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We each have a gift meant to be used, and accessing the full power and creativity of this gift requires reconnecting with the wise and intelligent universe from whence it came. Both a philosophy and a way of life, Leadership Flow is a must-read for new and experienced leaders seeking an alternative way to make an impact and make a difference.

Where does a super stressed California corporate dynamo and mother of two go to save her marriage and reconnect with her kids while pursuing inner peace? A fortune teller? Shanghai? Yes to both of these is Tina Martin's response in this comedic, heartfelt portrayal of a woman's search for self.

Carolyn, an independent, free-spirited, fifty-something researcher, challenges herself to go on fifty dates to find a committed partner. Navigating the highs and lows of dating within the SF Bay Area sensual New Age community, her universal quest for love becomes a sexy adventure of self-discovery and self-love along the way to a man who matches her spirit.

An invaluable resource for writers, Where Do You Hang Your Hammock? debunks the myth that anxiety is the price of admission to a creative life. Inspiring and practical, this guidebook¿divided into five parts: Dream, Nourish, Write, Publish, and Promote¿shows writers how to use their present-moment circumstances as stepping-stones to a successful and meaningful writing life, navigated from the inside out.

When Rebecca Goldberg, a poor young widow with six children living in 1920s rural Massachusetts, had to decide between taking her older kids out of school to send them to work and breaking the law by selling illegal alcohol during Prohibition, her choice was clear: she broke the law.

A compelling blend of biography and memoir, The Field House recounts the life of writer Rachel Field-whose works for adults and children were once wildly successful but are now largely forgotten-and how her chance "meeting" with the author through the whispers of an old, neglected island home in Maine sparked a startling friendship across time and impossible distance.

When graduate student Cassie Lyman discovers that she's related to the woman she's decided to write her doctoral dissertation about-Kate Easton, the founder of the Birth Control League of Massachusetts-her quest to discover the truth about Kate unearths some unpleasant family secrets.

Susannah understands that restoring her lost magic at the keyboard and maybe, just maybe, vaulting into the elite tier of "chosen" musicians will have a price. Everything does. But she never expected the price to be so high.

When Elisabeth Goodwin comes to California from Massachusetts in 1849 with her new husband, Nate, she quickly finds out he's not who she thought-but instead of suffering in a miserable marriage, she discovers her worth and potential during the gold rush, and carves out her independence in the liberal society of the early West.

Following the unexpected death of her alcoholic mother, sixteen-year-old Terry Sue decides her biological father, whom she doesn't know, could change her life for the better. By the time she finds him, however-after decades of searching-she understands that the nurturing she craved had been cultivated without him.

When Janice Mock's stage four cancer diagnosis causes her to examine her career as a successful trial lawyer and the relentless drive for wealth and excess that corporate America promotes, she comes to the realization that she must change in order to make the most of the rest of her life.

When Jenna McCann has the misfortune of becoming notorious at age twenty-four, she very quickly experiences the deluge of public shaming so prevalent in the modern age.

When her husband dies of cancer and her brother dies of AIDS in the same year Rosemary is catapulted into a hurricane of grief. Left to raise her two young daughters on her own, she seeks refuge in drugs and alcohol.

When Joss's husband, Phil, sustains a head injury in a fire, Phil maintains he no longer recognizes Joss and calls her an imposter. Is his injury the opportunity Joss needs to check out of their marriage?

Borne by the Gulf Stream, thirteen curious objects are tangled in the flotsam on the Hebridean beach of Traigh Lar in Scotland. Erica Winchat, a young writer struggling with the stresses of a book contract, discovers them and tells the intriguing story behind each in her diary.

An artist buys a corset in a Flagstaff resale boutique and is forced to make the biggest decision of her life. A young midwestern woman is kidnapped on a train in 1885 and taken to the Wild West. Both women find the strength to overcome their fears and discover the true meaning of family-with a little push from a green lace corset.

When Sila, a beautiful Cherokee teenager, flees her abusive husband in the dead of winter, she finds herself knocking on the door of a mill office, desperate for work-and meets the handsome Charley Barclay, the owner. Despite the fact that they have virtually nothing in common and thirty years between them, a spark ignites.

When her best friend goes MIA, Eve gathers together the broken threads of her life and takes a road trip with her plucky grandma Boop in search of her-a journey through the South that shows both women they must face past mistakes if they want to find hope for the future.

Tara, an immigrant woman in the American South, is trapped in a loveless, abusive arranged marriage, until she discovers self-love-a powerful force that gives her the courage to find herself and to confront a cruel, victim-blaming, patriarchal culture.

In June of 1964 in a small town in the Altiplano of Peru, Sister Mary Katherine¿a young American nun afraid of her love for an Irish priest with whom she has been working¿slips away from her convent with no money and no destination. Over the next eight days, she encounters both friendly and dangerous characters and travels an interior journey of memory and desire that leads her, finally, to a startling destination.

In this #MeToo tale of single mothers and fatherless children, a Rust Belt farm girl escapes poverty, weds, has a son, is widowed and then falls in love with a young man whose Jewish mother opposes their relationship. Follow their love story, struggles, and international adventures as they travel from Brooklyn to Greece, Israel, and Iran.

Rikki and her sister, Linda, have fallen out-but when Linda emails that she has lethal tumors and her only survival hope is a bone marrow replacement, Rikki is ignited with a wild passion to become the perfect donor with the healthiest, most vigorous stem cells possible. Together, the sisters challenge the lymphoma while healing the twisted roots of their family pain.

In the 1980s, after decades of isolation, China opened its doors-and Communism changed forever. As a foreign correspondent during this pivotal era, Dori Jones fell in love with China and with a Chinese man. This memoir recalls the euphoria of Americans discovering a new China, as well as the despair of Tiananmen.

An intrepid traveler sets off at forty to live the expatriate dream overseas-only to discover that she has no idea how to live even her own life. Part travelogue and part transformation tale, Ghielmetti's memoir, narrated with humor and warmth, proves that it's never too late to reconnect with our authentic selves-if we dare to put our own lives first at last.

When a middle-aged woman's husband is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, their secret lives collide head-on, revealing a tangled web of sex, lies, and DNA and forcing her to decide whose life to save-her husband's or her own.

A young girl flees seventeenth-century Madrid, in fear for her life. Three centuries later and a continent away, a woman comes across old papers long hidden away, and in them discovers the reason for the flight so long ago, and for her own mother's enigmatic dying words.

Beth thought she'd never go back. She buried her memories of summers on her family's island in Canada deep inside, and created a new life in urban Chicago-far from the natural world. When her grandfather asks Beth to return to the island, will she preserve who she's become or risk everything to discover if what was lost, still remains?

Take a break or recharge your batteries with these laugh-out-loud witty and wise ruminations on life by best-selling author, former New York Times columnist, and TV show host Laura Pedersen.

After being abducted from the Philippines and brought to the US by their alcoholic American father in 1959, four young children fight to survive for four long years. Hauled from state to state, hungry and afraid, they endure what they have to in hopes of getting back to their mother. Individually, they are victims; together, they are warriors.

Married at sixteen and the mother of two by nineteen, Dolores's quest to find the aloha spirit within herself-and to escape the abuse of her alcoholic husband-leads her to flee Hawaii after the bombing of Pearl Harbor for California, where she seeks to make a new life for herself. But her past isn't so easily left behind.