Book Club: Recommended Reading
Compiled by the Editors of PBWC Connections

PBWC invites you to check out these great selections from some of our popular guest speakers at the 2005 and 2006 conferences.

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Talking Back...To Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels, by Andrea Mitchell, Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC News

When Love Calls, You Better Answer: A Novel, by Bertice Berry, Ph.D., Sociologist, Lecturer, Educator

Why Do I Love These People? by Po Bronson

Overcoming Underearning: Overcome Your Money Fears and Earn What You Deserve, by Barbara Stanny

Positive Risk: How Smart Women Use Passion to Break Through Their Fears, by Barbara Stoker, President, IntelligentRisking, Inc.

Am I Hungry?:What To Do When Diets Don’t Work, by Michelle May, M.D.

Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling: Career Strategies for Asians, by Jane Hyun, Principal, Crossroads Associates, Inc. (read about the book)

Money, A Memoir: Women, Emotions, and Cash, by Liz Perle, Editor in Chief, Common Sense Media

Take Big Bites: Adventures Around the World and Across the Table, by Linda Ellerbee, Journalist, Television Producer, Media Personality

If At First You Don’t Succeed...The Eight Patterns of Highly Successful Entrepreneurs, by Brent Bowers, Business Editor, The New York Times

I’m Every Woman: Remixed Stories of Marriage, Motherhood and Work, by Lonnae O’Neal Parker, Reporter, The Washington Post

Climbing the Corporate Ladder in High Heels, by Kathleen Archambeau, Director of Corporate Outreach, Holy Names University

Navigating the Badlands: Thriving in the Decade of Radical Transformation, by Mary O’Hara Devereaux, President & CEO, Global Foresight

Farmworker’s Daughter: Growing Up Mexican in America, by Rose Castillo Guilbault, Vice President, Corporate Affairs, California State Automobile Association

Tongue Fu!: How to Deflect and Disarm Any Verbal Conflict, by Sam Horn

It’s Not About the Bra: How to Play Hard, Play Fair and Put the Fun Back into Youth Sports, by Brandi Chastain, Olympic Gold Medalist, Former U.S. National Soccer Team member, ESPN Commentator

What Women Really Want: How American Women are Quietly Erasing Political, Racial, Class and Religious Lines to Change the Way We Live, by Celinda Lake & Kellyanne Conway, Pollsters and Political Strategists (read about the book)

The Mommy Brain: How Motherhood Makes Us Smarter, by Katherine Ellison, Pulitzer Prize-Wining Journalist

Alpha Dogs: How Your Small Business Can Become a Leader of the Pack, by Donna Fenn, Contributing Editor, Inc. magazine

Getting Even: Why Women Don’t Get Paid Like Men and What to Do About It, by Evelyn Murphy, President, WAGE Project, Inc.

Up & Coming later in 2006:

This is Not the Life I Ordered: 50 Ways to Keep Your Head Above Water When Life Keeps Dragging You Down, by Deborah Collins Stephens, Michealene Cristini Risley, Jackie Speier & Jan Yanehiro

Creating Courage and Creating Cultures of Courage by Cindy Solomon