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Confronted by an importuning mother 3,000 miles away who thinks her end is nigh¿and feeling ambushed by her impending middle age¿Hollis Giammatteo determines to find The Map of Aging Well, a decision that leads her on an often-comic journey.

An insider's story of unrelenting sexual harassment and sexism from the 1950s to the 2010s as a young woman scratching her way up in a male-dominated world, from farm laborer to PhD scientist to corporate executive-and a call to action for those who wish to become champions for others.

In 1889, the Boston Farm School didn¿t accept boys with any sort of criminal record. Which made it the perfect hiding place for two boys who accidentally killed someone.

After Saigon fell, Charlie was faced with a critical decision: stay in Vietnam under communist rule, or risk everything to escape with her children and set out for a better future in America. Against all odds, she managed to get herself, her husband, and her two small children out of Vietnam-and went on to build a life more incredible than she ever imagined possible.

The story of how Susan Rudnick's maddening-yet endearing-mentally challenged sister became her greatest life teacher.

After a woman unknowingly aborts a much-wanted baby girl during a routine hysterectomy, her baby's soul seeks rebirth via the nearest "unclaimed" pregnant woman-prompting the intervention of two otherworldly guides who set out to bring the mother-daughter soulmates together via alternative means.

A funeral takes the place of a wedding when the fiancé of a prominent attorney is strangled in their home. Psychologist Dr. Pepper Hunt probes below the surface of the perfect couple's life to uncover a series of unsolved crimes with a direct link to the murder.

When Alma Cruz, a young Mexican woman, journeys across the US border to look for her missing migrant father, along the way, she experiences first love-but also encounters profound cruelty.

Women who write face biases and deep-seeded conditioning that challenge their writing processes and present barriers to publication. Write On, Sisters! takes a critical look at how social and cultural factors work against women writers, and offers both context and encouragement to women writers to step into their courage and claim their place at the table.

Lavinia Lavinia is haunted by the secret of why was she whisked away from Italy and brought to San Francisco at four years old by her uncle, and what happened to her parents. Through the sacred ritual of washing clothes, she unfolds memories and a new family, unraveling her own heritage and sense of self.

This tale of a sixty-year love affair examines the age-old question of why we love the people we do. A beautiful, charismatic and wildly successful man is adored by a woman. Even as children, he held the power. Though bound by tragedy and friendship, he defines the terms of their relationship, until finally, in old age, the power shifts.

An inspirational memoir by a chemically intolerant woman that has the potential to change the way people view fragrances and other common chemical toxins in their environments.

An eye-witness account of a mother of two children under the age of five who has to come to grips with both a divorce and her mother¿s terminal diagnosis of cancer.

A chance meeting fosters a friendship with dire consequences between two women whose lives are unknowingly intertwined. A sweeping saga that follows generations from an Odessa shtetl to comfortable Scarsdale and a Glasgow uprising to servitude in the Caribbean, The Convention of Wives is a portrait of a friendship born of shared circumstance and dissolved by betrayal.

When Casey gets into trouble hanging out with the wrong crowd in New Orleans, her parents decide to move back to their Orthodox Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn-where, swayed by the community's Middle Eastern values and her parents' traditional wishes, Casey marries Michael at eighteen, thinking she can adjust to Sephardic ways. But can she?