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Fresh Reads: Sexual Pleasure For Dummies by Myisha Battle

April 29, 2026

There are questions most of us carry in silence—questions we've never felt safe enough to ask out loud, things we didn't learn in any classroom, and experiences we've quietly wondered about in the dark. Myisha Battle has spent her career in those silences, helping people finally say the words they've swallowed for years. As a clinical sexologist and dating coach, she's the person her clients call when they won't even Google what they're thinking. Now, with her new book Sexual Pleasure for Dum...

Fresh Reads: Parenting a Spicy One: A Compassionate Guide for Raising a Deep-Feeling and Wonderfully Strong-Willed Kid by Mary Van Geffen

April 22, 2026

There is a moment—one most parents have had but few will ever admit out loud—where you look at your child and feel something uncomfortably close to dislike. Not a fleeting frustration, but a deep, bewildering wall between you and the small person you love more than life. If you have ever stood there, in that shame-soaked silence, wondering what is wrong with you—or them—then Mary Van Geffen wrote this book for you.Mary is an international parenting coach who works with what she lovingly calls...

Fresh Reads: Extra Sauce: The Good, the Bad, and the Onions by Zahra Tangorra

April 18, 2026

Some connections defy explanation. They arrive on a random Tuesday afternoon through a phone scroll, a face you haven't seen in decades, a name that pulls you back to childhood hallways — and suddenly, the universe has done the thing it sometimes does, folding time neatly in half. That is exactly how host Olivia Howell found herself reconnecting with Zahra Tangorra, an old schoolmate from the North Shore of Long Island who had gone on to become one of New York City's most celebrated culinary ...