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In a world of magic realism, a fly-covered baby girl is found and raised by two mothers in a South Asia community rife with rituals and superstition. The girl pursues acceptance at all costs, while the villagers seek sanctity at a shrine dedicated to the Keeper of the Flies, which is separated from the village by the dangerous cane field.

When her daughters are kidnapped and taken to Greece by their non-custodial father, single mom Lizbeth Meredith vows to bring her them home and give them a better childhood than her own.

On November 5, 1917, Taylorville, Illinois native Clara Taylor stepped off a Trans-Siberian Railway train into a city then called Petrograd, Russia. Employed by the YWCA as an industrial expert, Clara had been sent to Russia to help establish Associations in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) and Moscow. Her main charge while in Russia was to survey and report on factory conditions, but Clara only spent a fraction of her stay in Russia visiting factories; due to the vagaries of the political, social, and economic revolution-the upheaval of an entire culture-Clara and her colleagues spent most of their first year in Russia teaching English, home economics, book keeping, literature, and basketball, and sponsoring lectures, dances and sing-alongs for Russian working women. Clara's letters, collected in this book, tell of both the mundane and the extraordinary: what the YW staff ate for dinner; how the Bolshevik suppression of free speech impacted Americans' ability to communicate with those at home; shootings in the streets; bartering for pounds of sugar; conversing with nobility, with intellectuals, and with workers; attending the opera; and sight-seeing at monasteries. Together, Clara's letters to her family-her "e;dearest ones at home"e;-tell a compelling story of one American woman's experiences in Revolutionary Russia.

Want to change your life and also change the world? It begins with choosing kindness. In A Year of Living Kindly, Donna Cameron shows how we can overcome the barriers that impede both giving and receiving kindness-and how we can help others do the same.

A woman¿s faith in herself is scorched to the core when she flees a California firestorm in the dead of night without alerting a single neighbor. How could this be? As a survivor of childhood trauma, an artist, and a mother she expected so much more of herself. Now everything is up for review.

Finding little literature or support available after suffering two miscarriages, Frieda Hoffman decided to create the resource she wished she’d had—real stories about pregnancy loss from real women, free of the off-putting lenses of religion or academia—in the hopes that it will provide other women comfort and wisdom when they need it most.

A unique look at renowned jeweler/glass maker René Lalique, this fictional narrative touches upon details of Lalique¿s illustrious life woven together with a compelling love story

Following the deaths of her parents, Linda Murphy Marshall returns to her midwestern childhood home; in the process of going through each room, she evokes memories and insights from her patriarchal 1960s upbringing, and?informed by her training as a translator?finds new meanings in the often disturbing events that took place in that home.

First Amy Daughters reconnected with her old friend Dana on Facebook and they became pen pals; then she went crazy and wrote all 580 of her Facebook friends a handwritten letter. What the experience taught her? Nothing—not politics, beliefs, or lifestyle—can separate two people once they¿ve connected in a loving way.

Louise Carnachan has helped thousands of people thrive at work by improving relationships with their colleagues; here, she provides concrete, actionable steps to deal with an array of problematic coworkers.

Francesca Bodin¿s near perfect life is upended when a snowmobiling accident lands her, her husband Ben, and their four-year-old daughter in frozen lake. When he gets out, leaving them to die, she realizes her life isn¿t as perfect as she thought it was.

Gracie’s little sister Jannie is autistic and obsessed with birds—a connection that, as she grows older, allows her to finally begin to interact and engage with the world, even as Gracie increasingly allows the secrets she’s keeping to isolate her from her peers and everyone she loves.

When Barbara Kennard realized that her perfectionism was holding her back from being the teacher she’d always wanted to be, she thought about abandoning the professional together; instead, she took a risk and gave up everything she knew about teaching in the United States to teach at The Dragon School in Oxford, England, where—by the grace of God—she finally learned to deal with her own inner “dragons.”

With humor, lived experience, and actionable advice, positivity expert and author Jane Enright offers inspiration and hope to readers on accepting unplanned change, building resilience, and landing butter side up in in the game of life.

The historical fiction account of Marion Davies’ thirty-four-year relationship with William Randolph Hearst including a whirlwind courtship, a movie career spanning two decades and forty-four films, a secret child, and harrowing family excesses, not to mention a secret love affair with Charlie Chaplin. The Blue Butterfly is a behind-the-scenes look into the opulent private life of Marion Davies and how the movie Citizen Kane stole her legacy and turned everyone against her.

A moving memoir of a young nurse's experience trekking with a local health team in rural Nepal, Beyond the Next Village chronicles how, after arriving in the roadless district of Gorkha in 1978, Mary Anne Mercer experiences firsthand the interlacing of modern medicine with an ancient culture-and her life is gradually transformed by immersion in the daily lives of villagers and her team.

In the grips of hopelessness, a grieving Mary Em Phillips vows to end it all-but her course changes when Mosely Albright, a black man from Chicago's South Side with an expansive, selfless personality, intrudes into her sorrows. Meanwhile, Mishigami, who sees a potential champion in Mary Em, continues to attempt to pull her into his waiting, watery depths.

A memoir about a young woman holding out for love between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five and discovering the tensions that come when the boys she dates only want her for sex, The Virgin Chronicles is a realistic depiction of what life is like on the cusp of womanhood-and a reminder that we all have the right to define our own sexual narratives.

A gripping and ultimately redemptive story full of surprises, plot twists, and you-can't-believe-it's-true moments, You'll Forget This Ever Happened is a testament to a mother's enduring love-but it's also much more.

Against a backdrop of pagodas and enigmatic customs, Lidia De Campos-a mature artist carrying a private burden-tours a Southeast Asian country recently reopened to the world after a long dictatorship with a disparate group of characters; along the way, they all encounter adventures that challenge their assumptions-and Lidia embarks on a love affair with a surprising conclusion.

When acclaimed wildlife photographer Clare Rainbow-Dashell flees the fallout of an ill-advised affair with a professor, she finds herself in the Namib Desert, where she gets caught up in the crisis of endangered species preservation-and caught between two very different men.

Up to 18 percent of US teens engage in non-suicidal self-injury—a number that fails to capture the devastating consequences of mental health diagnoses on families, particularly mothers like Tracey Yokas. When Tracey, who is already engaged with her own struggles with familial patterns, realizes that her teenage daughter, Amelia, has fallen prey to depression and disordered eating, she discovers that the key to helping Amelia is hidden inside her own transformation.

Uninspired economist Hannah has just lost her job and is determined to change everything about her life when she heads to Vermont to be the sole caregiver for her sister's children for the summer-an experience that proves to be more transformative than she expected after she meets next-door neighbor Nathan.

Barnaby Brown, a wannabe artist, has had enough of freezing winters, debts, a dead-end job, and his lonely life with his parrot in Waterbury, Connecticut. He promises himself he will start anew,-move to California, and find inspiration to paint-but he has more than a few obstacles to overcome first, including debts and a drinking habit.

A grief memoir with a paranormal twist, Feeling Fate recounts a fairy tale romance marked by a dark intuition of loss. When the premonition comes true, Joni-a woman torn between faith and skepticism-ultimately finds healing from and meaning in her grief through imagination and insights of the heart.

For the 20 percent of the US population that has engaged in consensual non-monogamy and lacks comprehensive resources for addressing the issues that come up every day in non-monogamous relationships, Open Deeply is a guide to successfully restructuring the romantic relationship model while addressing the deeper aspects of love, compassion, communication, and attachment present in every relationship.

In 1967, escape artist Fay Stonewell leaves her disabled teenage son, Dickie, with her sadistic boyfriend and heads to Vietnam to entertain the troops in Vietnam-only to discover that the gig isn't the career advancement she was promised. Meanwhile, back home, Dickie flees from an act of violence-but the farther he runs, the tighter the past clings to him.