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The Enneagram-a universal symbol of human purpose and possibility-is an excellent tool for doing the hardest part of consciousness work: realizing, owning, and accepting your strengths and weaknesses. In this comprehensive handbook, Beatrice Chestnut, PhD, traces the development of the personality as it relates to the nine types of the Enneagram, the three different subtype forms each type can take, and the path each of us can take toward liberation. With her guidance, readers will learn to observe themselves, face their fears and disowned Shadow aspects, and work to manifest their highest potential.

When Anne, a survivor of parental abuse who suffers from severe depression, falls in love with Milo, a dog with serious aggression issues, she finds herself unable to give up on him. Milo is dangerous, and Anne would never do anything to endanger her sons—but she also believes that everyone deserves a second chance.

In this engaging follow-up to her first book, Travel Mania, Karen Gershowitz reflects on the unusual places she's visited (in more than ninety countries!). Along the way, readers will be introduced to the unconventional people she's met, and weird-and often wonderful?food she's tasted, transporting readers deep into the richness of other cultures and inspiring them to set out on their own journeys.

The beloved actress from Little House on the Prairie tells her raw, authentic story of growing up with a loving but alcoholic father and her ultimate success-despite her own struggles with self-doubt, alcoholism, and other self-destructive choices. She ultimately finds healing and redemption.

A funny, moving memoir of a sweet and awkward misfit who loses her battle with puberty but somehow grows into a tall, dapper adult with great hair, a cartoonish sex life, and an unlikely relationship with George Michael, Handsome will make you laugh; make you cry; and make you want to buy better hair products.

An action-packed memoir about the ins and outs of the jewelry business that portrays a young woman as she faces ups and downs, good guys and bad, while negotiating her way through the pitfalls of doubtful ethics in a male-dominated industry.

Samantha, the fashionable wife of a successful Boston businessman, loves both her husband and her sister-but the two of them have fought a cold war for years. When her sister is diagnosed with lung cancer, Samantha's family and marriage are tipped into crisis.

New York City bachelor David Melman is a successful brander of celebrity fragrances. Laurel Sorenson, a leggy blond, is a screenwriter on the brink of Hollywood success. When David, pushed by his bossy sister, agrees to take a screenwriting class taught by Laurel, an unlikely romance blooms¿and that¿s just beginning of their troubles.

If you take one very large, reclusive, and eccentric man who lives to eat, add one young woman fresh out of culinary school who lives to cook, and then stir in a love of musical comedy and fresh-brewed exotic tea, with just a hint of magic, will the result be a soufflé¿or a charred, inedible mess?

France, 1940. Nazi forces march towards Paris. Lili Rosenswig's wealthy and eccentric family is ensconced in their country chateau with their sumptuous collection of arts and antiques. The beloved Matisse portrait of Lili's mother has been brought from their Paris salon for safety. It is the day before young lovers Lili and Paul are to be married that they are forced to flee and their fortunes change irrevocably. Lili and her family escape but Paul must stay behind to defend his country. In their struggle to adapt to changing circumstances in an unpredictable world, all are pushed to reinvent themselves. When top Nazi Herman Goring loots their Matisse portrait, their story is intertwined with the fate of the painting. PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN IN WHITE is a moving family saga, an obsessive search for lost love and lost art and how far we will go to survive.

Raised by parents unable to recover from the traumas, pain, and losses of WWII, Ruth Klein had a tumultuous and unusual childhood in a dysfunctional family. Living among other Holocaust survivors in a new country was profoundly difficult for Ruth, and coming through it all showed her the ways in which she was a survivor too.

A frank portrayal of the challenges and rewards of mothering midlife daughters and an exploration of how these relationships change with aging.

World War II envelops Europe and Lena Kulkova flees Czechoslovakia to join her lover, Otto, in England, leaving her Jewish family behind in Prague. But Lena soon finds herself navigating anti-refugee sentiment, wartime deprivations, a new romance with a wealthy Englishman, and the progressive politics that will eventually oust Churchill. Based on family history and a trove of personal letters, When It¿s Over is a moving, resonant, and timely debut.

When her daughters are kidnapped and taken to Greece by their non-custodial father, single mom Lizbeth Meredith vows to bring her them home and give them a better childhood than her own.

Trying to escape her heritage, making Tokyo, New York and Paris her home and becoming ¿a citizen of the world¿, the formerly successful corporate lawyer ends up in a poor suburb of Tel Aviv, in the house she grew up in, nursing her dying mother. She is forced to revert to Hungary of the beginning of the 20th century, face the ghosts of the past and belatedly cut the umbilical cord that has had an all-consuming grip on her for more than five decades.

The companion journal to Blackwildgirl: A Writer's Journey to Take Back Her Superpower allows the reader to journey and journal along in a forty-five year quest as Blackwildgirl, a childhood queen superpower dethroned in a bargain made by her parents, reclaims her crown and becomes Blackwildgoddess-a fierce warrior for justice in the world.

Trying to figure out the right thing to do or say in your multicultural environment? Made up of practical cases of individuals who have used the principles of Conscious Change to navigate difficult and emotionally draining challenges, Conscious Change will help anyone, anywhere, who interacts with others of different backgrounds, beliefs, experiences, expectations, and values—which is to say, everyone!

A searing examination of the immigrant experience, The Fortune Teller's Prophecy is Lally Pia's tale of resilience in the face of a bungled Green Card—a four-continent quest to fulfill her dream of becoming a doctor.

The opioid death of a young teen is a loss like no other, and while an ambitious attorney is determined to find justice, the family wants revenge. Tautly paced and well researched, this legal thriller pulls back the curtain on the world of both prescription opioids and street drugs like methamphetamine and fentanyl.

Part history, part memoir, and 100% great New York story, The Woman in the Room is the extraordinary tale of a woman who witnessed a turbulent century and who lived to transform herself and the world around her.

Outrageous, hysterical, and at times terrifying, Chef Rossi's second memoir takes readers back to her teenage years, where she comes out, comes of age, and throws off the oppressive misogyny of the Chasidic Jewish tradition.

When she's abruptly snatched away from her home by a Hungarian father she does not know, four-year-old Penny finds herself in a strange, foreign household with a stepmother who alternately abuses and ignores her. Even after escaping that misery, she finds herself in yet another type of prison: fundamentalist Christianity. Ultimately, though, she finds the strength to stand up against societal and familial pressure and finds her way to happiness.

A tender and imaginative portrait of a young girl's coming of age while navigating the multiple challenges of her childhood with her mentally ill mother, this memoir explores the profound effects, across a generation, of decades of cultural silence regarding the issues of mental illness and clergy abuse.

Marina DelVecchio's biological mother was a prostitute who taught her to fear sex. Her adoptive mother was a virgin who taught her that sex was shameful and dirty. Stuck between these two polarizing mothers and their dysfunctions, Marina struggles to find not only her own sexual power but also her own voice.

When Sue Lick's husband's charming forgetfulness worsens into dementia, she trades her life of writing, music, and travel with the love of her life for years of caregiving, guilt, and impossible decisions. And yet the love remains.

To maintain access to her two sons, Catherine must face her childhood trauma, give up people-pleasing, and develop the backbone needed to stand up to her ex-husband, a wealthy lawyer. She uses her training in psychology for her own self-understanding and growth through their years of court hearings, never giving up the fight for her right to be her sons' mother.

In this palpably tense memoir, Diane Vonglis Parnell reveals—with brutal candor—how isolation and oppression protect her family's secrets after her abusive father moves their family to a rural part of Upstate New York.

A dream suddenly sparks to life when the pain of infertility coincides with a nuclear explosion, bringing mayhem, magic, and the Children of Chernobyl to Seattle. In this poignant memoir, Gail McCormick embarks on a soul-making journey to the storied cities and villages of Ukraine and Belarus—and finds her place in a four-generation global family.

When Marianne is abruptly laid off from her tech job during a recession, she's forced to move back to the seedy Kansas City neighborhood she thought she'd left forever. As she applies for jobs in an industry that doesn't value the middle-aged, Marianne must rally her inner strength to rebuild her life again.