A bold manifesto to reclaim your desires, reignite intimacy, and celebrate the sacred power of midlife sexuality—unapologetically.

Step aside, stereotypes! Midlife is not a time to fade into the background.

In Quickies, Dr. Heather Bartos, OB/GYN, renowned menopause specialist, and Oprah-approved women's health advocate, delivers a witty, wise, and unapologetically bold roadmap for reclaiming sensuality, confidence, and self-love in midlife.

Packed with 100 empowering, bite-sized lessons, Quickies challenges outdated notions about aging and intimacy. From practical advice on navigating hormonal shifts to cheeky tips for spicing things up in the bedroom (or anywhere else), this groundbreaking guide invites women to embrace their evolving identities with curiosity, courage, and joy. Whether you're reigniting your spark or discovering it for the first time, Dr. Bartos's compassionate and laugh-out-loud voice makes the journey a delight.

Dr. Bartos's expertise isn't just clinical–it's deeply personal. Drawing on years of experience as a top OB/GYN and certified menopause specialist, she offers medical insights with a human touch. A certified reiki practitioner, she also bridges the worlds of science and spirit, encouraging women to connect with their bodies on every level. And with a surprise foreword that's sure to make readers smile, Quickies delivers not just education, but celebration.

Empress Editions Publisher Alisa Kennedy Jones calls Dr. Bartos's work "a revelation," adding, "Quickies is a love letter to midlife women everywhere. It's an invitation to thrive, not just survive." Set for release on June 24th, 2025, on the heels of National Vagina Appreciation Day, this book is poised to redefine midlife and inspire a new wave of bold, beautiful living.

Dr. Heather Bartos's expertise has been featured in The New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, and Good Housekeeping. Now, with Quickies, she's giving midlife women everywhere the tools to live sexily ever after.

Legal guardianship often feels like a swamp (and that’s how I describe it in my multi-award-winning book Protecting Mama: Surviving the Legal Guardianship Swamp). If guardianship is a swamp, then elder care is a jungle. Is your bank account prepared for the trek? Even wealthy elders see their nest eggs dwindle, sometimes to zero, as they battle chronic diseases or catastrophic accidents.Do you worry about what might happen to one of your older loved ones, should that person no longer be safe liv...

Unleash the Power of Your Words to Transform LivesImagine the profound impact you’ll have when every interaction leaves others feeling respected, confident, and valued in their abilities. By mastering the art of intentional communication, you’ll discover how to:Dr. Dianne Olvera has shared this transformative technique for over four decades, grounded in her vast experience as a university professor, researcher, international diplomat, educational therapist, wife, mother, partner, and grandparent...

Have you tried everything for your pain, and nothing seems to work? Millions of people suffer from joint and muscle pain every day, enduring countless treatments, surgeries, and medications that never seem to offer lasting relief.In The Pain-Free Formula, accomplished pain specialist, physical therapist, registered nurse, and healthcare expert Stacey Roberts shares a revolutionary, holistic approach to eliminating joint pain for good—without relying on surgery, drugs, or injections.With over 30...

Nancy Orlen Weber recalls the moment the lights went on. As a 19-year-old nurse fresh out of nursing school, she confidently told a doctor that his diagnosis and orders for a new patient were wrong. He listened, changed the order, and when her instincts were proven correct, he thanked her and applauded her remarkable gift. It was the first time Nancy saw how valuable her psychic abilities could be to others.Ten years later, Nancy's life took a dramatic turn when a violent attack by her first hus...

Transform Your Body and Soul with Biblical Wellness and Proven Weight Loss Strategies
Steve had been overweight all his life. In fact, he weighed more than 100 pounds in first grade! After playing college football he vowed never to exercise again. That was one promise he kept, ballooning to nearly 350 pounds and staying there for years. Driven by his declining health, Steve began to study the Bible for help.

Steve lost 130 pounds and launched a stunningly successful weight-loss program in his church, community and through out the nation. In Bod4God, he reveals four keys from the Bible that have unlocked the door to health and fitness for him and countless others. He shares these simple lifestyle changes-both inside and out-that have led to incredible transformation, and now he invites you to change your life forever! In this book you’ll learn how to:

Honor God with your body and stop feeling guilty.
Motivate yourself for change and stick to your healthy goals.
Tailor a plan just for you, and enjoy doing it the rest of your life.
Manage your eating and retrain your taste buds to crave healthy foods.
Get your body moving with fitness tips to increase energy.
Build your circle of support to encourage, educate and equip you.
Launch a fun and effective wellness program in your church or organization.

And much more!

Anxiety! Who hasn’t felt its grip on internal restlessness? It touches nearly everyone, from a mild flutter in the stomach to an intense dread of a full-blown panic attach, It can manifest as test-taking jitters, a racing heart, or sweaty palms. Yes, despite extensive scientific research, there isn’t a universal theory of anxiety, often described simply as an “over-response to stress.” While anxiety can sometimes motivate us to accomplish tasks, it can also become overwhelming and relentless, pr...

The Montessori Home and Beyond empowers parents to bring Maria Montessori’s timeless principles into their own homes, offering a transformative approach to raising children. An insightful understanding of how children learn, particularly during the crucial first six years when their minds are most absorbent, opens up opportunities for parents to positively influence their children’s lifelong development. Drawing on the author’s own experiences of raising six children with this philosophy, the bo...

Two sisters, bound by love and guided by divine forces, embark on an extraordinary journey of healing and spiritual awakening. When one faces a life-threatening cancer diagnosis, the other calls upon the spirit realm for assistance. Cindy activates her psychic abilities, channels her spirit guides, and trains to become an energy healer, just in time to support her sister through a challenging chapter.

The wisdom and divine guidance Cindy receives during their energy healing sessions illuminate Hilary’s path to recovery. Hilary’s dedication to healing herself illustrates that true, lasting healing extends far beyond the physical; it requires inward exploration and the energetic release of unresolved emotional wounds, traumas, and self-limiting beliefs. It is a journey of embracing self-love and rediscovering the divine love that resides within us all.

This compelling narrative intertwines the remarkable experiences of an emerging energy healer with those of a woman discovering how to truly heal and transform her life. Their story is a powerful testament to the strength of sisterhood and the interconnectedness we all share.

In light of the current global shift in consciousness and the growing interest in alternative healing modalities, Healing with Love aims to inspire readers to embark on a journey of self-discovery, activating their innate spiritual gifts and awakening to their true divine nature—the potent love within that serves as a powerful tool for healing and transformation.

Are you contemplating making a change toward a more fulfilling and enriched life? Experiencing a mindful focus on dealing with stress and conflict or wanting to reach a higher potential, can be exhausting! Your solution, Bonnie Wilczynski’s Seeing Creatively: How to Unlock Your Imagination.
Revel in a transformative guidebook that invites readers on an engaging journey of self-discovery and empowerment through practicing creative visualization.

Drawing upon the image of a magical mission is a roadmap for navigating the inner landscape of the mind and connecting the power of imagination to express dreams and ambitions.

Each chapter acts as a stepping-stone along the path. Readers are guided through a myriad of insights, tools, and exercises designed to light the way forward by exploring the life-changing potential of creative visualization. This exploration reveals how it can reshape perceptions, beliefs, and even realities.

With a toolkit of techniques and practices at their disposal, readers learn how to navigate the challenges of self-doubt, resistance, and limiting beliefs, while emphasizing the importance of mindfulness, presence, and gratitude, celebrating the journey of self-empowerment and transformation.

This book is an ongoing adventure that invites readers to embark on a journey of unlocking their imagination where they can access their true potential and light up the path to fulfilling their dreams.

You Can Solve the Greatest Mystery of All—Your Soul Purpose!

Are you ready to delve into the amazing depths of your soul and unveil its unique treasures? Do you yearn to discover your deepest wisdom and decipher your highest aspirations?

This book is your roadmap to empowering you to become your own Soul Detective, leading you towards a life overflowing with profound meaning and genuine contentment.

Packed with ideas, exercises, and examples of how to use your mind and soul as your power tool kit, you’ll discover how to:

Connect deeply with your soul’s wisdom.
Break free from limiting beliefs and emotional blockages.
Reshape your life with clarity and confidence.
Solve your own life’s puzzles with ease.
Cultivate inner peace, resilience, and joy.

Nancy Weber is a renowned psychic detective featured in documentaries worldwide, a spiritual guide, animal communicator, and medical intuitive. With her decades of experience, she is uniquely equipped to lead you through your inner exploration with clarity and compassion, helping you uncover your soul’s true purpose.

Do you know what questions to ASK your kids, students, and the youth in your life to get them to talk with you? Wouldn’t it be great to have them actually respond and engage in conversation?

This gripping book delves into the raw, unfiltered world of today’s youth. Their lives are way more complex than most realize. It is a compelling and poignant exploration of the challenges faced by young souls, bringing to light the often overlooked and misunderstood battles they fight.

In Youth Truth, discover the essential guide to navigating the tough conversations that matter most to today’s youth. This compelling narrative empowers parents, educators, and mentors to approach sensitive topics with empathy and understanding, creating safe spaces where young voices feel valued and heard. From the haunting realities of suicide and bullying to the silent battles of eating disorders, this book unveils the raw struggles faced by a generation yearning for connection.

Unleash Your Inner Queen and Transform Your Menopause Experience!

Are you overwhelmed by hot flashes, memory loss, fatigue, and insomnia? It’s time to change your menopause mindset and reclaim your life!

Author Lisa R. Triggs is a woman who faced almost seven years of depression, insomnia, hot flashes, and memory issues. In 2023, Lisa discovered a new path and realized that the power to improve her symptoms was within her all along. By adopting a positive perspective on menopause and integrating tools like meditation, affirmations, and visualization, Lisa experienced a remarkable transformation.

In her inspiring book, Lisa shares her journey and offers practical guidance to help you:
-Learn how to control and reduce menopause symptoms through mindset changes
-Discover powerful methods to envision and achieve a healthier, more balanced life
-Calm the inner storm of hot flashes with soothing meditation practices
-Write and use impactful affirmations to reinforce positive changes
-Explore the healing power of solfeggio frequencies
-Embark on a journey of self-discovery with insightful tools and exercises
-Understand the crucial role of self-love during menopause

Divorce is devastating, but when the feelings of betrayal, shame, guilt, and condemnation are added to the fear of getting divorced over the age of 50 you have a life of brokenness that seems impossible to repair.

The emotional upheaval that produced overwhelming feelings of inadequacy and a heart shattered into a million pieces gripped the life of Sharon Elaine as she struggled to understand how this tragedy came to be. There was nothing complicated about what she wanted for her life. Sharon wanted the family she never had. She struggled to find direction, balance, and self-worth.

After her divorce, Sharon took a critical look at the lifelong relationships that contributed to her thoughts of inadequacy despite her professional success. Specifically, Sharon developed her relationship with God. She began to understand how her beliefs, thoughts and actions contributed to her relationships and her divorce. This has given her victory through her faith in God, and the grace God provides for us.

Advocate for your rights and participate in your freedoms! In no nonsense language, Cultivating Justice breaks down America’s Constitutional rights by telling unforgettable true stories of young people who grew our legal landscape. This book gives practical and legal significance to case examples, inviting people to continue to define justice.

Guided by Lady Justice, who cuts to the truth with her sword, is blindfolded against prejudices, and weighs the inequities in her scales, this book shows us that one voice can make a difference. It provides hope in American jurisprudence instead of despair, empathy instead of anger, and a course of action in place of apathy.

Adriana Martínez, a first-generation daughter of Mexican immigrants, grew up in the housing projects, made it to Stanford University and beyond, and has spent a lifetime searching for and finding inner peace and happiness on her own terms.

This empowering book, always lyrical with sprinkles of humor and heartbreak, explores important issues like identity, biculturalism, mental health, self-esteem, personal loss, and spirituality. It is rich with insights and information for anyone searching for genuine fulfillment, especially first-generation and immigrant youth growing up in poverty.

Reclaiming Me: Lessons from a First-Generation Mexican Daughter is a deeply personal story that encourages readers to reflect, discover, and embrace who they truly are – not just once, but every single day. It provides valuable, practical advice with universal lessons of self-discovery, self-love and forgiveness.

Adriana's inspiring stories show us how having the courage to live with authenticity, transparency, and vulnerability can lead to a meaningful and rewarding life filled with gratitude, resilience, and joy.

If you are freaking out over a milestone birthday—your own or that of a loved one, If you worry about getting older, If you just detected another wrinkle on your face, stop fretting right now and open this book. Here are 26 simple, common-sense tips from A to Z to help you get through life, to cheer you up, to brighten your soul and to hearten your resolve to thrive.

We all die. But, how we live, how long we live, and how we die are largely within our control. After receiving her father’s prognosis of ‘just three months to live,’ nutritionist Lisa Tremont Ota dished up delicious plant-based meals while her father revealed the depths of his remarkable life. This exchange nourished body and soul for them both, leading her father to live much longer and encounter death on his own terms.

Through food and storytelling, this book shows how you can:

Change the outcome of a prognosis
Experience the dying process as a sacred journey
Provide your family with plant-based meals that will support optimal health
Help reverse chronic health conditions like heart disease and cancer
Help someone die with dignity.

From bar room brawls to ships lost at sea, these page-turning stories will inspire you to be true to yourself, to be kind and helpful to others, and to believe in the importance of perseverance. Your awareness of what it means to consciously help a loved one transition to the other side will grow, both in terms of the patience and grace required. You will also gain insight into how to navigate the necessary details of the death process. And, perhaps best of all, the recipes will last a lifetime.

Have you ever had a day straight from hell? The kids are driving you crazy, and everything that could possibly go wrong has. Welcome to everyday family life. How does one cope? Find out in this humorous and inspiring book.

Called a modern Erma Bombeck, Lynda Pilon recounts her experiences as a wife, mother, and grandmother—dealing with situations that will resonate with many readers. Through her creative methods, she demonstrates how to navigate the joys and challenges of daily life with a sense of humour, often transforming chaos into calm. She tells us don’t sweat the small stuff, even while you are dripping wet from the heat to give you a refreshing perspective on managing life’s ups and downs.

This book will:

Bring a smile to your face when you most need it
Reveal some unorthodox albeit successful ways to adapt to life’s challenges
Show you that living life to the fullest is the only way to travel
Remind you that laughter, especially at yourself, can be a sanity saver

BIG-ASS PROBLEMS REQUIRE BAD-ASS SOLUTIONS

Bad-Ass Solutions isn’t about solving problems like what to watch on Netflix tonight. It addresses the big-ass threats to us and even our civilization, such as global warming, homelessness, and mass killings. This refreshingly NONPARTISAN book is for all of us who are frightened, frustrated and pissed off about these critical issues that just aren’t being addressed.

Author Mitch Francis solved today’s big-ass problems in amazingly creative and doable ways. He included hilarious, relevant quotes from well-known people and employed his fun, tongue-in-cheek humor.

Mitch’s Bad-Ass Solutions will:

Destroy every assault rifle in thirty days.
House and treat the homeless, addicted and mentally ill—at a very low cost.
Pay off the entire US deficit and stop inflation.
Make public schools better than private schools to heal the rich/poor chasm.
Stop the oceans rising from melting polar ice caps. Really!
Resolve the abortion issue satisfactorily for all sides.
End gang and drug crime.
Resolve the problems of immigration, government size, taxes, healthcare, drugs, wars, elections, housing costs, Russia and China.

Can these nightmare problems really be resolved?
BIG-ASS YES!
BAD-ASS SOLUTIONS For Today’s BIG-ASS Problems

Did you ever wish you could have a front row seat to history? Tania Anderson did.

With an unquenchable thirst for exploration of diverse cultures and a quest to understand “the common denominator that binds humankind,” Tania, an international flight attendant, sets out on a worldwide discovery to understand her personal truth. Relentless curiosity has led her to a fulfilling life beyond her imagination. Yes, you can travel the world, meet celebs, presidents, and even a saint, all without leaving your home.

Fly alongside this international voyager and behold historical events up close:

Journey with Tania to Calcutta to meet Mother Teresa Enjoy a front row seat as Nelson Mandela receives the Congressional Gold Medal Watch the launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis Meet the Dalai Lama in a New Delhi hotel corridor Be onboard as the US Army brings victorious soldiers home Witness Tania’s harrowing escape from Nigeria as she is mistaken for a CIA agent

As you travel the world with Tania, you will start to view other civilizations with new eyes.

You will reflect, become teary-eyed and experience how destitute people struggle while their elite and royals exist in a life of fantasy. Laugh at some zany shenanigans that arise thousands of miles from home.

But in the end, you will be inspired to begin your own exploration of the world while making unforgettable friends with heart-warming memories along the way.

There’s a groundbreaking way to achieve your dreams without feeling overwhelmed or stuck. Take Back Your Life! 5 Steps to Creating YOUR Quantum Leap is the guide you need to turn your life around, starting today.

This book isn’t just about setting goals. It’s about transforming your life, one step at a time. It’s about turning those ‘shoulds’ into ‘musts’ and finding your true ‘why’. It’s about creating a compelling future that excites you every single day.

No margin—no mission…

What does it take to bring financial justice to communities of color?

Cliff Rosenthal, shaped by the movements of the 1960s, fought for decades against government indifference and systemic bias—finally seeing change come after the death of George Floyd. Michael McCray, a renowned whistle-blower, led an unprecedented court challenge to the unjust federal termination of his fraternity’s Kappa Alpha Psi Federal Credit Union. Here for the first time you’ll find the inside story of the landmark KAPFCU v NCUA federal court case. These stories will inspire all those working to fulfill the promise of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the financial system.

If you have been diagnosed with cancer, it is crucial to follow your doctor’s advice. However, there are other things you can do to improve your chances of recovery. The author shares his story of being diagnosed with cancer, undergoing surgery and immunotherapy, which was stopped due to an autoimmune response. Even after that, his doctors gave him a prognosis of eight to ten months to live.

This book explains the specific steps the author took to beat stage IV cancer, without needing chemotherapy. There is a common misconception that a cancer diagnosis is a death sentence, but this book demonstrates otherwise. It delivers valuable insights on extending your life and maintaining good health. The book discusses natural and affordable options you can take to speed up your recovery from cancer.

The author has been cancer-free for over six years thanks to the information he shares in this book. After six months of following the natural options and some key lifestyle choices, his CT scans were clear and have remained so ever since.
What you will find in this book:

Hope for a bright and healthy future.
Encouragement to move forward with simple steps to help you recover from cancer.
Confidence that you can do this!
Peace of mind, knowing that you are taking steps in the right direction for your life and your health.
A sense of belonging to a community of others who are on a similar journey.
Ideas on things you can do to bring yourself to optimal health.

Ah, it’s summertime. Camping, barbecues, days by the lake or river, these are things we wait for all year long. But while we might not think about it while we’re having fun, those 1 lb propane cylinders we use in our camp stoves and other portable appliances add up in both cost and environmental impact.

Now, your outdoor fun can be a little greener by making the simple, convenient switch to a reusable 1 lb propane cylinder. Every year in North America, 40 million single-use 1 lb propane cylinde

Families in Nevada County need high quality, affordable child care. Studies show that quality child care helps children develop and thrive. However, quality child care also impacts our entire community because investments in the childcare sector are critical for the continued functioning and recovery of our economy. Providing direct support to local childcare businesses promotes economic stability by ensuring families can return to work.

“The COVID-19 pandemic spotlights how child care is a pil

The Brunswick Veterinary Clinic team wants to thank the community for their love and support following the reopening of the business, and looks forward to many more years of serving your pets. Brunswick Veterinary Clinic was founded in 1986 by Jay Schuff, DVM and Rebecca Hahn, DVM., Following their retirement, the clinic reopened on January 29, 2020, under the leadership of experienced area veterinarian, Tarra Williams, DVM. Dr. Schuff and Dr. Hahn stayed on during the transition before permanen