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The true story of a young womans struggle to raise a family while her body slowly deteriorates as the result of an undetected fatal heart disease.

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When a brash and beautiful American newspaper reporter, Lily Nordby, falls into a forbidden love affair with Tokido Okamura, a sophisticated Japanese diplomat whom she suspects is a spy, at the Golden Gate International Exposition, a brilliant Mayan art scholar, Woodrow Packard, tries to save her.

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In segregated Knoxville, Tennessee, Hanna (black) and Gail (white) share a crib as infants and remain close friends into their teenage years. Later on, it's not so easy.

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First, biotech exec Will Franklins boss angrily announces that hes about to fire him for reasons vaguely suggesting impropriety; then, just hours later, he succumbs to a critical illness and lands in the hospital on a ventilator, leaving Will few clues with which to untangle the mystery of his possible transgressions. Can Will clear his name before its too late

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In this fast-paced coming-of-age story, Shani Raviv, a misfit teen, survives ten years of anorexia nervosaan illness with one of the highest death rates of any psychiatric disorderand proves, against all odds, that there is life at the end of the thin tunnel.

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A decade of unthinkable hardships in the shadow of the mill has shattered Janos and Karina Kovacs American dream. Pittsburghs thriving steel industry has not kept its promise of prosperityand now Karinas unraveling sanity threatens her familys future.

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A lush, provocative collection of poems about childhood, children, marriage, divorce, alcoholism, and the sensual world.

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Bess and Frima, best friends from the Bronx, find romance at their summer jobs at Jewish vacation hotels in the Catskillsand as love mixes with war, politics, creative ambitions, and the mysteries of personality, they leave girlhood behind them.

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Drawing on biographical and historical sources, Bessie reimagines the early life of Bess Myerson, the talented daughter of poor Russian Jewish immigrants, who, in the bigoted milieu of 1945, remarkably rises to become Miss America.

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Drawing on biographical and historical sources, Bessie reimagines the early life of Bess Myersonthe talented daughter of poor Russian Jewish immigrantswho, in the bigoted milieu of 1945, remarkably rises to become Miss America.

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When Sarahs seemingly perfect life begins to crumble, she is forced to confront the reality of her abusive marriage and dark past, and it seems all is lostuntil she allows the support of friends and a long forgotten, unopened letter to help her find her way back.

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Its 1964, and Evelynan adventurous and romantically inclined twenty-one-year-oldjoins the Peace Corps and is sent to the Andes, where she falls in love with her village, her indigenous pupils . . . and a university student. Violating the sexual prohibitions of her Catholic upbringing, she finds herself pregnant and must choose whether to marry the father of her unborn child.

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In the crucible of grief following a friends death, Patricia Pearce resolved to open herself to hidden dimensions of her existencenot realizing her quest would cost her her vocation as a Presbyterian pastor and open her eyes to the radical implications of Jesuss message for our spiritual evolution.

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When Napoleons army enters the sleepy port city of Ancona, Italy, livesincluding those of a Jewish girl torn between love and duty, a dashing French cavalryman, a devoutly Catholic housewife, a brave Jewish soldier, and of course, Napoleon himselfare changed forever.

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A moving memoir of a young nurses experience trekking with a local health team in rural Nepal, Beyond the Next Village chronicles how, after arriving in the roadless district of Gorkha in 1978, Mary Anne Mercer experiences firsthand the interlacing of modern medicine with an ancient cultureand her life is gradually transformed by immersion in the daily lives of villagers and her team.

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Donna Brazzi Barnes knew from adolescence that her future lay beyond the bounds of the small California town she grew up inbut she didnt know to what extent assumptions about the role of women would get in the way of her aspirations. In this memoir in essays, she shares how she took onand overcamethe many obstacles she encountered on the way to realizing her big dreams.

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After staying in a dead-end relationship for twelve years, Jill Sherer Murray finally let goand ultimately attracted the love she wanted. Here, she shares how, along with a process to help readers get unstuck and find their own big, wild love.

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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.

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In this deeply reflective autobiography of acts, stages, scenes, and letters to Love beginning at the age of eight, Blackwildgirl, a childhood queen superpower dethroned in a bargain made by her parents, embarks on a forty-five-year quest to reclaim her crown and become Blackwildgoddess--a fierce warrior for justice in the world.

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A compelling, intimate memoir of writer Susan Tweit and her economist-turned-sculptor husband Richard Cabes journey togetherframed by their final road trip, a 4,000-mile-long delayed honeymoon they embarked upon after Richard was diagnosed with the brain cancer that would kill him.

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A fiercely candid and timely memoir about one mothers rollercoaster ride through doubt and denial to save her son from substance abuse and bipolar illness.

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