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Full of essential physical, emotional and relational self-care tools¿and based on research by the author that includes a survey of hundreds of moms¿this book is a life raft for moms who often feel like they are drowning in the sea of motherhood.

For twenty-nine-year-old wife and mother Alex Pearl, the post-Nixon 1970s offer suburban pot parties, tie-dyed fashions, and the lure of the open marriage her husband wants for the two of them. Yearning for greater adventure and intimacy, yet fearful of losing it all, Alex must determine the truth of love and fidelity-at a pivotal point in an American marriage.

After her cult leader and therapist is found murdered, suspicion immediately falls on Celeste, known to be a rebellious member of the Dreamland cult. To clear her name, Celeste enlists the help of her old friend, Gloria. But when the two women discover the power of stolen dreams, they unwittingly become the killer's next target.

Babe was no goodie two-shoes: she drank, danced, and stayed up very late. She favored colorful clothes, liked giving parties, adored her husband, and always told her daughter, "Never sit if you can dance." When readers finish this book, they'll want to give their mother a hug and dance into Mother's Day and beyond.

Who killed Susie or did she actually disappear? That's the mystery the Great Bravura, a dashing lesbian magician living in a fantastical and noirish 1947 New York City, must solve to clear herself of murder charges¿before she goes to the electric chair.

Fascinated by a young woman's performance of "The Lost Child" in Guanajuato's central plaza, painfully shy expat Callie Quinn asks the woman for a trumpet lesson-and ends up confronting her longing to know her own lost child, the biracial daughter she gave up for adoption more than thirty years before.

An inspiring story of faith, love, and determination, How Sweet the Bitter Soup chronicles one woman's quest for happiness through a life-changing adventure that lands her in a remote Chinese village, and in love with a gentle, handsome man who calls that village home.

Elisha is a thirteen-year-old unmarried girl living in Ancient Palestine. She is different from her tribe: she composes and sings her own songs; she talks to an angel; she tells other women to stand up for themselves. How can she exist in her society where women have only one choice-marry and have children?

When the people and animals of Fairfax come under attack from speeding ambulances that prowl the land, mowing down anything in their path and dragging their victims to a mysterious hospital deep in the woods, Chloe Ashton and her friends race to stop the bloodshed.

A collection of thirty powerful essays aimed at spreading awareness and dispelling myths about postpartum depression and perinatal mood disorders.

When Angela walked into her social work office for the first time, she vowed her work with traumatized families would be meaningful. But when one family intrudes into her personal life, all bets are off. Discovering her father's picture alongside an overdosed client is just the beginning as her life and family unravels as she searches to uncover the truth.

In These Walls Between Us established feminist author Wendy Sanford, who is white, reflects on her complex lifelong friendship with Mary Norman, who is Black—exploring her formation in a narrow world of class and race privilege, lifting up the writings and social movements that changed her views and her life, and examining a sixty-year interracial friendship that evolved in the context of white supremacy.

When an unmarried executive discovers she's pregnant and doesn't know which of the two men is the father, she realizes her professional risk management skills don't extend to her personal life. Worse yet, she may carry a rare hereditary gene for early-onset Alzheimer's. Whose needs should prevail--hers or the next generation's?on's?

Although deemed a genius, psychologist Jack MacLeod never became famous. Here, after falling victim to a brain tumor, he narrates his life story from beyond the grave¿relying on his intelligence and prodigious memory to gain insight into the relationships, both romantic and platonic, that shaped his existence, and to understand his life more richly.

The sequel to the historical novel Eleanor's Wars, winner of the 2016 Benjamin Franklin Gold Award for Best New Voice: Fiction, Don't Put the Boats Away is a character-driven story about the privileged Sutton family's struggles with PTSD, alcoholism, divorce, and professional setbacks following World War II.

Barbara Hoffbeck never quite felt she fit into the small farming community of Big Stone City, South Dakota, where she was raised-but that didn't stop her from defying expectations and charging head-on into the unknown.

A Ring of Truth is the next exciting installment of the Henrietta and Inspector Clive series, in which Clive reveals that he is actually the heir of the Howard estate and fortune, Henrietta discovers she may not be who she thought she was¿and both must decide if they are really meant for each other.

Cathryn McAllister's carefully curated life is upended when she travels to Iceland to interview a charismatic glass artist who ignites a hunger for everything she's told herself she doesn't need anymore: Passion. Vulnerability. Risk. Gradually, she abandons the life-and the self-she's always relied on, until she comes face-to-face with devastating choices she never could have foreseen.

During a summer in Greece, Greek-American professor Thair Mylopoulos-Wright begins writing about her mother and grandmother's early-life experiences-an exercise that starts her on a quest for wholeness, and ultimately inspires her to forge a path for herself that goes beyond the traditional.