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Crazy Love: A Memoir

At 22, Leslie Morgan Steiner seemed to have it all: good looks, a Harvard diploma, a glamorous job in New York City. Plus a handsome, funny boyfriend who adored her. But behind her façade of success,...

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The Strokes: Comedown Machine

The Strokes latest album, Comedown Machine, is available March 26, 2013 and available for pre-order now.

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Everything Is Perfect When You’re a Liar

Kelly Oxford is . . . A wunderkind producer of pirated stage productions for six-year-olds Not the queen of the world An underage schnitzel-house dishwasher The kid who stood up to a bully and almost...

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A Mighty Girl

The world’s largest collection of books, toys and movies for smart, confident, and courageous girls.

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Girl Talk HQ

Girl Talk HQ aims to Inspire, Encourage, Entertain, Inform and Motivate young women to live their best life possible. They scour the www to find stories of other global sisters who are doing amazing...

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Learnvest Planning

Enter to win 6 months of LearnVest Planning 5-Yr Planner Program (worth $394*) and get your finances in order! This week on The Conversation, we have been talking about education. For women, it is so...

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Clean Gut

By Alejandro Junger, M.D. All of today’s most-diagnosed ailments can be traced back to an injured and irritated gut. The gut is an intricate and powerful system, naturally designed to protect and heal...

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Awkward Black Girl

Issa Rae, the multitalented CEO and Owner of Issa Rae Productions, is a pioneer in the fight against the narrow, mainstream portrayal of people of color in the media. With a dedicated and passionate...

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Supermodel YOU: Shockingly Healthy Insider Tips to Bring Out Your Inner...

Do you ever wonder what it would be like to be a supermodel? To feel confident, beautiful, and empowered? That’s what Supermodel YOU is all about. International model Sarah DeAnna teaches you the Five...

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The Model Alliance

The Model Alliance (MA) is a growing network of models and industry leaders dedicated to improving working conditions in the American fashion industry. Models have an industry voice through the MA.

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The Feminine Mistake by Leslie Bennetts

The Feminine Mistake begins from the premise that feminism has failed the current generation of women. The baby-boomers who succeeded at rewarding careers while raising their families know how...

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On Becoming Fearless by Arianna Huffington

Observing that her own teenage daughters were beginning to experience some of the same fears that had once burdened her–how attractive am I? do people like me? do I dare speak up?–Arianna Huffington...

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The Brazen Careerist

Are you taking long lunches? Ignoring sexual harassment? Do you keep your desk neat to the point of looking like you don’t have enough to do? The answer to all three should be yes, if you want to...

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The Verbally Abusive Relationship by Patricia Evans

In this fully expanded and updated third edition of the bestselling classic, you learn why verbal abuse is more widespread than ever, and how you can deal with it. You’ll get more of the answers you...

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Maiden USA: Girl Icons Come Of Age by Kathleen Sweeney

Maiden USA: Girl Icons Come of Age explores images of powerful, contradictory pop culture icons of the past decade, which run the gamut from Mean Girls and their Endangered Victims to Superheroines and...

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When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chodron

There is a fundamental opportunity for happiness right within our reach, yet we usually miss it—ironically, while we are caught up in attempts to escape pain and suffering. Drawn from traditional...

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Mating In Captivity by Esther Perel

One of the world’s most respected voices on erotic intelligence, Esther Perel offers a bold, provocative new take on intimacy and sex. Mating in Captivity invites us to explore the paradoxical union of...

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Scarleteen: Sex Education for Teens and 20s

Free and comprehensive sexual education for teenagers and young adults that is real and tells it how it is .

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Where Is Your Line?

THE LINE CAMPAIGN is a non-profit organization and movement that is committed to empowering young leaders to create a world without sexual violence. We create critical dialogues and original media to...

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Women, Sex And Addiction by Charlotte Davis Kasl, Ph.D

In our society, sex can easily become the price many women pay for love and the illusion of security. A woman who seeks a sense of personal power and an escape from pain may use sex and romance as a...

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The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz

Rooted in traditional Toltec wisdom beliefs, four agreements in life are essential steps on the path to personal freedom. As beliefs are transformed through maintaining these agreements, shamanic...

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The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage–and a life, in good...

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RMS Beauty

An original, pure, organic color cosmetic line created by celebrity make-up artist Rose-Marie Swift.

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Your Daughter’s Bedroom

After psychoanalyst Joyce McFadden treated countless women who felt alone and isolated in experiences that they were unaware many other women were dealing with too, she began to ask what she could do...

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Ballet Beautiful by Mary Helen Bowers

You don’t have to be a professional ballerina to look like one. With Mary Helen Bowers’ Ballet Beautiful, forget beating yourself up in the gym and suffering through starvation diets for some...

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Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book

There are many ways to attempt sobriety and it is down to the individual. However, in my personal experience 12 Step programs have been the most successful for many, many people. The 12 steps provide a...

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Healthy Child Healthy World: Creating a Cleaner, Greener, Safer Home by...

Healthy Child Healthy World is the essential guide for parents! All parents want a happy and healthy child in a safe home, but where do they start? It starts with the small steps to creating a...

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The Honest Company

A dad named Christopher and a mom named Jessica found themselves utterly frustrated trying to find the perfect products for their babies and homes. We both wanted an ideal: not only effective, but...

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Nothing But The Truth So Help Me God: 51 Women Reveal the Power of Positive...

Alluring, provocative, and enlightening, Nothing but the Truth So Help Me God: 51 Women Reveal the Power of Positive Female Connection looks beyond the abundance of negative feminine stereotypes to...

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Make Magic! Do Good! by Dallas Clayton

A boy with a beard tries to stay six forever. A frightful monster lives a million miles away, but is equally scared of you. A magic rope hangs from the sky, next to a sign saying “Give me a try.” In...

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Mothers Who Think: Tales Of Real-life Parenthood

Anne Lamott, Jayne Anne Phillips, Sallie Tisdale, Susan Straight, Jane Lazarre, Nora Okja Keller, Beth Kephart, Ariel Gore, Alex Witchel, and many other contemporary writers elevate the discussion of...

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Mommy Wars: Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their...

With motherhood comes one of the toughest decisions of a woman’s life: Stay at home or pursue a career? The dilemma not only divides mothers into hostile, defensive camps but pits individual mothers...

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Our Fathers, Ourselves: Daughters, Fathers, and the Changing American Family

There’s no denying that a woman’s relationship with her father is one of the most important in her life. And there’s also no getting around how the quality of that relationship—good, bad, or...

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There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program

by Dr. Gabriel Cousens, M.D. Diabetes has become a seemingly unstoppable national epidemic, affecting more than twenty million Americans. Conventional wisdom calls it incurable, but renowned Dr....

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The Unswept Room

By Sharon Olds A stunning new collection of poems that project a fresh spirit, a startling energy of language and counterpoint, and a moving, elegiac tone shot through with humor. From poems that erupt...

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The Language of Letting Go

By Melody Beattie Melody Beattie integrates her own life experiences and fundamental recovery reflections in this unique daily meditation book written especially for those of us who struggle with the...

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Why Have Kids?

By Jessica Valenti If parenting is making Americans unhappy, if it’s impossible to “have it all,” if people don’t have the economic, social, or political structures needed to support parenting, then...

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Stripping Down: A Memoir

By Sheila Hageman “I feel the weight of the hammer from the dusty workbench in my sweaty palm and hit the padlock. My heart thumps in my bony chest. I listen for the humming sound of my mother’s car...

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Grace: A Memoir

By Grace Coddington Beautiful. Willful. Charming. Blunt. Grace Coddington’s extraordinary talent and fierce dedication to her work as creative director of Vogue have made her an international icon....

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Just Tell Me What to Say: Sensible Tips and Scripts for Perplexed Parents

By Betsy Brown Braun Parents are often perplexed by their children’s typical behaviors and inevitable questions. This down-to-earth guide provides “Tips and Scripts” for handling everything from...

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How To Be A Woman

By Caitlin Moran Though they have the vote and the Pill and haven’t been burned as witches since 1727, life isn’t exactly a stroll down the catwalk for modern women. They are beset by uncertainties and...

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Transcendence: Healing and Transformation Through Transcendental Meditation

By Norman E. Rosenthal, M.D. Norman E. Rosenthal, M.D., a twenty-year researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health and the celebrated psychiatrist who pioneered the study and treatment of...

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The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and Saving the...

By Alicia Silverstone In The Kind Diet, actress, activist, and committed conservationist Alicia Silverstone shares the insights that encouraged her to swear off meat and dairy forever, and outlines the...

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May Cause Miracles: A 40-Day Guidebook of Subtle Shifts for Radical Change...

Are you ready to work miracles? Gabrielle Bernstein believes that simple, consistent shifts in our thinking and actions can lead to the miraculous in all aspects of our daily lives, including our...

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Yelling to the Sky: A Film by Victoria Mahoney

In this gripping urban drama, rising star Zoë Kravitz plays 17-year old Sweetness O’Hara, the daughter of an African American mother and a white father, who is struggling to find her place in a rough...

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On Film-making: An Introduction to the Craft of the Director

After more than twenty years in the film industry as a screenwriter, storyboard editor, and director of memorable films such as The Ladykillers, Alexander Mackendrick turned his back on Hollywood and...

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The High Heeled Guide to Spiritual Living

The High Heeled Guide to Spiritual Living is a fiery account of one woman’s mission to bring the deeply soulful into mundane everyday life. Having experienced all kinds of eventful living in her...

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Raising Boys Without Men: How Maverick Moms are Creating the Next Generation...

As the number of single-mom and two-mom households has grown, so have concerns about the possible damage caused by the lack of a stable male role model in the house. Determined to find the truth,...

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Rock What You’ve Got

Rock What You’ve Got: Secrets to Loving Your Inner and Outer Beauty from Someone Who’s Been There and Back – By Katherine Schwarzenegger For young women today, developing a healthy body image can be a...

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Gloria Steinem- My Life on the Road

Gloria’s autobiography is finally here ! The post Gloria Steinem- My Life on the Road appeared first on The Conversation.

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