• Eileen Cooper Reed, Children's Defense Fund, Greater Cincinnati Project director.

        What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage (William Morrow & Co.; $12).

        “She writes mostly essays, but this is fiction, a love story with such a wonderful balance. I recommend it.”

        • Dr. Lana Holstein, Women's health director at Canyon Ranch in Tucson, Ariz. and author of How to Have Magnificent Sex (Harmony Books; $21).

        Chocolat by Joanne Harris (Viking Penguin; $12.95).

        “It's the novel that the movie is taken from. Very interesting, it's about something that expresses desire and passion that is magical. The arrival of the woman and her daughter in the French village is magical. Mystical realism.”

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