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When Napoleon's army enters the sleepy port city of Ancona, Italy, lives-including those of a Jewish girl torn between love and duty, a dashing French cavalryman, a devoutly Catholic housewife, a brave Jewish soldier, and of course, Napoleon himself-are changed forever.

Twelve families share stories of the triumph and heartache that accompanies adopting children from the U.S. foster care system in this book that doubles as a resource to families considering adoption, families in the process of adoption, and families who have already adopted children from foster care.

When the only man thirty-six-year-old Gabriella Stevens has ever loved walks out on her, she feels like her world is ending—but as she begins to forge her own way forward for the first time in her life, she discovers an inner resilience and strength that she never knew she possessed.

Half a world apart, soul mates Nettie and Andy struggle to survive-one in a hospital with ugly secrets and treacherous people, the other in the dangerous shadows of the Vietnamese jungle.

When thirty-nine-year-old Kristen Rademacher loses her baby, she must endure the barren and disorienting days an aching mother faces without her child, accept the consequences of rash decisions and ill-fated relationships, and nurture a mysterious healing that takes root while rebuilding a life and identity forever altered.

A boat captain is forced to team up with the woman who stole his job in order to save his New England island home from developers.

In an attempt to solve the mystery of her deceased mother's life, Jessica Barraco retraces her mother's steps nearly forty years earlier-and finds herself along the way.

After former Peace Corps volunteer Evelyn marries Antonio, her handsome Peruvian boyfriend, and they settle in Northern California, they struggle to find jobs, a home, and further their university educations. In the decades that ensue, employment opportunities oceans apart, financial difficulties, and cultural differences threaten their marriage.

Sister Gilda and Lord Justin are charged to resolve a conflict: Count Cedric wants to annul his marriage to Lady Mariel so he can marry Lady Emma; Mariel believes Cedric's half-brother Phillip, not Cedric, is the man she married at her wedding; and Philip and Emma are in love. Can Gilda and Justin complete their mission before their burgeoning passion for each other overwhelms them.

Warrior Mother: Fierce Love, Unbearable, Loss, and Rituals that Heal is the true story of a mother's fierce love and determination, and her willingness to go outside the bounds of the ordinary when two of her three adult children are diagnosed with life-threatening disease.

Marilea Rabasa grew up in a family riddled with closely guarded secrets, stigma and shame perpetuating the silence. She became part of this ongoing tragedy-until she wrestled with the demons that had long plagued her, and won.

"Explores love from many angles, offering rich, critical insight into the lives of Sikh women in America"--Back cover.

Some people might say that, at age 46, Jane ¿Par¿ Parker is too old to win golf tournaments; too old to fear her mother; and too old, after twenty years, to still feel heavy grief over the murder of her father. But Par has an obsessively tight grip on the past, and no one can tell her to live her life otherwise.Par is maniacally driven to win a golf tournament she hasn¿t been able to win in ten years. Recent low-scoring rounds have strengthened her confidence. Distractions conspire against her: she spends a night in jail for a crime she blames on her husband; reads about her arrest on the front page; learns she has an enemy at the newspaper; and discovers shocking love affairs by those closest to her. A Tight Grip celebrates the bonds of female friendships as Par Parker processes her life with her three closest friends. She discovers the transformative power of adversity, and seizes options to evolve as a person, an athlete, and a best friend.

It's 1937. Jane has left her pregnant mother with a man she hates, left her father for dead in an irrigation ditch, remade herself as a man, and gotten a job as a copy boy. And everything's getting better-until her father turns up on her newspaper's front page in a picture that threatens to destroy the life she's making.

The gripping, intensely personal story of a mother struggling to come to terms with the suicide of her twenty-two-year-old son.

In a moment of desperation, after seeing too many patients and loved ones battle cancer, a doctor starts running team¿never dreaming what a positive impact it will have on her community.