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Following the deaths of her parents, Linda Murphy Marshall returns to her midwestern childhood home; in the process of going through each room, she evokes memories and insights from her patriarchal 1960s upbringing, and?informed by her training as a translator?finds new meanings in the often disturbing events that took place in that home.

First Amy Daughters reconnected with her old friend Dana on Facebook and they became pen pals; then she went crazy and wrote all 580 of her Facebook friends a handwritten letter. What the experience taught her? Nothing—not politics, beliefs, or lifestyle—can separate two people once they¿ve connected in a loving way.

Francesca Bodin¿s near perfect life is upended when a snowmobiling accident lands her, her husband Ben, and their four-year-old daughter in frozen lake. When he gets out, leaving them to die, she realizes her life isn¿t as perfect as she thought it was.

When Barbara Kennard realized that her perfectionism was holding her back from being the teacher she’d always wanted to be, she thought about abandoning the professional together; instead, she took a risk and gave up everything she knew about teaching in the United States to teach at The Dragon School in Oxford, England, where—by the grace of God—she finally learned to deal with her own inner “dragons.”

With humor, lived experience, and actionable advice, positivity expert and author Jane Enright offers inspiration and hope to readers on accepting unplanned change, building resilience, and landing butter side up in in the game of life.

A moving memoir of a young nurse's experience trekking with a local health team in rural Nepal, Beyond the Next Village chronicles how, after arriving in the roadless district of Gorkha in 1978, Mary Anne Mercer experiences firsthand the interlacing of modern medicine with an ancient culture-and her life is gradually transformed by immersion in the daily lives of villagers and her team.

Against a backdrop of pagodas and enigmatic customs, Lidia De Campos-a mature artist carrying a private burden-tours a Southeast Asian country recently reopened to the world after a long dictatorship with a disparate group of characters; along the way, they all encounter adventures that challenge their assumptions-and Lidia embarks on a love affair with a surprising conclusion.

When acclaimed wildlife photographer Clare Rainbow-Dashell flees the fallout of an ill-advised affair with a professor, she finds herself in the Namib Desert, where she gets caught up in the crisis of endangered species preservation-and caught between two very different men.

Up to 18 percent of US teens engage in non-suicidal self-injury—a number that fails to capture the devastating consequences of mental health diagnoses on families, particularly mothers like Tracey Yokas. When Tracey, who is already engaged with her own struggles with familial patterns, realizes that her teenage daughter, Amelia, has fallen prey to depression and disordered eating, she discovers that the key to helping Amelia is hidden inside her own transformation.

Uninspired economist Hannah has just lost her job and is determined to change everything about her life when she heads to Vermont to be the sole caregiver for her sister's children for the summer-an experience that proves to be more transformative than she expected after she meets next-door neighbor Nathan.

A coming-of-age memoir that takes readers from North Carolina's Outer Banks to disco-era New York City and home again, Untethered follows Laura Whitfield as she fumbles her way through young adulthood, learning along the way that you sometimes have to fall hard a few times before you land where you're meant to be.

As a mixed-race, bilingual Chinese American woman, Anne grew up unsure where she belonged. In her twenties, she travels alone to live and teach English in China, her mother's birthplace-a long, winding journey that ultimately teaches her to embrace her many layers of identity, claim her voice, speak her truth, and live in the present.

A Victorian era painting of four sisters, a lonely teenage girl, and the ugly secrets that tie them together-this time-travel tale effortlessly blends past and present, transporting readers between the troubled Boit sisters' world, Paris in 1882, and fifteen-year-old Victoria's, Boston in 1963, where the young heroine confronts demons that haunt not only the Boit family but also her own.

We each have a gift meant to be used, and accessing the full power and creativity of this gift requires reconnecting with the wise and intelligent universe from whence it came. Both a philosophy and a way of life, Leadership Flow is a must-read for new and experienced leaders seeking an alternative way to make an impact and make a difference.

Leaders who care about justice must be ready and able to address concerns about equity, power, biases, hiring practices, and sustainability-and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Leading for Justice offers individual and collaborative

Where does a super stressed California corporate dynamo and mother of two go to save her marriage and reconnect with her kids while pursuing inner peace? A fortune teller? Shanghai? Yes to both of these is Tina Martin's response in this comedic, heartfelt portrayal of a woman's search for self.

Carolyn, an independent, free-spirited, fifty-something researcher, challenges herself to go on fifty dates to find a committed partner. Navigating the highs and lows of dating within the SF Bay Area sensual New Age community, her universal quest for love becomes a sexy adventure of self-discovery and self-love along the way to a man who matches her spirit.

An invaluable resource for writers, Where Do You Hang Your Hammock? debunks the myth that anxiety is the price of admission to a creative life. Inspiring and practical, this guidebook¿divided into five parts: Dream, Nourish, Write, Publish, and Promote¿shows writers how to use their present-moment circumstances as stepping-stones to a successful and meaningful writing life, navigated from the inside out.

When Rebecca Goldberg, a poor young widow with six children living in 1920s rural Massachusetts, had to decide between taking her older kids out of school to send them to work and breaking the law by selling illegal alcohol during Prohibition, her choice was clear: she broke the law.

A compelling blend of biography and memoir, The Field House recounts the life of writer Rachel Field-whose works for adults and children were once wildly successful but are now largely forgotten-and how her chance "meeting" with the author through the whispers of an old, neglected island home in Maine sparked a startling friendship across time and impossible distance.

When graduate student Cassie Lyman discovers that she's related to the woman she's decided to write her doctoral dissertation about-Kate Easton, the founder of the Birth Control League of Massachusetts-her quest to discover the truth about Kate unearths some unpleasant family secrets.

When a no-nonsense business executive suffers a trifecta of losses in quick succession, she unwittingly undergoes a profound spiritual transformation-and ultimately discovers that the true source of her power comes from leading with an open heart.

When Elisabeth Goodwin comes to California from Massachusetts in 1849 with her new husband, Nate, she quickly finds out he's not who she thought-but instead of suffering in a miserable marriage, she discovers her worth and potential during the gold rush, and carves out her independence in the liberal society of the early West.

Following the unexpected death of her alcoholic mother, sixteen-year-old Terry Sue decides her biological father, whom she doesn't know, could change her life for the better. By the time she finds him, however-after decades of searching-she understands that the nurturing she craved had been cultivated without him.

When Janice Mock's stage four cancer diagnosis causes her to examine her career as a successful trial lawyer and the relentless drive for wealth and excess that corporate America promotes, she comes to the realization that she must change in order to make the most of the rest of her life.

When Jenna McCann has the misfortune of becoming notorious at age twenty-four, she very quickly experiences the deluge of public shaming so prevalent in the modern age.

When her husband dies of cancer and her brother dies of AIDS in the same year Rosemary is catapulted into a hurricane of grief. Left to raise her two young daughters on her own, she seeks refuge in drugs and alcohol.

When Joss's husband, Phil, sustains a head injury in a fire, Phil maintains he no longer recognizes Joss and calls her an imposter. Is his injury the opportunity Joss needs to check out of their marriage?

Borne by the Gulf Stream, thirteen curious objects are tangled in the flotsam on the Hebridean beach of Traigh Lar in Scotland. Erica Winchat, a young writer struggling with the stresses of a book contract, discovers them and tells the intriguing story behind each in her diary.

An artist buys a corset in a Flagstaff resale boutique and is forced to make the biggest decision of her life. A young midwestern woman is kidnapped on a train in 1885 and taken to the Wild West. Both women find the strength to overcome their fears and discover the true meaning of family-with a little push from a green lace corset.