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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.

This is a memoir of mermaids, boat arrests, working girls, and uncharted islands; of a girl forced to navigate survival and adventure while raised by her father on a thirty-foot sailboat circumnavigating the world; of sifting through what is presented to you in childhood, expected of you in society, and finding your true self and desires in the process.

An alcoholic mother to three children, Patty Tierney lives a double life as a sex worker for seventeen years, only to realize one day that she has become her own mother—an alcoholic who abandoned her when she was five. But unlike her mother, she¿s determined to make things right.

It¿s 1969. Fiona, a brilliant, beautiful art student, struggles to find herself as she lives through the dramatic events of her time: sex, drugs, and rock ¿n roll, the first draft lottery since World War II, the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam, the Kent State shootings, and more.

After sixteen-year-old Helen, a young Jewish girl from Russia, comes alone across the Atlantic to the Lower East Side of New York in the year 1900, she devotes herself to bringing the rest of her family to safety and opportunity in the new world-and finds love along the way.

After fleeing England and her ill-fated love for the Christian knight Ivanhoe, the Jewess Rebecca builds a new life as a physician in thirteenth-century Salerno. When a rabbi is falsely accused of murdering a crusader, she throws herself into pursuing justice and protecting the Jewish community.

Sarah is a nineteen-year-old Jewish artist living in Paris at the outset of World War II. Her gift for forgery makes leads her to Marseille, where she joins a secret network dedicated to saving political refugees, writers, and artists from arrest by Hitler’s Gestapo. Will passion and cunning be enough to keep them all alive?

When suburban mom Kate Whittier's husband admits one night to a drunken sexual indiscretion, the beautiful life they've built together begins to crumble, unearthing long-buried memories and revealing deceits that threaten to shatter Kate's world, inside and out.

A poignant collection of essays, poetry, and art from She Writes Press authors to showcase how creativity supports us all to thrive, especially when the world is in crisis.

When her beloved father vanishes in 1919, Leola has little time to question why. Pandemic and social turmoil rage across Texas, poverty looms, and her two young sisters need her. Only decades later, as Papa reappears in urgent visions, does Leola finally confront his betrayal, setting into a motion a stunning discovery about her family that may finally bring her the peace she seeks.

A woman¿s faith in herself is scorched to the core when she flees a California firestorm in the dead of night without alerting a single neighbor. How could this be? As a survivor of childhood trauma, an artist, and a mother she expected so much more of herself. Now everything is up for review.

Finding little literature or support available after suffering two miscarriages, Frieda Hoffman decided to create the resource she wished she’d had—real stories about pregnancy loss from real women, free of the off-putting lenses of religion or academia—in the hopes that it will provide other women comfort and wisdom when they need it most.