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  • Never Sit If You Can Dance

    Lessons from My Mother

    by Jo Giese ...
    An Amazon BestsellerJo’s mother, Babe, liked to drink, dance, and stay up very late. When the husband she adored went on sales calls, she waited for him in the parking lot, embroidering pillowcases. Jo grew up thinking that the last thing she wanted was to be like her mother. Then it dawned on her that her own happiness was derived in large part from lessons Babe had taught her. Her mother might ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Saturday's Child

    A Daughter's Memoir

    by Deborah Burns ...
    “Devilishly sharp… a masterful balance of psychological excavation and sumptuous description.”—Kirkus ReviewsAn only child, Deborah Burns grew up in prim 1950s America in the shadow of her beautiful, unconventional, rule-breaking mother, Dorothy—a red-haired beauty who looked like Rita Hayworth and skirted norms with a style and flair that made her the darling of men and women alike. Married to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Fixing the Fates

    An Adoptee's Story of Truth and Lies

    by Diane Dewey ...
    The secrets, lies, and layers of deception about Diane Dewey’s origins were meant for her protection—but eventually, they imploded. Living with her family in suburban Philadelphia, Diane had grown up knowing she was born in Stuttgart and adopted at age one from an orphanage. She’d been told her biological parents were dead. Then, in 2002, when she was forty-seven years old, Diane got a letter from ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Memories in Dragonflies

    Simple Lessons for Mindful Dying

    Life—and death—may be hard; but joy is simple.Lannette Cornell Bloom, a typical, overworked nurse, wife, and mom of two, was forty-three when her mother was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis. She quit her job and dove headlong into the familiar role of caretaking. This choice—to slow down and be present for the hardest year of her life—resulted in an awakening. In unexpected moments, as childhood ... Read more

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  • The Parrot's Perch

    A Memoir

    by Karen Keilt ...
    The Parrot’s Perch opens in 2013, when Karen Keilt, age sixty, receives an invitation to testify at the Brazilian National Truth Commission at the UN in New York. The email sparks memories of her “previous life”—the one she has kept safely bottled up for more than thirty-seven years. Hopeful of helping to raise awareness about ongoing human rights violations in Brazil, she wants to testify, but ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Greek Persuasion

    A Novel

    Consumed by a myth about Zeus, a magic sword, and soul mates, Greek-American professor Thair Mylopoulos-Wright has spent much of her life searching for her Other Half. At thirty-one, she spends a summer in Greece; there, alone on a tranquil island, she begins writing stories about her grandmother’s experiences in 1940s Egypt, her mother’s youth in 1960s Greece, and finally, her own life in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  •  Drinking from the Trough

    A Veterinarian's Memoir

    Mary Carlson didn't start out to become a veterinarian, let alone the owner and caretaker of cats (many), dogs (two, both huskies), and horses (some with manners, some without) in Colorado. She was a suburban Chicago girl; all she knew of the American West came from the stories her uncle, who had settled in northern Colorado, told her during his annual visits. But thanks to him, she ended up ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Chuckerman Makes a Movie

    A Novel

    "Love matters a little, but luck matters more."The words of thirty-five-year-old David Melman's Jewish grandmother still haunt him. He's scared to settle down. Instead, he dates twenty-something pop stars that he meets through his celebrity-branding business. But when his niece and nephew inform him that he's hit "rock bottom" with his latest inappropriate relationship, David realizes that change ... Read more

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  • Twenty

    A Touching and Thought-Provoking Women's Fiction Novel

    “A book to hold against your heart long after the last page is turned.”—New York Times bestselling author Susan WiggsThis warm and heartfelt novel will appeal to avid followers of Reese’s Book Club picks. Twenty captures the provocative moral questions presented in the works of Jodi Picoult but with a hint of mystical wonder.What happens when you decide to go…right when you finally learn how... ... Read more

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  • No Thanks

    Black, Female, and Living in the Martyr-Free Zone

    Through eight humorous essays, Keturah Kendrick chronicles her journey to freedom. She shares the stories of other women who have freed themselves from the narrow definition of what makes a “proper woman.” Spotlighting the cultural bullying that dictates women must become mothers to the expectation that one’s spiritual path follow the traditions of previous generations, Kendrick imagines a world ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • TRUDGE: A Midlife Crisis on the John Muir Trail

    Lori Oliver-Tierney is every woman with a dream. She is fifty, asthmatic, overweight, with arthritic knees. And like so many married women with children, she's lost herself.When she decides to hike the John Muir Trail, considered by many to be the most challenging and beautiful part of the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail, she's sure it will help her reconnect with the adventurous girl inside.But by ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Evening in Paradise

    More Stories

    by Lucia Berlin ...
    This second posthumous story collection by the New York Times– bestselling author of A Manual for Cleaning Women "shines with compassion and dark wit" ( Guardian , UK).In 2015, eleven years after her death, Lucia Berlin became a literary sensation with her widely acclaimed short story collection, A Manual for Cleaning Women. Re... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD