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When her beloved husband took his life, and with it her life as she knew it, Suzanne Anderson faced a choice: would she be broken down and defeated, or broken open and transformed? Part memoir, part guidebook, You Make Your Path by Walking accompanies readers on their own journeys through the barren landscape of trauma and grief, offering comfort, guidance, and inspiration to make meaning out of loss.

Amid the many obstacles she and her husband, Michael, face after his diagnosis with multiple sclerosis, Suzanne Marriott's love for him grows-creating a bond even death cannot sever-and she learns to be a compassionate caregiver for both him and, ultimately, herself. Candid and illuminating, Marriott's story of spiritual and psychological growth through caregiving will appeal to anyone facing a life-changing crisis.

When Big Pharma exec Leo Cushman is fatally stabbed, the highly intuitive Detective Anna Crane has many suspects, including Obliterate Opiates activists, a disinherited family, and an addict vowing vengeance—but her prime target is the brilliant biochemist Eleanor Kiernan, to whom Detective Crane finds herself irresistibly drawn.

When an unexpected and insistent inner voice launches Linda out of marriage and into the powerful spiritual energies of St. John, Santa Fe, and Bali, she stumbles into a cast of memorable characters who open doorways, play games, teach lessons, and move her inexorably toward her goal of unraveling the Truth of human existence.

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.

Henrietta and Clive race across Europe in search of a missing panel of the Ghent Altarpiece, intent on finding it before it falls into the hands of the Nazis, who believe it contains a coded map to the Arma Christi¿weapons of ultimate power.

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.

The remarkable discovery that her ancestor—the wife of a Confederate general—gave birth to a biracial baby during the Civil War sets Temple Preston on a mission to uncover secrets from her family¿s slaveholding past. But when she sparks a backlash in her hometown, Temple must decide how much she¿s willing to lose to tell the truth.

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.

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.

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.

Promenade of Desire narrates a young woman¿s journey from repression to liberation in tandem with Spain¿s transition from dictatorship to democracy. As the country transforms itself, the shy María Isidra evolves into the alluring Isadora, whose passion for books and salsa dancing sustains her as she discovers what it means to be lustful and loved, and reclaims her whole self.

It took Cynthia James many decades to find her authentic voice; today, she supports clients around the world to do the same. In this accessible, inspiring guide, she examines why uncovering your own voice is so important—and shares tools and guidance for how to get there.

Written for everyone who's had a love/hate relationship with their job, this smart, funny novel by a former Wall Street sales pro reveals what it was like for a woman to build a successful career and a satisfying personal life in the macho world of 1980s stock trading.

A college student with a fear of public speaking finds herself leading a movement to abolish corporations, pushed to the forefront by a mysterious law student with a past.

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.

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.

In 1972 rural Pennsylvania, Lynda and JT's connection was a magical, interracial, and controversial young love that grew through sharing late-night letters and songs-until their own insecurities let the people around them tear them apart. Four decades later, fate brings them back together-but is it too late?

After her teenage son dies, Linda Broder loses her faith, her music, and her hope. But then birds begin to show up in unexpected places-and take her on a spiritual journey that pulls her back to music, and teaches her how to find sacred wonder even in the midst of unimaginable loss.

What do you get when you unite lessons on the trail with King Jehoshaphat's prayer? A unique path toward letting go, trusting in God, and living your best life.

Confronted by an importuning mother 3,000 miles away who thinks her end is nigh¿and feeling ambushed by her impending middle age¿Hollis Giammatteo determines to find The Map of Aging Well, a decision that leads her on an often-comic journey.