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Jun.16.2011
According to research, there are more than 10 million women who own and lead their own businesses. Entrepreneur Aliza Sherman (founder of Cybergrrl, Inc.) and blogger Danielle Smith (founder of ExtraordinaryMommy.com) have joined forces to write a book that helps women who are already moms (or are...
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Jun.16.2011
Crowdsourcing leverages such social networking tools as Facebook and Twitter to tap into the power of many people to distribute one's work load or gain input. Aliza Sherman, crowdsourcing innovator, has helped her clients harness the incredible power of "crowd-think" and "crowd- do...
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May.19.2011
The High Heeled Guide to Spiritual Living is a passionate and funny account of how to bring the deliciously soulful into modern life. In a world overrun by rampant egos, consumerism and celebrity Alice Grist demonstrates how you can spiritualize your sanity and revamp your life, all with a side...
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Jan.28.2009
Both homespun and sophisticated, this book of poems and family memories carries a bite: the author is an Oklahoma woman with a history of hard traveling and a feminist intellectual with a formidable critical vocabulary. She writes in a language of solidarity, affirmation, and love. The story of the...
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Nov.14.2008
Jessica Luna is your typical 26 year old: she has man trouble, mom trouble, and not a clue what to do with her life (though everyone else in her family seems to have plenty of suggestions!) After a lifetime of being babied by her family, Jess is incapable of trusting herself to make the right...
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Oct.13.2008
A witty guide for women in the workplace From waitresses to Wall Street brokers, as more and more women join the workforce, there is one truth about work they didn't expect and can't escape--it's often boring or overwhelming or sometimes both at once! As a result, career gals today are in desperate...
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Aug.22.2008
When Wade Rouse—a rural, public school graduate who grew up more Hee Haw than Dynasty—was hired as the director of publicity at the prestigious Tate Academy, he quickly discovered his real job was to make a few of the very pretty, very rich, very mean mommies of the elite students happy. Enter...
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Jul.16.2008
Joan Blondell: A Life between Takes is the first ever biography of the effervescent, scene stealing actress (1906-1979) who conquered motion pictures, vaudeville, Broadway, summer stock, television, radio, and publishing. Born the child of itinerant vaudevillians, she was on stage by age 3. Blessed...
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Jul.05.2008
Intimate Strangers is a book for every man and woman who has ever yearned for an intimate relationship and wondered why is seemed so elusive.  The voices we hear in this book seem like our own; the people who live on its pages speak directly to our concerns and experiences.  But the...