Book nook: 'Friendships Don't Just Happen!'

Shasta Nelson, a life coach and former pastor who appears often in the media as a friendship expert, writes in this wise and openhearted book of being lonely after moving to a city, finding herself staring through a restaurant window at a group of laughing friends -- and dying to be in that "Sex and the City"-like circle.

Fact is, Nelson writes, a life-changing event such as a move, divorce or illness -- or even simply moving on -- may mean you need to find new friends. She'll teach you how.