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During the summer of 1959, ten-year-old Theresa "Tessie" Finley has her work cut out for her. Not only is she attempting to come to grips with the devastating loss and guilt she feels after witnessing her father's death, but her kid sister, Birdie, refuses to believe that their beloved daddy is really gone. Tessie needs to make sure that she does before their mom gets wind of how much "weirder" her sister's getting. Stronger and more down to earth than ethereal Birdie, Tess has always watched over her sister, so it's only natural for her to come up with a plan that she jots down on one of her never-ending to-do lists. If she can't achieve her goals, she's desperately worried that her beautiful, but self-centered mother, Louise, might send emotionally-fragile Birdie to the county insane asylum. Her daddy always told her, "A Finley never throws in the towel," so more than anything Tess wants to make him proud. But despite her resourcefulness and grit, she's smart enough to know that the odds are stacked against her and her time is running out. Heartbreaking, funny, nostalgic, and spiritually uplifting, you'll cheer the Finley sisters on from the first page to the last of this charming novella that sets the stage for the accompanying novel, The Resurrection of Tess Blessing.

When Colleen Haggerty lost her leg in an accident during her senior year of high school, she could have retreated from life and let her disability become her defining quality-and no one would have blamed her for it. Instead, she went the opposite way. In the years following her accident, Haggerty explored her physical world with vigor, testing the limits of her body by joining a ski team, playing with a co-ed soccer team, and taking up kayaking and backpacking. She also tested the limits of her heart, pursuing love and passion with restless men.In A Leg to Stand On, Haggerty recounts her life as a disabled woman, from redefining herself as a young woman after tragedy-fierce and able, but haunted by hard choices and suppressed grief-to choosing marriage and motherhood. That choice comes at great cost to the physical freedom Haggerty has fought for, but ultimately she redemption, fulfillment, and self-acceptance in the bargain. No one will read this book without being inspired to accept their past and create the future they always wanted.

Imagine growing up smart, ambitious, and queer in a home where your father Sigmund Freud thinks that women should aspire to be wives and calls lesbianism a gateway to mental illness. He also says that lesbianism is always caused by the father, and is usually curable by psychoanalysis.Then he analyzes you.Ultimately Anna Freud loved Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham (heir to the Tiffany fortune) for 54 years. They raised a family together and became psychoanalysts in their own right, specializing in work with children. But first Anna had to navigate childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood in a famous family where her kind of romantic longings were considered dangerous.What was it like to grow up the lesbian daughter of ¿the great Sigmund Freud¿? Aside from Annäs sexuality and from her father¿s intrusive psychoanalysis of her, what were the Freud family's most closely closeted skeletons? What is it about the birth of psychoanalysis that even today's psychoanalysts would prefer to keep secret? How did Anna defy her father so thoroughly while continuing to love him and learn from him?Weaving a grand tale out of a pile of crazy facts, Hysterical: Anna Freud's Story lets the pioneering child psychologist freely examine the forces that shaped her life.

A poignant collection of essays, poetry, and art from She Writes Press authors to showcase how creativity supports us all to thrive, especially when the world is in crisis.

In the late 1960s, Patricia Grayhall defies societal norms by coming out as a lesbian and dreaming of becoming a doctor-but the free-wheeling sexual revolution and the demands of her medical training complicate her search for the equal, loving relationship with a woman she so desires. Can she have both love and career?

When her beloved father vanishes in 1919, Leola has little time to question why. Pandemic and social turmoil rage across Texas, poverty looms, and her two young sisters need her. Only decades later, as Papa reappears in urgent visions, does Leola finally confront his betrayal, setting into a motion a stunning discovery about her family that may finally bring her the peace she seeks.

When her daughters are kidnapped and taken to Greece by their non-custodial father, single mom Lizbeth Meredith vows to bring her them home and give them a better childhood than her own.

On November 5, 1917, Taylorville, Illinois native Clara Taylor stepped off a Trans-Siberian Railway train into a city then called Petrograd, Russia. Employed by the YWCA as an industrial expert, Clara had been sent to Russia to help establish Associations in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) and Moscow. Her main charge while in Russia was to survey and report on factory conditions, but Clara only spent a fraction of her stay in Russia visiting factories; due to the vagaries of the political, social, and economic revolution-the upheaval of an entire culture-Clara and her colleagues spent most of their first year in Russia teaching English, home economics, book keeping, literature, and basketball, and sponsoring lectures, dances and sing-alongs for Russian working women. Clara's letters, collected in this book, tell of both the mundane and the extraordinary: what the YW staff ate for dinner; how the Bolshevik suppression of free speech impacted Americans' ability to communicate with those at home; shootings in the streets; bartering for pounds of sugar; conversing with nobility, with intellectuals, and with workers; attending the opera; and sight-seeing at monasteries. Together, Clara's letters to her family-her "e;dearest ones at home"e;-tell a compelling story of one American woman's experiences in Revolutionary Russia.

Want to change your life and also change the world? It begins with choosing kindness. In A Year of Living Kindly, Donna Cameron shows how we can overcome the barriers that impede both giving and receiving kindness-and how we can help others do the same.

When Tessäs husband¿s obsession resurrects a trauma from her childhood, he insists to her that their livelihood depends on her silence. Everyone thinks she¿s living the perfect life—but she's really living the perfect lie.

Following the deaths of her parents, Linda Murphy Marshall returns to her midwestern childhood home; in the process of going through each room, she evokes memories and insights from her patriarchal 1960s upbringing, and?informed by her training as a translator?finds new meanings in the often disturbing events that took place in that home.

Louise Carnachan has helped thousands of people thrive at work by improving relationships with their colleagues; here, she provides concrete, actionable steps to deal with an array of problematic coworkers.

Francesca Bodin¿s near perfect life is upended when a snowmobiling accident lands her, her husband Ben, and their four-year-old daughter in frozen lake. When he gets out, leaving them to die, she realizes her life isn¿t as perfect as she thought it was.

When Shelley, who has always believed that her husband is a mild-mannered management consultant, discovers that he is actually a deep-cover CIA officer, the news sends her reeling-and that's just the first of many shocking surprises, and unexpected adventures, to follow.

When Barbara Kennard realized that her perfectionism was holding her back from being the teacher she’d always wanted to be, she thought about abandoning the professional together; instead, she took a risk and gave up everything she knew about teaching in the United States to teach at The Dragon School in Oxford, England, where—by the grace of God—she finally learned to deal with her own inner “dragons.”

With humor, lived experience, and actionable advice, positivity expert and author Jane Enright offers inspiration and hope to readers on accepting unplanned change, building resilience, and landing butter side up in in the game of life.

The historical fiction account of Marion Davies’ thirty-four-year relationship with William Randolph Hearst including a whirlwind courtship, a movie career spanning two decades and forty-four films, a secret child, and harrowing family excesses, not to mention a secret love affair with Charlie Chaplin. The Blue Butterfly is a behind-the-scenes look into the opulent private life of Marion Davies and how the movie Citizen Kane stole her legacy and turned everyone against her.

A moving memoir of a young nurse's experience trekking with a local health team in rural Nepal, Beyond the Next Village chronicles how, after arriving in the roadless district of Gorkha in 1978, Mary Anne Mercer experiences firsthand the interlacing of modern medicine with an ancient culture-and her life is gradually transformed by immersion in the daily lives of villagers and her team.

A gripping and ultimately redemptive story full of surprises, plot twists, and you-can't-believe-it's-true moments, You'll Forget This Ever Happened is a testament to a mother's enduring love-but it's also much more.

Against a backdrop of pagodas and enigmatic customs, Lidia De Campos-a mature artist carrying a private burden-tours a Southeast Asian country recently reopened to the world after a long dictatorship with a disparate group of characters; along the way, they all encounter adventures that challenge their assumptions-and Lidia embarks on a love affair with a surprising conclusion.

When acclaimed wildlife photographer Clare Rainbow-Dashell flees the fallout of an ill-advised affair with a professor, she finds herself in the Namib Desert, where she gets caught up in the crisis of endangered species preservation-and caught between two very different men.

Uninspired economist Hannah has just lost her job and is determined to change everything about her life when she heads to Vermont to be the sole caregiver for her sister's children for the summer-an experience that proves to be more transformative than she expected after she meets next-door neighbor Nathan.

A grief memoir with a paranormal twist, Feeling Fate recounts a fairy tale romance marked by a dark intuition of loss. When the premonition comes true, Joni-a woman torn between faith and skepticism-ultimately finds healing from and meaning in her grief through imagination and insights of the heart.

In this second installment of the Sean McPherson series, a whale-watching cruise goes terribly wrong: two lovers on deck, one sniper on shore, and no way out.

When Bruce Duncan, a surgeon who is part of the “greatest generation,” returns home after WWII, he strives to hide his internal wounds by building a quiet life of running a small-town medical practice and fly-fishing in the area’s treasured waters. But when the idyllic peace of this new existence is shattered, Bruce finds himself fighting again for his life and for a new purpose—a battle that requires him to confront his deepest fears and find a stream to follow.

The Lovely Bones meets the Wild, Wild West in this haunting tale of betrayal, revenge, and redemption inspired by the true story of a much-sought-after nineteenth-century prostitute who longs to return to respectable society-but instead endures the ultimate betrayal.