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When Evan’s older brother gets drafted to Vietnam, her mother takes him to Canada, leaving Evan and her younger, special needs brother with their army-officer father—who, unwilling to shoulder the burden of caring for his own kids, takes them to Eat and Get Gas, their grandmother’s roadside café and home.

Leveraging a principles-based paradigm, clinical and organizational psychologist Laura Basha gives readers the tools to unlock a new level of decision-making and peace of mind—making it possible for them to enter a more accomplished and confident phase of their lives.

As a young woman in New Delhi, Kay Bhaskar enters into an arranged marriage to a social charmer-only to find that her new husband is an alcoholic with a wildly violent streak, and the system in India will do nothing to protect her. Ultimately, it is Kay alone who plans an escape, not only to set herself and her three children free but also to pursue joy and fulfillment in States, the country of her dreams.

Meet Beige. Beige is reliable, practical, sensible, and safe. Beige doesn't put up a fuss; it follows the rules, blends in, doesn't want to stand out. Now meet Magenta. Magenta is rich, dynamic, loud, sometimes garish, and not easily overlooked.Society has decidedly beige expectations when it comes to aging, and the intrinsic danger of beige and its many practical aspects is that it precludes creative thinking. Creative thinking is critical in avoiding a beige aging journey. Be Brave. Lose the Beige! Finding Your Sass after Sixty encourages women to trot out their inner magenta and defy those beige expectations.Be Brave. Lose the Beige! started as a blog and morphed into a movement. This movement gently pokes fun at ageist rules and expectations. It says "yes" when the rest of the world keeps saying "no." In these pages, Liz Kitchens chronicles how creative thinking helped her cope with empty nest syndrome, navigate sex over sixty, transition from being outtasight to literally being out-of-sight . . . and so much more.The stories and creative techniques outlined in this book are guaranteed to introduce color, sass, and a lightness of spirit into your later years. Are you ready to start coloring outside the lines, even if a few pesky rules get trampled in the process?

Feeling inadequate as a young doctor, Alicia Blando embarks upon a search for her life's path. Her ensuing journey leads her to seek out unconventional teachers, embrace the diagnostic capacity of astrology, and ultimately discover an astrological map that holds the potential to trace her life's path and purpose in connection with planetary movements: past, present, and future.

An honest and eye-opening account of one juror's coming to terms with how her youth and white privilege led her to convict a Black prison inmate of murder, this memoir offers a searing indictment of prosecutorial misconduct alongside the heartrending story of one woman's efforts to make things right more than forty years after the conviction.

In this funny, heartbreaking, timely memoir-told in the form of college admission essays?Irena Smith illuminates the dissonance of working as a college consultant in Palo Alto, California, helping the best and brightest students in the country gain admission to highly selective schools, even as her own children are unraveling.

Can an extraterrestrial intelligence use our own biology against us? Can a human consciousness survive in a virtual environment? Can one wish for a mate to avoid the rigors of dating? Can a book written by a future savior spark a new religion? Each of the stories in this speculative collection takes the reader further into the future and farther out into the cosmos.

This deeply personal memoir of Alenka Vrecek's 2,500-mile solo bikepacking pilgrimage along the spine of the snow-covered Sierra Nevada and into the hostile desert mountains and plains of Mexico's Baja Peninsula-a story about crossing emotional, physical, and cultural boundaries?will inspire readers to follow their own dreams as Alenka followed hers.

In this true-life Julie and Julia meets Notorious RBG mash-up, former attorney Leslie Karst recounts how finagling her way into hosting an intimate dinner party for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sends her on a journey of culinary and personal discovery—and, ultimately, completely changes her life.

When emotional toll of being a first responder caught up to her after twenty-five years of saving lives, Christy Warren—a gay, female firefighter who had always prided herself on her get-the-job-done, tough-as-nails approach to her work—found herself at risk of losing everything.

Agoraphobic French professor Georgie Bricker hasn't left the environs of the small women's college where she teaches in years-but when financial scandal brings both the possibility of the school's closure and her first love to her front door, the life she's meticulously tended is abruptly upended.

When her beloved husband took his life, and with it her life as she knew it, Suzanne Anderson faced a choice: would she be broken down and defeated, or broken open and transformed? Part memoir, part guidebook, You Make Your Path by Walking accompanies readers on their own journeys through the barren landscape of trauma and grief, offering comfort, guidance, and inspiration to make meaning out of loss.

What makes our children who they are? Is it nature? Is it nurture? Or can it be adoption itself—taking a child from his birth parents and raising him in a family unrelated by blood, culture, or biology?

Amid the many obstacles she and her husband, Michael, face after his diagnosis with multiple sclerosis, Suzanne Marriott's love for him grows-creating a bond even death cannot sever-and she learns to be a compassionate caregiver for both him and, ultimately, herself. Candid and illuminating, Marriott's story of spiritual and psychological growth through caregiving will appeal to anyone facing a life-changing crisis.

When Kate travels to work in Greece in 1974, she is dropped into the cauldron of anti-Americanism that has begun to bubble following the end of Greece's seven-year dictatorship-but that doesn't stop her from falling in love with a handsome Communist and becoming embroiled in dangerous political intrigue. Will she return to America?or will she remain with her lover in Greece, which has also captured her heart?

A mother's impending death forces her three alienated middle-aged daughters-a diner waitress, a heartsick alcoholic, and a Las Vegas showgirl whose career is on a sharp decline?to finally face each other and the mystery of their father's disappearance.

In this past-the-blush-of-youth adventure story, Marianne Bohr and her husband head to Corsica to celebrate turning sixty by hiking the 124-mile GR20, Europe's toughest long-distance footpath, and find themselves confronted with universal themes-coming to terms with aging, surmounting physical limitations, and being kind to oneself?along the way.

In 1938, when the Nazis invade Czechoslovakia, a young Romani girl, Jana, discovers that everything she knows and loves is in danger. In this maelstrom of history, she and two new friends, Otto and Franz, must fight for their countries, their futures, and their lives.

A healing balm for adults experiencing the pain of mother loss, this moving collection of poems and letters addresses the profound sadness, disorientation, and transformation that can happen when we give ourselves permission to fully grieve our losses—and offers readers the gift of self-reclamation.

When Big Pharma exec Leo Cushman is fatally stabbed, the highly intuitive Detective Anna Crane has many suspects, including Obliterate Opiates activists, a disinherited family, and an addict vowing vengeance—but her prime target is the brilliant biochemist Eleanor Kiernan, to whom Detective Crane finds herself irresistibly drawn.

Tuni Deignan spent most of her life using a whole host of coping mechanisms to avoid facing the trauma of her childhood: a sexually abusive father and a mother who seemed helpless to stop him. But when a bike accident rendered her immobile and dependent on narcotics at age fifty-five, she finally sat down to unwind and understand the circus of her life-a journey that led her to a place of understanding, peace, and even joy.

When New Yorker Catherine Ogden comes to Oakview, the lavish Northern California estate of handsome bachelor William Brandt, in 1910, she must navigate society's expectations, her own desires, and secrets from the past in order to find true freedom.

After a chance meeting in New York city, Bianca Curtis and "Eric," better known as insanely famous Korean actor Park Hyun Min, spend twelve perfect hours together-only to be torn apart at the end of the night by the inescapable realities of their very distinct worlds. But their story isn't even close to over yet.

January 2021, mid-pandemic, Christina Vo-single, childless, and in her early forties?sets off on a road trip with a close friend in search of a new place to call home. What ensues is an illuminating spiritual journey that finally allows her to make peace with the painful pieces of her past?as well as the unexpected shape of her present.

In the seaside town of Bantry in the west of Ireland, the O'Donovans struggle with the humiliation and poverty of living under a colonial power until events impel them to turn their backs on Ireland and set out for America.

Sixteen-year-old aspiring artist Leni O'Hare loves brainy, gentle Caleb McGrath-so much so that she keeps from him a secret that would prevent their escape from their crumbling families and the remote Texas town that will surely crush their dreams. But the choice she makes casts a shadow that follows them both for generations?from Vietnam-era East Texas to New York City's downtown art scene in the 1980s, up to the present day. What will it take for the secret to be revealed?