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Tattooing has been practiced by centuries in numerous cultures around the world serving as rites of passage, status, bravery, and symbols of slaves, outcasts, and criminals. Heather Brittany discusses tattoos in America and how they have become a sign of artistic self-expression. Hot, dry, and tired, fire crews across California have been working for weeks on end with little sleep to battle some o...

From the bestselling author of Witches of East End—soon to be a Lifetime television series this fall starring Julia Ormond and Jenna Dewan-Tatum—and the Blue Bloods YA series comes the WINDS OF SALEM, the spellbinding conclusion to the Witches of East End trilogy featuring the beguiling Beauchamp family of witches. Cynthia Brian welcomes New York Times and USA Today best selling author, Melissa de...

Only 33 people in the world have been classified as having Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory from the University of California. Meet author, licensed Professional Counselor, and Certified Life Coach, Frank Healy. His new book, Heal Your Memories, Change Your Life, takes you on an adventurous journey through your own memories, and gives you the tools to heal from past hurts with exercises tha...

Our skin is the largest organ of the human body. How can we have more vibrant, younger looking skin? Health starts on the inside. In Health Matters, Heather Brittany and Cynthia Brian give tips on having clear, beautiful skin no matter what your age. The kids are back in school, we are packing lunches, and our vegetable gardens are overflowing with nutrient rich edibles. It's fall harvest and a gr...

Within a month of getting an agent, ten-year old Elsie Fisher landed a lead role as Agnes in Despicable Me. This year she returns in Despicable Me 2 in the lead role as the precocious unicorn-obsessed Agnes. Elsie chats with Cynthia Brian about what it is like to be a child actor with so many fun opportunities to explore. Cynthia Brian talks about her 14th edition of her best selling book, The Bus...

From the widow and collaborator of Alex Haley, award-winning author of Roots, comes a new American epic from the Civil War. The Treason of Mary Louvestre is based on the true story of a seamstress slave who risked her life to steal plans of a Southern battleship and got them to the North in one of the worst winters in Virginia history. First there was Roots, now there is The Treason of Mary Louves...

In Melodie Johnson Howe's City of Mirrors , she returns to her roots in Hollywood to create a gripping tale of fame, corruption, greed, dysfunctional relationships, and good old fashioned revenge. In her years as an actress, Howe appeared alongside such leading men as Clint Eastwood, Alan Alda, and James Caan. "Hollywood is filled with wonderful ghosts for me," says Howe. City of Mirrors is the no...

Year by year author Richard N. Bolles continues to build on the tradition he started in 1970, of providing new help, with new ideas, and new guidance, each year, based on his continuous interviews with, and reports from, people in the field—job-hunters, human resource managers, and career-counselors alike—as to what is working this year, and what is not. The latest edition, What Color Is Your Para...

Shot All to Hell by Mark Lee Gardner tells the story of the west's most infamous bank robbery, with an hour-by-hour account of the James-Younger gang's holdup of the First National Bank of Northfield, Minnesota, and the two-week chase that followed— the near misses, the fateful mistakes, and the bloody conclusion on the Watonwan River. But these outlaw robbers are not the only main characters: the...

Summer is fun in the sun, but not with a sunburn. In addition to the discomfort, overexposure to the sun can lead to premature aging of the skin and skin cancer, including melanoma. In Health Matters, our health professional, Heather Brittany offers suggestions to protect your skin from getting burned. After the teen years, not many people look forward to adding another year to their birthday. How...

Everyone wants to save money! Some people clip coupons, others watch for sales, and still more troll the internet looking for the best deals. But you don't have to be obsessed to save big time. Slash your bills with a little bit of savvy shopping and you'll hang onto to cash this month. If you own a business, do you know how to make it better? Learn strategies the increase your customer service wh...

Have you heard of Agenda 21? Most people haven't and it's important to get informed. Agenda 21 is a product of the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992 to create sustainable development. But what is it really? Are America freedoms at risk? Are American farmers going to lose their property to imminent domain? Summer is in full swing in the gar...

Welcome to Starstyle®-Be the Star You Are!® with your hosts Cynthia Brian and Heather Brittany on the Voice America Empowerment Channel. Our goal is to seed, stimulate, and support space for positive, meaningful conversations that will get you talking around the dinner table. To launch our program on our new network, we are excited to showcase multi-award winning author and peace advocate Nola Hen...

Alison's Adventures, is a documentary film series created by Alison Teal, that shares the wisdom of exotic cultures and authentic people Follow Alison as she travels the world looking into the secrets to survival, sustainability, and happiness. Watch her Discovery Channel series Naked & Afraid. Essayist and entertainment industry veteran, Taylor Jenkins Reid's novel, Forever Interrupted was inspir...

From James Beard and IACP award–winning chef and cooking instructor Peter Berley: mouthwatering seasonal vegetarian menus that can be created in under an hour in the new book, Fresh Food Fast. A Food & Wine Best of the Best Cookbook, Berley provides 48 sophisticated home-cooked vegetarian meals—twelve for each season. June is the most popular month of the year for weddings. Blessed with pleasant w...

Want to lose weight easily and maintain a healthy lifestyle? Heather Brittany will show you how five subtle tweaks to your daily diet will pay off big in our Health Matters segment. What makes people happy? Is it where you live, how much money you make, children or lack of them, a great job, busy social life, volunteering, nature? Empowerment expert Cynthia Brian provides 10 ways to make better ch...

Picnics, barbecues, and poolside parties are part of summer fun, While warm weather is great for outdoor gatherings, it also can be the perfect storm for breeding bacteria in food. Reduce your risk of food poisoning and have fun in the sun with tips from Health Matters specialist, Heather Brittany. How can we raise healthy, happy teens? Cynthia Brian, author of Be the Star You are!® for Teens, has...

Do you understand the purpose of your medical tests? Are they screening or diagnostic? Learn to decode the results in Health Matters with Health professional, Heather Brittany. When spring has sprung and the gardening bug has bitten you, it's essential to follow a few tried and true rules of gardening to grow the best specimens with ease. Goddess Gardener Cynthia Brian digs in with simple steps to...

Bestselling author Alexandra Stoddard's latest release, The Shared Wisdom of Mothers and Daughters, is a lovely little tome, full of the pearls of wisdom which Stoddard has become known for. In it, Stoddard reflects not solely on what she's taught her daughters (and other women), but muses on the valuable life lessons her 30-and 40-something daughters have brought home to her. Prescription drug ab...

An immigrant tale that combines elements of Jewish and Arab folk mythology, The Golem and the Jinni tells the story of two supernatural creatures who arrive separately in New York in 1899. Imaginative and meticulously researched, this enchanting debut novel from Helene Wecker is historical fiction. Set primarily in turn-of-the-century Manhattan, it deliberately details the immigrant experience whi...

With SEDUCTION, international bestseller M.J. Rose returns with a haunting historical suspense novel about Jac L'Etoile, a present day mythologist, who discovers Victor Hugo's lost journal chronicling those séances and awakens a mystery that spans centuries. The result is an intricately plotted, historically evocative, atmospheric tale with a spellbinding ghost story at its heart. Mother's Day is...

Helen Bryan brings women out of the shadows of history and celebrates their resilience and courage. Her last novel War Brides was an overnight bestselling success. In THE SISTERHOOD, set in Spain during the sixteenth century and present-day, she weaves two stories separated by centuries about the resilience of the female spirit. Bestselling author Liza Palmer carries readers to North Star, Texas,...

Ed Rosenthal's Protect Your Garden is an easy-to-use troubleshooting guide that helps you identify and eliminate things that want to harm your plants. Over one hundred full-color photographs help you determine exactly what is plaguing your flowers and edible plants. Protect Your Garden then provides easy and safe solutions. Building Soils Naturally: Innovative Methods for Organic Gardeners by Phil...

Russ Hovendick motivates people through his multiple roles as a national award winning executive recruiter, career coach, training consultant, business owner, and volunteer chaplain/counselor within the Juvenile, Jail, and Prison system of South Dakota. His books, How to Interview and How to Get a Raise will help you jumpstart your dream job. It has been known for over 100 years that the diet of a...

Why are men and women irresistibly drawn into romantic relationships, not so much by what they see, feel and think, but more by an invisible and irresistible magnetic-like force? Psychotherapist and author of The Human Magnet Syndrome: Why We Love People Who Hurt Us, Ross Rosenberg, describes a revolutionary way of conceptualizing dysfunctional relationships. In Alison Atlee's historical debut nov...