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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.

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 forty-nine-year-old archaeology professor Klara Lieberman goes to Warsaw in search of answers about her long-ago-disappeared father, she ultimately discovers forgotten parts of herself as well—and heals some deeply buried wounds.

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.

Sylvie believes in being a team player at her AI company until her commitment to the technology is put to the test when she discovers her colleagues' illegal activities and she learns the personal trainer she's attracted to considers AI fraught with risk. But Sylvie doesn't know the extent of the trouble coming to eclipse everything else-a family dispute over a will that turns threatening and endangers Sylvie and everyone she cares about.

As a small New England town becomes embattled in the drug war, single mother Laura Everett finds herself on the brink of love and her teenage son on the brink of disaster. To save him and his friends from potentially deadly consequences, she is forced out of her comfort zone and into action . . .

Drawing on biographical and historical sources, Bessie reimagines the early life of Bess Myerson¿the talented daughter of poor Russian Jewish immigrants¿who, in the bigoted milieu of 1945, remarkably rises to become Miss America.

Imagine growing up smart, ambitious, and queer in a home where your father Sigmund Freud thinks that women should aspire to be wives and calls lesbianism a gateway to mental illness. He also says that lesbianism is always caused by the father, and is usually curable by psychoanalysis.Then he analyzes you.Ultimately Anna Freud loved Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham (heir to the Tiffany fortune) for 54 years. They raised a family together and became psychoanalysts in their own right, specializing in work with children. But first Anna had to navigate childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood in a famous family where her kind of romantic longings were considered dangerous.What was it like to grow up the lesbian daughter of ¿the great Sigmund Freud¿? Aside from Annäs sexuality and from her father¿s intrusive psychoanalysis of her, what were the Freud family's most closely closeted skeletons? What is it about the birth of psychoanalysis that even today's psychoanalysts would prefer to keep secret? How did Anna defy her father so thoroughly while continuing to love him and learn from him?Weaving a grand tale out of a pile of crazy facts, Hysterical: Anna Freud's Story lets the pioneering child psychologist freely examine the forces that shaped her life.

A bisexual young man grapples with questions of integrity and masculinity as he and his unconventional sister and enslaved brother struggle for respect and a future between dark secrets and unbridled passions of two plantation dynasties.

When Henrietta and Clive return to England, they find themselves caught up in the death of an estate agent responsible for the proposed sale of the Howard's ancestral home, Castle Linley-an investigation that various ghostly hauntings threaten to disrupt altogether.

Fresh, insightful, and grounded in academic research, this cheeky, no-nonsense manifesto offers practical strategies and easy-to-follow exercises for flexing your happiness muscle and maximizing your potential-essentially laying out the blueprint for how to be happy AF and live your best life.

This finely crafted coming-of-age novel takes the reader on an unforgettable journey with a young woman whose life is shaken by world events. Set in the early twentieth-century Southwest, where water means everything, The Ways of Water is a poignant and heart-warming testament to the meaning of family and the strength of the human spirit.

A bartender. An environmentalist. A fishmonger. An orphan. A love letter to a Montauk under threat.

Do we want to be a people that denies humanity to others in need through deliberate cruelty, in violation of basic human rights? Sarah Towle doesn’t think so. Join her journey to the borderlands to meet the unsung heroes flying the tattered flag of US–American values as they model a better way to respond to today’s crisis in global migration—and attempt to tear down the walls that divide us.

Born during WWII, Deborah Kasdan's sister Rachel spent a transformative year in Israel-after which she was diagnosed with schizophrenia and sent to the first of many psychiatric hospitals. It was there she languished until a mental health worker gave her a chance at freedom. A searing look at the impact of severe mental illness on a Jewish family in mid-century America, this memoir will resonate with anyone who has struggled to help a loved one in crisis.