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The Enneagram-a universal symbol of human purpose and possibility-is an excellent tool for doing the hardest part of consciousness work: realizing, owning, and accepting your strengths and weaknesses. In this comprehensive handbook, Beatrice Chestnut, PhD, traces the development of the personality as it relates to the nine types of the Enneagram, the three different subtype forms each type can take, and the path each of us can take toward liberation. With her guidance, readers will learn to observe themselves, face their fears and disowned Shadow aspects, and work to manifest their highest potential.

When Anne, a survivor of parental abuse who suffers from severe depression, falls in love with Milo, a dog with serious aggression issues, she finds herself unable to give up on him. Milo is dangerous, and Anne would never do anything to endanger her sons—but she also believes that everyone deserves a second chance.

In this engaging follow-up to her first book, Travel Mania, Karen Gershowitz reflects on the unusual places she's visited (in more than ninety countries!). Along the way, readers will be introduced to the unconventional people she's met, and weird-and often wonderful?food she's tasted, transporting readers deep into the richness of other cultures and inspiring them to set out on their own journeys.

The beloved actress from Little House on the Prairie tells her raw, authentic story of growing up with a loving but alcoholic father and her ultimate success-despite her own struggles with self-doubt, alcoholism, and other self-destructive choices. She ultimately finds healing and redemption.

Raised by parents unable to recover from the traumas, pain, and losses of WWII, Ruth Klein had a tumultuous and unusual childhood in a dysfunctional family. Living among other Holocaust survivors in a new country was profoundly difficult for Ruth, and coming through it all showed her the ways in which she was a survivor too.

World War II envelops Europe and Lena Kulkova flees Czechoslovakia to join her lover, Otto, in England, leaving her Jewish family behind in Prague. But Lena soon finds herself navigating anti-refugee sentiment, wartime deprivations, a new romance with a wealthy Englishman, and the progressive politics that will eventually oust Churchill. Based on family history and a trove of personal letters, When It¿s Over is a moving, resonant, and timely debut.

When her daughters are kidnapped and taken to Greece by their non-custodial father, single mom Lizbeth Meredith vows to bring her them home and give them a better childhood than her own.

Trying to escape her heritage, making Tokyo, New York and Paris her home and becoming ¿a citizen of the world¿, the formerly successful corporate lawyer ends up in a poor suburb of Tel Aviv, in the house she grew up in, nursing her dying mother. She is forced to revert to Hungary of the beginning of the 20th century, face the ghosts of the past and belatedly cut the umbilical cord that has had an all-consuming grip on her for more than five decades.

The companion journal to Blackwildgirl: A Writer's Journey to Take Back Her Superpower allows the reader to journey and journal along in a forty-five year quest as Blackwildgirl, a childhood queen superpower dethroned in a bargain made by her parents, reclaims her crown and becomes Blackwildgoddess-a fierce warrior for justice in the world.

Trying to figure out the right thing to do or say in your multicultural environment? Made up of practical cases of individuals who have used the principles of Conscious Change to navigate difficult and emotionally draining challenges, Conscious Change will help anyone, anywhere, who interacts with others of different backgrounds, beliefs, experiences, expectations, and values—which is to say, everyone!

A searing examination of the immigrant experience, The Fortune Teller's Prophecy is Lally Pia's tale of resilience in the face of a bungled Green Card—a four-continent quest to fulfill her dream of becoming a doctor.

The opioid death of a young teen is a loss like no other, and while an ambitious attorney is determined to find justice, the family wants revenge. Tautly paced and well researched, this legal thriller pulls back the curtain on the world of both prescription opioids and street drugs like methamphetamine and fentanyl.

Part history, part memoir, and 100% great New York story, The Woman in the Room is the extraordinary tale of a woman who witnessed a turbulent century and who lived to transform herself and the world around her.

Outrageous, hysterical, and at times terrifying, Chef Rossi's second memoir takes readers back to her teenage years, where she comes out, comes of age, and throws off the oppressive misogyny of the Chasidic Jewish tradition.

When she's abruptly snatched away from her home by a Hungarian father she does not know, four-year-old Penny finds herself in a strange, foreign household with a stepmother who alternately abuses and ignores her. Even after escaping that misery, she finds herself in yet another type of prison: fundamentalist Christianity. Ultimately, though, she finds the strength to stand up against societal and familial pressure and finds her way to happiness.

A tender and imaginative portrait of a young girl's coming of age while navigating the multiple challenges of her childhood with her mentally ill mother, this memoir explores the profound effects, across a generation, of decades of cultural silence regarding the issues of mental illness and clergy abuse.

Marina DelVecchio's biological mother was a prostitute who taught her to fear sex. Her adoptive mother was a virgin who taught her that sex was shameful and dirty. Stuck between these two polarizing mothers and their dysfunctions, Marina struggles to find not only her own sexual power but also her own voice.

To maintain access to her two sons, Catherine must face her childhood trauma, give up people-pleasing, and develop the backbone needed to stand up to her ex-husband, a wealthy lawyer. She uses her training in psychology for her own self-understanding and growth through their years of court hearings, never giving up the fight for her right to be her sons' mother.

When Sue Lick's husband's charming forgetfulness worsens into dementia, she trades her life of writing, music, and travel with the love of her life for years of caregiving, guilt, and impossible decisions. And yet the love remains.

In this palpably tense memoir, Diane Vonglis Parnell reveals—with brutal candor—how isolation and oppression protect her family's secrets after her abusive father moves their family to a rural part of Upstate New York.

A dream suddenly sparks to life when the pain of infertility coincides with a nuclear explosion, bringing mayhem, magic, and the Children of Chernobyl to Seattle. In this poignant memoir, Gail McCormick embarks on a soul-making journey to the storied cities and villages of Ukraine and Belarus—and finds her place in a four-generation global family.

When Marianne is abruptly laid off from her tech job during a recession, she's forced to move back to the seedy Kansas City neighborhood she thought she'd left forever. As she applies for jobs in an industry that doesn't value the middle-aged, Marianne must rally her inner strength to rebuild her life again.

After revealing long-held secrets of adverse childhood experiences including clergy abuse, Kathleen Rose Morgan discovers energy medicine and is far into a healing journey when her dying mother confesses to complicity in her abuse. The revelation sends her on a multidimensional quest to discover what really happened and uncovers long-held traumatic secrets of betrayal and generational trauma.

For those who have lost a cherished pet or who know that loss is on the horizon, this guidebook offers compassionate guidance for how to work through the associated grief, as well as an extensive list of ways to honor and remember them.

Hiding who you are can't help but alter the course of your life—and in some cases, it can even kill us or those we hold most dear. In this memoir of her twenty-two-year career in the U.S. Navy, retired Senior Chief Karen Solt shines a light on the heavy toll NCIS witch hunts and Don't Ask Don't Tell took on her and other LGBTQ Americans who donned the uniform in the 1980s-2000s.

What can go wrong when a Type-A physician and mother moves her young family to a country where they've never been and can't speak the language? Amy Breen quickly realizes that her identity back home doesn't translate to her new life in her new land—but gradually, she begins to understand that this disconnect might just be the best thing that's ever happened to her.

On the run from the psychiatric facility where they fell in love, two suicidal young adults embark on an increasingly perilous cross-country odyssey in search of truth, beauty, and the meaning of life—forcing their mothers into an uneasy alliance as they embark on a journey of their own, hoping to find their kids before it's too late.

When Liz Millanova meets two unlikely friends in a support group for stage four cancer patients, they ditch the group and form their own, aiming to enjoy life while they can. In the process, they help one another reach acceptance, resolve family issues, and find love and peace at the end of their lives.

After hearing a recording of The Mikado at thirteen and falling in love with the contralto, Ann Drummond-Grant, Marcia Menter is devastated to learn that "Drummie" has died. The aspiring young singer's voice lessons go wrong in every possible way, but her dogged pursuit of information about her idol ultimately reveals the extraordinary story of a singer beloved on both sides of the Atlantic.

This millennial bildungsroman follows Elena's journey in the SF Bay Area from an idealistic Teach for America teacher to a disillusioned project manager at a tech company. Amid the Occupy and Me Too movements, the 2016 election, and California's ever-worsening fire season, Elena must ultimately reconcile the person she envisioned herself to be and the person she actually is.