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Trying to figure out the right thing to do or say in your multicultural environment? Made up of practical cases of individuals who have used the principles of Conscious Change to navigate difficult and emotionally draining challenges, Conscious Change will help anyone, anywhere, who interacts with others of different backgrounds, beliefs, experiences, expectations, and values—which is to say, everyone!

When Anne, a survivor of parental abuse who suffers from severe depression, falls in love with Milo, a dog with serious aggression issues, she finds herself unable to give up on him. Milo is dangerous, and Anne would never do anything to endanger her sons-but she also believes that everyone deserves a second chance.

In this engaging follow-up to her first book, Travel Mania, Karen Gershowitz reflects on the unusual places she's visited (in more than ninety countries!). Along the way, readers will be introduced to the unconventional people she's met, and weird-and often wonderful?food she's tasted, transporting readers deep into the richness of other cultures and inspiring them to set out on their own journeys.

The beloved actress from Little House on the Prairie tells her raw, authentic story of growing up with a loving but alcoholic father and her ultimate success-despite her own struggles with self-doubt, alcoholism, and other self-destructive choices. She ultimately finds healing and redemption.

Trying to escape her heritage, making Tokyo, New York and Paris her home and becoming ¿a citizen of the world¿, the formerly successful corporate lawyer ends up in a poor suburb of Tel Aviv, in the house she grew up in, nursing her dying mother. She is forced to revert to Hungary of the beginning of the 20th century, face the ghosts of the past and belatedly cut the umbilical cord that has had an all-consuming grip on her for more than five decades.

The companion journal to Blackwildgirl: A Writer's Journey to Take Back Her Superpower allows the reader to journey and journal along in a forty-five year quest as Blackwildgirl, a childhood queen superpower dethroned in a bargain made by her parents, reclaims her crown and becomes Blackwildgoddess-a fierce warrior for justice in the world.

A searing examination of the immigrant experience, The Fortune Teller's Prophecy is Lally Pia's tale of resilience in the face of a bungled Green Card-a four-continent quest to fulfill her dream of becoming a doctor.

Part history, part memoir, and 100% great New York story, The Woman in the Room is the extraordinary tale of a woman who witnessed a turbulent century and who lived to transform herself and the world around her.

The opioid death of a young teen is a loss like no other, and while an ambitious attorney is determined to find justice, the family wants revenge. Tautly paced and well researched, this legal thriller pulls back the curtain on the world of both prescription opioids and street drugs like methamphetamine and fentanyl.

A tender and imaginative portrait of a young girl's coming of age while navigating the multiple challenges of her childhood with her mentally ill mother, this memoir explores the profound effects, across a generation, of decades of cultural silence regarding the issues of mental illness and clergy abuse.

Marina DelVecchio's biological mother was a prostitute who taught her to fear sex. Her adoptive mother was a virgin who taught her that sex was shameful and dirty. Stuck between these two polarizing mothers and their dysfunctions, Marina struggles to find not only her own sexual power but also her own voice.

When Sue Lick's husband's charming forgetfulness worsens into dementia, she trades her life of writing, music, and travel with the love of her life for years of caregiving, guilt, and impossible decisions. And yet the love remains.

To maintain access to her two sons, Catherine must face her childhood trauma, give up people-pleasing, and develop the backbone needed to stand up to her ex-husband, a wealthy lawyer. She uses her training in psychology for her own self-understanding and growth through their years of court hearings, never giving up the fight for her right to be her sons' mother.

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.

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.

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.