Inspire & Nourish with Our Virtual POW "Women's Book Club"

Are you a "book woman"?  We feature a listing of books motivational, inspiring books, nourishing and provocative books, websites and other resources that is refreshed monthly.   We welcome your suggestions!

Pick up one or a few of these wonderful, thought provoking literary gems and come back soon to take part in our book club bulletin board and online chats.

Browse through the different categories of books and find something that suits your interests.

• General Interest
• Personal Development, Growth
• Growth Spirituality/ Spirituality Business
• Entrepreneurship
• Business, Social and Global Change
• Business Development and Marketing
• Leadership
• Mid-Life Wellness
• For Coaches
• Fiction
• Book of the Month

General Interest
	War, Poverty, hunger and crime are caused by the fear that surrounds money and its scarcity. Money is energy, and energy is limitless. Only our fear and our limited way of thinking make money seem scarce. Using the tools and the exercises in Chapter Three, you can reconnect with the sacred origins of money, and direct the flow of money through your life and the world on a current of love, joy, goodwill and abundance.
	In this landmark book, sociologist Paul H. Ray and psychologist Sherry Ruth Anderson draw upon thirteen years of survey research studies on more than 100,000 Americans. They reveal who the Cultural Creatives are and the fascinating story of their emergence over the last generation, using vivid examples and engaging personal stories to describe their distinctive values and lifestyles. The Cultural Creatives offers a more hopeful future and prepares us all for a transition to a new, saner, and wiser culture.(Back to Top)
Personal Development, Growth
	A guide to getting noticed! The major challenge facing a business today is standing out from the crowd, getting noticed in a noisy overcrowded marketplace. This book offers a fun, fresh approach to attracting the spotlight. Branding, positioning, public speaking, publicity & writing & performing a 30 second informercial are all covered from the perspective that All Business is Show Business. Bursting with stories, this book is an engaging easy read. (Back to Top)
	Personal coach Cheryl Richardson helps people create the lives they want. In Take Time for Your Life, she shows you how to switch from being stressed, unfulfilled, and overworked, to "living a life you love" by using a seven-step process. Richardson recommends enlisting a friend to work through the book with you: a fine idea to help you benefit from all the guidance that this book offers. Highly recommended. (Back to Top)
Growth Spiritual/Spirituality Business
	Tolle describes how our attachment to the ego creates the dysfunction that leads to anger, jealousy, and unhappiness, and shows readers how to awaken to a new state of consciousness and follow the path to a truly fulfilling existence. (Back to Top)
	This is a book that can be read many times, and you will find that each time, it still has a "divine" effect. If nothing else, it will help you to ask yourself about your Self. This is one of the greatest books ever written, not only of modern times, but of ALL time. (Back to Top)
	In an attempt to address and mend the rift between women's experience of God and how God is presented through male-dominated religions, Borysenko offers this book of feminine exploration. Initially, Borysenko speaks to healing one's relationship with a seemingly judgmental or exclusive God. She then moves beyond how religion may or may not have failed individual women, into how the feminine collective tends to know and touch God. (Back to Top)
;	Vicki Noble is a healer, teacher, artist, and author. She is the co-creator of the Motherpeace tarot deck with Karen Vogel. Her other books include Shakti Woman, Uncoiling the Snake, and Down Is Up for Aaron Eagle. Representing the work of thirty-one poets since the turn of the century, this is the definitive anthology of Native American poetry. (Back to Top)
	The Enlightened Entrepreneur is a unique guide for people who have or want to start their own business, offering a new approach to marketing as the discovery and expression of their company's spirit. Each facet of the process is examined and accompanied by practical information, business research, personal stories, and real-life examples. (Back to Top)
Entrepreneurship
	Many of the three million businesses owned or headed by women actually owe their financial health to such apparent disadvantages as their lack of ready money and inability to leverage, asserts entrepreneur Godfrey in this persuasive feminist survey of a little-explored topic. A chapter of real-life stories of successful businesswomen is a highlight, and the book concludes with a section on resources for prospective women entrepreneurs. (Back to Top)
	Required reading at universities and business schools across the country, Companies With A Conscience is the story of corporate America at its best. "Caring capitalism," as these twelve companies prove, is not only decent, but also profitable. For them—and many more—strong employee and community relations, as well as concern for the environment, are just as important as the bottom line. Above all, they are companies with a heart whose stories are not only exemplary, but also inspiring. (Back to Top)
	In psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's definition of leadership, the personal is political. The best-selling author of Flow interviewed several dozen exemplary CEOs whose wisdom provides the radical job description of the book’s premise: "Leaders must make it possible for employees to work with joy, to their heart’s content, while responding to the needs of society."
	As one of today’s most influential business thinkers, Seth Godin helps his army of fans stay focused, stay connected, and stay dissatisfied with the status quo, the ordinary, the boring. His books, blog posts, magazine articles, and speeches have inspired countless entrepreneurs, marketing people, innovators, and managers around the world.
	There are more high-salaried women in the workforce today than ever before, yet most females remain seriously underpaid when compared to their male counterparts. Motivational speaker and financial journalist Barbara Stanny decided to find out why by identifying the differences between those who draw the big bucks and those who don't. In Secrets of Six-Figure Women she reveals what makes the leading edge tick, as well as how others can use the information to boost their own paychecks and self-esteem.
	In psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's definition of leadership, the personal is political. The best-selling author of Flow interviewed several dozen exemplary CEOs whose wisdom provides the radical job description of the book’s premise: "Leaders must make it possible for employees to work with joy, to their heart’s content, while responding to the needs of society."
Business, Social and Global Change
	The World Café is a flexible, easy-to-use process for fostering collaborative dialogue, sharing collective knowledge, and discovering new opportunities for action. World Café originators Juanita Brown and David Isaacs outline seven core design principles and provide practical tips and tools for convening and hosting "conversations that matter," even with very large groups. (Back to Top)
	Explore the new spiritual/evolutionary path designed to those of us who feel deeply called to participate in the transformation of the self and the world. Emergence offers a 10-step process to shift our identity form ego to essence towards the fulfillment of our evolutionary potential – the Universal Human – one who is connected through the heart of the whole of life, attuned to the deeper intelligence of nature, and called forth passionately by Spirit to express his or her gifts in the evolution of the world. (Back to Top)
Business Development and Marketing
	Most businesses spend far too much of their time and energy struggling to get new customers or hang on to existing ones—even customers who are ultimately more trouble than they’re worth. Attracting Perfect Customers invites readers to move beyond the notions that "business is war" and winning market share means "beating" the other guy. The authors outline a simple strategic process for making businesses so highly attractive that perfect customers and clients are naturally drawn right to them. (Back to Top)
	In this lively 2nd edition of Marketing to Women, Marti Barletta tells you why corporations are spending more to capture the multitrillion dollar women’s market. Updated success stories, original strategies and applications, and gender-effective advertising “best practices” make this the most comprehensive resource to help professionals create and execute a marketing plan that targets women. (Back to Top)
	For any woman who has ever gone to work in the morning and thought "there must be more," branding expert Robin Fisher Roffer reveals the eight surefire steps for developing a unique, personal brand strategy for success by identifying your extraordinary attributes, thinking about your values and passions, and learning how to use them to build a successful and fulfilling professional life. (Back to Top)
Leadership
	Through consideration and reflection about where we have come from, and the intricate ecternal and internal environments of our present situation, Terrill Welch consistently argues for a rich, complex, and synergistic evaluation of our contextual environment. (Back to Top)
	The key to extraordinary long-term performance lies in a transformational commitment to inspiring people rather than motivating them. Lance Secretan's Higher Ground Leadership concepts have been widely used to increase profits and quality, slash staff turnover, and achieve record organizational and personal performance. Inspire! describes Lance's breakthrough thinking, often in the words of the pace-setting leaders who are implementing them and building legacies. Countless examples, stories, and case studies demonstrate the magic of these brilliant ideas. (Back to Top)
Mid-Life Wellness
	This book is a must for any woman (or man) who has a keen interest in building the best possible health practices. It has information ranging from uterine fibroids, which way to face when sleeping, to recipes and family relationship ideas. It is an extremely important book for today's reader. (Back to Top)
	In this book , she once again challenges convention with this inspiring look at one of the most commonly misunderstood female health issues. The “change” is not simply a collection of physical symptoms to be “fixed,” but a mind/body revolution that brings the greatest opportunity for growth since adolescence. The choices a woman makes now–from the quality of her relationships to the quality of her diet–have the power to secure her health and well-being for the rest of her life. (Back to Top)
For Coaches
	A book for coaches, counselors, therapists, social workers, psychologists, mentors, wellness practitioners and other helping professionals. It contains proven body-centered techniques followed by client stories as examples. (Back to Top)
Fiction
	From the celebrated author of The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion comes a remarkable new novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time. In the 1970s in Northern California, near Gold Rush country, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until it is riven by an incident of violence—of both hand and heart—that sets fire to the rest of their lives.
Book of the Month
	Katie is the author of Loving What Is, and Mitchell, the noted translator of the Tao, is her husband. In each chapter of this new book, Mitchell has presented Katie with a passage from the Tao and noted down her exposition on the theme.
	Money maven Suze Orman's latest book, Women & Money addresses the complicated relationship women have with personal finance. Orman's direct, non-condescending style is perfect for this subject matter--she begins with the premise that "Women can invest, save, and handle debt as well and skillfully as any man" and then tackles the important question--"So why don't they?" Designed to educate and inspire, Women & Money also offers a "Save Yourself Plan," a five-month program that "delivers genuine long-term financial security."
	In seven chapters the book identifies the major facets of the new megatrend, including: * The Power of Spirituality - From Personal to Organizational * The Dawn of Conscious Capitalism * Leading from the Middle * Spirituality in Business * The Values-Driven Consumer * The Wave of Conscious Solutions * The Socially Responsible Investment Boom
	Through her popular interactive Dharma Dialogues (dharma meaning “truth” or “the way”), Catherine Ingram has helped thousands of students in their quest for awakening by encouraging them to give up the quest and let their own “heart intelligence” guide them in life.
	In undertaking a spiritual life, we must make certain that our path is connected with our heart, according to author and Buddhist monk Jack Kornfield.Kornfield has been teaching westerners how to integrate Eastern teaching into their daily lives. Through generous storytelling and unmitigated warmth, Kornfield offers this excellent guidebook on living with attentiveness, meditation, and full-tilt compassion.