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In her late sixties, with her children raised and gone and three decades of nursing behind her, Anita Swanson Speake finds out that her heart is dying-a diagnosis that starts her on a sometimes humorous, sometimes wrenching journey in search of God.

In search of inspiration, a struggling San Francisco artist buys a pair of silver shoes in a New York antique shop. The shoe¿s original owner, a 1920s New York debutante, boldly defies the restraints of polite society. Both women, in different eras, find fulfillment with some help from the shoes.

Dr. Anna Gatmon offers readers four keys to living a balanced life that integrate spiritual fulfillment and material satisfaction and provide a fresh and useful approach for anyone who is searching for more meaning and purpose in their life.

A frazzled suburban mom's life is upended when she is pushed too far by the ruthlessness of modern motherhood and goes on a do-or-die road trip to Las Vegas with her therapist.

What happens when something unpredictable changes everything in your life? When her daughter is debilitated by chronic Lyme disease, single mother Anna Penenberg descends into the underworld of Lyme treatment, entering into a desperate, years-long struggle to save her daughter's life.

After Amy Turner is mowed down by a pickup truck, she struggles to heal the trauma of her own brush with death—a process that, unexpectedly and despite her resistance, forces her to confront a childhood trauma she thought she resolved long ago: the morning her father climbed onto a fifty-foot-high ledge outside his hotel window and threatened to jump, an event that made national news.

Peregrine Island delves into the mystery behind an heirloom painting and what it reveals about the clashing relationships within a troubled family.

Terri Laxton Brooks spends her whole life feeling -but it's only after divorcing her husband and moving to an entirely new city on her own that she's finally able to confront the trauma of loneliness that's haunted her for years . . . and learn to embrace and heal from it.

After suffering from depression all her life, twenty-five-year-old Max Dorigan joins a mysterious research project on a Caribbean island, where she's introduced to the magical and healing world of lucid dreaming.

Lifelong "non-artist" Joan Stanford shares the creative process that led her to insight and healing, and shares ways for others to do the same.

When the floor matron at the dance hall where Henrietta is working as a taxi dancer turns up murdered, she is persuaded by the aloof Inspector Clive Howard to go undercover to help find the killer¿even as they try to withstand their growing attraction for one another.

A college student with a fear of public speaking finds herself leading a movement to abolish corporations, pushed to the forefront by a mysterious law student with a past.

Written for every woman who doesn¿t like to talk about her finances—whether she has been taught that to do so is rude or because she feels bad about her money life —You Are Worthy is a one-stop guide to transforming your relationship to money, uncovering your hidden strengths, and building knowledge and skills to achieve true financial well-being and live life on your terms.

Thirty-seven-year-old piano teacher Camille Childs is a lost soul who is seeking recognition through her star student-so when her student unexpectedly leaves California to return to her village in Oaxaca, Mexico, Camille follows her. There, Camille meets Alejandro, a Zapotec man who helps her navigate the unfamiliar culture of Oaxaca and teaches her to view the world in a different light.

She wasn¿t glad he died but she was glad he was gone. Karen, a highly educated professional woman, is determined to find her own life after a struggle that began with her abusive husband¿s last gift to her: his death.

A practical guide offering best practices, checklists, and profiles of inspiring leaders for women who want to "do" philanthropy right, For a Good Cause is the go-to resource for how to give joyfully-and effectively.

When Eleanor "Els" Gordon's life cracks apart, she exiles herself to a derelict plantation house on the Caribbean island of Nevis-and discovers, with the help of its resident ghost, that only through love and forgiveness can she untangle years-old family secrets and set herself free to love again.

From his post at the headquarters of the German occupation during World War II, Hans Calmeyer surreptitiously saved thousands of Jewish lives in the Netherlands. Here, Laureen Nussbaum describes how Calmeyer declared her mother non-Jewish and deleted her and her family from the deportation lists-and traces the arc of both her life and Calmeyer's in the aftermath of the war.

After two European cataclysms disrupt the life of Irma-the wife of Vienna's Jewish city representative-she escapes to London and New York, where she restores her life by saving child refugees. This true story, told in Irma's words and narrated by her granddaughter, reveals an inspiring woman who used languages as her passport to a safer, more hopeful world.