Get Caught Reading is a nationwide public service campaign launched by the Association of American Publishers to remind people of all ages how much fun it is to read. May is officially Get Caught Reading month, but the celebration lasts throughout the year. Get Caught Reading is supported by hundreds of celebrities, including LL Cool J, Dylan and Cole Sprouse, and the newest addition, Olivia the Pig!
This is a great opportunity to showcase some of our members who are also authors. We hope you will support these small business owners; links to purchase are included below!
Inconvenient Memories by Anna Wang
Inconvenient Memories is a rare and truthful memoir of a young woman’s coming of age amid the Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989. In 1989, Anna Wang was one of a lucky few who worked for a Japanese company, Canon. She traveled each day between her grandmother’s dilapidated commune-style apartment and an extravagant office just steps from Tiananmen Square. Her daily commute on Beijing’s impossibly crowded buses brought into view the full spectrum of China’s economic and social inequalities during the economic transition. When Tiananmen Protests broke out, her Japanese boss was concerned whether the protests would obstruct Canon’s assembly plant in China, and she was sent to Tiananmen Square on a daily basis to take photos for her boss to analyze for evidence of turning tides. From the perspective as a member of the emerging middle class, she observed firsthand that Tiananmen Protests stemmed from Chinese people’s longing for political freedom and their fear for the nascent market economy, an observation that readers have never come across from the various accounts of the historical events so far.
The Drama-Free Workplace: How You Can Prevent Unconscious Bias, Sexual Harassment, Ethics Lapses, and Inspire a Healthy Culture by Patti Perez
Companies spend millions on legal compliance training and initiatives to eliminate workplace drama and the resulting low morale and lawsuits, but don’t always get the results they want. Most organizations understand that simply checking legal compliance boxes around sexual harassment, bias, etc. isn’t enough, but are at a loss on how to implement solutions, especially in today’s post-#MeToo world.
Who Is In Charge of Your Brain? by Rachel Alexandria
What causes our depression and anxiety? And what can we do about it? This little book takes you step by step, through drawings, to show you what’s happening in your head when you’re stuck in self-defeating patterns. Learn about the traps you get caught in and how to get out.
Mind Body F. I. T. Life: Activate Your Subconscious Power for Weight Release, Self Belief, Emotional Eating and Fully Embodying a Healthy Mindset by De’Anna Jo Nunez
Mind Body F.I.T. Life invites you to Focus, Inward and Target your super-powers! Utilizing the transformative tools of the F.I.T. Method, Author De’Anna Nunez guides you through a process of activating the subconscious mind to reveal, release and recode what has mentally held you back from living in your healthiest body. Her methods work, no matter your age.
Alegra Loewenstein published books
Alegra Loewenstein is a best-selling author, speaker, and coach on the topics of weight loss, emotional eating, and how an earth based spirituality can foster health and happiness. Alegra inspires busy, ambitious leaders to slow down, tune into to their holistic whole body, connect to what they desire, and lose weight with ease. She is an expert at writing books that are fun to read, simple to use, and get transformative results. Alegra’s passion is guiding us back to enjoying and actually living life in the midst of our hectic full schedules. She likes tea, chocolate, and reading self-help books.
Every Woman Should Know Her Options: Invest Your Way To Financial Empowerment by Laurie Itkin
Growing up with a twice-divorced mother who could not financially support herself and her children, Laurie Itkin vowed to do whatever it would take to become financially independent. At 24, Itkin received a $1,600 inheritance from her grandmother. Instead of spending it on clothes and shoes, she bought 40 shares of Starbucks. In Every Woman Should Know Her Options, Itkin outlines the steps she took to build a million-dollar stock portfolio before she turned 40. Filled with easy-to-understand examples and women’s stories of wealth-building challenges and successes, Itkin’s advice shows you how to take your hard-earned money and grow it in the stock market using options to reduce risk. Whether you hire a financial advisor to manage your money or manage it yourself, this book will put you on the path to financial empowerment.
Perilous Star by Alyssa Markins
The zodiacs are real
But she never imagined the darkness dwelling among the stars.
When twenty-one-year-old Kaeli discovers she can control fire, it costs her everything. Abandoned, she meets the last person she ever would have expected– the zodiac, Leo. Intrigued by his offer to leave her painful world behind, Kaeli follows Leo to the Celestial Realm, where she and eleven other human recruits begin training to become the next zodiacs.
The Art of Self-Nurturing: A Field Guide to Living With More Peace, Joy & Meaning by Kelley Grimes
The Art of Self-Nurturing was written to empower you to become the artist of your own life and see self-nurturing as an art form. Rather than living from obligation and overwhelm, you will learn to cultivate a life filled with self-compassion and self-love.
The practice of self-nurturing is not about being perfect or completing another thing on your “to-do” list, but rather nurturing a relationship with yourself. It is about recognizing what is nurturing in any given moment and allowing your practice to evolve accordingly. The more we nurture ourselves, the more we know ourselves allowing us to reveal more of who we are in the world.
Flight Club: Rebel, Reinvent, and Thrive: How to Launch Your Dream Business by Felena Hanson
Flight Club is a call to rebel, reinvent, and thrive! The book shares the journey of women who “leaned out” of corporate to launch their dream business.
Felena Hanson, founder of Hera Hub, shares her personal story and rise to entrepreneurship. The book also features the journeys of and advice from six courageous female entrepreneurs: Debby Eubank, Linda O’Keefe, Lorin Beller, Sara Clark-Williams, Deirdre Maloney, and MaryCay Durrant. Each shares an exercise to help you craft your flight path.
The final section of the book includes access to an online platform, StepsToStartup.com, which walks you through 17 foundational steps of launching a business. Book buyers will receive three months free access!
Resilient Health: How to Thrive in Our Toxic World by Valencia Porter
Our health is the result of our genetic makeup interacting with our environment. So, how can we thrive in an increasingly toxic world? With progress, new challenges have arisen – more chemicals in the environment, changing climate and ecosystems, altered food resources, more sedentary and high-stress lifestyles, and the constant onslaught of online media – creating health issues including chronic diseases like diabetes, cancer, allergies, and autoimmune illnesses that need novel approaches.
Let Crazy Be Crazy: Then Politely Get What You Want, Get Your Point Across, and Gently Put Rude People in Their Place by Elaine Swann
By Lifestyle and Etiquette Expert Elaine Swann Let Crazy Be Crazy is an essential handbook that shares how to politely deal with difficult people and how to communicate effectively in challenging social situations.
From using the right words and tactics to politely get what you want, to firmly yet sensitively getting your point across, to just plain ol’ putting rude people in their place, these are tips on how you can to do it with grace and style.
