Böcker av Jo Piazza

';If you've ever had your heart broken and then cut your own bangs, read this book. I laughed so hard I made people around me uncomfortable.' Paula Froelich,NewYork Timesbestselling author ofMercury in Retrograde Cyber-stalking, drive-bys, drunken text messaging, creating fake email accountsyou're gonna have to face it, you're addicted to love. Sophie isn't dealing with her breakup well. Dumped by her boyfriend, Eric, for his sexting, D-cupped, young Floozy McSecretary, Sophie leaves Manhattan and lands back in her hometown, crushed and pajama-clad, blaming herself and begging her ex for a second chance. But when her best friend, Annie, gets in trouble for driving drunk and is forced to go to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, something clicks in Sophie's strung-out mind. Women need love rehab, she realizes, to help fix the craziness that comes along with falling for someone. If you start it, they will come. When she opens up her home to the obsessed and lovelorn, Sophie finds a way to help women out there who have overdosed on the wrong menand she saves herself in the process. Love is a drug and the only things that can save us are the steps, rules, and one another. Step one: Admit you have a problem, and keep the hell away from Facebook.

';Fascinating profiles' of remarkable nuns, from an eighty-three-year-old Ironman champion to a crusader against human trafficking (Daily News [New York]). ';In an age of villainy, war and inequality, it makes sense that we need superheroes,' writes Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times. ';And after trying Superman, Batman and Spider-Man, we may have found the best superheroes yet: Nuns.' In If Nuns Ruled the World, veteran reporter Jo Piazza overthrows the popular perception of nuns as killjoy schoolmarms, instead revealing them as the most vigorous catalysts of change in an otherwise repressive society. Meet Sister Simone Campbell, who traversed the United States challenging a Congressional budget that threatened to severely undermine the well-being of poor Americans; Sister Megan Rice, who is willing to spend the rest of her life in prison if it helps eliminate nuclear weapons; and the inimitable Sister Jeannine Gramick, who is fighting for acceptance of gays and lesbians in the Catholic Church. During a time when American nuns are often under attack from the very institution to which they devote their livesand the values of the institution itself are hotly debatedthese sisters offer thought-provoking and inspiring stories. As the Daily Beast put it, ';Anybody looking to argue there is a place for Catholicism in the modern world should just stand on a street corner handing out Piazza's book.'