Chastity Bono, Family Outing (Little, Brown, 1998 HC, 1999, PB)

Family Outing is both a heart-warming memoir and a guide to the coming out process. Chastity Bono, daughter of Sonny and Cher, tells her tender and at times painful coming out story, offering advice on how other young people can come out to their parents in a safe, harmonious way. Chastity also shares her mother’s own coming out process (in Cher’s own words), which was just as difficult as that of many parents.

Rebecca Booth, M.D., The Venus Week: Discover the Powerful Secret of Your Cycle ... At Any Age (DaCapo, 2008)

Leading gynecologist Dr. Rebecca Booth created the Venus Week metaphor to help her patients better understand what influences the constant physical, emotional, and sexual changes they feel throughout the month, and in a broader way, over the course of their lives. In this illuminating, practical and wise book, Dr. Booth offers real advice to boost you libido, improve your chances of conceiving (if that is your wish), lessen the effects of the "down" part of your cycle and manage common “Venus Interrupters."

Patty Brisben, Between the Sheets: Find Your Best Sexual Self and Enhance Your Relationship (Atria, 2008)

Between the Sheets shows women how to truly tune in to your body’s sexual health, its needs, and all the factors that may be inhibiting you from feeling pleasure and sensation. As the founder of Pure Romance™, the nation's leading in-home party company specializing in romance and relationship enhancement products, Patty offers information that will teach you how to overcome your insecurities, understand your libido, and learn the ins and outs of orgasm. Throughout Between the Sheets, Patty answers questions from real women, covering the full range of common sexual concerns, from the connection between birth control and sex drive to how common medications can impact arousal, and why lubricants and other enhancement products can literally resuscitate sexual desire and pleasure.

Priscilla Dunstan, Child-Sense, (Bantam, 2009)

Child-Sense demonstrates that from birth every one of us relies most heavily on one sensory mode—touch, hearing, sight, or taste/smell—to understand the world. In this groundbreaking parenting book, author Priscilla Dunstan shows how once identify your child’s sense mode, you hold the key to a whole new way of communicating with your child. The result of eight years of rigorous, international, this accessible guide teaches a new way of parenting that empowers the parent and the child.

Donna Fish, L.C.S.W., Take the Fight Out of Food (Atria, 2005)

This practical guide is filled with hands-on tools and in-depth advice for putting a stop to unhealthy eating habits before they begin. In Take the Fight Out of Food parents will learn how to understand their own food legacy, keep their children connected to food in a positive way, talk to their kids about food and nutrition, recognize and deal with the six types of eaters, including the Picky Eater, the Grazer, the Beige Food Eater, and more.

Harry Freund, Love with Noodles (Carrol & Graf, 2005, HC, PB 2006)

“Maybe I’m on my way to becoming a rich woman’s husband – no more worries, no more clients, no more ups and downs. My father always said that love is good, but love with noodles is better, and Violet seems to have lots of noodles.” A funny, satiric, and ultimately warm-hearted first novel set in New York City’s Jewish upper class society.

Henry Grayson, Ph.D., Mindful Loving (Gotham, 2003 HC, 2004, PB)

Henry Grayson, a psychologist, relationship counselor, psychoanalyst, and former minister has found that most people are actually more unhappy after marriage counseling or couples therapy. In Mindful Loving, he shows how couples can get at the root of relationship problems in a practical yet spiritual way. He shows how to identify the six forms of counterfeit love, the nine barriers to love, the ten characteristics of Empowering Love and many more tools to enhance and heal relationships.

Bob Harper, Are You Ready! To Take Charge, Lose Weight, Get in Shape, and Change Your Life Forever (Broadway, 2008)

The world-renowned fitness coach on the hit TV show The Biggest Loser presents his winning approach to lasting weight loss by showing how to get at the root of your overeating problem, followed by a nutritionally savvy diet and unique exercise plan. Harper shows how to replace negative thought patterns and destructive behaviors with an empowering, health-enhancing mindset so you can lose weight for the long-term. Offering an easy-to-follow eating plan, a fitness plan geared to making exercise an integral part of daily life, and inspirational tips to keep you on track, Are You Ready! harnesses all of Bob’s super-star magnetism.

Lana Holstein, M.D., How to Have Magnificent Sex (Crown, 2003 HC, 2004 PB)

A positive, empowering book that shows couples how to re-energize the seven dimensions of their sexual relationship – from the biologic through the emotional and ultimately to the spiritual. Couples learn practical tips, wise advice, and keen insight from a medical doctor who has worked with hundreds of couples in her capacity as medical director of the Canyon Ranch spa in Tucson, AZ.

Charlotte Kasl, Ph.D., If the Buddha Got Stuck: A Handbook for Change on a Spiritual Path (Penguin Compass, 2005)

This wise and lighthearted book by the author of the enormously popular If the Buddha Dated and If the Buddha Married will speak to anyone who’s ever experience being stuck in life. With her signature clarity, wisdom, and wit, and her trademark blend of psychological and spiritual insight, Charlotte Kasl presents seven simple yet profound steps on the path to change.

Emily Kaufman, The Travel Mom’s Ultimate Guide to Family Travel (Broadway, 2006)

A great resource for busy moms, The Travel Mom’s Ultimate Book of Family Travel will guarantee that a family vacation is worth all the time, money, and emotion you put into it. Offering great tips on how to plan your vacation as well as a sumptuous guide to great family destinations, this book is the ultimate guide for families.

Michael T. Lardon, M.D., Finding Your Zone: Ten Core Lessons for Achieving Peak Performance in Sports and Life (Perigee, 2008)

Based on his work with elite-level athletes, as well as his cutting-edge scientific research into the zone, Dr. Lardon has developed ten practical techniques to help you demystify the zone and harness its immense power by training your emotions and thoughts to synergize with your goals – whether those goals are athletic, professional, or personal.

Marrena Lindberg, The Orgasmic Diet (Crown, 2007)

A scientifically supported, easy-to-follow, four step dietary plan that promises to lift a woman’s libido and bring her to orgasm – each and every time. Women will discover fast, easy ways to enhance their sexual pleasure, identify and avoid the orgasm killers in their diet, and learn how to achieve mind-blowing orgasms – all through four simple steps.

Lou Paget, How to Be A Great Lover (1999), How to Give Her Absolute Pleasure (2000), and The Big O (2001), (Broadway Books), The Great Lover Playbook (2003)and Hot Mamas (Gotham, 2004)

As both the bestselling author of five books on enhancing sexual pleasure, and a world-renowned sex educator, Lou Paget covers everything from orgasms, sex toys, erotica, advice for couples, and how to have good sex while pregnant, and why you should. Known for her classy, direct style, Lou’s books appeal to women who want to have accurate information about sex – that works.

Eve Pearl, Plastic Surgery Without the Surgery (Warner, 2004 HC, 2005 PB)

An Emmy-award-winning celebrity make up artists, Eve Pearl’s Plastic Surgery Without the Surgery offers simple but amazing techniques that transform dark eye circles, boost sagging skin, produce elegant cheekbones and much more – all with makeup!

Adele Puhn, R.D., The Carb Careful Solution (Viking, 2002 HC, 2003 PB)

The key to bestselling author Adele Puhn’s weight loss plan is showing readers how to avoid triggering their cravings while still being able to enjoy a well balanced diet of carbohydrates, low fats, and protein.

Shaun Robinson, Exactly As I Am: Celebrated Women Share Candid Advice with Today’s Girls on What It Takes to Believe in Yourself (Ballantine Books, 2009)

Drawing on personal interviews with many celebrities, and her volunteer work with teens around the country, entertainment reporter Shaun Robinson shares the intimate thoughts, revelations, and feelings of select powerful women, illustrating how similar they are to those of average girls struggling to find their voices. Exactly As I Am shows young women how to achieve a balance between accepting how they look and appreciating who they are on the inside, emphasizing the importance of having a mentor or role model and the support of family. Inspiring and motivating, this tapestry of perspectives will inspire every reader to say, I accept myself “exactly as I am.”

David Romanelli, Yeah Dave’s Guide to Livin the Moment (Broadway, 2009)

Yeah Dave’s Guide to Livin’ the Moment offers an alternative to the crazy, over-stimulating, distracted world we live in today. On our mission for speed, movement, and stimulation, we risk missing our life. Yeah Dave’s book gives us our life back, one beautiful, delicious, and funny moment at a time. Through hilarious vignettes about his dorky moves on the dance floor, his Crackberry (aka Pinkberry) addiction, and his tryst with Hot Horny Married Woman, Romanelli makes you want to slow down the blur of modern life and find the full flavor, power, and passion that can only be found in the Moment.

Kitty Gurkin Rosati and Robert Rosati, M.D., The Rice Diet Solution (S&S, 2006 HC, 2007 PB); The Rice Diet Cookbook, (S&S, 2007)

As directors of the world-renowned Rice Diet Program, which, since 1939, has been helping thousands of people achieve lasting weight loss, Kitty and Robert Rosati finally share the secrets of their success. The bestselling Rice Diet Solution is a multi-dimensional, mind-body program that enables women to lose, on average, 19 pounds in the first month, and men, 30 pounds. The program gives readers the tools not only to lose the weight they wish, but maintain this new weight – for as long as they wish.

Candida Royalle, How to Tell A Naked Man What to Do (Touchstone/Fireside, 2004 HC, 2005 PB)

This book is sex advice from a woman who knows: Candida Royalle is an award-winning film director and producer of over 16 erotic films for women. In her first book, she tells women exactly what works for themselves, and their men.

Kathryn Sansone, Woman First, Family Always (Meredith, 2006)

Kathryn Sansone has captured national attention (including two appearances on Oprah and one appearance in O Magazine!) for her heartwarming and hands-on approach to managing motherhood and life. As the mother of ten children, she shares her advice on how to first take care of oneself, then nurture your relationship, and then turn to how best to take care of your children – whether you have one or ten!

Tina Vindum, Tina Vindum’s Outdoor Fitness: Step Out of the Gym and Into the Best Shape of Your Life (Falcon, 2009)

Outdoor Fitness is the breakthrough program that uses the outdoors to awaken the senses, energize the body and mind, and achieve the highest degree of overall fitness, health, and well being. From the city to the country, the mountains to the beach—to that bench in the backyard, Tina Vindum has created a completely unique way to get in shape. More than an exercise program, OUTDOOR FITNESS retrains your body and your brain to maximize your fitness. Tina Vindum is the founder and president of Outdoor Fitness, the most unique and powerful concept in exercise and fitness today.

Ellen Whitehurst, Make This Your Lucky Day: Fun and Easy Feng Shui Secrets to Success, Romance, Health, and Harmony (Ballantine, 2008)

Based on Ellen Whitehurst’s more than twenty years of training and expertise in Feng Shui, aromatherapy, and other modes of holistic healing, Make This Your Lucky Day shows how you can infuse each and every day with a little luck.