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The only audiobook for all self-respecting girls from the team behind THE DANGEROUS BOOK FOR BOYS‘The Daring Book for Girls’ is the manual for everything that girls need to know – and that doesn''t mean sewing buttonholes!There have been pale imitations of our ‘Dangerous Book for Boys’ trying to create the same for girls. But nothing has achieved that same feeling of freedom and adventure that the ‘Dangerous Book’ had in abundance. But now ‘The Daring Book for Girls’ will fill that gap. It is a real daring book written by real girls for real girls. And what real girls want, just look at their comments on-line, is adventure, excitement, and just as much danger as the boys.So here we present to you Famous Women Spies and Pirates, Women Who Changed the World, How to Make and Fly a Kite, Seven Daring Wonders of the World, How to Survive in the Wild, and how to try to begin to understand why boys show you they fancy you by pulling your hair.The only cooking you’ll find in ‘The Daring Book for Girls’ is cooking over a fire, in the wilderness, while your friends tell you ghost stories to scare you witless!

Now in paperback, a collection of words of wisdom from inspiring women who have not only survived the toughest of times, but have prospered and grown thankful for the experience. As Oprah says, “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” We all know that life rarely works out exactly as we plan. But often times, getting derailed from the path turns out to be the best thing ever to happen. Whether it’s rejection by a cherished friend, the onset of an unexpected illness, an ongoing struggle with body image and self-perception—these experiences may challenge us, but our triumphs come to define us. In Note to Self, thirty dynamic women share their inspirational stories with writer, director, and television and film producer Andrea Buchanan. Celebrities including Grammy Award-winning rock star Sheryl Crow and Emmy Award-winning actress Camryn Manheim join stuntwoman Stacy Courtney, football player Katie Hnida, seventy-year-old HIV-positive grandmother Beverly London, and alcoholic-turned-interventionist Candy Finnigan to reflect on their unforgettable stories of redemption. Punctuated by tears and laughter, these poignant tales are full of incredible strength, invaluable knowledge, insurmountable odds, helpful survival instincts, amazing willpower, humiliation (sometimes on a national level), and a hefty dose of humor—that will resonate with readers everywhere.

An award-winning actress. A soldier’s wife. A cancer survivor. A college student. What these women—what all of us—have in common is a need for love: to give it, to receive it, to express its many aspects. Now Andrea Buchanan, who Cosmopolitan called the “girl power guru,” follows her first collection, Note to Self, with a new compilation of thought-provoking, illuminating, often poignant essays on love written by some of America’s most fascinating and vibrant women.Join author and cancer survivor Kelly Corrigan, describing why her most romantic fantasy now involves sitting on the sofa opening the mail; journalist Giselle Fernandez, sharing why, even though the journey can sometimes end painfully, an adventure in love should never be passed up; Afghanistan war widow Marie Tillman on learning to open her heart again after the devastating loss of her husband, Pat; celebrity stylist Tameka Raymond on the challenges of marrying the rap star Usher in the glare of the public eye; and college student Jaclyn Katz on how her “perfect” traditional family fell apart, and her mother’s brother and his partner gave her back the stability that could have been lost forever. These courageous women have portrayed their own innermost emotions and laid bare their own experiences for readers to learn from, laugh at, and lean on.

The inspiring sequel to Note to Self featuring universally relatable essays from a group of talented woman who share their experiences with love in all its forms—including Marie Tillman, Tameka Foster (Usher’s ex-wife), Linda Fairstein, and Lee Woodruff. In Note to Self, thirty dynamic women shared with writer, director, and television and film producer Andrea Buchanan their poignant stories filled with incredible strength, invaluable knowledge, insurmountable odds, and amazing willpower. Now, in Live and Let Love: Note to Self, Buchanan has asked women— celebrities and non-celebrities alike—to reveal their most intimate stories about love in its many forms. Spoken in the words of those who’ve loved, lost, and cherished relationships, Live and Let Love: Note to Self recounts what it’s like to be in pursuit of “the one,” to be married to the one, to divorce the one, and to discover more about the real one than ever imagined. From the heartbreakingly romantic to heart-rending and tragic, these stories are ultimately uplifting and healing. Just as The Right Words at The Right Time and One More Thing Before You Go have resonated with readers everywhere, Live and Let Love: Note to Self is destined to become an inspirational classic.

According to Andrea Buchanan, "Mother shock" is the state in which many new parents exist during those first confusing, chaotic and often comical years of parenting. It is the clash between expectation and result, theory and reality. It is the twilight zone of 24-hour-a-day living where life is no longer neatly divided into day and night the triple-impact of hormonal imbalance, sleep deprivation, and physical exhaustion. It is the stress of trying to acclimate quickly to the immediacy of mothering a new conception of oneself, one's role in the family and in the world a fearful new level of responsibility, and a new delegation of domestic duties.In this much-needed and delightfully funny collection of essays, Buchanan shares the insight she gains as she moves through the stages of mother shock. From "Fear of the Double Stroller" and "Confessions of a Bottle Feeder" to "I'm an Idiot" and "Everything I Needed to Know I Learned in Playgroup," Buchanan details the unimaginably difficult and unbelievably rewarding process of becoming a mother.