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Elisha is a thirteen-year-old unmarried girl living in Ancient Palestine. She is different from her tribe: she composes and sings her own songs; she talks to an angel; she tells other women to stand up for themselves. How can she exist in her society where women have only one choice-marry and have children?
Without meaning to defy society's guidelines for parenting, marriage, work and friendship, Katherine Snow Smith continually finds herself off the expected path-whether that means falling on President Barack Obama, camped with her teenage daughter at a raucous music festival, or ending a twenty-four-year marriage because she simply can't "muddle through." Here, she shines a spotlight on the humor and humanity that come with sometimes breaking the rules.
Have you ever wondered who is behind the art you see in a gallery? This book offers readers a peek at the personalities behind some of San Diego's most talented artists.
This book is a collection of thoughts and stories woven together with a fresh philosophy that helps to dispel some of the toxic stereotypes of aging. It's an inspirational, empowering, and emotionally honest look at life's journey-part joyful celebration and part invitation to readers to live life fully to the very end.
A collection of thirty powerful essays aimed at spreading awareness and dispelling myths about postpartum depression and perinatal mood disorders.
What might it be like to step away from your busy life and figure out what truly gives your life meaning? This book encourages readers to discover that wildly creative place inside that knows there is more to life than we are currently living-and that life lived from the inside out offers us a path to authenticity and belonging.
When Angela walked into her social work office for the first time, she vowed her work with traumatized families would be meaningful. But when one family intrudes into her personal life, all bets are off. Discovering her father's picture alongside an overdosed client is just the beginning as her life and family unravels as she searches to uncover the truth.
In These Walls Between Us established feminist author Wendy Sanford, who is white, reflects on her complex lifelong friendship with Mary Norman, who is Black—exploring her formation in a narrow world of class and race privilege, lifting up the writings and social movements that changed her views and her life, and examining a sixty-year interracial friendship that evolved in the context of white supremacy.
When an unmarried executive discovers she's pregnant and doesn't know which of the two men is the father, she realizes her professional risk management skills don't extend to her personal life. Worse yet, she may carry a rare hereditary gene for early-onset Alzheimer's. Whose needs should prevail--hers or the next generation's?on's?
Although deemed a genius, psychologist Jack MacLeod never became famous. Here, after falling victim to a brain tumor, he narrates his life story from beyond the grave¿relying on his intelligence and prodigious memory to gain insight into the relationships, both romantic and platonic, that shaped his existence, and to understand his life more richly.
The sequel to the historical novel Eleanor's Wars, winner of the 2016 Benjamin Franklin Gold Award for Best New Voice: Fiction, Don't Put the Boats Away is a character-driven story about the privileged Sutton family's struggles with PTSD, alcoholism, divorce, and professional setbacks following World War II.
Barbara Hoffbeck never quite felt she fit into the small farming community of Big Stone City, South Dakota, where she was raised-but that didn't stop her from defying expectations and charging head-on into the unknown.
A Ring of Truth is the next exciting installment of the Henrietta and Inspector Clive series, in which Clive reveals that he is actually the heir of the Howard estate and fortune, Henrietta discovers she may not be who she thought she was¿and both must decide if they are really meant for each other.
In midlife, Cindy travels halfway around the world to Thailand and unexpectedly discovers a Thai Buddhist nun who offers her the unconditional love and acceptance that her mother wasn't able to provide. This soulful and engaging memoir reminds readers that when we go forward with a truly open heart, faith, forgiveness, and love are all possible.
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.
During a summer in Greece, Greek-American professor Thair Mylopoulos-Wright begins writing about her mother and grandmother's early-life experiences-an exercise that starts her on a quest for wholeness, and ultimately inspires her to forge a path for herself that goes beyond the traditional.
At midlife, a married couple finds themselves weighing the responsibility of parenthood against the possibility of one more grand adventure, before their aging bodies and the warming continent of Antarctica further degrade. They ultimately decide it's time to pursue their biggest dream: ski 570 miles from the edge of Antarctica to the South Pole.
Ever stand at the crossroads wishing a faery godmother would come along and show you the path? Cerridwen Fallingstar, Wiccan Priestess, teacher, and author leads the way with a book of quirky and poignant stories from her adventures as a modern-day wise woman-inspiring readers to embrace their own journey, wherever it may lead.
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