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Sidelined: How Women Manage & Mismanage Their Health discloses how women are marginalized and hesitate to take control over their own healthcare. Researcher and writer Susan Salenger explains why women are misdiagnosed more often than men, and why their symptoms often go unrecognized or even disputed.Knowing how to advocate for your own healthcare can mean the difference between healthy outcomes and years of needless agony or even death. This important women’s health book will equip readers with the knowledge, language, and skill sets they need to stop being another victim of a biased industry and get the best healthcare possible.

Trading in her hard-hitting, structured career life, Lucinda Jackson sets out for what she hopes is a purposeful, unscripted next act in a far-away island country. Adolescence, middle-age crisis-those eras are child's play. Retirement is the real challenge.

For anyone just starting out or starting over, this field guide-the Life's Little Instruction Book of the 21st Century-shares relatable advice and self-reflective prompts in the areas of work, love, personal growth, and more in the hopes of helping twentysomethings navigate the obstacles that lie ahead and recognize the wisdom they already possess.

From Manhattan to the California Bay Area to the South, strands of lynching, women's ordination, a high-profile interracial wedding and Black church burnings tangle with readers' experience and assumptions as they shed light on usable American history.

A coming-of-age memoir that takes readers from North Carolina's Outer Banks to disco-era New York City and home again, Untethered follows Laura Whitfield as she fumbles her way through young adulthood, learning along the way that you sometimes have to fall hard a few times before you land where you're meant to be.

International students and immigrants have been the secret ingredient in America's recipe for global success. America Calling shares one immigrant's story-a tale that reflects millions more, and shows us why preventing the world's best and brightest from seeking the American Dream will put this country's future in jeopardy.

The Space in Between follows empath Signe Myers Hovem as she explores and learns to accept and nurture her own empathic abilities-an instructive journey that will help readers dismantle long-held beliefs and rediscover what it means to live a truly authentic life.

Sixteen months after her wedding, a Taiwanese immigrant bride-inarticulate in English and disowned by her father-returns home to the Texas apartment she shares with her American husband, only to discover that in her two-hour absence he's taken all the money, moved out, and filed for divorce. Penniless, familyless, and voiceless, how will she survive in a foreign land?

Set in the early 1900s, Among the Beautiful Beasts is the untold story of the early life of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, known in her later years as a tireless activist for the Florida Everglades. After a childhood spent in New England estranged from her father and bewildered by her mother, who fades into madness, Marjory marries a swindler thirty years her senior. The marriage nearly destroys her, but Marjory finds the courage to move to Miami, where she is reunited with her father and begins a new life as a journalist in that bustling, booming frontier town. Buoyed by a growing sense of independence and an affair with a rival journalist, Marjory embraces a life lived at the intersection of the untamed Everglades and the rapacious urban development that threatens it. When the demands of a man once again begin to swallow Marjory''s own desires and dreams, she sees herself in the vulnerable, inimitable Everglades and is forced to decide whether to commit to a life of subjugation or leap into the wild unknown. Told in chapters that alternate between an urgent midnight chase through the wetlands and extensive narrative flashbacks, Among the Beautiful Beasts is at once suspenseful and deeply reflective.

In this must-read journey of transformation through personal loss, health challenges, and professional struggles, Meg Nocero overcomes adversity by embarking on a spiritual and physical journey that will serve as a ray of hope for anyone who is struggling in life and unsure whether there is, indeed, a light at the end of the tunnel.

As a mixed-race, bilingual Chinese American woman, Anne grew up unsure where she belonged. In her twenties, she travels alone to live and teach English in China, her mother's birthplace-a long, winding journey that ultimately teaches her to embrace her many layers of identity, claim her voice, speak her truth, and live in the present.

"Vita brevis, ars longa-Life is short, art is long." These are the haunting last words Sarah Cunningham remembers her sister Ada saying. Now, Ada's mysterious death sends a grieving Sarah on a death-defying journey to discover the truth, redeem Ada's reputation, and preserve her art legacy.

Is it a kind of madness to live out the dream of another? Cheryl Krauter's future disintegrates into ash when her spouse unexpectedly dies-but in the aftermath, she embarks on a pilgrimage that takes her from the storms of trauma to the storms of nature and, ultimately, through loss to transformation.

A Victorian era painting of four sisters, a lonely teenage girl, and the ugly secrets that tie them together-this time-travel tale effortlessly blends past and present, transporting readers between the troubled Boit sisters' world, Paris in 1882, and fifteen-year-old Victoria's, Boston in 1963, where the young heroine confronts demons that haunt not only the Boit family but also her own.

A murder/suicide in a prominent Wyoming ranch family takes investigators into the dark heart of a troubled family and the tragic legacy of intergenerational trauma.

A story about the legacy of childhood trauma and how one woman heals over a lifetime, The Sensitive One illuminates how we all, like a lotus flower, have the ability to rise from the muddy waters, bloom out of the darkness, and radiate our light into the world.

A mysterious file and a stranger's WWII postcard propels a second-generation Holocaust survivor on a haunting journey of betrayal and redemption-and ultimately gives her the courage to confront her own family's buried secret.

In the summer of 1977, an Episcopal priest delivers a letter to thirty-year-old Jeanne informing her that her German nationalist ex-husband has kidnapped their two young children and fled the United States. Unable to get the help she needs from the law, she makes a decision: she will search for and ultimately steal back her son and daughter.

We each have a gift meant to be used, and accessing the full power and creativity of this gift requires reconnecting with the wise and intelligent universe from whence it came. Both a philosophy and a way of life, Leadership Flow is a must-read for new and experienced leaders seeking an alternative way to make an impact and make a difference.

Jennifer Katz is a happily married psychologist-until her husband suddenly dies one day, and her world is turned upside down. The Good Widow follow's Jenny's journey as she processes her grief, establishes a new life, and discovers herself through loss.

This is a story about the power of written letters and their ability to connect us, fulfilling our need for human connection. With Operation Desert Storm serving as the backdrop, it is also a story about the uncertainty of life, how the rules of the game can change in an instant, and how to keep moving forward when faced with everyday challenges.

Leaders who care about justice must be ready and able to address concerns about equity, power, biases, hiring practices, and sustainability-and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Leading for Justice offers individual and collaborative

Paris. Tokyo. Shanghai. Seoul. Em's Awful Good Fortune is part global romp, part dysfunctional marriage. Em is not simply married-it's more like she's handcuffed to her husband's international career. Sure, they might be velvet cuffs, but still . . . cuffed. What else can she do but stomp her way through global capitals in search of her own identity?

Where does a super stressed California corporate dynamo and mother of two go to save her marriage and reconnect with her kids while pursuing inner peace? A fortune teller? Shanghai? Yes to both of these is Tina Martin's response in this comedic, heartfelt portrayal of a woman's search for self.

Tracking five decades of love and loss in her life, Weissinger recounts dark moments of losing those dearest to her, lighter moments of friendship and rewarding work, and periods of soul-searching, ultimately proving that it's never too late to create a fulfilling life.

Early in the twentieth century, families lured by American business entrepreneurship immigrated to the United States -but only some of the resulting businesses survived the Great Depression and America's entry into World War II. Twentieth-Century Boys is about one of those family businesses and how it changed in order to survive through three generations and countless national crises.

A patient-centered guide to reclaiming health, A Way Back to Health gives people with cancer-and, importantly, their family, friends, and caregivers-real-life advice for better navigating diagnosis, treatment, and recovery, based not on complex medical advice but on relatable personal stories, unexpected lessons, and accessible action steps from a survivor.

A slim, fast-paced, savvy volume that takes readers through the emotional roller coaster of dealing with being fired, seamlessly integrating practical advice and women's experiences into a narrative of resilience Involuntary Exit is a must-read for all professional women, because-let's face it-it could happen to any one of us.

Many people today continue to believe that the marking of the skin reflects negatively on an individual and may hurt their chances of obtaining a job- but the stories of these twenty-seven women illuminate how the experience of being marked with ink can be one of triumph and healing.

Plans. Everyone makes them. Life rarely follows them. After years of infertility and multiple miscarriages, Melissa Harris is dismayed to find herself about to give birth at just twenty-three weeks pregnant-but she discovers a fierceness in herself and in her micropreemie son, Sam, as he proves that even the tiniest of us can put up one hell of a fight.