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A memoir that shares what happens when Kathy Elkind, a curious woman about to enter the last third of her life, decides to take a long walk— 1,400 miles—across Europe with her husband of almost thirty years. Will her body and relationship make it to the end?

Facing an existential crisis, Melissa Giberson—a suburban woman in midlife—searches for her authentic self even as she desperately clings to the stable life she¿s created for her children. Can she be true to herself and be a good mother? Or will her children hate her for changing their story?

Buckle up for a wild ride in the vet truck with Dr. Melinda McCall, a large animal veterinarian in rural Virginia. No two days are alike as she skillfully deals with the antics of both animals and humans with humor and grit—and makes you howl with laughter along the way.

What is the true source of spiritual freedom? Faced with the impending loss of her mother just as her new start on life is beginning, Sherry Sidoti chooses to lean in to the memories homed in her body, turn to her yoga and mindfulness practice, and forge forward with self-awareness in an attempt to answer one of life¿s most elusive questions.

Family, romance and gangsters support and thwart Golda, Ben, and Morty from achieving their dreams: Golda gives up independence to marry her widowed brother-in-law, Ben, and care for baby Morty; later, Ben¿s business mistakes cause financial disaster, forcing Morty to bargain with gangsters and sacrifice his love and career—and perhaps the ability to ever go home again—to save his father.

It¿s 1942. Cynical about her missing-in-action former lover's patriotism, gossip columnist Jane Benjamin aims for a national byline, volunteering to find a picture-perfect Wendy-the-Welder poster girl; but when two top choices die, Jane must choose between personal ambition and service before the murderer kills another girl—and Americäs best chance of winning the war.

Going for a big dream is a long journey, and sometimes it can be painful. How do you know when to keep going and when to pivot? How do you endure rejection and failure and tragedy? How do you find the courage to keep going when you feel weary or stuck?

First, biotech exec Will Franklin¿s boss angrily announces that he¿s about to fire him for reasons vaguely suggesting impropriety; then, just hours later, he succumbs to a critical illness and lands in the hospital on a ventilator, leaving Will few clues with which to untangle the mystery of his possible transgressions. Can Will clear his name before it¿s too late?

How does the emotionally abandoned daughter of an emotionally abandoned mother learn to support her own child in a healthy way? In Pursuit of Radio Mom is a clinical psychologist¿s journey about longing for the embrace of a mother who cannot reach back, and how one generation impacts the next.

What happens when a woman is told she must place her severely disabled twin in a nursing home? What happens to that twin when, after spending her entire life with her parents, she is sent to live with strangers in a place she doesn¿t know? Frank and moving, this memoir tells Debbie and Judy¿s story.

When Hollywood movie star Finn Forrester and philosopher Ella Sinclair meet on an exotic film set in Sweden, their connection is palpable. Living on location, making a film that explores the big questions of life, they fall madly in love. Will they be able to trust it and ask themselves the biggest question of all?

How did a British queen foster a court of women writers in the 1600s—an age when female authorship was rare? Follow American scholar Susan Godwin¿s quest to unearth Mary of Modenäs real story—a journey that involves revisiting seventeenth-century British spaces and delving deep into Oxford¿s archives—even as Godwin charts the course of her own resilient, feminist path.

Beneath the affluent veneer of a Southern California housing tract, five neighbors (a realtor, an aerobics teacher, an ex-con, a Vietnam vet, and a teenage boy) confront death, betrayal, financial decline, loneliness, and encroaching fascism. Set in the politically tumultuous summer of 2017, each character searches for home and community in a neighborhood where no one can agree who belongs.

A must-read collection of acclaimed writers, thinkers and activists, Aftermath: Life in Post-Roe America offers an indispensable look what the loss of Roe v. Wade means for American life, and what the future of the fight for reproductive justice may look like from here.

After Ali Stirling loses one of her best friends to suicide, suddenly and without warning, she and her other two best friends decide to hold their own funerals while they're still alive as part of their grieving process-an unexpectedly cathartic experience that teaches them volumes about themselves and their lost friend.

As a young woman in New Delhi, Kay Bhaskar enters into an arranged marriage to a social charmer-only to find that her new husband is an alcoholic with a wildly violent streak, and the system in India will do nothing to protect her. Ultimately, it is Kay alone who plans an escape, not only to set herself and her three children free but also to pursue joy and fulfillment in States, the country of her dreams.

In this funny, heartbreaking, timely memoir-told in the form of college admission essays?Irena Smith illuminates the dissonance of working as a college consultant in Palo Alto, California, helping the best and brightest students in the country gain admission to highly selective schools, even as her own children are unraveling.

This deeply personal memoir of Alenka Vrecek's 2,500-mile solo bikepacking pilgrimage along the spine of the snow-covered Sierra Nevada and into the hostile desert mountains and plains of Mexico's Baja Peninsula-a story about crossing emotional, physical, and cultural boundaries?will inspire readers to follow their own dreams as Alenka followed hers.

When her beloved husband took his life, and with it her life as she knew it, Suzanne Anderson faced a choice: would she be broken down and defeated, or broken open and transformed? Part memoir, part guidebook, You Make Your Path by Walking accompanies readers on their own journeys through the barren landscape of trauma and grief, offering comfort, guidance, and inspiration to make meaning out of loss.

When Kate travels to work in Greece in 1974, she is dropped into the cauldron of anti-Americanism that has begun to bubble following the end of Greece's seven-year dictatorship-but that doesn't stop her from falling in love with a handsome Communist and becoming embroiled in dangerous political intrigue. Will she return to America?or will she remain with her lover in Greece, which has also captured her heart?

A mother's impending death forces her three alienated middle-aged daughters-a diner waitress, a heartsick alcoholic, and a Las Vegas showgirl whose career is on a sharp decline?to finally face each other and the mystery of their father's disappearance.

In this past-the-blush-of-youth adventure story, Marianne Bohr and her husband head to Corsica to celebrate turning sixty by hiking the 124-mile GR20, Europe's toughest long-distance footpath, and find themselves confronted with universal themes-coming to terms with aging, surmounting physical limitations, and being kind to oneself?along the way.

In 1938, when the Nazis invade Czechoslovakia, a young Romani girl, Jana, discovers that everything she knows and loves is in danger. In this maelstrom of history, she and two new friends, Otto and Franz, must fight for their countries, their futures, and their lives.

Tuni Deignan spent most of her life using a whole host of coping mechanisms to avoid facing the trauma of her childhood: a sexually abusive father and a mother who seemed helpless to stop him. But when a bike accident rendered her immobile and dependent on narcotics at age fifty-five, she finally sat down to unwind and understand the circus of her life-a journey that led her to a place of understanding, peace, and even joy.

After a chance meeting in New York city, Bianca Curtis and "Eric," better known as insanely famous Korean actor Park Hyun Min, spend twelve perfect hours together-only to be torn apart at the end of the night by the inescapable realities of their very distinct worlds. But their story isn't even close to over yet.

January 2021, mid-pandemic, Christina Vo-single, childless, and in her early forties?sets off on a road trip with a close friend in search of a new place to call home. What ensues is an illuminating spiritual journey that finally allows her to make peace with the painful pieces of her past?as well as the unexpected shape of her present.

In the seaside town of Bantry in the west of Ireland, the O'Donovans struggle with the humiliation and poverty of living under a colonial power until events impel them to turn their backs on Ireland and set out for America.