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". . . A beautifully written testimony to a woman's right to claim her power." -Ellen Sussman, New York Times best-selling author A Wedding in Provence, The Paradise Guest House, French Lessons and On a Night Like This"Catherine's story demonstrates the triumph of courage, maternal love, and eventual joy." -Sarita Camille Waite, JD, ret. attorney in family lawAs a naive freshman, Catherine meets Walter, a senior and Big Man on Campus whose sophistication, confidence, and wealth both intimidate and excite her. A three-year absentee courtship follows, during which time the idea of Walt tethers Catherine to safety. She was programmed to marry someone like him, so she ignores the warning signs that they might not be a good match. Hoping to please her mother and seeking refuge from her fraught childhood, she marries and has children with him-but the marriage doesn't last.Once divorced, Catherine finds herself in a war with Walt over money, and then over access to her children-and suddenly, she can no longer ignore her childhood trauma. The high stakes of her battle with her ex-husband forge her like steel, finding every vulnerability where she needs to heal. Gradually, she develops a backbone, relinquishes her trauma-induced, people-pleasing ways, and steps into her own power.Honest and unflinching, The Longest War reminds us that there's always a way through when we access the courage within ourselves. No matter how painful life's difficulties, they offer us the opportunity to heal ourselves and evolve into more open, loving, compassionate people. The choice is ours.

A dream suddenly sparks to life when the pain of infertility coincides with a nuclear explosion, bringing mayhem, magic, and the Children of Chernobyl to Seattle. In this poignant memoir, Gail McCormick embarks on a soul-making journey to the storied cities and villages of Ukraine and Belarus-and finds her place in a four-generation global family.

In this palpably tense memoir, Diane Vonglis Parnell reveals-with brutal candor?how isolation and oppression protect her family's secrets after her abusive father moves their family to a rural part of Upstate New York.

After revealing long-held secrets of adverse childhood experiences including clergy abuse, Kathleen Rose Morgan discovers energy medicine and is far into a healing journey when her dying mother confesses to complicity in her abuse. The revelation sends her on a multidimensional quest to discover what really happened and uncovers long-held traumatic secrets of betrayal and generational trauma.

When Marianne is abruptly laid off from her tech job during a recession, she's forced to move back to the seedy Kansas City neighborhood she thought she'd left forever. As she applies for jobs in an industry that doesn't value the middle-aged, Marianne must rally her inner strength to rebuild her life again.

For those who have lost a cherished pet or who know that loss is on the horizon, this guidebook offers compassionate guidance for how to work through the associated grief, as well as an extensive list of ways to honor and remember them.

Hiding who you are can't help but alter the course of your life-and in some cases, it can even kill us or those we hold most dear. In this memoir of her twenty-two-year career in the U.S. Navy, retired Senior Chief Karen Solt shines a light on the heavy toll NCIS witch hunts and Don't Ask Don't Tell took on her and other LGBTQ Americans who donned the uniform in the 1980s-2000s.

What can go wrong when a Type-A physician and mother moves her young family to a country where they've never been and can't speak the language? Amy Breen quickly realizes that her identity back home doesn't translate to her new life in her new land-but gradually, she begins to understand that this disconnect might just be the best thing that's ever happened to her.

On the run from the psychiatric facility where they fell in love, two suicidal young adults embark on an increasingly perilous cross-country odyssey in search of truth, beauty, and the meaning of life-forcing their mothers into an uneasy alliance as they embark on a journey of their own, hoping to find their kids before it's too late.

After hearing a recording of The Mikado at thirteen and falling in love with the contralto, Ann Drummond-Grant, Marcia Menter is devastated to learn that "Drummie" has died. The aspiring young singer's voice lessons go wrong in every possible way, but her dogged pursuit of information about her idol ultimately reveals the extraordinary story of a singer beloved on both sides of the Atlantic.

When Liz Millanova meets two unlikely friends in a support group for stage four cancer patients, they ditch the group and form their own, aiming to enjoy life while they can. In the process, they help one another reach acceptance, resolve family issues, and find love and peace at the end of their lives.

Written for anyone who has experienced the isolation and marginalization that can accompany both illness and deep spiritual pursuit, this stunning collection of poetry is at once a tender homage to Yorùbá culture and the religion Ifá, a clear-eyed examination of modern-day America's sociopolitical landscape, and a raw account of the author's own journey through a frequently inhospitable world.

This millennial bildungsroman follows Elena's journey in the SF Bay Area from an idealistic Teach for America teacher to a disillusioned project manager at a tech company. Amid the Occupy and Me Too movements, the 2016 election, and California's ever-worsening fire season, Elena must ultimately reconcile the person she envisioned herself to be and the person she actually is.

Forbidden by Nazi racial purity laws to marry his beloved in Germany and forced to emigrate to America to escape persecution, a Jewish refugee strives to save the family left behind and reunite with his fiancée. Set against sweeping historical events, this true story, told by his daughter, recounts one refugee's experience, the challenges he faced, and how he survived.

Growing up working-class Catholic in 1970s Brooklyn, Claire Joyce-the youngest sibling of three street-smart older brothers, an overwhelmed, taxi-driving father, and an alcoholic mother?relies on the stability of basketball to usher her toward maturity and success, only to find her future jeopardized by the prejudices of her time.

Beneath the willow tree in their backyard has always been the place where Margaret Dowling has gathered her four daughters to share her life's wisdom. Now terminally ill, she brings them back together under the tree to disclose her news-and make a final attempt to instill them with the tools they need to find their places in life.

As Janet Wilson and her husband struggled to reset their relationship, Africa reached out and threw everything-including every traveler's worst nightmare?at them. An inspiring story that speaks to human experiences and the power of love and trusting relationships in the face of adversity, All You'll See is Sky is a captivating travel memoir of a couple's adventurous journey across Africa.

Tired of watching Michigan's forests devastated by fracking as leaders refuse to act on climate change, four eco-minded students, a few seasoned activists, and some wildly creative locals stand together to say, "No more!"

The brief "Report of Investigation" contained inside the thin, manila envelope that landed in Patti Eddington's mailbox after almost six decades locked in a courthouse vault looked unassuming-but the adoption document unleashed a heartbreaking, emotional tempest that led her to question everything she ever believed about her beloved parents and her childhood, and use her journalistic chops to go digging for the truth.

Told through multiple voices in multiple time periods-Leonora, an artist and scientist obsessed with the work of surrealist painter Adam Sinclair, in 1990s Santa Cruz, CA; Pauline, Adam's wife, in 1940s NYC; and Mimi Saucier, Adam's lover, in 1930s Paris?Adam and Leonora is a transporting work about the power of dreams, the creative process, and the surreal.

Two shattered spirits, a roving museum curator and a bereaved, cantankerous rancher, come together amidst the dazzling beauty and seasonal rhythms of a cattle ranch in a hidden Montana mountain valley-a wide-open, wind-filled place where words give way to the wisdom of nature.

In this deeply reflective autobiography of acts, stages, scenes, and letters to Love beginning at the age of eight, Blackwildgirl, a childhood queen superpower dethroned in a bargain made by her parents, embarks on a forty-five-year quest to reclaim her crown and become Blackwildgoddess-a fierce warrior for justice in the world.

Book Three of The Druid Chronicles introduces Stefan, a Saxon warrior who has fought his way up through the ranks only to lose his command to a better-born rival. Send into political exile as the sheriff of a shire in the furthest corner of the kingdom, Stefan's fate becomes entangled with the Druids who arrive there seeking a new sanctuary.

After the stillbirth of her daughter, Lindsey Henke grapples with the unbearable grief of losing a child by turning to the only resource she has at her disposal: her training as a psychotherapist. As she mourns the loss of one child while simultaneously trying to hold space for the joy of expecting another baby, she learns that grief can live side by side with joy.

When four-year-old Claudia Marseille was diagnosed with severe hearing loss and received her first hearing aid, her lifelong journey to fit in began. Here, she reveals how she overcame loneliness and isolation and carved out a fulfilling life for herself somewhere between the mainstream culture and the Deaf world.

Sue Camaione is a rebellious young woman in pursuit of physical pleasure and sexual equality during the second wave of feminism-the 1970s-80s, a time when gender double standards rule. Throughout her adventures she doggedly resists the virgin-whore dichotomy at every turn and learns that the road to freedom is a minefield paved with passion, danger, and love.

In this timely story of how science impacts our daily lives-even if we try to close our eyes to it?divorced American geologist Will Ross uproots his children from home and takes them to Turkey, where he is to help build Kayakale Dam. But the earthquake-prone region where the dam is to be built is a dangerously shifting landscape?every bit as unstable as the broken American family that seeks to heal itself there.

Desperate to save her gallery and her family from bankruptcy, Allison Blake travels to Bogotá to an art fair to meet wealthy collectors. She discovers paintings worth millions were added to her crates in scheme to launder money. Caught between warring cartels, U.S. mercenaries, and shady characters from her past, she fights to save her gallery and protect her children.

With the threat of invasion and bombing by Germany hanging heavily over England at the start of World War II, twenty-year-old Kate is devastated when she's forced to postpone her dream of a singing career to help out at home. When she finds herself responsible for the well-being of a young Jewish girl-her priorities change in ways she never imagined.

When Betsabé Ruiz graduates from college in the spring of 2019, moves to Manhattan, and begins a job on Wall Street, she imagines New York City catapulting her toward an exciting adult life; what she finds there is a friendship, a love triangle, and a global pandemic that all converge to teach her deep lessons about life, love, and what it means to be a woman.