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An eye-witness account of a mother of two children under the age of five who has to come to grips with both a divorce and her mother¿s terminal diagnosis of cancer.

When Casey gets into trouble hanging out with the wrong crowd in New Orleans, her parents decide to move back to their Orthodox Syrian Jewish community in Brooklyn-where, swayed by the community's Middle Eastern values and her parents' traditional wishes, Casey marries Michael at eighteen, thinking she can adjust to Sephardic ways. But can she?

Janice Morgan faces her worst nightmare when her son is arrested for drug charges and wanton endangerment with a handgun. When she learns that he can have his sentence diverted if he completes the drug court program, she reflects on what it will take to avoid falling back into codependent patterns-and truly help her son.

When Brin Miller discovers that her teenage stepson has been sexually abusing her two young daughters, her life is upended and her crumbling marriage shatters completely. But she and her husband, along with their girls, work to learn resilience, forgiveness, strength, and courage, and in doing so, the unimaginable happens: they begin to heal.

Marilee Eaves has struggled her whole life to fit into her lineage-the long line of kings and queens of the secret elitist Mardi Gras societies that rule New Orleans-but when, as a student at Wellesley, she's hospitalized at McLean psychiatric hospital, she begins her journey to break free and stand on her own two feet.

Louisiana, 1969. Colleen, a white northern teacher, enters into the unfamiliar culture of a small southern town and its unwritten rules as the town surrenders to mandated school integration. Frank, a black high school football player, protects his family with a secret. Can Evelyn, a prized member of the black community, put aside her distrust and value Colleen's unproven efforts?

In the summer of 1994, a lightning accident on the coast of Maine leaves Nancy Bills¿s husband dead and her younger son critically hurt. In this inspiring memoir, Bills captures the shock and grief that follow this unusual and devastating loss, and shares how she and her sons find the strength to recover from it.

In the midst of teenage rebellion, English, the youngest of six, finds her mother dead in the bathroom. Alone with a difficult father, she is sent a one-way ticket from New Jersey to San Francisco, embarking upon a journey that takes her through the earliest days of the counterculture, psychedelics, and free love, on into single parenthood, and eventually a place of fully owning her own strengths and abilities.

An unflinching look at violence and the journey of reclaiming a life after a tragic event unveils a horrific family secret.

Rae Sullivan¿s comfortable existence as a shop owner in a small northern California town is upended when her business partner is murdered in Golden Gate Park. Frustrated with the avenues the police are pursuing, Rae embarks on her own investigation, which eventually leads her to France and puts her marriage¿and her life¿in jeopardy.

The first book to reveal the true story of the woman who wrote The Velveteen Rabbit and her daughter, a world-famous child prodigy artist, (The Velveteen Daughter) explores the consequences of early fame, the effects of mental illness on art and genius, and the inability of a mother to save her daughter from herself.

From two pioneers in women¿s leadership development, Suzanne Anderson, MA and Dr. Susan Cannon. The Way of The Mysterial Woman offers a revolutionary yet practical road map for upgrading your life, work, and relationships, and reveals how your choice to transform is part of an astonishing future trend.

Three women. A single, sweltering day that will leave no one unchanged.

In this lush and vivid coming-of-age memoir about a mother's mental illness and the healing power of a loving Jewish and Hispanic extended family, young Marlena must pull away from her mother, leave her Panama home, and navigate the transition to an American world.

Forty-six-year-old Amy Daughters flies home to Houston for Thanksgiving-and is mysteriously hurled back through time to 1978, where she's forced to visit her childhood home, including her ten-year old self, for thirty-six hours.

Raised in abject poverty, terrorized by a boarder who lived in the root cellar, a California career woman repressed the memories, condemning her to a life of melancholy and despair-until a powerful spiritual experience opened doors into other dimensions.