30 Spectacular Books By Women For Women

This new book addresses an issue experienced by more than 70 percent of Americans - the Sunday night blues of dreading Monday - by using short, actionable pep talks. Available on Amazon, Monday Morning Pep Talks is the first book by Coach, Speaker and Entrepreneur Colene Elridge, M.B.A. Monday Morning Pep Talks includes more than 60 pep talks arranged as short chapters. Written in a conversational style, the pep talks hit major themes including love, success, spirituality, leadership, change, happiness, independence and forgiveness.

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Contributor: Colene Elridge from Monday Morning Pep Talks

After the death of her best friend, Gowen sets off on a quest to process her grief by singing karaoke in all fifty states. With a half-formed plan and a need to sing, she takes off on a 17,774-mile karaoke road trip through America. She reconnects with old friends, makes new ones-and heals. Each time Kris takes the microphone, she sheds a little more grief, stepping into a world where everyone is accepted simply for singing a song they love. 

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Contributor: Maggie Allen from Inkwater Press

It is a combo autobiography, science and fitness book all rolled into one self-deprecating, pop culture referencing, fully relatable manual where I 

• speak to my own decade-long struggle with sugar/overeating/emotional eating 
• segue into the science of it all and history of sugar in our country, 
• offer the reader a simple yet comprehensive and fully medically vetted 4 step food plan (not a DIET) 
• list off my own strategies for getting out of sticky food situations and how I live my day to day life now as life isn’t changing just because I stopped inhaling sugar like I once did. 

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Contributor: Erin Wathen from EW Wellness Solutions LLC

This is a template for women who hold only 20 percent of executive, senior leadership and management positions in U.S. high-tech industries to create an integrated strategy for career advancement that really works. Rashim has used it herself, and she's currently a keynote speaker, mentor, and senior director of product management at Oracle.

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Contributor: Michelle Bergquist from Connection Women of Influence

Thursday's Child follows Tess as she moves from Denmark back home to her southern family, struggling to reconcile her husband's infidelity with peculiar family secrets. Beth MacMillan's emotional writing and honest point of view draws readers in like a comforting hug. This slice-of-life is a beautiful exploration of family, living abroad, marriage, and estrangement. 

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Contributor: Maggie Allen from Inkwater Press

This intense story begins decades ago after the sudden death of author Ella Evers-Meinardi's husband. Nine-months pregnant at the time, Evers-Meinardi is haunted by the ancient question: what is the meaning of life? Evers-Meinardi's book is a cautionary and inspiring tale that moves readers. Every page resonates with authenticity and courage, touching people of all faiths and philosophies. 

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Contributor: Maggie Allen from Inkwater Press

From the Contributor: I specifically coach women, and wrote this book to guide and support women through this natural journey. What better gift could you give a woman, then the gift of happiness, better sleep, and reduced stress? This is the perfect gift for those women struggling with out of balance hormones....which wreak havoc on their everyday lives. There are half a billion postmenopausal women in the world. The truth is, every single woman will go through Menopause in one form or another. However, they don't have to live with crappy symptoms!

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Contributor: Lorraine Miano from The Magic of Menopause

This memoir is very popular with womens' book clubs. It¹s also been quite popular with travelers. It¹s not an exposé about the CIA, per se. It¹s a personal story about what it was like being a spy's wife and the mother of his kids, moving the family all over the world during the Cold War (from Spain to India, Japan, Venezuela, and more) and managing their secret under some pretty outrageous circumstances. The book is written as a series of personal anecdotes, which makes it an easy book to pick up and resume reading at any time. Women (and men alike) find her personal stories to be entertaining, illuminating, hilarious, and remarkable.

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Contributor: Johanna McCloy from Dare to be Fabulous

From the Contributor: I am recommending this book because the relationship between a mother and daughter is special. The loss of a mother for a daughter can be HUGE. As the holiday season approaches I believes this is a pertinent addition to Motherless Daughters anywhere. 

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Contributor: Denesha Chambers from L.I.V.E. In Color Red LLC 

From the Contributor: This is my poetry collection I wrote while escaping domestic violence. It is the book which contains my heart and soul. It may not be the best poetry in the world, but the message is real. Since publishing it, I have gotten so much feedback, including personal messages about how this book helped readers feel heard and understood. Some local women’s shelters have them available for women to red and feel empowered.

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Contributor: Jessica from Jessica Lucci

“To Die a Bachelor” is a very risqué, I would say R rated, book of short stories about women in prison. The short stories explore characters from all walks of life who wound up together in the same women’s prison. The stories combine into an overall story. There are intense lesbian sex scenes (not rape or violent) which some readers might find provocative, but I wrote them to show the importance of this physical closeness between particular characters. 

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Contributor: Jessica from Jessica Lucci

This book is touching, informative and should be mandatory reading for all women around the world. This author’s words are inspiring as she writes about norms that must be changed and ideologies that are completely behind the times. She places women at the forefront of the battle to end gender inequalities.

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Contributor: Josée Perron from You Choose the Way

It's funny, it's honest and it's entertaining. It's easy to like a women who tells you it's ok, even encouraged, to be called bossy. 

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Contributor: Josée Perron from You Choose the Way

LAUGH OUT LOUD has also been endorsed by New York Times Bestselling authors Ilene Beckman (Love, Loss, and What I Wore, Kathy Kinney and Cindy Ratzlaff (Queen of Your Own Life), Loretta LaRoche, TV personality and creator of the Love, Laughter, and Lasagna Program, and Erma Bombeck'’s daughter, Betsy Bombeck.

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Contributor: Allia Zobel Nolan from Erma Bombeck Writers

Author wrote it at the ripe young age of 90! She is an Army Veteran, volunteer, and social and political activist. The book is full of insight, wisdom, and lessons learned and shared, and is great for women of all ages. 

It is timeless and a testament to these crazy times. 

Helene is now nearing 95, and she is still as sharp and beautiful and active as any woman half her age. 

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Contributor: Sherry Gavanditti from MenorahPark

This young woman will inspire you to do what you need to do to make the world a better place. She endures hardship and extreme trauma, but doesn't even bat an eye, as she keeps on fighting for the rights of young girls to be educated. 

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Contributor: Josée Perron from You Choose the Way

From the Contributor: I'm recommending it because I know that a lot of parents struggle to find a book to read with their kids in which the leading character is female. The book encourages kids (and people of all ages really) to dream big and know that with willpower and belief, anything is possible. 

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Contributor: Sarah Cannata from This Woman Can

If the prospect of your last child leaving for college or moving out of the family home to get on with his or her life feels like it would be the end of yours, this book is for you. You've lived and breathed for your children for decades, and suddenly it seems they don't need you any more. That feeling, coupled with unaccustomed time to yourself, can be overwhelming. Your kids have been your whole life, or a large part of it, but their moving out doesn't have to depress you. Here is help for building a new phase of life for yourself and, as the title says, facing down that empty nest syndrome. 

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Contributor: Cynthia from Cynthia (Cyn) MacGregor

This is a cinematic book that lays out in harsh technicolor all that is fake, brutal and life-snuffing about American culture. Celebrity spousal abuse, sexual abuse, adultery, false religiosity, and innocence interrupted all converge into a roiling brew that boils over into one heck of a story you can't put down. A must-read in this #MeToo movement we are experiencing. -Judith Valente, senior correspondent at WGLT Radio, the NPR affiliate in central Illinois, and former correspondent for PBS-TV, Wall Street Journal, and Chicago Public Radio

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Contributor: Katherine Fleischman from Blink PR

In easy to understand language, the book explains how pregnancy changes the body, and how to safely and effectively 

• restore core strength and stability 
• repair diastasis recti (close the mid line) 
• realign the spine 
• restore pelvic floor strength and control 
• rebuild all four layers of the abdominal wall (hint: crunches do more harm that good after delivery) 

The book offers 3 progressive core rehab workouts that are short enough to while baby naps, and offers an in depth look into postpartum issues such as ergonomic breastfeeding, safe lifting and carrying techniques, and carpal tunnel syndrome. 

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Contributor: Helene Byrne from BeFit-Mom

The book, based on interviews with 500 men, is meant to answer two questions and stimulate discussion, conversations and debate. The questions: Why aren't more women leading the way in business? What's missing that prevents women from advancing to the top positions in business and industry?

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Contributor: Michelle Bergquist from Connected Women of Influence

Eighty percent of Americans want to be an author. For those in business, having a published book is today's calling card, and an entrée into speaking engagements and more business opportunities. Bethany's book describes the intricate ins and outs of the book business in easy-to-understand terms.

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Contributor: Michelle Bergquist from Connection Women of Influence

Dr. Recino's book, Hindsight: Coming of Age in the Streets of Hollywood, is a story of tribulation, challenges, desperation, but ultimately – hope and the triumph or the human spirit. It illustrates how with determination and perseverance, even the most difficult of situations can be overcome. 

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Contributor: Sheryl Rencinos

Marko Vovchok a Ukrainian woman writer who wrote under a male pseudonym. A noblewoman by birth, an orphan, a woman with a rather plain face who yet fascinated all men once they talked to her. Famous in France as well. Her stories are mostly about women's lives in Ukrainian villagers, love, surfdom, loss of children, mother-in-law hatred, loss of husband's love and more.

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Contributor: Natalya Alatyreva 

Three young Ukrainian women trying to better their lives with the help of Western men. Why they do it, what they feel, how they fail and succeed. Because it allows the readers to understand what lives women lead in other countries 

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Contributor: Natalya Alatyreva 

The Uncherished Wife is a transformative guide that engages readers to reconsider how they define and find fulfillment within a relationship. On the journey to a healthier partnership, Vazquez challenges her readers the discover their authentic selves hiding behind lies, fear and uncertainty. Through deep reflection and self-awareness, “The Uncherised Wife” explores emotional and spiritual needs, helping to assess if those needs are being met in a relationship. 

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Contributor: Jacquelyn Brazzale from Mekky Media Relations

The humorous 80-page book, priced at $16.50, is filled with practical advice like, “Why straight women might consider same-sex marriage” and how to translate the phrase, “I need to find myself.” 

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Contributor: Judi Schindler from Schindler Communications

It is an awakening book reminding women that we are not dead, merely asleep! It reminds us of our sheer power stored within. A wonderfully charged and enlightening must read for every woman! 

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Contributor: Pamela Reyna Mantis from Lotus Wellness Center

This book addresses the age old question within every female who have married the man, birthed the children and landed the dream job. Now what? Uma unfolds the awakening process within us as we age and a desire for something more descends upon us. Written from her own experience, the author shares her own awakening journey and offers journaling exercises at the end of each chapter to reflect on your own journey. A very helpful guide through life transitions! 

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Contributor: Pamela Reyna Mantis from Lotus Wellness Center

Thriving Not Surviving is designed to help you get the very best out of life. Life offers lots of challenges, detours and seeming dead ends, these can stop you in your tracks, causing you to get stuck in the morass of feeling overwhelmed or they can act as the impetus to achieve a better way of being. 

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Contributor: Nikoleta Morales from MyWhyAgency