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A hilarious peek into the Catholic school experience through the eyes of Kathy Gereau-who, by learning to laugh at the ridiculous bits of dogma, eventually finds the spiritual message within.

Brenda Lockhart¿s husband announces he¿s leaving her for an older, less attractive woman on the night of O.J. Simpson¿s slow speed chase through Southern California after the murder of his ex-wife. Devastated and lonely, Brenda becomes addicted to the media frenzy surrounding the murder investigations and trials. In the ensuing months, her whole family falls apart but ultimately comes together again in unexpected ways.

A guide for preventing or reversing heart disease, augmented with personal anecdotes from the author, guidelines from two leading cardiologists, recipes and information about the unexpected joys of a vegan life, Joyful, Delicious, Vegan empowers women to protect themselves from the number one killer in Americäby learning to prepare delicious, healing, plant-based foods in their own kitchens.

As a bisexual Jewish woman, Rachel Levine must battle the homophobia and misogyny of her own community, and even her own family, while falling in love, coming of age, and developing personally and professionally into the woman she was meant to become.

Del Rio District Attorney Callie McCall is determined to solve the murder of a migrant teen, but what will she do when her search for the killer leads her straight to the most powerful family in town-her own?

When adopted twin Julie faces several serious health issues at age forty-eight, she sets out to find her birth parents and finally gets the family medical history she's lacking-and she ends up on a years-long quest that ultimately reveals much more than she bargained for.

What if a stranger held the secret to your past that would change your life forever?

A compelling blend of biography and memoir, The Field House recounts the life of writer Rachel Field-whose works for adults and children were once wildly successful but are now largely forgotten-and how her chance "meeting" with the author through the whispers of an old, neglected island home in Maine sparked a startling friendship across time and impossible distance.

When graduate student Cassie Lyman discovers that she's related to the woman she's decided to write her doctoral dissertation about-Kate Easton, the founder of the Birth Control League of Massachusetts-her quest to discover the truth about Kate unearths some unpleasant family secrets.

From a crowded Asian city to a small South Pacific island, an expatriate wife chases her hope for a child of her own.

After confronting a childhood trauma that had resonated throughout her life, psychologist Dr. Judy Rabinor, an eating disorder expert, converted her pain into a gift and became a wounded healer-a journey that led her to write this must-read memoir for anyone dealing with a complicated mother-daughter relationship.

When Melanie Gibson needed a good kick in the pants to get her mind in order and her life back on track, she turned to the Korean martial art of taekwondo-and, from white belt to black belt, learned to trust herself, build confidence, and speak up for what she wanted in life.

Murder at a writing retreat in the Pacific Northwest, but this one isn't imaginary. Authors only kill with words. Or do they?

A spontaneous offer on her house prompts grief-stricken Lark to retreat to her hometown, smack in the middle of the Texas Hill Country Wine Trail-but it will take more than a change of address to heal her broken family.

When a no-nonsense business executive suffers a trifecta of losses in quick succession, she unwittingly undergoes a profound spiritual transformation-and ultimately discovers that the true source of her power comes from leading with an open heart.

Susannah understands that restoring her lost magic at the keyboard and maybe, just maybe, vaulting into the elite tier of "chosen" musicians will have a price. Everything does. But she never expected the price to be so high.

Maggie Dolin, forty-five years old, isn't dealing with getting older as well as she would like. But with her daughter about to leave for college, her husband acting increasingly distant, and her father-always her rock-deteriorating both physically and mentally, who can blame her?

After clashing with her Catholic school teacher over Thomas Jefferson's enslavement of people, Roberta Forest, a thirteen-year-old, questions religion and hypocrisy-at school, home, and nationwide-as the Watergate scandal unfolds.

It's 1964, and Evelyn-an adventurous and romantically inclined twenty-one-year-old-joins the Peace Corps and is sent to the Andes, where she falls in love with her village, her indigenous pupils . . . and a university student. Violating the sexual prohibitions of her Catholic upbringing, she finds herself pregnant and must choose whether to marry the father of her unborn child.

When Elisabeth Goodwin comes to California from Massachusetts in 1849 with her new husband, Nate, she quickly finds out he's not who she thought-but instead of suffering in a miserable marriage, she discovers her worth and potential during the gold rush, and carves out her independence in the liberal society of the early West.

Following the unexpected death of her alcoholic mother, sixteen-year-old Terry Sue decides her biological father, whom she doesn't know, could change her life for the better. By the time she finds him, however-after decades of searching-she understands that the nurturing she craved had been cultivated without him.

In these twelve linked short stories-pieces at once painful and yet also everyday slices of life-women and girls struggle to find their way amid cultural constraints.

A guilt-ridden young wife and mother struggles to keep a long-ago sexual assault and pregnancy a secret from her ambitious husband whose career aspirations depend upon her silence and unswerving loyalty to him.

Rachel Wilde-sent from another dimension to bring defective daemons in for repair-needs to locate two people: a woman whose ancestors held a destructive daemon at bay and a criminal trying to break dimensional barriers. Helped by a homeless man with unusual powers, she uncovers a rising shadow organization that's changing her world forever.

When Janice Mock's stage four cancer diagnosis causes her to examine her career as a successful trial lawyer and the relentless drive for wealth and excess that corporate America promotes, she comes to the realization that she must change in order to make the most of the rest of her life.

An intimate peek inside the homes and lives of the French, a collection of traditional French recipes (cuisine pauvre¿¿peasant foods¿), and a compendium of culinary cultural traditions, sprinkled with historical anecdotes and spiced with humor and deliciously candid memories, this culinary travel memoir¿the second of the Savoring the Olde Ways series¿reveals French families at their best and at their own dinner tables.

Krista Nerestant endured multiple traumas as a child in the Philippines and a young immigrant in the United States-yet she rose to face every obstacle she encountered with courage and self-love. Along the way, she found success and healing, discovered the hidden gifts of trauma, and eventually became a spiritual medium and inspirational leader in her community.

From 1872 to '73, renowned artist Edgar Degas called New Orleans home. Here, the narratives of two women-Estelle, his Creole cousin and sister-in-law, and Anne Gautier, who in 1970 finds a journal written by a relative who knew Degas-intersect . . . and a painting by Degas of Estelle spells trouble.

When her husband dies of cancer and her brother dies of AIDS in the same year Rosemary is catapulted into a hurricane of grief. Left to raise her two young daughters on her own, she seeks refuge in drugs and alcohol.

Borne by the Gulf Stream, thirteen curious objects are tangled in the flotsam on the Hebridean beach of Traigh Lar in Scotland. Erica Winchat, a young writer struggling with the stresses of a book contract, discovers them and tells the intriguing story behind each in her diary.