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Don't Call Me Mother: Breaking the Chain of Mother-Daughter Abandonment

by Linda Joy Myers

Published: 2005-05-01

Paperback: 257 pages

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Don't Call Me Mother won the 2006 Gold Medal award through the Bay Area Independent Publishing Association.

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What's Your Book?: A Step-by-Step Guide to Get You from Inspiration to Published Author

by Brooke Warner

Published: 2012-09-18

Paperback: 240 pages

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Are you ready to write the book you've been longing to complete and get published? What's Your Book? contains the inspiration and information you need to get there. This book is an aspiring author's go-to guide for completing the dream to become a published author. Discover in 5 chapters how to: embrace...

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Don't Call Me Mother: A Daughter's Journey from Abandonment to Forgiveness

by Linda Joy Myers

Published: 2013-02-01

Paperback: 384 pages

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At the age of four, a little girl stands on a cold, windy railroad platform in Wichita, Kansas to watch the train take her mother away. For the rest of her life, her mother will be only an occasional and troubled visitor. Linda Joy Myers' compassionate, gripping, and soul-searching memoir ...

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Replacement Child

by Judy L. Mandel

Published: 2013-03-05

Paperback: 307 pages

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"Replacement Child by Judy L. Mandel is a book I recommend to anyone curious about the true story of one family who was caught up in the tragedy of the second plane crash.” ?Judy Blume, from In the Unlikely EventJudy L. Mandel was born into a family crippled by grief. But it would be yea...

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Fire & Water: A Novel

by Betsy Graziani Fasbinder

Published: 2013-02-12

Kindle Edition: 306 pages

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Only in the glaring light of hindsight does aspiring surgeon Kate Murphy understand that she was groomed for the path she’s taken. Raised by a widowed dad and a misshapen, sometimes comical trio of parental surrogates from Murphy’s Pub, her father’s Irish bar in San Francisco, Kate h...

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Seeing Red: A Woman's Quest for Truth, Power, and the Sacred

by Lone Morch

Published: 2012-10-16

Paperback: 212 pages

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Seeing Red is an astounding journey that traces one woman's search for personal truth and power. Set against the backdrop of the holy Mount Kailas in Tibet, her marriage in California, and Kali's temples in Nepal, it takes the reader on an unforgettable journey of creation and dissolution that is as...

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Clear Lake: A Novel

by Nan Gefen

Published: 2013-05-01

Paperback: 256 pages

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Rebecca Lev, a Chicago psychotherapist, is balancing a heavy workload, two demanding kids, and an unhappy second marriage - so when she learns that her father, Charlie, is in trouble, it's just one more worry to deal with. Charlie's moved into a grand home in the Bay Area with his new wife, Vicky, and...

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Americashire: A Field Guide to a Marriage

by Jennifer Richardson

Published: 2013-04-23

Paperback: 158 pages

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When an American woman and her British husband decide to buy a two-hundred-year-old cottage in the heart of the Cotswolds, they're hoping for an escape from their London lives. Instead, their decision about whether or not to have a child plays out against a backdrop of village fêtes,...

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Shanghai Love: A Novel

by Layne Wong

Published: 2013-04-01

Paperback: 332 pages

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Shanghai Love is a gripping novel about the unlikely love story that develops between a Chinese herbalist and a Jewish refugee in Shanghai during World War II. Peilin is betrothed to Kwan Yao, the only son of a wealthy pearl farmer. However, months before their wedding, Yao is killed by the Japanese...

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Warming Up: A Novel

by Mary Hutchings Reed

Published: 2013-04-23

Paperback: 271 pages

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Approaching forty, unemployed but well-off, talented but unknown, functional but depressed, former musical actress Cecilia Morrison reluctantly seeks therapy. Although she once won leading roles, Cecilia now can't bring herself to audition for parts. In the end it's not therapy, but a runaway teenager...