The Annual Woman’s Club of Larchmont, Inc. Holiday Book & Author luncheon returns on Friday, December 13, featuring authors Marcy Axelrod, Alexandra Leclere and Lisa Williamson Rosenberg. They will share their books on how we thrive, the key to the spirit world, and fictional characters with mystifying memories. All are invited to attend this very popular and delightful event.

For keys to a happier, more effective, balanced life through nature’s model of how we’re designed to thrive, Marcy Axelrod’s How We Choose to Show Up: Nature’s Playbook for Creating a Meaningful Life and the World We Want is based on her twenty-five years uncovering this model. Her insights have helped individuals, teams, and some of the world’s largest companies succeed. In partnership with top technology companies, she tested and refined a mindset and model for how each of us relates to our Selves, Situations, and Society—i.e., How We Show Up. Grounded and practical, the model of How We Show Up is an essential insight for anyone seeking meaning, efficacy, and happiness. She is the executive director of the Show Up Institute, a social enterprise that delivers corporate and social impact projects, training, education, and ongoing research toward creating the society we all want. She resides in Westchester County with her two daughters. 

Healing Wisdom from the Afterlife by Alexandra Leclere is a practical guide to working with the spirit world for Soul development. Detailing the process of reincarnation and rebirth, exploring how communication with spirits can help heal physical and emotional trauma, and providing the spiritual journey work techniques to make contact with your birth spirit guide are covered.

Sharing insights from her more than two decades of experience as a practicing medium and energy healer, she presents how communicating with spirits can help you navigate daily life, how to clear the negative traumas and memories that are holding you back from happiness, and ways to support your Soul’s purpose. Leclere is also the author of the book Seeing the Dead, Talking with Spirits. She lives in New Rochelle, New York.

A psychiatric patient’s desperate search for answers reveals peculiar memories and unexpected connections in Mirror Me, a twisty and mind-bending novel of love, family, betrayal, and secrets, by Lisa Williamson Rosenberg. Eddie Asher panics that he may have murdered his brother’s fiancée, Lucy. Can a specialist in dissociative identities decode the truth of Lucy’s fate along with Eddie’s inexplicable memories of another man’s life? 

Williamson quickly devoted herself to ballet after beginning at the age of seven. She took a hiatus from college to dance but returned and graduated from Princeton. She returned to professional ballet and after retiring, she received her master’s degree from Hunter College School of Social Work and a post-master’s certification in family therapy from the Ackerman Institute. 

Currently, she is a psychotherapist specializing in depression, complex trauma, and racial identity. As a Black Jew – a ballerina turned shrink – dual identity is part of her life and central to her writing.

The luncheon will be held at the Orienta Beach Club in Mamaroneck with reception & cocktails at 11:30 a.m. and luncheon at 12:15 p.m. There will be an opportunity to meet the authors and have copies of their books personally autographed. 

Please send reservation information as to name, address, telephone number, and seating requests to Anne-Mieke Smeets, 48 Country Road, Mamaroneck, NY 10543. The cost is $70/per person, which includes a small donation to the Club’s philanthropic fund. Please make checks payable to The Woman’s Club of Larchmont, Inc. Reservations must be made by December 4.