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This is a memoir of mermaids, boat arrests, working girls, and uncharted islands; of a girl forced to navigate survival and adventure while raised by her father on a thirty-foot sailboat circumnavigating the world; of sifting through what is presented to you in childhood, expected of you in society, and finding your true self and desires in the process.

A widowed violinist and her teenage granddaughter are trapped in wartime Leningrad while the men they love fight to break Hitler¿s grip in this epic tale of struggle and survival, of devotion, duty, and family, and of love lost and sometimes found again.

In this trio of novellas set in WWI-era London and post-WWI Weimar, Paris, and Prague, three women are cursed with confronting unbearable personal crises over and above the stress of war and its aftermath—and decide for themselves where the line between right and wrong truly lies.

When Rachel Wilde—sent to our world from another dimension to bring defective daemons in for repair—meets a young boy who stands alone against a terrifying enemy, she, her friends, and a reluctantly helpful otherworldly being must put aside their differences to save the child and his family.

Three women. A single, sweltering day that will leave no one unchanged.

An Iraqi bioweapons scientist has information vital to US interests. He is being hunted by insurgents and his own government. Stephen Monteiro, an ex-Secret Service agent, is assigned to find him before the bad guys do . . . but the government that assigned Monteiro to the case wants him to fail. Why? And what information, exactly, does the scientist possess?

The author, a stand-up comedian whose comedy is funny, revealing, unapologetic, and always a window to her experience as a person who stutters, tells the story of how she became America's first female stuttering stand-up comedian.

An alcoholic mother to three children, Patty Tierney lives a double life as a sex worker for seventeen years, only to realize one day that she has become her own mother—an alcoholic who abandoned her when she was five. But unlike her mother, she¿s determined to make things right.

It¿s 1969. Fiona, a brilliant, beautiful art student, struggles to find herself as she lives through the dramatic events of her time: sex, drugs, and rock ¿n roll, the first draft lottery since World War II, the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam, the Kent State shootings, and more.

Born into warring realms divided by gold and silver blood, Kyra and Sebastian are destined to be enemies?but when an outlawed magic that hasn¿t been seen in centuries surfaces, they are forced to work together to master it. As they uncover the secrets of their realms, they also discover secrets within their own pasts . . . pasts that are far more intertwined than they ever imagined.

After her cult leader and therapist is found murdered, suspicion immediately falls on Celeste, known to be a rebellious member of the Dreamland cult. To clear her name, Celeste enlists the help of her old friend, Gloria. But when the two women discover the power of stolen dreams, they unwittingly become the killer's next target.

When the people and animals of Fairfax come under attack from speeding ambulances that prowl the land, mowing down anything in their path and dragging their victims to a mysterious hospital deep in the woods, Chloe Ashton and her friends race to stop the bloodshed.

When war ravages the Seven Heavens, Evangeline, daughter of the rebel angel leader Lucifer, learns how far her father will go to claim power—and has a crisis of faith. With the fate of the Heavens hanging in the balance, she must decide who she¿s going to be: her father¿s daughter, or her own person.

Cathryn McAllister's carefully curated life is upended when she travels to Iceland to interview a charismatic glass artist who ignites a hunger for everything she's told herself she doesn't need anymore: Passion. Vulnerability. Risk. Gradually, she abandons the life-and the self-she's always relied on, until she comes face-to-face with devastating choices she never could have foreseen.

After sixteen-year-old Helen, a young Jewish girl from Russia, comes alone across the Atlantic to the Lower East Side of New York in the year 1900, she devotes herself to bringing the rest of her family to safety and opportunity in the new world-and finds love along the way.

Blending business and spirituality, The Business of Being demonstrates how to stand in alignment with your core values; it explores how to thrive, soul-side out, in and out of the workplace.

When suburban mom Kate Whittier's husband admits one night to a drunken sexual indiscretion, the beautiful life they've built together begins to crumble, unearthing long-buried memories and revealing deceits that threaten to shatter Kate's world, inside and out.

A poignant collection of essays, poetry, and art from She Writes Press authors to showcase how creativity supports us all to thrive, especially when the world is in crisis.

In the late 1960s, Patricia Grayhall defies societal norms by coming out as a lesbian and dreaming of becoming a doctor-but the free-wheeling sexual revolution and the demands of her medical training complicate her search for the equal, loving relationship with a woman she so desires. Can she have both love and career?

When her beloved father vanishes in 1919, Leola has little time to question why. Pandemic and social turmoil rage across Texas, poverty looms, and her two young sisters need her. Only decades later, as Papa reappears in urgent visions, does Leola finally confront his betrayal, setting into a motion a stunning discovery about her family that may finally bring her the peace she seeks.

Want to change your life and also change the world? It begins with choosing kindness. In A Year of Living Kindly, Donna Cameron shows how we can overcome the barriers that impede both giving and receiving kindness-and how we can help others do the same.

A woman¿s faith in herself is scorched to the core when she flees a California firestorm in the dead of night without alerting a single neighbor. How could this be? As a survivor of childhood trauma, an artist, and a mother she expected so much more of herself. Now everything is up for review.