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Sixteen-year-old aspiring artist Leni O'Hare loves brainy, gentle Caleb McGrath-so much so that she keeps from him a secret that would prevent their escape from their crumbling families and the remote Texas town that will surely crush their dreams. But the choice she makes casts a shadow that follows them both for generations?from Vietnam-era East Texas to New York City's downtown art scene in the 1980s, up to the present day. What will it take for the secret to be revealed?

When writer and arts researcher Dee Schwartz meets famous actor Ryder Field outside a bar one night, the romance that blossoms seems like a fairy tale . . . until Dee disappears into thin air after an awards ceremony, making everyone wonder if the fairy tale will have a darker ending than anyone could have anticipated.

Deeply in love, Cal and Mary brave divorce, marry, and help each other succeed in their work. Cal becomes a renowned inventor, Mary a best-selling author. Then Alzheimer's strikes. Cal faces his disease courageously, Mary finds ways to sustain their relationship despite it. While they don't beat Alzheimer's, it doesn't win either. Their love persists throughout and beyond their battle.

An urgent exposé revealing the most widespread yet little acknowledged threat to child well-being: lack of acceptance. This daring memoir not only uncovers the truth about how our schools and communities treat unique children but also provides meaningful insights for a more dignified future, through the lens of Taylor¿s own experiences raising a neurodiverse child.

In this personal and transformational memoir, Malaysia-born Amelia Zachry chronicles how the trauma of sexual assault and the challenges of living with bipolar disorder disrupted her life as a young woman?and how she managed to regain control of her life and, ultimately, find love, healing, and a sense of belonging after emigrating to the US.

She promised one year to live with her stubbornly independent mother, clean out the house her parents had stashed with musty history for five decades, and move her mother into assisted living. Four years later, daughter and mother are still in the kitchen fighting over food and territory, dementia and blindness in this fierce, compassionate, humorous story of self-discovery and forgiveness.

Intergenerational trauma is transformed into resilience and post traumatic growth in this gripping story of brutal domestic violence, family secrets, and uncommon wisdom. After Yvonne Martinez is taken in by her dying, once-prostitute grandmother, she later learns that her grandmother was long ago trafficked by her own mother in depression-era Utah¿a revelation that sends Yvonne on a search for answers ends in healing . . . and in her becoming an activist.

Troost is a real street. East of it is where you can buy a house if you're Black. It's also where our middle-aged white narrator grew up-and where she has just returned to reboot her life. How will she fare in this vastly changed world? This fictional story, punctuated by factual memoir, is by turns soul-searching, entertaining, and heartbreaking.

In this haunting memoir, Carol Richmond relives the ten-year experience of raising three children on her own after her ex-husband abandons his paternal responsibilities. One of her sons attempts suicide, the other fails academically, and her daughter is sexually abused by a trusted acquaintance-yet the family endures, because they must.

When a life-threatening illness makes it necessary for Virginia Simpson¿s mother, Ruth, to come live with her, Simpson struggles to heal their relationship before Ruth dies.

What would you do if you wanted something but didn't know how to get it? What if you were incarcerated but didn't know why? What if you followed up on a decades-old whim? When is a society truly perfect, and who decides? And what awaits us at the end of our lives? In this fascinating short story collection, Nancy Joie Wilkie explores these questions and more.

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.

When a pregnancy following years of infertility ends in late miscarriage, Margo Kerber sinks into a depression-one that leads her, when she encounters a briefly unattended baby, to commit an unthinkable crime.

Surrendered at birth in a closed adoption, Candi Byrne strives for decades to fit in to her adoptive ¿frankenfamily¿¿only to finally discover, after a series of unanticipated events, that her true home has been with her all along in this raw, often wry, memoir of mothers, mysteries, and miracles.

A moving, inspirational memoir about how living and working in an all-black town during the height of the civil rights movement profoundly affected the author's entire family-and how they in turn impacted the community.

In this riveting novel full of imaginative art world revelations, betrayals, and twists, an aspiring art historian leaves her troubled parents to study in New York where she struggles to impress her misogynist advisor? until she discovers a hidden painting and flees to Spain to prove it's a masterpiece.

When Debbie Weiss lost her first and only true love at fifty years old, she went through an intense period of grieving—and then dove headfirst into online dating. This is her full-hearted, darkly funny, unvarnished account of learning to be alone at middle age—and finally becoming her true self.

In his mid-twenties, Jeremy Ivester began taking testosterone and had surgery to remove his breasts. This memoir is both Jeremy's and his family's coming out story, told from multiple perspectives-a story of acceptance in a world not quite ready to accept.

When the Rayson family leaves the East Coast for the gathering anarchy of Berkeley, young Alice Rayson embraces the moment in a place that's fast becoming a cultural ground zero--and for a girl, that's no Summer of Love.

Only two obstacles stand in Adélaïde¿s way of becoming the most sought-after woman portraitist in eighteenth-century Paris: a beautiful, talented rival¿and one of the bloodiest revolutions in history.