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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.

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 bisexual young man grapples with questions of integrity and masculinity as he and his unconventional sister and enslaved brother struggle for respect and a future between dark secrets and unbridled passions of two plantation dynasties.

Fresh, insightful, and grounded in academic research, this cheeky, no-nonsense manifesto offers practical strategies and easy-to-follow exercises for flexing your happiness muscle and maximizing your potential-essentially laying out the blueprint for how to be happy AF and live your best life.

This finely crafted coming-of-age novel takes the reader on an unforgettable journey with a young woman whose life is shaken by world events. Set in the early twentieth-century Southwest, where water means everything, The Ways of Water is a poignant and heart-warming testament to the meaning of family and the strength of the human spirit.

A bartender. An environmentalist. A fishmonger. An orphan. A love letter to a Montauk under threat.

Born during WWII, Deborah Kasdan's sister Rachel spent a transformative year in Israel-after which she was diagnosed with schizophrenia and sent to the first of many psychiatric hospitals. It was there she languished until a mental health worker gave her a chance at freedom. A searing look at the impact of severe mental illness on a Jewish family in mid-century America, this memoir will resonate with anyone who has struggled to help a loved one in crisis.

It started with Eve-countless tellings that perpetuated shame instead of celebrating a woman's desire, wisdom, and choice. In Rewriting Eve, Ronna Detrick boldly reimagines, redeems, even rewrites Eve's story and nine more-removing doctrine and dogma, inviting us to hear their powerful voices, and calling women of today to claim the sacred lineage that has always been ours.

Catching the travel bug at age twenty, Terry Repak longed to live overseas someday. She didn't foresee spending fifteen years in countries like Ivory Coast, Tanzania, and Switzerland; nor did she guess that living abroad would transform her and her family into global citizens and gift them with resilience, perspective, and a profound sense of home.

This cross-cultural, Arab/American story-an optimistic tale of joy, renewal, and the power of love, music, and dance?explores how a young girl growing up in Tehran and Kuwait experiences the loss of her American mother and her brother, yet is lifted from grief through the love of her devoted Arab father and her strong women relatives.

Drawing on biographical and historical sources, Bessie reimagines the early life of Bess Myerson¿the talented daughter of poor Russian Jewish immigrants¿who, in the bigoted milieu of 1945, remarkably rises to become Miss America.

Perfect for readers inspired by Between Two Kingdoms, this inspirational memoir of a twenty-two-year-old woman's sudden autoimmune kidney failure details a resilient journey of chronic illness, unfailing love, and moving forward with joy.

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.

The Marie Kondo Method for the mind, body, heart, and soul, this eight-step process is designed to clear out the clutter of your past and make space for joy, hope, and possibility-erasing heartbreak, trauma, and grief so you can find the courage to create the purpose-filled life that was meant for you.

Dennis Griffin will do whatever it takes to belong. The Handyman follows his obsession with Brenna Riley and the lengths he goes to insert himself into her life and her family-at any cost.

Nearing fifty and grieving the death of her husband, Judy Reeves sells everything, buys an around-the-world airline ticket, and sets off on a solo journey. Months of solitude and loneliness in foreign countries challenge her to examine her old ideas and explore her heart¿s deepest longings as she searches for who she might become in her new life.

This is the story of my search for truth—first, the truth of a childhood with a sexually abusive, alcoholic father and an emotionally absent mother; then, a search for truth as a journalist and a grown woman.

The Broken Hummingbird explores a woman¿s struggle to truly know her new country and her own heart. Jane—mother, lawyer, enthusiastic expat, and fatally unhappy wife—sets out to save two little girls but must also save herself and her own sons while navigating the parallel worlds of wealth and poverty in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

In this retelling of ancient Greek myth, Circe seeks a new lover, amphibian Glaucus, after Odysseus¿s departure from the island of Aeaea—but in a twist of fortune, mortal Skylla complicates her plans, leading to an adventure threaded with friendship, jealousy, revenge, and redemption . . . and filled with divine interventions, shape-shifting, and magic.

Jackie has known tumultuous times: she escaped war-torn China as a toddler with her medical missionary parents, grew up with emotional abuse, and came of age in the 1960s. But after returning to China at thirty-eight with her aging parents and being stunned by a revelation about their past, she begins an unexpected quest—for forgiveness, self-fulfillment, and the authentic life she craves.

In this series of interwoven stories, Glenda Goodrich chronicles her path toward healing through wilderness quests in the Pacific Northwest and Central California. Through her connection to nature, Goodrich rediscovers the importance of self-esteem, forgiveness, acceptance, and standing in her own truth.

Felise¿s debtor father has disappeared on a merchant journey; her guardian is plotting to marry her to a stranger; and the Hundred Years¿ War rages all around her. She fears that France will soon be held captive, just as she is¿but when Joan of Arc blazes into history and Felise¿s life, everything changes.