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When David's determined search for meaning and independence drives him to decide to live in an isolated New Hampshire cabin inherited from his recently deceased grandfather, his girlfriend's dark past and his family's long-buried secrets prove to be the greatest tests of his resilience.

Written for everyone who's had a love/hate relationship with their job, this smart, funny novel by a former Wall Street sales pro reveals what it was like for a woman to build a successful career and a satisfying personal life in the macho world of 1980s stock trading.

In his mid-twenties, Jeremy Ivester began taking testosterone and had surgery to remove his breasts. This memoir is both Jeremy's and his family's coming out story, told from multiple perspectives-a story of acceptance in a world not quite ready to accept.

When the Rayson family leaves the East Coast for the gathering anarchy of Berkeley, young Alice Rayson embraces the moment in a place that's fast becoming a cultural ground zero--and for a girl, that's no Summer of Love.

Only two obstacles stand in Adélaïde¿s way of becoming the most sought-after woman portraitist in eighteenth-century Paris: a beautiful, talented rival¿and one of the bloodiest revolutions in history.

In this gripping and intimate memoir of growing up with an abusive father, Teressa Shelton delivers a story of survival and redemption.

This fifth book of the series disturbingly twists through the tangled halls of Dunning, the infamous Chicago insane asylum.

This story begins with an ending: the day Maureen Muldoon realized the devastating fact that her husband was having an affair¿and leaving her for Miss Universe. Miss freaking Universe! How does this even happen?

A road map to navigating the turbulence of personal and professional shifts, this timely, field-tested guide encourages readers to transform reaction into clarity, blame into compassion, and confusion into choice.

The Magic of Memoir is food for the journey and comfort for the soul for memoirists who find themselves in the thick of it, offering interviews with best-selling memoirists and contributions from writers whöve gone the distance.

Three desperate but spirited women of New Orleans¿a voodoo priestess, a plantation mistress who has out-of-body experiences, and a prostitute¿forge a unique partnership in order to save their city from the British juggernaut. But their endeavors are compounded by secrets and sacrifices necessary for survival.

When Cutler left the United States to teach at the first school for Maasai girls in East Africa, she did so in the hopes that her work there would empower young women who faced overwhelming odds. Working alongside local educators, she was transformed by the community she found in Tanzania.

"Class Letters . . . is about the importance of establishing relationships with students and teaching them the importance of being a person of character." --Rudolph Lopez Jr., Ed. D "Claire makes all the points that need to be made. It's simple. It's real. It's human. Opening a child's mind begins with opening a child's heart." --Lily Eskelsen, NEA Vice President

Elizabeth yearns to be fully seen-by Richard, the charismatic photographer who offers her a chance at the kind of embodied knowledge she's never had. A chance to be like her beloved Georgia O'Keeffe. She didn't say she wanted to be seen by the whole damn world.

Set in the Blue Ridge Mountains during the summer of 1969, Moon Water follows Nettie, a gritty 16-year-old who is reeling from sucker punches coming from all directions. In the middle of this turmoil, an old medicine woman for the Monacan Indians gives her a cryptic message about a coming darkness: a blood moon whose veiled danger threatens Nettie and those she loves.

In 1969, as mounting tensions over the Vietnam War are dividing America, a young woman in college on an Army scholarship risks future and family to go undercover into the anti-war counterculture and is ultimately forced to make a life-altering choice as fateful as that of any Lottery draftee.

Full of pathos and humor, The Tell is Linda I. Meyers's account of losing her mother to suicide when she was twenty-eight¿and how, determined to give the death meaning, she changed her own life for the better.