In the New York Times best-seller Surrendering to Marriage, Iris Krasnow offers a raw and penetrating portrait of modern marriage and the backbreaking work required to make it last. With joyous, sexy, and shocking stories of real marriages, real affairs, and real divorces, Surrendering to Marriage moves far beyond a how-to manual; Krasnow shows us that a successful marriage has less to do with bursts of bliss, and everything to do with embracing the ordinary in our day-to-day relationships...

Surrendering To Motherhood Losing Your Mind, Finding Your Soul is a life-changing book that send a message to the authors own generation of women programmed to have it all, great jobs and great families.

As her provocative and passionate book unfolds, Krasnow shows readers through personal experiences and powerful ancedotes the importance of streamlining big careers, so they can savor this moment while their children are young and growing. Her underlying message is this: The fleeing momen...

New York Times bestselling author Iris Krasnow reflects with humor and heart on her summer camp experiences and the lessons she and her fellow campers learned there that have stayed with them throughout their lives.Iris Krasnow was 8 years old when she first attended sleep-away camp, building lasting friendships and essential life skills amid the towering pine trees and open skies of Wisconsin. Decades lat...

Best-selling author Iris Krasnow presents a powerful, exhilarating book about living from truth, about uncovering who you are, beyond marriage, children, and career. With passionate narrative and insightful interviews, Krasnow helps readers muster up the courage to discard old selves that are false, and to live their dreams. She pushes people to sever unhealthy relationships, to resurrect childhood hobbies, to consider a new career, and to face their own mortality. Krasnow stresses that Su...

Iris Krasnow -- mother, daughter, and best-selling Journalist -- tackles the toughest relationship in the lives of many grown women: the mother-daughter bond. With women's life expectancy inching up past eighty, you may be embroiled with your mother well past the time your own hair turns white. The good news: Living longer means more time to make peace -- and this book shows you how. Drawing on her own experience with her colorful eighty-four-year-old mother and the collective wisdom of mo...

New York Times bestselling author Iris Krasnow reflects with humor and heart on her summer camp experiences and the lessons she and her fellow campers learned there that have stayed with them throughout their lives.Iris Krasnow was 8 years old when she first attended sleep-away camp, building lasting friendships and essential life skills amid the towering pine trees and open skies of Wisconsin. Decades lat...

Live a bold, creative, and spiritually fulfilling life with this guide full of inspirational stories of everyday people who found their passion.In Living Big, author Pam Grout inspires you to live more fully and completely through the principles of boldness, service, kindness, commitment, creativity, happiness, and spirituality. With a chapter devoted to each of these essential ideas, Living Big profiles ordinary people who have done extraordinary...

Susan Zimmermann experienced a devastating loss when her first child, Katherine, developed a neurological disorder that left her unable to walk or talk. Faced with her daughter’s disability, Susan struggled with fear, denial, guilt, bitterness, and despair. She began to heal only through writing. Working through conflicting emotions with paper and pen enabled her to transform her sadness into acceptance and even joy.Writing to Heal the Soul is Susan’s gift to other...

In the bestselling tradition of The Bitch in the House comes a provocative collection of essays by prominent women writers on their own marriages-and why they chose to leave or stay.Isabel Rose saw red flags before her marriage, but everyone thought she'd made a perfect match. Ann Hood's relationship with her husband had the usual bumps, until the tragic death of her young daughter forged their bond for life.When Terry McMillan went through her public divo...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An essential volume for generations of writers young and old. The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this modern classic will continue to spark creative minds for years to come. Anne Lamott is "a warm, generous, and hilarious guide through the writer’s world and its treacherous swamps" (Los Angeles Times).**“Superb writing advice…. Hilarious, helpful, and provocative.” —**The New York Times Book Review

An inspirational account of one dads extraordinary journey through cancer, fatherhood, and several forgotten life lessons--and the discovery of one life-changing gift.Jim Higley was a forty-year-old bobblehead. Just like those collectible figurines with oversized, bouncy heads, hed put on a smiling face and bobble through his hectic, overflowing days.Higleys bobbling came to a screeching halt with the diagnosis of cancer, surgery, and a summer of healing. More than a cancer story, however,...

HAPPINESS IS A CHOICE!This inspiring book is a blueprint to better self-esteem, welcome stress relief, more generosity and gratitude, more meaningful friendships and finding the personal joy and success we all deserve and desire. If your goal is finding true happiness, then this is book for you.Happiness is a state of being only you can create. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You choose it!David Leonhardt is The Happy Guy. He delivers informational and...