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“Shop Your Closet: The Ultimate Guide to Organizing Your Closet With Style” by Melanie Charlton Fascitelli (Collins, $19.95): If you’re one of those people who is always madly digging around looking for clothes to wear, this book is designed to help ease your life. Along with a Ten Commandments list (among them, hang as much as possible in the closet, avoid plastic, etc.), there is plenty of advice meant to not only get and stay organized but also properly care for your clothes, shoes and bags. For those who need rules and to-do lists, this book will get you where you want to be, as well as teach you how to get rid of items you no longer need or want but are reluctant to surrender.

- PAM ROBINSON