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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.

When David's determined search for meaning and independence drives him to decide to live in an isolated New Hampshire cabin inherited from his recently deceased grandfather, his girlfriend's dark past and his family's long-buried secrets prove to be the greatest tests of his resilience.

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.

In this gripping and intimate memoir of growing up with an abusive father, Teressa Shelton delivers a story of survival and redemption.

This story begins with an ending: the day Maureen Muldoon realized the devastating fact that her husband was having an affair¿and leaving her for Miss Universe. Miss freaking Universe! How does this even happen?

A road map to navigating the turbulence of personal and professional shifts, this timely, field-tested guide encourages readers to transform reaction into clarity, blame into compassion, and confusion into choice.

When a recently engaged Manhattanite learns that her first great love has been diagnosed with ALS, she is faced with the impossible decision of whether a few final months with her ex might be worth risking her entire future. A fast-paced emotional journey that explores whether it's possible to be equally in love with two men at once.

Three desperate but spirited women of New Orleans¿a voodoo priestess, a plantation mistress who has out-of-body experiences, and a prostitute¿forge a unique partnership in order to save their city from the British juggernaut. But their endeavors are compounded by secrets and sacrifices necessary for survival.

When Cutler left the United States to teach at the first school for Maasai girls in East Africa, she did so in the hopes that her work there would empower young women who faced overwhelming odds. Working alongside local educators, she was transformed by the community she found in Tanzania.

Set in the Blue Ridge Mountains during the summer of 1969, Moon Water follows Nettie, a gritty 16-year-old who is reeling from sucker punches coming from all directions. In the middle of this turmoil, an old medicine woman for the Monacan Indians gives her a cryptic message about a coming darkness: a blood moon whose veiled danger threatens Nettie and those she loves.

In 1969, as mounting tensions over the Vietnam War are dividing America, a young woman in college on an Army scholarship risks future and family to go undercover into the anti-war counterculture and is ultimately forced to make a life-altering choice as fateful as that of any Lottery draftee.

In her late sixties, with her children raised and gone and three decades of nursing behind her, Anita Swanson Speake finds out that her heart is dying-a diagnosis that starts her on a sometimes humorous, sometimes wrenching journey in search of God.

A frazzled suburban mom's life is upended when she is pushed too far by the ruthlessness of modern motherhood and goes on a do-or-die road trip to Las Vegas with her therapist.

After Amy Turner is mowed down by a pickup truck, she struggles to heal the trauma of her own brush with death—a process that, unexpectedly and despite her resistance, forces her to confront a childhood trauma she thought she resolved long ago: the morning her father climbed onto a fifty-foot-high ledge outside his hotel window and threatened to jump, an event that made national news.