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There were 2,400 American casualties in an undeclared war in North Russia after the Armistice of 1918. Reports on this military expedition were suppressed by the British and US governments-but these letters from an American woman who was there tell the real story.

It is 1554 in the desert of Rajasthan, and a new Mughal emperor is expanding his territory. In a family of Hindu temple dancers a daughter, Adhira, must carry on her family's sacred tradition. Her father, against his wife and sons' protests, insists Adhira "marry" the temple deity and give herself to a wealthy patron. But after one terrible evening, she makes a brave choice that carries her family's story and their dance to a startling new beginning. Told from the perspective of this exquisite dancer and filled with the sounds, sights and flavors of the Indian desert, Faint Promise of Rain is the story of a family and a girl caught between art, duty, and fear in a changing world.

After a four-month estrangement from her family, thirty-two-year-old Emma Michaels visits The Harbor View Assisted Living Home to tell her grandmother, Gussie, that she has made a decision: she's going to sell the family property-her inheritance. Sitting on the dock of Poquatuck Village, Connecticut, looking across the harbor to their family's longtime home, the two women debate over Emma's choice-and their conversation lays the framework for the book, which flows over the decades, all the way back to Gussie's youth and marriage, then forward through the lives of her three children, Auggie, Livy, and Alyssa, whose hopes and talents are warped by their mother's influence and disappointed expectations. Expectations passed down through the generations. Subtle. Unspoken. Implacable. As Emma and Gussie remember the choices and dynamics that have produced the complicated tapestry that is their family's history, Emma makes a number of surprising discoveries about her loved ones-and herself-and she prepares to do what no one else in her family has dared: let go of the past to make room for the future, though doing so will destroy the thing her grandmother holds most dear.

A mother's inspiring story of surviving pregnancy following the death of one of her children at birth.

Emilia Bassano Lanyer-poor, beautiful, and intelligent, born to a family of Court musicians and secret Jews, lover to Shakespeare and mistress to an older nobleman-survives to become a published poet in an era when most women's lives are rigidly circumscribed.

Supervision is a critical function of leadership that is often overlooked, and yet the quality of supervision is often what makes or breaks a leader-and an organization. Supervision Matters is full of bite-size ideas for how to become a more effective supervisor, including advice on how to be clear about expectations, giving helpful feedback, manage yourself, and more. Each chapter is structured around how you approach a part of your work as a supervisor: how you talk, how you think about others, how you run meetings, how you lead, and more. Whether you're a front-line supervisor or a CEO, this book will help you sharpen your skills and improve morale by transforming your supervision skills into user-friendly tactics that work.

After interviewing an Indian holy man, newspaper reporter Margaret Bendet follows him in pursuit of enlightenment-unconditional and unending joy-and ends up facing demons that were inside her all along.

Only in the glaring light of hindsight does pediatric surgeon Kate Murphy understand that she was groomed for the path she's taken. Raised by a widowed dad and a misshapen, sometimes comical trio of parental surrogates from Murphy's Pub, her father's Irish bar in San Francisco, Kate has never understood how protected she is-but when she learns that her well-meaning family has hidden bitter truths about her mother's mental illness and death, the rest of her family history unravels. Kate is still recovering from her family's deception when she becomes involved with Jake Bloom-a charming artist different than anyone she's ever known. When she experiences his sculptures on Ocean Beach, she is forever changed; in the months that follow, Jake reveals beauty Kate has never noticed, and exposes her to spontaneity, sensuality, and love deeper than she'd imagined it could be.Only Mary K-Kate's hard-edged best friend who doesn't miss a thing and names bull when she sees it-is immune to Jake's charms. She sees the potential for danger in Jake, and, of course, she says so. Caught between her newfound passion and her friendship, Kate dismisses her friend's warnings. Ultimately, it isn't until she is in too deep, with a daughter on the way, that Kate understands what Mary K feared on her behalf.Fire & Water is a story of navigating the treacherous territory of passionate love, friendship, and family devotion-and of how love is always a matter of life and death.

¿"If anything bad happens to me, I want you to get him." Those were Sasha's words. Now that she's gone, can Eleanor Birch do what it takes to avenge her friend?

An inspiring, illuminating book that examines five personality patterns, called character structures, teaching readers how to break free of them through effective exercises, compelling true stories, fun cartoons, and spiritual insights so you can live a free, more radiant life.

In essays written with humor and wit, Kendrick reimagines what it means to be "a good black woman"-from women choosing never to have children to mothers regretting their choice to have them, from being a lonely black atheist to conquering loneliness as a single woman in a foreign country-and, in the process, challenges the expectation that black women serve as noble martyrs or sacrificial lambs.

Rania, a Palestinian police detective with a young son, meets cheeky Jewish-American feminist Chloe at an Israeli checkpoint-and soon becomes embroiled in a murder case that implicates the highest echelons of the Israeli military.