Jeanne Bice is funny, vivacious, and larger than life. She+s also a self-made woman. Ten years ago, when she began selling her line of -Quacker Factory+ brand clothing on QVC, she barely had two pennies to rub together. But from the moment she hit the airwaves, she became one of the network+s most popular guests. While her sparkly, whimsical sweaters drew raves, viewers really tuned in for Jeanne herself-for her wit and wisdom, and for her inspiring story of pulling herself up+well, by her bra straps. Now Jeanne has compiled her signature stories and the lessons she+s learned into a quirky, quacky book that will resonate with her fans-thousands of women who call themselves -Quackers+ and greet one another by saying, -Quack, quack, quack!+Each chapter is a colorful lesson told in Jeanne+s folksy, endearing voice, with advice like -If you can+t lose it, decorate it!+ and -Take a leap+and grow your wings on the way down.+ Reading these stories will lift your spirits, bring a smile to your face, and empower you to make your dreams come true.

Forget getting older gracefully--This is the beauty and style bible every woman has been waiting for! How Not to Look Old is the first--ever cheat sheet of to-dos and fast fixes that pay-off big time--all from Charla and her friends, the best hair pros, makeup artists, designers, dermatologists, cosmetic dentists and personal shoppers in the biz. Packed with eye-opening details on hair color, brows, lipstick, wrinkle-erasers, jeans, shapewear, jewelry, heels, and more, the book speaks to every woman: from low maintenance types who don't want to spend a fortune or tons of time on her looks to high maintenance women who believe in looking fabulous at any price. There's also too-old vs. just-right before and after photos, celebrity examples of good and bad style, shopping lists of Charla's brilliant buys in fashion and beauty products, coveted addresses of "Where the top beauty pros go," fun sidebars--and more. Known to national audiences from her ten years on NBC's Today show, style expert Charla Krupp dishes out her secrets in this "ultimate" to-do list for looking hip and fabulous -- no matter what your age.

If life has knocked you down, get ready to pick yourself back up and give your problems the boot! When Sheila Mac tells you to pull up your bootstraps and bra straps, it's time to take action! Whether you're a new mama or a seasoned businesswoman, Sheila will guide you from starting over to creating the life you always desired. Her voice is that of a mentor, life coach, and entrepreneur-all rolled up into a best friend. In Boot Straps & Bra Straps, Sheila will walk you through her BOOTS Formula. This is a tool you can use to pick yourself up from rock bottom, build a new identity, reinvent yourself, and produce more income, all without jeopardizing a balanced life. You will want to gift a copy of this book to your closest friend and keep one on the shelf for future life reviews. That's because you won't just walk away inspired; you'll walk away with the right tools in hand to do an entire lifestyle redesign.

Four women bond over naughty bestsellers and the shocking letters they inherited from the original members of the Dirty Book Club. As they open up, they learn that friendship might just be the key to rewriting their own stories: all they needed was to find each other first.--

Having spent sixty-plus years, on and off, writing short stories, I’m now dangerously closer to the jump-off point (that precipice from which no jumper returns) than to the beginning of my life’s tale. But I’ve published nothing. Zilch. My stories will be cremated with me unless I get them into your hands, so they can be used to light your fires rather than my funeral pyre.

The world today is very different from the one in which Emily Post came of age. Many people who are nice (but who also sometimes say 'f*ck') are frequently at a loss for guidelines about how to be a good person who deals effectively with the increasing onslaught of rudeness encountered. To lead people out of the miasma of modern mannerlessness, science-based and bitingly funny syndicated advice columnist Amy Alkon rips the doily off the manners genre and gives listeners a new set of rules for their twenty-first century lives. With wit, style, and a dash of snark, Alkon explains that people now live in societies too big for their brains, lacking the constraints on bad behavior that people had in the small bands they evolved in. Alkon shows how people can reimpose those constraints, avoid being one of the rude, and stand up to those who are.

In this heartwarming and whip-smart YA spin on The Rosie Project, a teen girl is determined to prove that love, like all things, should be scientifically quantified…right? Iris Oxtabee has managed to navigate the tricky world of unspoken social interactions by reading everything from neuroscience journals to Wikipedia articles. Science has helped her fit the puzzle pieces into an understandable whole, and she’s sure there’s nothing it can’t explain. Love, for example, is just chemistry. Her best friend Seth, however, believes love is one of life’s beautiful and chaotic mysteries, without need for explanation. Iris isn’t one to back down from a challenge; she’s determined to prove love is really nothing more than hormones and external stimuli. After all, science has allowed humanity to understand more complex mysteries than that, and Iris excels at science. The perfect way to test her theory? Get the popular and newly single Theo Grant, who doesn’t even know Iris exists, to ask her to prom. With prom just two weeks away, Iris doesn’t have any time to waste, so she turns her keen empirical talents and laser-focus attention to testing her theory. But will proving herself correct cause her friendship with Seth—and the tantalizing possibility for something more—to become the failed experiment?