Given that we are now 16 days into 2016 (how did that happen?!), this post is a little late…. Nevertheless, below is a short list of a few of my favorite reads of 2015. May your New Year be filled with thought-provoking, fascinating, and delicious books! Haven by Ruth Gruber — In 1944, Gruber (a journalist, photographer and humanitarian who is now 104 years old) embarked on a little known journey to bring 1000 European refugees to the US. “Haven” is her moving account of the refugees’ journey and their resettlement in New York. It is a story about courage, compassion, and persistence; as I wrote upon finishing it, “I now…