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Sidelined: How Women Manage & Mismanage Their Health discloses how women are marginalized and hesitate to take control over their own healthcare. Researcher and writer Susan Salenger explains why women are misdiagnosed more often than men, and why their symptoms often go unrecognized or even disputed.Knowing how to advocate for your own healthcare can mean the difference between healthy outcomes and years of needless agony or even death. This important women’s health book will equip readers with the knowledge, language, and skill sets they need to stop being another victim of a biased industry and get the best healthcare possible.

For anyone just starting out or starting over, this field guide-the Life's Little Instruction Book of the 21st Century-shares relatable advice and self-reflective prompts in the areas of work, love, personal growth, and more in the hopes of helping twentysomethings navigate the obstacles that lie ahead and recognize the wisdom they already possess.

International students and immigrants have been the secret ingredient in America's recipe for global success. America Calling shares one immigrant's story-a tale that reflects millions more, and shows us why preventing the world's best and brightest from seeking the American Dream will put this country's future in jeopardy.

The Space in Between follows empath Signe Myers Hovem as she explores and learns to accept and nurture her own empathic abilities-an instructive journey that will help readers dismantle long-held beliefs and rediscover what it means to live a truly authentic life.

Sixteen months after her wedding, a Taiwanese immigrant bride-inarticulate in English and disowned by her father-returns home to the Texas apartment she shares with her American husband, only to discover that in her two-hour absence he's taken all the money, moved out, and filed for divorce. Penniless, familyless, and voiceless, how will she survive in a foreign land?

Set in the early 1900s, Among the Beautiful Beasts is the untold story of the early life of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, known in her later years as a tireless activist for the Florida Everglades. After a childhood spent in New England estranged from her father and bewildered by her mother, who fades into madness, Marjory marries a swindler thirty years her senior. The marriage nearly destroys her, but Marjory finds the courage to move to Miami, where she is reunited with her father and begins a new life as a journalist in that bustling, booming frontier town. Buoyed by a growing sense of independence and an affair with a rival journalist, Marjory embraces a life lived at the intersection of the untamed Everglades and the rapacious urban development that threatens it. When the demands of a man once again begin to swallow Marjory''s own desires and dreams, she sees herself in the vulnerable, inimitable Everglades and is forced to decide whether to commit to a life of subjugation or leap into the wild unknown. Told in chapters that alternate between an urgent midnight chase through the wetlands and extensive narrative flashbacks, Among the Beautiful Beasts is at once suspenseful and deeply reflective.

"Vita brevis, ars longa-Life is short, art is long." These are the haunting last words Sarah Cunningham remembers her sister Ada saying. Now, Ada's mysterious death sends a grieving Sarah on a death-defying journey to discover the truth, redeem Ada's reputation, and preserve her art legacy.

A Victorian era painting of four sisters, a lonely teenage girl, and the ugly secrets that tie them together-this time-travel tale effortlessly blends past and present, transporting readers between the troubled Boit sisters' world, Paris in 1882, and fifteen-year-old Victoria's, Boston in 1963, where the young heroine confronts demons that haunt not only the Boit family but also her own.

We each have a gift meant to be used, and accessing the full power and creativity of this gift requires reconnecting with the wise and intelligent universe from whence it came. Both a philosophy and a way of life, Leadership Flow is a must-read for new and experienced leaders seeking an alternative way to make an impact and make a difference.

Jennifer Katz is a happily married psychologist-until her husband suddenly dies one day, and her world is turned upside down. The Good Widow follow's Jenny's journey as she processes her grief, establishes a new life, and discovers herself through loss.

This is a story about the power of written letters and their ability to connect us, fulfilling our need for human connection. With Operation Desert Storm serving as the backdrop, it is also a story about the uncertainty of life, how the rules of the game can change in an instant, and how to keep moving forward when faced with everyday challenges.

Paris. Tokyo. Shanghai. Seoul. Em's Awful Good Fortune is part global romp, part dysfunctional marriage. Em is not simply married-it's more like she's handcuffed to her husband's international career. Sure, they might be velvet cuffs, but still . . . cuffed. What else can she do but stomp her way through global capitals in search of her own identity?

A slim, fast-paced, savvy volume that takes readers through the emotional roller coaster of dealing with being fired, seamlessly integrating practical advice and women's experiences into a narrative of resilience Involuntary Exit is a must-read for all professional women, because-let's face it-it could happen to any one of us.

Plans. Everyone makes them. Life rarely follows them. After years of infertility and multiple miscarriages, Melissa Harris is dismayed to find herself about to give birth at just twenty-three weeks pregnant-but she discovers a fierceness in herself and in her micropreemie son, Sam, as he proves that even the tiniest of us can put up one hell of a fight.

It's 2050, and the world is in serious trouble. Before she disappeared, Quinn's scientist mother unlocked the secret to time travel. To find her and save her planet—and, hopefully, her love life—Quinn must follow the clues she left behind.

After twenty-four-year-old Kim falls in love with and marries fifty-six-year-old Vern, she quickly becomes pregnant-only to have their love tested by the ghosts of Vern's past, his failing health, and the unexpected arrival of a troubled young boy.

The dating scene is baffling, frustrating, and isolating for too many women in their mid-thirties and beyond. First Date Stories: Women¿s Romantic and Ridiculous Midlife Adventures—a collection of hopeful, hilarious, and horrific tales, plus dating tips and inspirational quotes—reminds readers that not all first dates are created equal, and sometimes they can be the beginning of something wonderful.

When Erin loses her husband on September 11, she thinks her life is lost, too. She surrenders to fate by diving into a self-destructive cocktail of grief, guilt, and substance abuse. But when the road to destiny presents a twist, she realizes she has one more chance to decide whether marriage means forever, or if there's life after happily ever after.

Too often, literature on leadership is designed for men-or insists that women have to be more like their male counterparts in order to succeed in business. Here, executive coach and former Catholic nun Ellen Snee shares how women can find confidence in their own competence, capitalize on their inherent strengths, and start leading in the most effective way possible: from the inside out.

Will Cleve live or die? This is the question LaDonna-his young, beautiful, pregnant, devastated wife-asks herself every day as she visits him at the small-town Minnesota hospital bed he lies in, unable to move or communicate.

Come back to the Texas Hill Country for the second installment in the Enchanted Rock series, where Sissie Klein meets her destiny-on the other side of tragedy.

In 1862, thirty-eight Dakota-Sioux men were hanged in the largest mass execution in US history. This is the story of two young women-one settler, one Dakota-Sioux-connected by the fate of the thirty-ninth man.

Riding High in April takes us across the world as one man risks it all for a final chance to make it big in the tech world. At stake are his reputation, his dwindling bank account, and his fifteen-year relationship with a woman grappling with who she is and what really matters to her.

One of the first Muslim women to graduate from West Point, a Jewish US Army captain, and a Somali migrant nicknamed Charlie Christmas risk everything for a refugee boy on a three-decade odyssey that takes them from Africa and Europe to Texas and Minnesota-and redefines what it means to be American in the twenty-first century.

In this YA drama that features all of life's most exciting firsts, as well as real-life issues like teen drug use and mental health, studious surfer girl Kendra falls for new bad boy at school Brock, and learns an important life lesson: it takes more than just a game of 21 Questions to really get to know someone-or even more so, yourself.

After flying alone to Europe at seventeen, Karen Gershowitz became addicted to travel and adventure-and went on to visit more than ninety countries. In these engaging stories, she reflects on the unique ways travel has changed her life.

Part memoir and part home life design, Homes With Heart shares stories of creativity and purposeful living, offers guidance for how to choose "families of the heart," and shows readers how to strengthen their homes by turning their living spaces into loving places that offer welcome, refuge, and belonging.

A daughter's tender and frank account of growing up with a closeted gay father whose double life became her inheritance and, in adulthood, the path to her own healing.

When Diana's first child, Emma, is born with a rare genetic disorder, Diana relinquishes her to an adoptive family, convinced they will parent and love Emma better than she ever could-but when fate intervenes and the adoption is reversed, bringing Emma back home, Diana experiences the healing and redemptive power of love.