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After her mother has a heart attack and her husbands lawyer delivers some shocking news, Laurie James finds herself sandwiched between caring for her parents, managing caregivers, raising four daughters, and trying to understand her husbands choicesto keep herself afloat, she seeks therapy, practices yoga, rediscovers nature, and begins to write. Will it be enough to keep her family together

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A lyrical firecracker of a memoir that chronicles the extraordinary childhood of author Deborah Burns, who grew up in prim 1950s America in the shadow of a beautiful, unconventional, rule-breaking mother, as well as her quest in midlife to unravel her mothers secrets and reclaim her own identity.

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A daughters chronicle of what happens when she invites her alcoholic and emotionally abusive mother to move in with her in hopes of helping her through the final stages of lifeand her dream of mending their tattered relationship fails miserably.

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An intimate peek inside French homes and lives, a collection of traditional French recipes (cuisine pauvre or peasant foods), and a compendium of culinary cultural traditionssprinkled with historical anecdotes and spiced with humor and deliciously candid memoriesthis culinary food and travel memoir reveals French families at their best and at their own dinner tables.

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Karen Meadows intertwines her own story with excerpts from her daughter Sadies journals, to describe their roller coaster ride through Sadies depression and a maze of inadequate mental health treatment and servicesone that ended with Sadies suicide at age eighteen. .

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Traumatized by an unwanted cesarean, Derich begins the long journey of learning to trust her instinct and building the courage to go against societal norms and give birth to her second child the way she always wanted to: naturally.

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Written for the invisible walking wounded among us who hide their pain behind smilesand for the educators and mentors who sometimes doubt the power of their influenceSeeing Eye Girl is an inspiring story of one girls search for hope in an abusive, dysfunctional home, and of the teachers who empowered her.

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An inspirational memoir by a chemically intolerant woman that has the potential to change the way people view fragrances and other common chemical toxins in their environments.

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A hilarious peek into the Catholic school experience through the eyes of Kathy Gereauwho, by learning to laugh at the ridiculous bits of dogma, eventually finds the spiritual message within.

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A courageous escape from domestic abuse is rewarded with a happy late-in-life remarriage in this motorcycle diary of love and loss.

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From his post at the headquarters of the German occupation during World War II, Hans Calmeyer surreptitiously saved thousands of Jewish lives in the Netherlands. Here, Laureen Nussbaum describes how Calmeyer declared her mother non-Jewish and deleted her and her family from the deportation listsand traces the arc of both her life and Calmeyers in the aftermath of the war.

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After twenty-four-year-old Kim falls in love with and marries fifty-six-year-old Vern, she quickly becomes pregnantonly to have their love tested by the ghosts of Verns past, his failing health, and the unexpected arrival of a troubled young boy.

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Linda Curtis was raised as a Jehovahs Witness and is an unquestioning true believer who has knocked on doors from the time she was nine years oldbut when she begins to have doubts as an adult, she eventually leaves the religion, losing her family and divorcing her Witness husband in the process.

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Marilee Eaves has struggled her whole life to fit into her lineage--the long line of kings and queens of the secret elitist Mardi Gras societies that rule New Orleans--but when, as a student at Wellesley, she's hospitalized at McLean psychiatric hospital, she begins her journey to break free and stand on her own two feet.

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In this series of interwoven stories, Glenda Goodrich chronicles her path toward healing through wilderness quests in the Pacific Northwest and Central California. Through her connection to nature, Goodrich rediscovers the importance of self-esteem, forgiveness, acceptance, and standing in her own truth.

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How do you disentangle yourself from generations of loss, abuse, and neglect This is the burning question that drove Linda Joy Myers to doggedly research her family historya journey that ultimately allowed her to break the chain of abandonment and abuse that was her legacy.

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Seven-year-old Sophia watches her mother leave their family home without a good-bye or explanationa mysterious departure that becomes her worry stone. Decades later, when she returns to Greece from her adopted home in America, she uncovers a family story she had never been told.

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The story of Douglas Stewart's first twenty-five years until chance and literary ambition conspire to take him to Sydney.

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Marilea Rabasa grew up in a family riddled with closely guarded secrets, stigma and shame perpetuating the silence. She became part of this ongoing tragedy-until she wrestled with the demons that had long plagued her, and won.