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A powerful and empowering memoir of a womans fight to bring her fifth pregnancy to full term after years of heartbreak and horrific loss.

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A very modern fairytale of a refugee child taking the chess world by storm.

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A memoir from the influential and controversial historian of The Australian Legend

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A daughters tender and frank account of growing up with a closeted gay father whose double life became her inheritance and, in adulthood, the path to her own healing.

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International students and immigrants have been the secret ingredient in Americas recipe for global success. America Calling shares one immigrants storya tale that reflects millions more, and shows us why preventing the worlds best and brightest from seeking the American Dream will put this countrys future in jeopardy.

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In 1973, a sixteen-year-old girl from an upper-class Denver family becomes enamored with a Vietnam veteran mountain man living a homesteaders life near the Canadian borderand a year later, just weeks after finishing high school, she finds her way to him, determined to emulate his wild ways.

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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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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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Catching the travel bug at age twenty, Terry Repak longed to live overseas someday. She didnt foresee spending fifteen years in countries like Ivory Coast, Tanzania, and Switzerland; nor did she guess that living abroad would transform her and her family into global citizens and gift them with resilience, perspective, and a profound sense of home.

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When Rachels husband, David, survives a plane crash and is left with severe brain damage, she is faced with a life-shaking dilemma: will she be the dutiful Jewish girl shes always thought of herself as and dedicate her life to caring for himdespite the fact that she stopped loving him long before the accident

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Often comic, often tragic, Disturbing Element is the story of an Australian literary legend written in his own classic style.

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The chronicle of one womans journey toward independence, self-assurance, and connectedness as she cares for her mother, who is rapidly losing her own identity to the early stage of Alzheimers.

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After she loses everything in a fire, Hollye Dexters life spirals downwardand she begins to unravel. When she finds herself at the brink of losing her husband, she is forced to dig within herself for the strength to keep her family together, even as her life is falling apart.

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After moving to the Maine woods to build her dream home, thirty-nine-year-old feminist lesbian attorney Roberta Kuriloff confronts major life experiences and events from her childhood and her presentincluding a tragic loss that spurs an eight-year quest into Kabbalah, Buddhism, reincarnation, and psychic experiencesin pursuit of the true meaning of home.

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Facing an existential crisis, Melissa Gibersona suburban woman in midlifesearches for her authentic self even as she desperately clings to the stable life shes created for her children. Can she be true to herself and be a good mother Or will her children hate her for changing their story

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In the late 1960s, Patricia Grayhall defies societal norms by coming out as a lesbian and dreaming of becoming a doctorbut the free-wheeling sexual revolution and the demands of her medical training complicate her search for the equal, loving relationship with a woman she so desires. Can she have both love and career

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After suffering a nearly fatal riding accident, lifelong klutz Samantha Dunn felt compelled to examine just what it was inside herselfand other peoplethat invited carelessness and injury.

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In his mid-twenties, Jeremy Ivester began taking testosterone and had surgery to remove his breasts. This memoir is both Jeremy's and his family's coming out story, told from multiple perspectives-a story of acceptance in a world not quite ready to accept.

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Promenade of Desire narrates a young womans journey from repression to liberation in tandem with Spains transition from dictatorship to democracy. As the country transforms itself, the shy Mara 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.

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Do you want to visit Italy, or do you want to experience Italy Those enticing words were the lure that emboldened Carole Bumpus and her husband to take a month-long trip to Italy one memorable Septembera trip during which they discovered a land of unforgettable characters, sumptuous traditional foods, and sublime beauty.

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When Joanne Intrator accepts her fathers deathbed challenge to seek restitution for property stolen from her German Jewish family by the Nazis, she has no idea that the quest will last decadesor how much she will learn about her family, and herself, along the way.

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A compelling blend of biography and memoir, The Field House recounts the life of writer Rachel Fieldwhose works for adults and children were once wildly successful but are now largely forgottenand 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.