On Monday, Nurtureshock won for best Childcare/Parenting book at the 14th annual Books for A Better Life Awards. Sponsored by the Southern New York Chapter of the National MS Society, the awards recognize self-improvement authors whose books “inspire people to live their best lives.”

Congratulations to authors Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman for this wonderful accomplishment!

~Marjorie DeWitt

Over the weekend, Newsweek’s Dahlia Lithwick reviewed Twelve’s latest hardcover, The Autobiography Of An Execution for the Times book review. In addition to an interesting discussion of the book’s legal content, she singles out the “meatiness” of David R. Dow’s memoir:

“What Dow exposes in this dark, raw memoir is not just a dispassionate machinery of death that cannot be slowed, reversed or mediated by truth, logic or fact. He also exposes the inner life of a man who, in the face of all that, cannot give up the fight.”

Read the rest of the review here, and check out Dahlia’s regular column at Newsweek.com.

~Marjorie DeWitt