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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.

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.

When the floor matron at the dance hall where Henrietta is working as a taxi dancer turns up murdered, she is persuaded by the aloof Inspector Clive Howard to go undercover to help find the killer¿even as they try to withstand their growing attraction for one another.

Thirty-seven-year-old piano teacher Camille Childs is a lost soul who is seeking recognition through her star student-so when her student unexpectedly leaves California to return to her village in Oaxaca, Mexico, Camille follows her. There, Camille meets Alejandro, a Zapotec man who helps her navigate the unfamiliar culture of Oaxaca and teaches her to view the world in a different light.

She wasn¿t glad he died but she was glad he was gone. Karen, a highly educated professional woman, is determined to find her own life after a struggle that began with her abusive husband¿s last gift to her: his death.

A practical guide offering best practices, checklists, and profiles of inspiring leaders for women who want to "do" philanthropy right, For a Good Cause is the go-to resource for how to give joyfully-and effectively.

When Eleanor "Els" Gordon's life cracks apart, she exiles herself to a derelict plantation house on the Caribbean island of Nevis-and discovers, with the help of its resident ghost, that only through love and forgiveness can she untangle years-old family secrets and set herself free to love again.

From his post at the headquarters of the German occupation during World War II, Hans Calmeyer surreptitiously saved thousands of Jewish lives in the Netherlands. Here, Laureen Nussbaum describes how Calmeyer declared her mother non-Jewish and deleted her and her family from the deportation lists-and traces the arc of both her life and Calmeyer's in the aftermath of the war.

After two European cataclysms disrupt the life of Irma-the wife of Vienna's Jewish city representative-she escapes to London and New York, where she restores her life by saving child refugees. This true story, told in Irma's words and narrated by her granddaughter, reveals an inspiring woman who used languages as her passport to a safer, more hopeful world.