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When a lonely young girl meets a teacher twice her age, she is seduced into a web of deceit and secrecy—an experience that teaches her that sex in exchange for attention feels like love, even as it destroys her self-worth. Here, Liz Kinchen offers a detailed view of exactly how this abusive experience influenced her adult relationships, and how her eventual healing unfolded.

When Alana Best and her husband, Roland, decided to travel for a year with their kids, she imagined soaking in sunsets over foreign lands, marveling at monuments she had only read about in books, and savoring culinary delights. And there was that . . . but what she had not prepared for was how the world would treat their biracial, blended family—or how that experience would force her to come to terms with her white privilege and prejudices.

A mother and daughter at odds for years try and patch things up before it¿s too late—only to uncover secrets between them that could destroy all that is left.

Scientist Will Dalal wrestles with his morals and ambitions as he strives to eclipse academic rivals and make his mark on the world. With the ability to literally ¿change minds,¿ how far will he go to cement his legacy? This hauntingly plausible debut novel explores the unpredictable nature of technology and the global power of one person¿s emotions.

A memoir that shares what happens when Kathy Elkind, a curious woman about to enter the last third of her life, decides to take a long walk— 1,400 miles—across Europe with her husband of almost thirty years. Will her body and relationship make it to the end?

Facing an existential crisis, Melissa Giberson—a suburban woman in midlife—searches for her authentic self even as she desperately clings to the stable life she¿s created for her children. Can she be true to herself and be a good mother? Or will her children hate her for changing their story?

When Joanne Intrator accepts her father¿s deathbed challenge to seek restitution for property stolen from her German Jewish family by the Nazis, she has no idea that the quest will last decades—or how much she will learn about her family, and herself, along the way.

Buckle up for a wild ride in the vet truck with Dr. Melinda McCall, a large animal veterinarian in rural Virginia. No two days are alike as she skillfully deals with the antics of both animals and humans with humor and grit—and makes you howl with laughter along the way.

What is the true source of spiritual freedom? Faced with the impending loss of her mother just as her new start on life is beginning, Sherry Sidoti chooses to lean in to the memories homed in her body, turn to her yoga and mindfulness practice, and forge forward with self-awareness in an attempt to answer one of life¿s most elusive questions.

Family, romance and gangsters support and thwart Golda, Ben, and Morty from achieving their dreams: Golda gives up independence to marry her widowed brother-in-law, Ben, and care for baby Morty; later, Ben¿s business mistakes cause financial disaster, forcing Morty to bargain with gangsters and sacrifice his love and career—and perhaps the ability to ever go home again—to save his father.

It¿s 1942. Cynical about her missing-in-action former lover's patriotism, gossip columnist Jane Benjamin aims for a national byline, volunteering to find a picture-perfect Wendy-the-Welder poster girl; but when two top choices die, Jane must choose between personal ambition and service before the murderer kills another girl—and Americäs best chance of winning the war.

Going for a big dream is a long journey, and sometimes it can be painful. How do you know when to keep going and when to pivot? How do you endure rejection and failure and tragedy? How do you find the courage to keep going when you feel weary or stuck?

First, biotech exec Will Franklin¿s boss angrily announces that he¿s about to fire him for reasons vaguely suggesting impropriety; then, just hours later, he succumbs to a critical illness and lands in the hospital on a ventilator, leaving Will few clues with which to untangle the mystery of his possible transgressions. Can Will clear his name before it¿s too late?

How does the emotionally abandoned daughter of an emotionally abandoned mother learn to support her own child in a healthy way? In Pursuit of Radio Mom is a clinical psychologist¿s journey about longing for the embrace of a mother who cannot reach back, and how one generation impacts the next.

What happens when a woman is told she must place her severely disabled twin in a nursing home? What happens to that twin when, after spending her entire life with her parents, she is sent to live with strangers in a place she doesn¿t know? Frank and moving, this memoir tells Debbie and Judy¿s story.

When Hollywood movie star Finn Forrester and philosopher Ella Sinclair meet on an exotic film set in Sweden, their connection is palpable. Living on location, making a film that explores the big questions of life, they fall madly in love. Will they be able to trust it and ask themselves the biggest question of all?

How did a British queen foster a court of women writers in the 1600s—an age when female authorship was rare? Follow American scholar Susan Godwin¿s quest to unearth Mary of Modenäs real story—a journey that involves revisiting seventeenth-century British spaces and delving deep into Oxford¿s archives—even as Godwin charts the course of her own resilient, feminist path.

Beneath the affluent veneer of a Southern California housing tract, five neighbors (a realtor, an aerobics teacher, an ex-con, a Vietnam vet, and a teenage boy) confront death, betrayal, financial decline, loneliness, and encroaching fascism. Set in the politically tumultuous summer of 2017, each character searches for home and community in a neighborhood where no one can agree who belongs.

A must-read collection of acclaimed writers, thinkers and activists, Aftermath: Life in Post-Roe America offers an indispensable look what the loss of Roe v. Wade means for American life, and what the future of the fight for reproductive justice may look like from here.

Blending a fresh adaptation of the Russian fairy tale "Vasilisa the Wise" with the practical concerns of everyday life, The Girl in the White Cape follows Elena, a sheltered teenager, and Frank, a kindhearted young cabbie, as they navigate transformative, magic-infused experiences in modern-day San Francisco.

Fifty percent of teachers today say they want to leave the profession; for a good while, Jennifer Nelson was one of them. But as a single mother who needed a steady job, she had to make teaching work—and gradually, she learned what it took to make the classroom a place where both she and her students could thrive.

After moving to the Maine woods to build her dream home, thirty-nine-year-old feminist lesbian attorney Roberta Kuriloff confronts major life experiences and events from her childhood and her present—including a tragic loss that spurs an eight-year quest into Kabbalah, Buddhism, reincarnation, and psychic experiences—in pursuit of the true meaning of home.

Three months after Barbara Terao makes a new home by the sea two thousand miles from her husband—not knowing when, or if, she'll ever live with him again—she is diagnosed with breast cancer. In the months that follow, she realizes the island is exactly where she needs to be as she faces her medical and marital crises and finds healing.

Rica Ramos’s stepfather sexually abused her—and her mother let it happen. Now in her forties and about to marry for a second time, Rica asks herself: Can a daughter forgive a mother who allowed her to suffer sexual abuse? And will offering that forgiveness bring me peace?

Ursula comes to Minneapolis from Germany in 1947 hoping for a new start with her American GI husband—but the American dream proves more elusive than she imagined it to be.

When Francesca Miracola's abusive, sociopathic ex-husband tries to win custody of their two children, she is forced to use every available resource, internal and external, to fight for her boys—a rocky, emotional journey that ultimately leads her to question the unhealthy dynamics in her family of origin that attracted her to such a man in the first place.

After Ali Stirling loses one of her best friends to suicide, suddenly and without warning, she and her other two best friends decide to hold their own funerals while they're still alive as part of their grieving process-an unexpectedly cathartic experience that teaches them volumes about themselves and their lost friend.

Part memoir, part journalism, Not Weakness shines a light on the silencing and shame women with chronic pain experience in our culture, showing readers in pain that they are not alone—even in a world in which they are rarely understood.

Who gets to tell the story of a marriage? Unfolding from multiple points of view, this contemporary divorce novel, which includes a courtroom drama and a millennial polyamorous girlfriend, allows readers to view the unraveling of a marriage not only from the perspective of the couple but also their friends, neighbors, children, and even the family dog.