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Terri Laxton Brooks spends her whole life feeling -but it's only after divorcing her husband and moving to an entirely new city on her own that she's finally able to confront the trauma of loneliness that's haunted her for years . . . and learn to embrace and heal from it.

After suffering from depression all her life, twenty-five-year-old Max Dorigan joins a mysterious research project on a Caribbean island, where she's introduced to the magical and healing world of lucid dreaming.

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.

When thirty-year-old Lindsey, an English teacher from Boston who's been assigned to a tiny Japanese fishing town, is saved from drowning by a local young fisherman, she's drawn into a battle with a neighboring town that has high stakes for everyone-especially her.

When Emma Streat's rich, socialite godmother is threatened with blackmail, Emma becomes immersed in the dark world of cybercrime-and mounting dangers take her to exclusive places in Europe and contacts with the elite in financial and art collecting circles. Through passion and heartbreak, Emma must fight to save herself and bring a vicious criminal to justice.

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.

Finding out she's the daughter of Zeus is not what a foster kid like Phoebe Katz expected to hear from a talking statue of Athena. But when her beloved social worker is kidnapped, Phoebe and her two friends must travel back to ancient Greece and rescue him before she accidentally destroys Olympus.

Cancer has left Ella mute, but not powerless. When she finds herself in a parallel dimension, she must paint to communicate, fight alongside fearsome warrior-creatures, and-along with her mom, Tessa, and grandpa Archie-overcome the Wellsley family's past in order to ensure a future for everyone.

When Dani--one of many civilians living on the fringes to evade a war that's been raging between a faction of aliens and the remnants of Earth's military for decades--discovers that she's not human, her life is upended, and she's drawn into the very battle she's spent her whole life avoiding. avoiding.

When Napoleon's army enters the sleepy port city of Ancona, Italy, lives-including those of a Jewish girl torn between love and duty, a dashing French cavalryman, a devoutly Catholic housewife, a brave Jewish soldier, and of course, Napoleon himself-are changed forever.

Twelve families share stories of the triumph and heartache that accompanies adopting children from the U.S. foster care system in this book that doubles as a resource to families considering adoption, families in the process of adoption, and families who have already adopted children from foster care.

When the only man thirty-six-year-old Gabriella Stevens has ever loved walks out on her, she feels like her world is ending—but as she begins to forge her own way forward for the first time in her life, she discovers an inner resilience and strength that she never knew she possessed.

Half a world apart, soul mates Nettie and Andy struggle to survive-one in a hospital with ugly secrets and treacherous people, the other in the dangerous shadows of the Vietnamese jungle.

When thirty-nine-year-old Kristen Rademacher loses her baby, she must endure the barren and disorienting days an aching mother faces without her child, accept the consequences of rash decisions and ill-fated relationships, and nurture a mysterious healing that takes root while rebuilding a life and identity forever altered.

A boat captain is forced to team up with the woman who stole his job in order to save his New England island home from developers.

Warrior Mother: Fierce Love, Unbearable, Loss, and Rituals that Heal is the true story of a mother's fierce love and determination, and her willingness to go outside the bounds of the ordinary when two of her three adult children are diagnosed with life-threatening disease.

Some people might say that, at age 46, Jane ¿Par¿ Parker is too old to win golf tournaments; too old to fear her mother; and too old, after twenty years, to still feel heavy grief over the murder of her father. But Par has an obsessively tight grip on the past, and no one can tell her to live her life otherwise.Par is maniacally driven to win a golf tournament she hasn¿t been able to win in ten years. Recent low-scoring rounds have strengthened her confidence. Distractions conspire against her: she spends a night in jail for a crime she blames on her husband; reads about her arrest on the front page; learns she has an enemy at the newspaper; and discovers shocking love affairs by those closest to her. A Tight Grip celebrates the bonds of female friendships as Par Parker processes her life with her three closest friends. She discovers the transformative power of adversity, and seizes options to evolve as a person, an athlete, and a best friend.