Amazon Please don't ask me if I've finished "Sweet Valley Confidential: Ten Years Later." There's no reason it should take an adult a full week to read this book, especially at the rate I've been going: Staying up late just to get to the end of the chapter and then indulging in...

If family gatherings have you routinely downing one too many cocktails, you're not alone. In fact, a new book suggests the majority of women will have strained relationships with family members –- particularly their siblings –- at some point in their lives. Maybe your brother still insists on calling you "chunkster" like he did when you were growing up. Maybe your sister thinks she can tell you how to raise your own kids. Or maybe your mom continues to compare you and her other progeny until you're ready to move far away from them all. Fact: Whether you're 8 or 38, siblings can conjure up nasty feelings of resentment, rivalry and disappointment like nobody else. And unresolved conflict can mount over the years. However, rather than keeping up that double martini habit, MyDaily asked Cathy Cress, co-author of "Mom Loves You Best, Forgiving and Forging Sibling Relationships" how to heal the rifts that last long past the age when you could just safely yank your sister's braids.

In October 2009, when Abby Johnson was called into the exam room to assist with an abortion, she had no idea her entire life was about to change. As the 29-year-old director of that Planned Parenthood clinic in Bryan, Texas at the time, Johnson was a strong pro-choice advocate, having helped thousands of women have access to abortions during her eight-year tenure. She'd even had two abortions herself. While her over-riding goal was always to reduce the more than 3,600 abortions that take place every day in the U.S. by offering women other options (like birth control and adoption), she later said she was "brainwashed" into believing certain "lies" that Planned Parenthood taught her for so many years. That is, until an ultrasound-guided abortion she witnessed. In her new book that is garnering nationwide attention, "Unplanned: The Dramatic True Story of a Former Planned Parenthood Leader's Eye-Opening Journey Across the Life Line", Johnson details that pivotal point in her life:

A rumored Tiger Mom movie deal for Amy Chua has solidified her status as a general in the Mommy Wars, prompting a disgusted meeeeow from Shanghai where Asian haters claim they're "not trying to help her become any richer." They must be infuriated, as TigMo's bestselling "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" has moved briskly to no. 2 on the non-fiction books list in three weeks.

Whether you've seen the "white light" or just have heard of someone who has, most humans are curious about near-death experiences. Is it a spiritual near-miss or a bunch of neurons overfiring? And what's going on when patients float to the top of the operating room and look down on their doctors busy working on ... them? Well, turns out one first-time author -- and full-time neurologist -- has a compelling theory. Dr. Kevin Nelson is a professor of neurology at the University of Kentucky and the author of "The Spiritual Doorway in the Brain: A Neurologist's Search for the God Experience." Drawing on research and patient histories, the book describes his efforts to understand what happens in the brain during near-death experiences. The book offers a provocative glimpse of the nature and origins of "spiritual" experiences ... and just might change the way you think about who you are.