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Three months after Barbara Terao makes a new home by the sea two thousand miles from her husband—not knowing when, or if, she'll ever live with him again—she is diagnosed with breast cancer. In the months that follow, she realizes the island is exactly where she needs to be as she faces her medical and marital crises and finds healing.

Who gets to tell the story of a marriage? Unfolding from multiple points of view, this contemporary divorce novel, which includes a courtroom drama and a millennial polyamorous girlfriend, allows readers to view the unraveling of a marriage not only from the perspective of the couple but also their friends, neighbors, children, and even the family dog.

Meet Beige. Beige is reliable, practical, sensible, and safe. Beige doesn't put up a fuss; it follows the rules, blends in, doesn't want to stand out. Now meet Magenta. Magenta is rich, dynamic, loud, sometimes garish, and not easily overlooked.Society has decidedly beige expectations when it comes to aging, and the intrinsic danger of beige and its many practical aspects is that it precludes creative thinking. Creative thinking is critical in avoiding a beige aging journey. Be Brave. Lose the Beige! Finding Your Sass after Sixty encourages women to trot out their inner magenta and defy those beige expectations.Be Brave. Lose the Beige! started as a blog and morphed into a movement. This movement gently pokes fun at ageist rules and expectations. It says "yes" when the rest of the world keeps saying "no." In these pages, Liz Kitchens chronicles how creative thinking helped her cope with empty nest syndrome, navigate sex over sixty, transition from being outtasight to literally being out-of-sight . . . and so much more.The stories and creative techniques outlined in this book are guaranteed to introduce color, sass, and a lightness of spirit into your later years. Are you ready to start coloring outside the lines, even if a few pesky rules get trampled in the process?

Feeling inadequate as a young doctor, Alicia Blando embarks upon a search for her life's path. Her ensuing journey leads her to seek out unconventional teachers, embrace the diagnostic capacity of astrology, and ultimately discover an astrological map that holds the potential to trace her life's path and purpose in connection with planetary movements: past, present, and future.

Can an extraterrestrial intelligence use our own biology against us? Can a human consciousness survive in a virtual environment? Can one wish for a mate to avoid the rigors of dating? Can a book written by a future savior spark a new religion? Each of the stories in this speculative collection takes the reader further into the future and farther out into the cosmos.

When her beloved husband took his life, and with it her life as she knew it, Suzanne Anderson faced a choice: would she be broken down and defeated, or broken open and transformed? Part memoir, part guidebook, You Make Your Path by Walking accompanies readers on their own journeys through the barren landscape of trauma and grief, offering comfort, guidance, and inspiration to make meaning out of loss.

Amid the many obstacles she and her husband, Michael, face after his diagnosis with multiple sclerosis, Suzanne Marriott's love for him grows-creating a bond even death cannot sever-and she learns to be a compassionate caregiver for both him and, ultimately, herself. Candid and illuminating, Marriott's story of spiritual and psychological growth through caregiving will appeal to anyone facing a life-changing crisis.

In this past-the-blush-of-youth adventure story, Marianne Bohr and her husband head to Corsica to celebrate turning sixty by hiking the 124-mile GR20, Europe's toughest long-distance footpath, and find themselves confronted with universal themes-coming to terms with aging, surmounting physical limitations, and being kind to oneself?along the way.

When Big Pharma exec Leo Cushman is fatally stabbed, the highly intuitive Detective Anna Crane has many suspects, including Obliterate Opiates activists, a disinherited family, and an addict vowing vengeance—but her prime target is the brilliant biochemist Eleanor Kiernan, to whom Detective Crane finds herself irresistibly drawn.

Deeply in love, Cal and Mary brave divorce, marry, and help each other succeed in their work. Cal becomes a renowned inventor, Mary a best-selling author. Then Alzheimer's strikes. Cal faces his disease courageously, Mary finds ways to sustain their relationship despite it. While they don't beat Alzheimer's, it doesn't win either. Their love persists throughout and beyond their battle.

Margaret Carlyle is searching for an epic love as she heads to collegein 1979 after the loss of her beloved mother to cancer. When acharismatic boy named Anders rapes her on their first date, she wantsnothing more than to forget it ever happened. But as the years pass,each life decision she makes seems driven by what happened that night. When Anders becomes famous as an actor, Margaret can no longer ignoreher past--and she must make choices that will affect everyone around her, most notably her husband, Douglas, and Fitz, the man who has loved herpatiently since college. This deeply moving novel is a window into class and privilege, themysteries of marriage, and the destructive power of secrets--and anexamination of what happens when we try to bury the past, as well as the consequences of confronting it.

A feisty professional in her forties, trapped in the unrelenting world of workaholism, forges an incredible bond with a centenarian-and life takes on a whole new meaning for both of them. Prepare to laugh, cry, and be inspired to live a more meaningful life.

Patricia is thirteen when the sexual relationship with her father, which began at age four, finally ends. As a young woman she dreams of love but it's not until later in life that she's able to find the strength to see what was before unseeable, rise above her shame and depression, and speak the unspeakable to help herself and others.

Samantha, the fashionable wife of a successful Boston businessman, loves both her husband and her sister-but the two of them have fought a cold war for years. When her sister is diagnosed with lung cancer, Samantha's family and marriage are tipped into crisis.

Jaded New York City Public Defender Liana Cohen would give anything to have one client in whom she can believe. Dozens of hardened criminals and repeat offenders have chipped away at her faith in both herself and the system. Her boyfriend Jakob's high-powered law firm colleagues see her do-gooder job as a joke, which only adds to the increasing strain in their relationship. Enter imprisoned felon Danny Shea, whose unforgivable crime would raise a moral conflict in an attorney at the height of her idealism--and that hasn't been Liana in quite a while. But Danny's astonishing blend of good looks, intelligence, and vulnerability intrigues Liana. Could he be the client she's been longing for--the wrongly accused in need of a second chance? Is he innocent? As their attorney-client relationship transforms into something less than arm's length, Liana is forced to confront fundamental questions of truth, faith, and love--and to decide who she wants to be.

A raw, honest, deeply moving memoir about the difficulties of managing a successful recovery from opioids-the number one killer of American kids age 18-25-told from the perspective of the addict's aunt, who took Bobby in and dedicated herself to helping him. Using a holistic and open approach, the shame and stigma associated with addiction was lessened - and ultimately, Bobby learned he had to save himself.

When Judy Gruen marries the man she loves-who happens to be an Orthodox Jew-she embarks upon an unexpected spiritual quest that is by turns poignant, deep, and hilarious.

As her children and grandchildren assemble for Fourth of July weekend at Eden, the Meister family's grand summer cottage on the Rhode Island shore, Becca decides it's time to introduce the daughter she gave up for adoption fifty years ago.

France, 1940. Nazi forces march towards Paris. Lili Rosenswig's wealthy and eccentric family is ensconced in their country chateau with their sumptuous collection of arts and antiques. The beloved Matisse portrait of Lili's mother has been brought from their Paris salon for safety. It is the day before young lovers Lili and Paul are to be married that they are forced to flee and their fortunes change irrevocably. Lili and her family escape but Paul must stay behind to defend his country. In their struggle to adapt to changing circumstances in an unpredictable world, all are pushed to reinvent themselves. When top Nazi Herman Goring loots their Matisse portrait, their story is intertwined with the fate of the painting. PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN IN WHITE is a moving family saga, an obsessive search for lost love and lost art and how far we will go to survive.

Henrietta and Clive race across Europe in search of a missing panel of the Ghent Altarpiece, intent on finding it before it falls into the hands of the Nazis, who believe it contains a coded map to the Arma Christi¿weapons of ultimate power.

After learning that she inhabits a world where mirrors are portals to another dimension in which an ancient evil lurks, infecting us through our reflections, eighteen-year-old Alice, along with her three best friends, must battle gods and demons to protect mankind—and save her true love¿s soul.

In this personal and transformational memoir, Malaysia-born Amelia Zachry chronicles how the trauma of sexual assault and the challenges of living with bipolar disorder disrupted her life as a young woman?and how she managed to regain control of her life and, ultimately, find love, healing, and a sense of belonging after emigrating to the US.

The remarkable discovery that her ancestor—the wife of a Confederate general—gave birth to a biracial baby during the Civil War sets Temple Preston on a mission to uncover secrets from her family¿s slaveholding past. But when she sparks a backlash in her hometown, Temple must decide how much she¿s willing to lose to tell the truth.