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When a series of bomb explosions hit on Memorial Day, Sabine flees Washington DC on foot and eventually finds safety at an abandoned farmhouse with other refugees-but surrounded by chaos, and unable to remember her family or her last name, who can she trust?

The trauma Pamela Gay experienced as a teen-witnessing her father being bound in a straitjacket and taken to a state mental hospital-was compounded after her parents left her at her college dorm and moved nine states away. Decades later, Gay explores issues of abandonment and other ramifications of her father's mental illness, including volatile relationships with her mother and much older siblings.

Following the death of Mendek Rubin-a brilliant inventor who overcame the trauma of the Holocaust to live a truly joyous life-his daughter Myra found an unfinished autobiography detailing his healing journey. Myra filled in the missing pieces of her father's story, weaving it together with his wisdom and secrets to finding happiness to create Quest for Eternal Sunshine.

A Pulitzer Prize¿winning poet¿s daughter confronts her family¿s myths and her beloved father¿s betrayals while finding her voice and establishing a legacy as a trusted consultant to executives.

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.

A courageous escape from domestic abuse is rewarded with a happy late-in-life remarriage in this motorcycle diary of love and loss.

At the top of her career, twenty plus years married, and with one child left to launch, Jess Lawson is blindsided by her husband's decision to move across the country without her-news that shakes her personal and professional life and forces her to make surprising new choices moving forward.

For the first time in history, more women are serving as leaders of countries, corporations and communities than ever before¿and the qualities that contribute to their significant success are not what long-held patriarchal societies are accustomed to. She Is Me: How Women Will Save The World reveals the strengths women use to wield power that enhances lives, prevents war, and builds national security.

By the age of fifteen, Renee had lost almost everyone she loved; seeking answers, she set out on a quest for spiritual enlightenment and understanding¿only to find herself entrenched in a Buddhist cult.

When Eliza Waite chooses to leave a stagnant life in rural Washington State and join the masses traveling north to Alaska in 1898 during the tumultuous Klondike Gold Rush, she encounters challenges and successes in both business and love.

Full of essential physical, emotional and relational self-care tools¿and based on research by the author that includes a survey of hundreds of moms¿this book is a life raft for moms who often feel like they are drowning in the sea of motherhood.

For twenty-nine-year-old wife and mother Alex Pearl, the post-Nixon 1970s offer suburban pot parties, tie-dyed fashions, and the lure of the open marriage her husband wants for the two of them. Yearning for greater adventure and intimacy, yet fearful of losing it all, Alex must determine the truth of love and fidelity-at a pivotal point in an American marriage.

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.

Babe was no goodie two-shoes: she drank, danced, and stayed up very late. She favored colorful clothes, liked giving parties, adored her husband, and always told her daughter, "Never sit if you can dance." When readers finish this book, they'll want to give their mother a hug and dance into Mother's Day and beyond.

Who killed Susie or did she actually disappear? That's the mystery the Great Bravura, a dashing lesbian magician living in a fantastical and noirish 1947 New York City, must solve to clear herself of murder charges¿before she goes to the electric chair.

For the many people currently in the throes of career or life transition and wanting a deeper sense of purpose and direction, career and life coach Benator offers clarification, support, and inspiration in creating a meaningful and fulfilling career and life.

Fascinated by a young woman's performance of "The Lost Child" in Guanajuato's central plaza, painfully shy expat Callie Quinn asks the woman for a trumpet lesson-and ends up confronting her longing to know her own lost child, the biracial daughter she gave up for adoption more than thirty years before.

An inspiring story of faith, love, and determination, How Sweet the Bitter Soup chronicles one woman's quest for happiness through a life-changing adventure that lands her in a remote Chinese village, and in love with a gentle, handsome man who calls that village home.