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Now in paperback, a collection of words of wisdom from inspiring women who have not only survived the toughest of times, but have prospered and grown thankful for the experience.

As Oprah says, "Turn your wounds into wisdom." We all know that life rarely works out exactly as we plan. But often times, getting derailed from the path turns out to be the best thing ever to happen. Whether it's rejection by a cherished friend, the onset of an unexpected illness, an ongoing struggle with body image and self-perception--these experiences may challenge us, but our triumphs come to define us....

The inspiring sequel to Note to Self featuring universally relatable essays from a group of talented woman who share their experiences with love in all its forms--including Marie Tillman, Tameka Foster (Usher's ex-wife), Linda Fairstein, and Lee Woodruff.

In Note to Self, thirty dynamic women shared with writer, director, and television and film producer Andrea Buchanan their poignant stories filled with incredible strength, invaluable knowledge, insurmountable odds, and amazing willpower. Now, in Live and Let Love: Note to Self, Buchanan has asked women--...

The most popular question any pregnant woman is asked -- aside from "When are you due?" -- has got to be "Are you having a girl or a boy?" When author Andrea Buchanan, already a mom to a little girl, was pregnant with her second child, she marveled at the response of friends and total strangers alike: "Boys are wonderful," "Boys are so much better than girls," "Boys love their mothers differently than girls." This constant refrain led her to explore the issue herself, with help from her fellow writers and moms, many of whom had had the same experience.
The result is It's A Boy, a...

Daisy has an electrifying secret that could save her life-or kill her High school sophomore Daisy Jones is just trying to get by unnoticed. It doesn't help that she's the new girl at school, lives in a trailer park, and doesn't even own a cell phone. But there's a good reason for all that: Daisy has a secret, unpredictable power-one only her best friend, Danielle, knows about. Despite her "gift" (or is it a curse?), Daisy's doing a good job of fitting in, and a gorgeous senior named Kevin even seems interested in her But when Daisy tries to help Vivi, a mysterious classmate in a crisis, she...

Andrea Buchanan lost her mind while crossing the street one day. Suffering from a horrible cough, she inhaled the cold March air, and choked. She was choking on a lot that day. A sick child. A pending divorce. The guilt of failing, as a partner, as a mother. Relieved when the coughing abated, she thought it was over. She could not have been more wrong.When Andrea coughed that day, a small tear was ripped in her dura mater, the membrane that covers the brain and spinal cord. But she didn’t know that yet. Instead, she went on with her day, unaware that her cerebrospinal fluid was already...

According to Andrea Buchanan, "mother shock" is the state in which many new parents exist during those first confusing, chaotic, and often comical years of parenting. It is the clash between expectation and result, theory and reality; a twilight zone of 24-hour-a-day living where life is no longer neatly divided into day and night. It is the stress of trying to acclimate quickly to the immediacy of mothering; of formulating a new conception of oneself, one's role in the family and in the world; of shouldering a fearful new level of responsibility and a new delegation of domestic duties. In...

What is That? is a children's book in which all the animals of the alphabet aim to figure out what these new found shapes make. In doing so, the children will be engaged in this adventure by using various subject areas to solve the problem. Objectives and several activities are listed at the end of the book.

The Daring Book for Girls is the manual for everything that girls need to know--and that doesn't mean sewing buttonholes Whether it's female heroes in history, secret note-passing skills, science projects, friendship bracelets, double dutch, cats cradle, the perfect cartwheel or the eternal mystery of what boys are thinking, this book has it all. But it's not just a guide to giggling at sleepovers--although that's included, of course Whether readers consider themselves tomboys, girly-girls, or a little bit of both, this book is every girl's invitation to adventure.