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After a woman unknowingly aborts a much-wanted baby girl during a routine hysterectomy, her baby's soul seeks rebirth via the nearest "unclaimed" pregnant woman--prompting the intervention of two otherworldly guides who set out to bring the mother-daughter soul mates together via alternative means.

Three women have reason to be in Fort Snelling in 1835. All three are wildly different from one another, but they have one thing in common: the world is changing faster than they can cope. As their cultures collide, each woman must find a way to direct her own future and leave a legacy for her children.

An accessible, inspiring guide focused on empowering women from the inside out by showing them why it is difficult for them to speak up and say no, helping them cultivate self-compassion regarding previous sexual violations, and encouraging them to stop blaming themselves and instead connect with their righteous anger.

Through the lens of her personal experiences as a lesbian coming of age in the '70s and '80s, Lise Weil documents an important chapter in lesbian history, her own long and difficult relationship history, and how her eventual dive into Zen practice became a turning point in her quest for love.

New Hope, Kansas is taken by a second storm when women join forces to bring culture to the Plains, defying attacks from the Religious Righteous, opposition from their husbands, and destruction from Mother Nature.

There were 2,400 American casualties in an undeclared war in North Russia after the Armistice of 1918. Reports on this military expedition were suppressed by the British and US governments-but these letters from an American woman who was there tell the real story.

It is 1554 in the desert of Rajasthan, and a new Mughal emperor is expanding his territory. In a family of Hindu temple dancers a daughter, Adhira, must carry on her family's sacred tradition. Her father, against his wife and sons' protests, insists Adhira "marry" the temple deity and give herself to a wealthy patron. But after one terrible evening, she makes a brave choice that carries her family's story and their dance to a startling new beginning. Told from the perspective of this exquisite dancer and filled with the sounds, sights and flavors of the Indian desert, Faint Promise of Rain is the story of a family and a girl caught between art, duty, and fear in a changing world.

Sophie believed her childhood nightmares were safely behind her when she married and moved from France to the US-but when her mother, Marcelle, calls her to her deathbed and asks her to honor one final request ("Find Pourrette!"), Sophie can't refuse. Marcelle, who never knew her father, has carried the Pourrette name-along with the shame of illegitimacy-her whole life; now it's up to Sophie to scour that stain from her family's past.Kate, Sophie's friend, who gave up her illegitimate child for adoption during wartime, finds herself awash in her own shame when her now-thirty-year-old daughter reappears in her life-and she jumps at the opportunity to help Sophie search for her grandfather in France.Like the braiding of three strands of brioche, the lives of these three women become inextricably intertwined as each struggles to resolve issues from the past that have defined their lives.

After a four-month estrangement from her family, thirty-two-year-old Emma Michaels visits The Harbor View Assisted Living Home to tell her grandmother, Gussie, that she has made a decision: she's going to sell the family property-her inheritance. Sitting on the dock of Poquatuck Village, Connecticut, looking across the harbor to their family's longtime home, the two women debate over Emma's choice-and their conversation lays the framework for the book, which flows over the decades, all the way back to Gussie's youth and marriage, then forward through the lives of her three children, Auggie, Livy, and Alyssa, whose hopes and talents are warped by their mother's influence and disappointed expectations. Expectations passed down through the generations. Subtle. Unspoken. Implacable. As Emma and Gussie remember the choices and dynamics that have produced the complicated tapestry that is their family's history, Emma makes a number of surprising discoveries about her loved ones-and herself-and she prepares to do what no one else in her family has dared: let go of the past to make room for the future, though doing so will destroy the thing her grandmother holds most dear.

A mother's inspiring story of surviving pregnancy following the death of one of her children at birth.

The spirit of Annelise Lovett Morgan, who suffered a tragic death on her wedding day in 1897, returns in 1987 to engage seventeen-year-old Elise Foster's help to clear the name of her true love, Seth, wrongly accused of murder.

Emilia Bassano Lanyer-poor, beautiful, and intelligent, born to a family of Court musicians and secret Jews, lover to Shakespeare and mistress to an older nobleman-survives to become a published poet in an era when most women's lives are rigidly circumscribed.

Supervision is a critical function of leadership that is often overlooked, and yet the quality of supervision is often what makes or breaks a leader-and an organization. Supervision Matters is full of bite-size ideas for how to become a more effective supervisor, including advice on how to be clear about expectations, giving helpful feedback, manage yourself, and more. Each chapter is structured around how you approach a part of your work as a supervisor: how you talk, how you think about others, how you run meetings, how you lead, and more. Whether you're a front-line supervisor or a CEO, this book will help you sharpen your skills and improve morale by transforming your supervision skills into user-friendly tactics that work.

A collection of personal essays by noted women essayists and emerging women writers that explores the question of why Americans have a love/hate "relationship" with Hillary Clinton, tied together by analysis and commentary by the editor.

After interviewing an Indian holy man, newspaper reporter Margaret Bendet follows him in pursuit of enlightenment-unconditional and unending joy-and ends up facing demons that were inside her all along.

South of Everything is a powerful parable about the changing South after World War II (40s-50s) that bears witness to a world of religious and racial prejudice, transformed through the eyes of a young woman whose friendship with her parents' servant, Old Thomas, initiates her into a world of magic and spiritual richness. This universal coming of age tale is about questioning the world around us and finding one's own truth. It will appeal to all spiritual women who dream of stepping beyond the safe boundaries of the world they know.

Several years before Kelley Clink's brother hanged himself, she attempted suicide by overdose. In the aftermath of his death, she traces the evolution of both their illnesses, and wonders: If he couldn't make it, what hope is there for her?

Only in the glaring light of hindsight does pediatric surgeon Kate Murphy understand that she was groomed for the path she's taken. Raised by a widowed dad and a misshapen, sometimes comical trio of parental surrogates from Murphy's Pub, her father's Irish bar in San Francisco, Kate has never understood how protected she is-but when she learns that her well-meaning family has hidden bitter truths about her mother's mental illness and death, the rest of her family history unravels. Kate is still recovering from her family's deception when she becomes involved with Jake Bloom-a charming artist different than anyone she's ever known. When she experiences his sculptures on Ocean Beach, she is forever changed; in the months that follow, Jake reveals beauty Kate has never noticed, and exposes her to spontaneity, sensuality, and love deeper than she'd imagined it could be.Only Mary K-Kate's hard-edged best friend who doesn't miss a thing and names bull when she sees it-is immune to Jake's charms. She sees the potential for danger in Jake, and, of course, she says so. Caught between her newfound passion and her friendship, Kate dismisses her friend's warnings. Ultimately, it isn't until she is in too deep, with a daughter on the way, that Kate understands what Mary K feared on her behalf.Fire & Water is a story of navigating the treacherous territory of passionate love, friendship, and family devotion-and of how love is always a matter of life and death.

¿"If anything bad happens to me, I want you to get him." Those were Sasha's words. Now that she's gone, can Eleanor Birch do what it takes to avenge her friend?

Klara Philipsborn has just side-stepped the rise of Nazism in Berlin for a promising job in Madrid when a fascist military coup draws her into a war that calls her to volunteer her skills as a nurse and translator, a war in which decisions of the heart, and of her very identity, may cost her more than she signed up for.

Both a cookbook and food memoir, this gorgeous four-color book gives down-to-earth information and instructions for cooking tasty and healing Ayurvedic dishes that will appeal to Western Ayurvedic practitioners, their patients and students, and millions more.

An inspiring, illuminating book that examines five personality patterns, called character structures, teaching readers how to break free of them through effective exercises, compelling true stories, fun cartoons, and spiritual insights so you can live a free, more radiant life.

In essays written with humor and wit, Kendrick reimagines what it means to be "a good black woman"-from women choosing never to have children to mothers regretting their choice to have them, from being a lonely black atheist to conquering loneliness as a single woman in a foreign country-and, in the process, challenges the expectation that black women serve as noble martyrs or sacrificial lambs.

Rania, a Palestinian police detective with a young son, meets cheeky Jewish-American feminist Chloe at an Israeli checkpoint-and soon becomes embroiled in a murder case that implicates the highest echelons of the Israeli military.