There is great appeal in dating a hot guy – but there’s just as much appeal in taking your first sip of that delicious hot mocha latte. Men Are Like Mocha Lattes, the first novel by Lisa Summers, is a light-hearted and comical portrait of dating and the single woman in the 21st century – and how dates have become as “disposable” as mocha lattes. The story follows 29-year-old Lindsay Breyer -- unmarried and unhappy in her current job as a lawyer -- and her quest to meet and marry Mr. Right before she turns 30.

You’ll have to judge for yourself whether Lorette C. Luzajic takes the confessional art form a little too far. But here, you CAN judge a book by its cover. The cover, a painting of the author by Iaian Greenson, is cool and colourful, laden with pop art symbolism, and has the longest book title I’ve ever heard: Weird Monologues for a Rainy Life (irreverent ramblings from the end of the world.)

Kitchen Yoga is a revolutionary off-th-mat yoga regime for people who can't always attend classes. Author Ruth Shaw, a certified yoga teacher based in Toronto, Canada, created Kitchen Yoga as the answer to "I'd like to and I wish I could, but I just don't have the time."

The 24 fully illustrated, easy-to-follow yoga poses are designed for young people and seniors alike; for the retired and the active; for experienced yogis and tentative beginners; for people who can barely show up; and for survivors of bad backs, frozen shoulders, bum knees, broken bones, and broken hearts.

One morning, you wake up feeling more exhausted than usual. You look at yourself in the mirror, and it dawns on you just how much you’ve really aged over the last number of years. Your kids are grown up now, you’re facing retirement, and you don’t feel like there’s any point in keeping healthy and active like you did when you were back in college, right?

 

Wrong! The aging process and getting older is no reason to not stay fit, healthy, active and vital. Dr. Vonda Wright, an orthopaedic surgeon specializing in sports medicine for people over 40, shows you how – and why -- you can maintain a healthy, active lifestyle well into your old age in her book Fitness After 40: How to Stay Strong at Any Age.