Since the dawn of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, anxiety levels have gone through the roof, and loneliness and despair have crippled a myriad of different people's lives. Nora Plesent's Be Still and Soar is a memoir/self-help guidebook written in the form of a long...

In her memoir Shattered: A Story of Betrayal and Loss, Nora Plesent recounts how her search for affection transformed the life she had built as a New York attorney raising four children. After years in an unhappy marriage, Plesent travels to China to adopt her...