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When the author's aging mother--a charming, needy, and passive-aggressive woman who has only recently discovered the Domme within her--falls terminally ill, it is up to Wood to shepherd her through the bureaucracy and unintentional inhumanity of the healthcare system, as well as the complicated process of facing death when she has just begun to truly enjoy life.njoy life.

A rollicking family of nine children, offspring of an eccentric professor father and unflappable mother, paint, spackle, and eventually rebuild a dozen tumbledown old houses in their Midwest college town in the 1960s and '70s-and, at odd moments, break into song, because they sing as they work, like a von Trapp family in painters caps.

In a fresh take on the prep school lit genre, sassy sophomore Susannah Greenwood enters Quaker prep Foxhall School in 1960s Pennsylvania, and soon finds herself in an impossible situation when, 'the other new girl,' an outcast whom she has befriended, mysteriously disappears.

Blending business and spirituality, The Business of Being demonstrates how to stand in alignment with your core values; it explores how to thrive, soul-side out, in and out of the workplace.

Can grief result in a deeper and richer life? To answer this question, psychologist Joyce Hocker dives deeply into four family deaths within a span of two years and finds, to her surprise, that dealing with family artifacts after the deaths, especially written records, connects her back in history to ancestors, providing perspective and relief.

A frank portrayal of the challenges and rewards of mothering midlife daughters and an exploration of how these relationships change with aging.

World War II envelops Europe and Lena Kulkova flees Czechoslovakia to join her lover, Otto, in England, leaving her Jewish family behind in Prague. But Lena soon finds herself navigating anti-refugee sentiment, wartime deprivations, a new romance with a wealthy Englishman, and the progressive politics that will eventually oust Churchill. Based on family history and a trove of personal letters, When It¿s Over is a moving, resonant, and timely debut.

Grief is universal. How and whether we heal from grief is not. Joy's suicide had been the ultimate rejection but my shared death experience with Aunt Pat was the ultimate acceptance. The First signs of April is an inspirational memoir that will connect with anyone who has ever suffered from the loss of a loved one, as well as professionals in the helping field.

A teenaged daughter's spiral into opiate addiction after the death of a beloved father and her mother's unwitting protection of her disease lead both to hard-won insights.

If you take one very large, reclusive, and eccentric man who lives to eat, add one young woman fresh out of culinary school who lives to cook, and then stir in a love of musical comedy and fresh-brewed exotic tea, with just a hint of magic, will the result be a soufflé¿or a charred, inedible mess?

A compelling coming-of-age story outlining a young woman's progression into drug addiction.

A satirical take on the early years of parenting that uses faux math, snarky science, and irreverent cartoons to offer hilarious hypotheses for parenting's most perplexing mysteries.

The Rooms Are Filled is the moving, 1983 coming-of-age story of two outcasts brought together by circumstance: a Minnesota farm boy transplanted to suburban Chicago after his father dies, and his teacher, a closeted young woman starting over after a failed attempt to live openly. Readers will root for these two as they navigate their new lives, as they attempt to change to become who they are.

Hedgebrook is a literary nonprofit that supports the work of visionary women writers whose stories and ideas shape our culture now and for generations to come. Founded in 1988 by visionary philanthropist Nancy Nordhoff and writer Sheryl Feldman, Hedgebrook hosts a global community of writers through residencies and programs exclusively dedicated to supporting the creative process of women writers. Each evening, Hedgebrook residents gather in the farmhouse kitchen to share a home-cooked meal, their work, their process, and their stories. Meals at Hedgebrook are lovingly prepared using ingredients from Hedgebrook's own organic garden. The land at Hedgebrook nourishes the writers' bodies, as well as their spirits, through our unique approach to radical hospitality. It is in this spirit that Hedgebrook created the Hedgebrook Cookbook. Recipes from our kitchen and writing from our alumnae community bring the essence of radical hospitality from our farmhouse table to yours. Includes contributions by: Gloria Steinem, Ruth Ozeki, Carolyn Forché, Valerie Easton, Erica Bauermeister, Ellen McLaughlin, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, Ruth Forman, Dorothy Allison, Gail Tsukiyama, Claire Dederer, Jane Hamilton, Nassim Assefi, Samantha Thornhill, Thao Nguyen, Karen Joy Fowler, Annie Rachel Lanzillotto, and Monique Truong.

After fleeing England and her ill-fated love for the Christian knight Ivanhoe, the Jewess Rebecca builds a new life as a physician in thirteenth-century Salerno. When a rabbi is falsely accused of murdering a crusader, she throws herself into pursuing justice and protecting the Jewish community.

Sarah is a nineteen-year-old Jewish artist living in Paris at the outset of World War II. Her gift for forgery makes leads her to Marseille, where she joins a secret network dedicated to saving political refugees, writers, and artists from arrest by Hitler’s Gestapo. Will passion and cunning be enough to keep them all alive?

When suburban mom Kate Whittier's husband admits one night to a drunken sexual indiscretion, the beautiful life they've built together begins to crumble, unearthing long-buried memories and revealing deceits that threaten to shatter Kate's world, inside and out.

New York City bachelor David Melman is a successful brander of celebrity fragrances. Laurel Sorenson, a leggy blond, is a screenwriter on the brink of Hollywood success. When David, pushed by his bossy sister, agrees to take a screenwriting class taught by Laurel, an unlikely romance blooms¿and that¿s just beginning of their troubles.

During the summer of 1959, ten-year-old Theresa "Tessie" Finley has her work cut out for her. Not only is she attempting to come to grips with the devastating loss and guilt she feels after witnessing her father's death, but her kid sister, Birdie, refuses to believe that their beloved daddy is really gone. Tessie needs to make sure that she does before their mom gets wind of how much "weirder" her sister's getting. Stronger and more down to earth than ethereal Birdie, Tess has always watched over her sister, so it's only natural for her to come up with a plan that she jots down on one of her never-ending to-do lists. If she can't achieve her goals, she's desperately worried that her beautiful, but self-centered mother, Louise, might send emotionally-fragile Birdie to the county insane asylum. Her daddy always told her, "A Finley never throws in the towel," so more than anything Tess wants to make him proud. But despite her resourcefulness and grit, she's smart enough to know that the odds are stacked against her and her time is running out. Heartbreaking, funny, nostalgic, and spiritually uplifting, you'll cheer the Finley sisters on from the first page to the last of this charming novella that sets the stage for the accompanying novel, The Resurrection of Tess Blessing.

When Colleen Haggerty lost her leg in an accident during her senior year of high school, she could have retreated from life and let her disability become her defining quality-and no one would have blamed her for it. Instead, she went the opposite way. In the years following her accident, Haggerty explored her physical world with vigor, testing the limits of her body by joining a ski team, playing with a co-ed soccer team, and taking up kayaking and backpacking. She also tested the limits of her heart, pursuing love and passion with restless men.In A Leg to Stand On, Haggerty recounts her life as a disabled woman, from redefining herself as a young woman after tragedy-fierce and able, but haunted by hard choices and suppressed grief-to choosing marriage and motherhood. That choice comes at great cost to the physical freedom Haggerty has fought for, but ultimately she redemption, fulfillment, and self-acceptance in the bargain. No one will read this book without being inspired to accept their past and create the future they always wanted.

Imagine growing up smart, ambitious, and queer in a home where your father Sigmund Freud thinks that women should aspire to be wives and calls lesbianism a gateway to mental illness. He also says that lesbianism is always caused by the father, and is usually curable by psychoanalysis.Then he analyzes you.Ultimately Anna Freud loved Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham (heir to the Tiffany fortune) for 54 years. They raised a family together and became psychoanalysts in their own right, specializing in work with children. But first Anna had to navigate childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood in a famous family where her kind of romantic longings were considered dangerous.What was it like to grow up the lesbian daughter of ¿the great Sigmund Freud¿? Aside from Annäs sexuality and from her father¿s intrusive psychoanalysis of her, what were the Freud family's most closely closeted skeletons? What is it about the birth of psychoanalysis that even today's psychoanalysts would prefer to keep secret? How did Anna defy her father so thoroughly while continuing to love him and learn from him?Weaving a grand tale out of a pile of crazy facts, Hysterical: Anna Freud's Story lets the pioneering child psychologist freely examine the forces that shaped her life.

A poignant collection of essays, poetry, and art from She Writes Press authors to showcase how creativity supports us all to thrive, especially when the world is in crisis.

In the late 1960s, Patricia Grayhall defies societal norms by coming out as a lesbian and dreaming of becoming a doctor-but the free-wheeling sexual revolution and the demands of her medical training complicate her search for the equal, loving relationship with a woman she so desires. Can she have both love and career?

When her beloved father vanishes in 1919, Leola has little time to question why. Pandemic and social turmoil rage across Texas, poverty looms, and her two young sisters need her. Only decades later, as Papa reappears in urgent visions, does Leola finally confront his betrayal, setting into a motion a stunning discovery about her family that may finally bring her the peace she seeks.