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Late Bloomer
"Late Bloomer" is a heartfelt memoir about leaving a marriage to find healing and wholeness in coming out. Melissa Giberson’s heartfelt memoir "Late Bloomer" is about the midlife coming-out of a risk-averse married mother of two. When...
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Kaitlyn's Wheel
Alien encounters and earthly devastation impact teenagers in the fantastical novel Kaitlyn’s Wheel. In Chris Halvorson’s novel Kaitlyn’s Wheel, teenagers use stories of alien encounters to cope with their difficult life events....
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Sunny and the Border Patrol Companion Coloring Book
"Sunny and the Border Patrol Companion Coloring Book" is a complementary text whose expressive black-and-white line drawings are opportunities for coloring along to the tale that inspired it. This coloring-book companion to Maureen...
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Get It Together
With its appealing, breathless mix of advice, warnings, and challenges, "Get It Together" models personal and professional success. Puja Bhola Rios’s business book "Get It Together" draws on personal experience to propose a formula for...
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Transister
"Transister" is a powerful memoir about a mother’s stand for her daughter’s right to be her authentic self. Television anchor Kate Brookes’s unflinching memoir "Transister" is about raising a trans child in a transphobic world....
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My Father's List
My Father’s List is a moving memoir about healing after loss. On August 8, 2003, Mick Carney was killed by a distracted driver, leaving behind his family and the bucket list that he’d written when he was twenty-nine. Still grieving a...
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Across a Waking Land
Acclaimed nature writer Roger Morgan-Grenville’s book "Across a Waking Land" covers his thousand-mile trek in search of hopeful signs from the distressed planet. When he was sixty-two years old and not in the best shape,...
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The Madonna Secret
Sensual, earthy, and mystical, Sophie Strand’s novel "The Madonna Secret" views Jesus via the woman who loved him. Refreshing in its perspective and stunning in its breaks with church-curated, patriarchal characterizations of Jesus and...