under artificial sunlight and in
cold air, received salt rubs and
learned about the importance
of eating whole grains, fiber-
rich foods and, most critically,
nuts.
But all the almonds in the
world couldn’t cure the bad
blood between the Kelloggs
— two brothers dedicated to
improving health but who
came to loathe each other, even
as they built a thriving indus-
try and forever changed what
America ate.

7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 5
Joel Stone: Detroit 1967
It was called everything from a
“riot” to an “uprising.”
In 1967, Detroit was rocked
by one of the worst racially
charged events in modern his-
tory. Thousands took to the
streets. Stores were looted.
Homes were set afire. The air
was heavy with the sounds of
gunfire.
On the 50th anniversary
of this extraordinary time,
Detroiters look back and con-
sider what it meant and how it
shaped the city.

1 p.m. Monday, Nov. 6
Barbara Cohn: The Detroit
Public Library
Open the door.
Now stand in the middle of
the room and forget, just for a
moment, about the books.
What do you see?
Elegance, craftsmanship, his-
tory.

The Detroit Public Library is
filled with breathtaking archi-
tecture, carvings and mosaics,
with contributions from some
of the world’s most accom-
plished artists.
Here is a story that will fasci-
nate history buffs, art enthusi-
asts, library lovers and anyone
with a connection to Detroit.

With
Michael G. Smith: Designing
Detroit
Wirt Rowland was chief
designer for Albert Kahn and
was a man whose reach was
broad — from Detroit to New
York to Miami. His ideas were
completely new, incorporating,
for example, the concept of
color in structure.
Rowland’s work includes
some of Detroit’s most iconic
buildings, including Hill
Auditorium and the Detroit
News building.
So why is so little known of
Rowland today?

2:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 6
Linda Schuster: Dirty Wars
and Polished Silver: The
Life and Times of a War
Correspondent Turned
Ambassatrix
Detroit native Lynda
Schuster, former writer for
the Wall Street Journal and the
Christian Science Monitor, tells
of her extraordinary life in this
“riveting international thriller
... A page-turner thanks to
lucid writing and thrilling sto-
rytelling,” according to Kirkus
Reviews.
Schuster set out for adven-
ture the mom-ent she gradu-
ated from high school.
It didn’t take long to find it.
She became a foreign corre-
spondent in Central and South
America, Mexico, the Middle
East and Africa. She married an
ambassador, worked on a kib-
butz and dodged rocket fire in