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In this personal and transformational memoir, Malaysia-born Amelia Zachry chronicles how the trauma of sexual assault and the challenges of living with bipolar disorder disrupted her life as a young woman?and how she managed to regain control of her life and, ultimately, find love, healing, and a sense of belonging after emigrating to the US.

The remarkable discovery that her ancestor—the wife of a Confederate general—gave birth to a biracial baby during the Civil War sets Temple Preston on a mission to uncover secrets from her family¿s slaveholding past. But when she sparks a backlash in her hometown, Temple must decide how much she¿s willing to lose to tell the truth.

She promised one year to live with her stubbornly independent mother, clean out the house her parents had stashed with musty history for five decades, and move her mother into assisted living. Four years later, daughter and mother are still in the kitchen fighting over food and territory, dementia and blindness in this fierce, compassionate, humorous story of self-discovery and forgiveness.

When Barbara Rubin¿s seventeen-year-old daughter, Jenn, awakens from a two-week coma unable to speak after sustaining a traumatic brain injury in a horrific car accident, her doctors and family realize that she is no longer the person she was before. Over time, however, her family moves beyond tragedy with love, laughter, and determination.

Intergenerational trauma is transformed into resilience and post traumatic growth in this gripping story of brutal domestic violence, family secrets, and uncommon wisdom. After Yvonne Martinez is taken in by her dying, once-prostitute grandmother, she later learns that her grandmother was long ago trafficked by her own mother in depression-era Utah¿a revelation that sends Yvonne on a search for answers ends in healing . . . and in her becoming an activist.

At sixty-five, artist, writer, and psychologist Sharon Strong claims the next decade to trek the Himalayas, build massive sculptures for Burning Man, and meet the love of her life—and to find a way, when a raging wildfire destroys twenty years of artwork, to persevere. This passionate love story about the adventure of aging will guide others through times of creativity, destruction, and transformation.

When Irene Sardanis was growing up, danger wasn't just the pimps, hustlers and drug dealers on the Bronx streets, it was something that lurked within the Bronx tenement she called home-and it took the form of her Greek immigrant mother.

The author, a successful businesswoman, shares how she merged her working career with her role as grandmother and offers grandparents fun and creative ideas for enriching their relationships with their grandchildren while teaching them valuable life skills that will help them grow strong and think critically.

Troost is a real street. East of it is where you can buy a house if you're Black. It's also where our middle-aged white narrator grew up-and where she has just returned to reboot her life. How will she fare in this vastly changed world? This fictional story, punctuated by factual memoir, is by turns soul-searching, entertaining, and heartbreaking.

In this haunting memoir, Carol Richmond relives the ten-year experience of raising three children on her own after her ex-husband abandons his paternal responsibilities. One of her sons attempts suicide, the other fails academically, and her daughter is sexually abused by a trusted acquaintance-yet the family endures, because they must.

When a life-threatening illness makes it necessary for Virginia Simpson¿s mother, Ruth, to come live with her, Simpson struggles to heal their relationship before Ruth dies.

What would you do if you wanted something but didn't know how to get it? What if you were incarcerated but didn't know why? What if you followed up on a decades-old whim? When is a society truly perfect, and who decides? And what awaits us at the end of our lives? In this fascinating short story collection, Nancy Joie Wilkie explores these questions and more.

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.

When a pregnancy following years of infertility ends in late miscarriage, Margo Kerber sinks into a depression-one that leads her, when she encounters a briefly unattended baby, to commit an unthinkable crime.

Surrendered at birth in a closed adoption, Candi Byrne strives for decades to fit in to her adoptive ¿frankenfamily¿¿only to finally discover, after a series of unanticipated events, that her true home has been with her all along in this raw, often wry, memoir of mothers, mysteries, and miracles.

Eddy Ancinas goes to Peru with two friends, all of them physically fit and in their fifties, to ride horseback for seven days over the Andes and down to a jungle outpost where a train will take them to Machu Picchu. A fall from a horse, a pack mule¿s tumble over a cliff, and a train strike that leaves them stranded on the railroad tracks are just some of the misadventures that alter the course of their journey, as they endure physical and mental challenges with wit, grit, and humor.

In 1973, a sixteen-year-old girl from an upper-class Denver family becomes enamored with a Vietnam veteran mountain man living a homesteader's life near the Canadian border-and a year later, just weeks after finishing high school, she finds her way to him, determined to emulate his wild ways.

A moving, inspirational memoir about how living and working in an all-black town during the height of the civil rights movement profoundly affected the author's entire family-and how they in turn impacted the community.

In this riveting novel full of imaginative art world revelations, betrayals, and twists, an aspiring art historian leaves her troubled parents to study in New York where she struggles to impress her misogynist advisor? until she discovers a hidden painting and flees to Spain to prove it's a masterpiece.

Promenade of Desire narrates a young woman¿s journey from repression to liberation in tandem with Spain¿s transition from dictatorship to democracy. As the country transforms itself, the shy María Isidra evolves into the alluring Isadora, whose passion for books and salsa dancing sustains her as she discovers what it means to be lustful and loved, and reclaims her whole self.

The holy grail of transplantation is Tolerance, which would allow patients¿ bodies to accept their transplants with no need for drugs. Who would kill the four most prominent immunologists in the world to prevent this life-saving medical advance from being achieved? Friends and amateur sleuth nurses Sarah and Jackie are determined to find out.

It took Cynthia James many decades to find her authentic voice; today, she supports clients around the world to do the same. In this accessible, inspiring guide, she examines why uncovering your own voice is so important—and shares tools and guidance for how to get there.

When Debbie Weiss lost her first and only true love at fifty years old, she went through an intense period of grieving—and then dove headfirst into online dating. This is her full-hearted, darkly funny, unvarnished account of learning to be alone at middle age—and finally becoming her true self.