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Growing up working-class Catholic in 1970s Brooklyn, Claire Joyce-the youngest sibling of three street-smart older brothers, an overwhelmed, taxi-driving father, and an alcoholic mother?relies on the stability of basketball to usher her toward maturity and success, only to find her future jeopardized by the prejudices of her time.

Beneath the willow tree in their backyard has always been the place where Margaret Dowling has gathered her four daughters to share her life's wisdom. Now terminally ill, she brings them back together under the tree to disclose her news-and make a final attempt to instill them with the tools they need to find their places in life.

As Janet Wilson and her husband struggled to reset their relationship, Africa reached out and threw everything-including every traveler's worst nightmare?at them. An inspiring story that speaks to human experiences and the power of love and trusting relationships in the face of adversity, All You'll See is Sky is a captivating travel memoir of a couple's adventurous journey across Africa.

Tired of watching Michigan's forests devastated by fracking as leaders refuse to act on climate change, four eco-minded students, a few seasoned activists, and some wildly creative locals stand together to say, "No more!"

The brief "Report of Investigation" contained inside the thin, manila envelope that landed in Patti Eddington's mailbox after almost six decades locked in a courthouse vault looked unassuming-but the adoption document unleashed a heartbreaking, emotional tempest that led her to question everything she ever believed about her beloved parents and her childhood, and use her journalistic chops to go digging for the truth.

In this deeply reflective autobiography of acts, stages, scenes, and letters to Love beginning at the age of eight, Blackwildgirl, a childhood queen superpower dethroned in a bargain made by her parents, embarks on a forty-five-year quest to reclaim her crown and become Blackwildgoddess-a fierce warrior for justice in the world.

Book Three of The Druid Chronicles introduces Stefan, a Saxon warrior who has fought his way up through the ranks only to lose his command to a better-born rival. Send into political exile as the sheriff of a shire in the furthest corner of the kingdom, Stefan's fate becomes entangled with the Druids who arrive there seeking a new sanctuary.

After the stillbirth of her daughter, Lindsey Henke grapples with the unbearable grief of losing a child by turning to the only resource she has at her disposal: her training as a psychotherapist. As she mourns the loss of one child while simultaneously trying to hold space for the joy of expecting another baby, she learns that grief can live side by side with joy.

When four-year-old Claudia Marseille was diagnosed with severe hearing loss and received her first hearing aid, her lifelong journey to fit in began. Here, she reveals how she overcame loneliness and isolation and carved out a fulfilling life for herself somewhere between the mainstream culture and the Deaf world.

In this timely story of how science impacts our daily lives-even if we try to close our eyes to it?divorced American geologist Will Ross uproots his children from home and takes them to Turkey, where he is to help build Kayakale Dam. But the earthquake-prone region where the dam is to be built is a dangerously shifting landscape?every bit as unstable as the broken American family that seeks to heal itself there.

Desperate to save her gallery and her family from bankruptcy, Allison Blake travels to Bogotá to an art fair to meet wealthy collectors. She discovers paintings worth millions were added to her crates in scheme to launder money. Caught between warring cartels, U.S. mercenaries, and shady characters from her past, she fights to save her gallery and protect her children.

With the threat of invasion and bombing by Germany hanging heavily over England at the start of World War II, twenty-year-old Kate is devastated when she's forced to postpone her dream of a singing career to help out at home. When she finds herself responsible for the well-being of a young Jewish girl-her priorities change in ways she never imagined.

When Betsabé Ruiz graduates from college in the spring of 2019, moves to Manhattan, and begins a job on Wall Street, she imagines New York City catapulting her toward an exciting adult life; what she finds there is a friendship, a love triangle, and a global pandemic that all converge to teach her deep lessons about life, love, and what it means to be a woman.

When forty-nine-year-old archaeology professor Klara Lieberman goes to Warsaw in search of answers about her long-ago-disappeared father, she ultimately discovers forgotten parts of herself as well-and heals some deeply buried wounds.

Sylvie believes in being a team player at her AI company until her commitment to the technology is put to the test when she discovers her colleagues' illegal activities and she learns the personal trainer she's attracted to considers AI fraught with risk. But Sylvie doesn't know the extent of the trouble coming to eclipse everything else-a family dispute over a will that turns threatening and endangers Sylvie and everyone she cares about.

As a small New England town becomes embattled in the drug war, single mother Laura Everett finds herself on the brink of love and her teenage son on the brink of disaster. To save him and his friends from potentially deadly consequences, she is forced out of her comfort zone and into action . . .

When Henrietta and Clive return to England, they find themselves caught up in the death of an estate agent responsible for the proposed sale of the Howard's ancestral home, Castle Linley-an investigation that various ghostly hauntings threaten to disrupt altogether.

Dayna's father committed a murder-suicide when she was just two years old, shrouding their family in grief, mystery, and trauma. What could cause him to take such drastic action, ending the course of his life? Twenty years later, Dayna is determined to find out.

Now that Kyra Valorian and Sebastian Sayre have remembered their pasts as the former Felserpent Queen and King, they are ready to reunite the realms and bring peace between Astrals and Daevals. Unfortunately, their arch-enemy, Tallus, has also returned, determined to stop them. Can they outwit him, or will those with silver and gold blood be divided forever?

The fallout from the pandemic has yet to be measured, but the way we work will never be the same again. In this accessible, interactive guide, longtime organizational coach and consultant Sharon Darmody reveals what a unique opportunity this has presented to rebuild our working lives from the ground up—to make work work again—and shows readers how to do just that.

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?

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.

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.

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.