Da Capo Lifelong Books imprint: 466 books
Dr. Riley's Box of Tricks
80 Uncommon Solutions for Everyday Parenting Problems
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Every parent sends their child to his or her room as a punishment at one time or another. But, have you ever considered grounding your children from their rooms? Dr. Douglas Riley has. In fact, if your daughter isn't allowed to use her own room after you have declared it "unfit for human habitation"...
If I'd Known Then
Women in Their 20s and 30s Write Letters to Their Younger Selves
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2008
Now in paperback, the popular second volume in the What I Know Now™ series offers wonderfully candid letters from women under forty, who give advice to the girls they once were. Readers will discover familiar names as well as new voices, including actress Jessica Alba; singer/songwriter Natasha...
How She Really Does It
Secrets of Successful Stay-at-Work Moms
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
Yes, some women are opting out of their careers, taking an "off-ramp," and heading home to raise their babies. But millions of us cannot afford to make that choice. And millions more choose to work because we love our careers. So how are women holding on to financially necessary or stimulating...
Ballet Beautiful
Transform Your Body and Gain the Strength, Grace, and Focus of a Ballet Dancer
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Ballet-inspired fitness for every woman!
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 unattainable goal. You can achieve your ideal body and...
Acting Techniques for Everyday Life
Look and Feel Self-Confident in Difficult, Real-Life Situations
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2009
Most people can name at least one situation-a business presentation, a job interview, a cocktail party, or a blind date-in which they felt uncomfortable, nervous, or simply self-conscious. Jane Marla Robbins, a successful stage and film actress and teacher for almost forty years, found that she could...
by Muffy Mead-ferro
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Parents who are fed up with the pressure to turn their children into star athletes, concert violinists, and merit scholars-all at once!-finally have an alternative: the world of Slacker Moms, where kids learn to do things for themselves and parents can cut themselves some slack; where it's perfectly...
House of Havoc
How to Make--and Keep--a Beautiful Home Despite Cheap Spouses, Messy Kids, and Other Difficult Roomm
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
The cupboards are overflowing, the linen closet holds towels and tools, and your once tidy family room might as well come with a ringmaster. But that's called living, right? Wrong! Marni Jameson is here to prove that you can turn a hectic home into a haven-and do so without being voted off the island....
The Thing You Think You Cannot Do
Thirty Truths about Fear and Courage
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
What are we afraid of and what can we do about it?Fear--of change, of intimacy, of loss, of the unknown--has become a corrosive influence in modern life, eroding our ability to think clearly. Exploited for power by politicians and for money by the media, it has become embedded in the way we think...
The Storms Can't Hurt the Sky
The Buddhist Path through Divorce
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
Buddhism has been applied to everything from parenting to golf, but until now no one has offered Buddhist principles as a healing path through divorce. In Storms Can't Hurt the Sky, Gabriel Cohen bravely delves into his personal experience-along with insights from Buddhist masters, parables, humor,...
Gluten-Free Small Bites
Sweet and Savory Hand-Held Treats for On-the-Go Lifestyles and Entertaining
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
100 irresistible one-bite recipes-for everything from parties to portable meals
You know those days where dinner is grab-and-go, but you're not sure what to grab? The older kids have a soccer game, a ballet lesson, the little one has a kazoo party, and they all need to be fed? Or maybe you've...
You Can't Make This Stuff Up
The Complete Guide to Writing Creative Nonfiction--from Memoir to Literary Journalism and Everything in Between
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
From "the godfather behind creative nonfiction" (Vanity Fair) comes this indispensable how-to for nonfiction writers of all levels and genres, "reminiscent of Stephen King's fiction handbook On Writing" (Kirkus).
Whether you're writing a rags-to-riches tell-all memoir or...
The Velvet Rage
Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
A groundbreaking examination of the psychology of homosexuality, why it leads to shame over one's identity, and how to overcome it
In The Velvet Rage, psychologist Alan Downs draws on his own struggle with shame and anger, contemporary research, and stories from his patients to passionately...
Cancer on Five Dollars a Day (chemo not included)
How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2008
In the spring of 2000, stand-up comedian Robert Schimmel was diagnosed with stage III non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and soon the fire of his white-hot career started to fizzle.
But Schimmel never lost his sense of humor, his searing honesty, and most of all, his passion to make people laugh. Indeed,...
One Year to a Writing Life
Twelve Lessons to Deepen Every Writer's Art and Craft
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2007
Whether you are a writer of fiction or essays, or want to explore poetry or memoir, Tiberghien's twelve fundamental lessons will help you discover and develop your own distinct voice. Tiberghien's inventive exercises focus on the processes unique to each genre, while also offering skills applicable...