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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...

Seven-year-old Sophia watches her mother leave their family home without a good-bye or explanation--a mysterious departure that becomes her worry stone. Decades later, when she returns to Greece from...

A beautiful, powerful and lyrical collection of poetry that explores themes of identity, family, love, marriage, body image, and self-acceptance through the lens of a cross-cultural experience...

For twenty-nine-year-old wife and mother Alex Pearl, the post-Nixon 1970s offer suburban pot parties, tie-dyed fashions, and the lure of the open marriage her husband wants for the two of them...

Widowed at 34, Tre Miller Rodriguez finds New York life difficult to bear, so she sets off to travel the world, her husband's ashes in hand. This spontaneous act becomes a self-searching journey, one...

From the voices of the seriously ill, their families, and a specialist with a lifelong experience in caring for them comes the wisdom of a person-centered approach--one that brings heart and...

Upon Stella Rose's death, her best friend, Abby, moves to rural Vermont to take care of her sixteen-year-old daughter, Olivia. But Abby struggles to connect with Olivia and she soon finds...

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...

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...

Winner of the National Indie Excellence Book Award for Women's Issues in 2015, Stop Giving It Away untangles what binds so many women to other people's needs, wants and expectations. Cherilynn...

A suspenseful family saga, love story, and gangster tale, wrapped into one great book club read . . . Just before WWI, Golda comes to America yearning for independence, but she tosses aside her...

Nina G--a stand-up comedian whose comedy is funny, revealing, unapologetic, and always a window to her experience as a person who stutters--tells the story of how she became, at the time she started,...

Growing up working-class Catholic in 1970s Brooklyn, Claire Joyce--the youngest sibling of three street-smart older brothers, an overwhelmed, taxi-driving father, and an alcoholic mother--relies on...

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...

Sister Gilda and Lord Justin are charged to resolve a conflict: Count Cedric wants to annul his marriage to Lady Mariel so he can marry Lady Emma; Mariel believes Cedric's half-brother Phillip, not...

Organized by decade and by the cookbooks that shaped her life, Tasting Home is the history of Judith Newton's emotional education--including her marriage to a gay man, and an exploration of the ways...

In this timely and provocative drama, an interracial couple's new and evolving relationship transcends culture clashes, police encounters, and resistance from select family and friends, only to have...

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...

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...

In response to painful losses, Trevor McFarquhar has reduced his Paris world to a box--a one-room apartment on top of his one-room bicycle shop. But his contained existence is about to shatter--and...

Vita brevis, ars longa--Life is short, art is long. These are the haunting last words Sarah Cunningham remembers her sister Ada saying. Now, Ada's mysterious death sends a grieving Sarah on a...

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...

A contemporary literary novel about an unlikely friendship between two very different women, The Breaks will appeal to fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine. Waking up in the emergency room...