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An intimate peek inside French homes and lives, a collection of traditional French recipes (cuisine pauvre or "peasant foods"), and a compendium of culinary cultural traditions--sprinkled with historical anecdotes and spiced with humor and deliciously candid memories--this culinary food and travel memoir reveals French families at their best and at their own dinner tables.er tables.

Drs. Romy Block and Arielle Levitan cut through all of the conflicting data about vitamins to provide readers with a concise, medically sound approach to vitamin use as a means of feeling better and enhancing health.

An insider¿s account of growing up with a schizophrenic mother, and the disastrous toll the illness¿and her Sicilian Catholic family¿s code of secrecy¿takes upon her young life.

Why is it easier for a woman to be a muse than to have one? Can one be fully creative¿in art or life¿without the inspiration of erotic love? These are the questions asked in The Geometry of Love, a novel set in New York in the 1980s, then fast-forwarding to Northern California 20 years later. Julia, an aspiring poet, is living with her British boyfriend Ben, a restrained professor at Princeton, when she has a chance meeting with Michael, a long-ago friend. A charismatic composer, Michael was once a catalyzing muse for her, but now returns as a destabilizing influence. Julia longs to become involved with Michael, but hesitates to give up the security of her relationship with Ben. When Michael signals he is too wounded to make a commitment, Julia turns her triangular situation into a square by setting him up with a cousin. In the process she discovers, as Pascal once said, that ""the heart has its reasons which reason does not know."" This deeply psychological tale explores the surprising ways we make romantic choices.

In the 1950s, when Sonya was fourteen, her glamorous, beautiful mother left her for months, seeking treatment for a "stomach tumor." The secrets surrounding this event haunt Sonya for years. When she finally unravels the lies-the truth is not at all what she expected.

Marianne Ingheim tells the story of how the practice of self-compassion changed her life in ways big and small-inspiring readers to unlearn self-critical patterns in their own lives and live a happier, more courageous life.

After a sudden assault by a stranger left JoAnne Jones with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), fractured hands, and PTSD, she learned-with the help of a community that gave her the foundations of hope-to live with TBI in a society bursting with violence.

Despite being disowned by her father¿sportscaster George Michael, is said to be the man who inspired ESPN¿s SportsCenter¿Cindi Michael manages financially and heals emotionally, ultimately finding confidence from within.

In this meditation on the meaning of family, Nancy Pressly reconstitutes a path back to her childhood, explores her struggles as a wife and mother-traversing barriers of expectations and evolving societal norms in the 1980s to embrace a remarkable life as a nationally recognized art museum leader-and Beautifully illustrated, she leaves the reader with a deep appreciation of the power of art and empathy and the value of trying to understand one's life journey.

The story of a suburban Chicago girl who never expected to move ¿out West¿ and become a veterinarian, let alone owner and caretaker of cats (many), dogs (two), and horses (some with manners, some without) in Colorado, Drinking From the Trough reveals the challenges, tragedies, and triumphs of lives¿both human and animal¿well lived.

Recalling personal experiences of living in Warsaw and Kiev, Ann C. Colley creates a complex, composite portrait of Poland and Ukraine at a time between the fall of the Soviet Union and the recent resurgence of a Russian threat.

After sixteen-year-old Helen, a young Jewish girl from Russia, comes alone across the Atlantic to the Lower East Side of New York in the year 1900, she devotes herself to bringing the rest of her family to safety and opportunity in the new world-and finds love along the way.

Rachel Levy Lesser tells the story of her life in this collection¿fourteen coming-of-age essays, each one tied to a unique fashion accessory, laced with humor and introspection about a girl-turned-woman trying to figure out friendship, love, a career path, parenthood, and, most poignantly, losing her mother to cancer at a young age.

After David Herron takes his life in the wake of the bursting lending bubble of 2008, those left behind-his wife and daughter, the detective who investigated the suicide, and the banker who called in the loan-learn, as they struggle to remake their worlds, that there is power in forgiveness and unlimited possibility in the unknown.

Annie and Adam Fielding¿s dreams of home and family on the Montana frontier shatter when malevolent post-partum depression plagues Annie¿s pregnancies. As their happiness and livelihood unravel, the only path ahead leads to injustice and unthinkable loss. Based on a true story, this eloquent tale of heartbreak and redemption will resonate powerfully with women today.

When her daughter is sentenced to life in prison, Hirst questions everything, including her faith. This is the story of her family's painful journey through the legal system, and of her individual journey of learning to ask for and accept help--and of realizing that blessings sometimes come in unexpected forms.orms.

A richly imagined novel based on the life of artist Agnes Pelton, The Pelton Papers covers everything from her shrouded Brooklyn childhood to her early success in the Armory Show of 1913, subsequent retreat to a contemplative life, and, ultimately, the flowering of her deeply spiritual art.