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"Who am I?" Suzanne Spector asked herself at forty as she stripped off the bonds of marriage, career, and conventional suburban life and set off on a courageous journey of discovery that would lead her to a nude beach on Ibiza at forty-one, a Siberian banya at fifty-five, and a hot love affair at eighty. The lesson of this ebullient memoir: it's never too late.

When the current owner of a black velvet coat¿a San Francisco artist in search of inspiration¿and the original owner, a 1960s heiress who fled her affluent life fifty years earlier, cross paths, their lives are forever changed . . . for the better.

What happens when you ignore the signs that you're living beyond your means? When married mother of three Janie Margolis's house lust gets the best of her, she is catapulted into a years-long quest for domicile perfection-one that could destroy her marriage.

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.

Janice Morgan faces her worst nightmare when her son is arrested for drug charges and wanton endangerment with a handgun. When she learns that he can have his sentence diverted if he completes the drug court program, she reflects on what it will take to avoid falling back into codependent patterns-and truly help her son.

In this rich, deeply immersive collection of thirteen stories, a diverse group of characters seeks a better lifestyle and sense of connection in today¿s sunny, at times unforgiving, Southern California landscape. All¿s Fair and Other California Stories will leave readers feeling thoughtful and transported.

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.

Four Faces of Femininity explores, through the lens of four ancient archetypes, the stories of incredible women who blazed trails and demolished obstacles, making history along the way.  They will inspire and empower you to find the mother, lover, warrior, and sage within yourself.

Operating from the premise that writing about life experiences offers a new perspective that can aid in healing old traumas and wounds and in celebrating the joys of fond memories, this inspirational workbook encourages and supports readers in exploring their experiences and feelings on the page.

Katherine, the Sky Queen, enjoys her highflying days as a stewardess during the emergence of the women's movement, but her Chippewa tribe ancestry beckons to her-and when she finally responds to the lure of her bloodline's call, her life path is transformed in miraculous ways.

When Brin Miller discovers that her teenage stepson has been sexually abusing her two young daughters, her life is upended and her crumbling marriage shatters completely. But she and her husband, along with their girls, work to learn resilience, forgiveness, strength, and courage, and in doing so, the unimaginable happens: they begin to heal.

Marilee Eaves has struggled her whole life to fit into her lineage-the long line of kings and queens of the secret elitist Mardi Gras societies that rule New Orleans-but when, as a student at Wellesley, she's hospitalized at McLean psychiatric hospital, she begins her journey to break free and stand on her own two feet.

Louisiana, 1969. Colleen, a white northern teacher, enters into the unfamiliar culture of a small southern town and its unwritten rules as the town surrenders to mandated school integration. Frank, a black high school football player, protects his family with a secret. Can Evelyn, a prized member of the black community, put aside her distrust and value Colleen's unproven efforts?

In the summer of 1994, a lightning accident on the coast of Maine leaves Nancy Bills¿s husband dead and her younger son critically hurt. In this inspiring memoir, Bills captures the shock and grief that follow this unusual and devastating loss, and shares how she and her sons find the strength to recover from it.

In the midst of teenage rebellion, English, the youngest of six, finds her mother dead in the bathroom. Alone with a difficult father, she is sent a one-way ticket from New Jersey to San Francisco, embarking upon a journey that takes her through the earliest days of the counterculture, psychedelics, and free love, on into single parenthood, and eventually a place of fully owning her own strengths and abilities.

An unflinching look at violence and the journey of reclaiming a life after a tragic event unveils a horrific family secret.

Left at the altar, spurned-what does that do to a young woman's heart? And why would a Hindu God care?

In this fourth installment of the Henrietta and Inspector Howard series, Clive and Henrietta are once again pitted against their evil nemesis, Neptune, as they delve deeper into Alcott Howard's secret life and apparent murder.

During the Obon holiday, when the living celebrate their dead, Kenzaburo Tsurudäan atheist Japanese scientist who has just woken up in an afterlife he never believed in¿must reckon with his life¿s decisions in order to save his family¿s ancestors from spending an eternity exiled as tortured, hungry ghosts.

Rae Sullivan¿s comfortable existence as a shop owner in a small northern California town is upended when her business partner is murdered in Golden Gate Park. Frustrated with the avenues the police are pursuing, Rae embarks on her own investigation, which eventually leads her to France and puts her marriage¿and her life¿in jeopardy.