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Book SynopsisOne of NPR's Best Books of the Year“Straight’s memoir is a lyric social history of her multiracial clan in Riverside that explores the bonds of love and survival that bind them, with a particular emphasis on the women’s stories . . . The aftereffect of all these disparate stories juxtaposed in a single epic is remarkable. Its resonance lingers for days after reading.” —San Francisco ChronicleIn the Country of Women is a valuable social history and a personal narrative that reads like a love song to America and indomitable women. In inland Southern California, near the desert and the Mexican border, Susan Straight, a self-proclaimed book nerd, and Dwayne Sims, an African American basketball player, started dating in high school. After college, they married and drove to Amherst, Massachusetts, where Straight met her teacher and mentor, James Baldwin, who encouraged her to write. Once back in Riverside, at driveway barbecues and fish fries with the large, close-knit Sims family, Straight—and eventually her three daughters—heard for decades the stories of Dwayne’s female ancestors. Some women escaped violence in post-slavery Tennessee, some escaped murder in Jim Crow Mississippi, and some fled abusive men. Straight’s mother-in-law, Alberta Sims, is the descendant at the heart of this memoir. Susan’s family, too, reflects the hardship and resilience of women pushing onward—from Switzerland, Canada, and the Colorado Rockies to California.A Pakistani word, biraderi, is one Straight uses to define a complex system of kinship and clan—those who become your family. An entire community helped raise her daughters. Of her three girls, now grown and working in museums and the entertainment industry, Straight writes, “The daughters of our ancestors carry in their blood at least three continents. We are not about borders. We are about love and survival.”“Certain books give off the sense that you won’t want them to end, so splendid the writing, so lyrical the stories. Such is the case with Southern California novelist Susan Straight’s new memoir, In the Country of Women . . . Her vibrant pages are filled with people of churned-together blood culled from scattered immigrants and native peoples, indomitable women and their babies. Yet they never succumb . . . Straight gives us permission to remember what went before with passion and attachment.” --Los Angeles Times

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Book SynopsisAre you ready to have the relationship you have always dreamed of, but your relationships never seem to last? Do you feel even more frustrated with each relationship that comes to an end - thinking maybe this relationship thing just isn't for you? Have you given up hope of ever having that special someone in your life, and now you’re settling for complacency? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may be a destructive relationship magnet. The truth is that you are meant for so much more. Colleen Traci is an Intuitive Guide to understanding love, relationships, and healing. Now, in The Relationship Train, her wisdom can help guide you on your journey to: Understand how and why these failed relationships seem to follow you Identify why you have been subconsciously choosing the wrong partners Let go of the need to be wanted and accepted Discover your unique process for sabotaging healthy relationships Start the process of desiring more intimate, healthy relationships Know what it takes to attract the right person into your life and make it work forever If you are worried about growing old alone, get this book and begin a new journey to wholeness and fulfillment in your romantic life.

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Book SynopsisDiscover the Art of Creating Deep and Loving Relationships—Starting with Yourself "You cannot give what you do not have," teach HeatherAsh Amara and don Miguel Ruiz Jr. To build stronger and more loving relationships with others, the starting point is always your relationship with yourself. With The Art of Showing Up, Amara and Ruiz bring you a powerful audio workshop to undo the inner patterns that keep you trapped in cycles of conflict and misunderstanding—and help you build a foundation for all your relationships to flourish and grow. Dispelling the Illusion of Conditional Love Most of us have been indoctrinated in the illusion that we should be rewarded with love when we are worthy and punished with abandonment when we are not. That is called conditional love—which leads to power struggles, deception, and the need to "domesticate" each other. Yet conditional love is learned, and can be unlearned. Using insights and guided meditations, Amara and Ruiz offer seven essential arts to help you locate the places where you are stuck in conditional thinking, so you may open again and again to a love that reflects the purest expression of yourself. In the Toltec wisdom taught by HeatherAsh Amara and don Miguel Ruiz Jr., you learn to replace the conditions of love with agreements. These agreements arise freely from a place of mutual respect, curiosity, and honesty. With The Art of Showing Up, these masterful teachers reveal how you can cast aside the masks you wear in relationship with others and yourself—and discover the joy of unconditional love you were meant to share. HIGHLIGHTS • The Art of Commitment: embracing your power of choice • The Art of Loving: coming back to unconditional love • The Art of Trust: how to stop undermining your trust in yourself and others • The Art of Healing: how to soften in the face of pain • The Art of Communication: creating a new language based on respect and compassion • The Art of Pleasure: bringing sensual joy to every aspect of your relationship • The Art of Releasing: embracing change as an essential part of love

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Book Synopsis'I wish I learned that in high school' often feels like the rallying cry of the millennial generation. When it comes to reproductive health, fertility, and cultural bias about pregnancy, there are even more questions than answers. And yet everyone can't stop asking: 'When are you having kids?' It's not that young people don't want kids (although some don’t!), there are just a lot of concerns no one has been able to address - at least not easily, or all in one place. There's currently no family planning books that are geared toward the millennial and Gen Z audience, and existing books about parenthood make the assumption that the reader's desire is to have kids and are centred around cisgendered women. Enter So When Are You Having Kids. This book tackles everything from familial and societal pressure to have children, infertility and alternative methods of becoming a parent, financial costs of having and raising kids, and the ethics of doing so in the age of climate change. So, When Are You Having Kids is not your parents’ parenting book, nor is it a 'how-to' for getting pregnant. It's a non-judgmental, inclusive guidebook for women, men, same-sex couples, prospective single parents, and gender-nonconforming people who want to make an educated and informed decision regarding if and how they bring children into the world. It's full of the experiences of marginalised groups, with specific chapters addressing their unique needs.

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Book SynopsisAfter her beloved dad got addicted to right-wing talk radio and Fox News, Jen Senko feared he would never be the same again…Frank Senko had always known how to have a good time. Despite growing up in a poverty-stricken family during the Depression and having to fight his way to middle-class status as an adult, he tended to look on the bright side. But after a job change forced Frank to begin a long car commute every day, his daughter Jen noticed changes in his personality and beliefs. Long hours on the road listening to talk radio commentators like Rush Limbaugh sucked her father into a suspicion-laden worldview dominated by conspiracy theories, fake news, and rants about the "coastal elite" and "libtards" trying to destroy America.Over the course of a few years, Jen's dad went from a nonpolitical, open-minded Democrat to a radical, angry, and intolerant right-wing devotee who became a stranger to those closest to him. As politics began to take precedence over everything else in her father's life, Jen was mystified. What happened to her dad? Was there anything she could do to help? And, most importantly, would he ever be his lovable self again? Jen began the search for answers, and found them... as well stories from countless other families like her own.Based on the award-winning documentary, The Brainwashing of My Dad uncovers the alarming right-wing strategy to wield the media as a weapon against our very democracy. Jen's story shows us how Fox News and other ultra-conservative media outlets are reshaping the way millions of Americans view the world, and encourages us to fight back.Trade Review""[Affecting]...liberals will have their worst suspicions about the right-wing mediasphere confirmed." - Publishers Weekly" - Publishers Weekly"Jen's story is brilliant and gives us all insight about what we can do when lying right-wing media seize the minds of our friends and family." - Thom Hartmann, New York Times bestselling author and progressive talk show host"The Brainwashing of My Dad is a pure delight—breezy to read while telling a compelling personal and big-picture story. The evolution of Jen Senko's dad from playful dad to crusty conservative and then back again is the lens through which she reveals the last 40 years of rightwing media propaganda. But while Senko details the corrosive grip that characters like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity have had on our society, she inspires us with the redemption of her father and the superb suggestions to counter the spread of right-wing extremism. Read it and act!" - Medea Benjamin, author, activist, and cofounder of CODEPINK

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Book SynopsisWho you are is shaped by where you've been For better or worse, our family, our heritage, our childhood experiences shape us. How often have you found that your strengths as well as your insecurities, fears, and flaws have deep roots in the story of your past. Here, Roberta Damon masterfully and poignantly takes you on a journey of discovery from her upbringing in the Depression-era dust plains of Oklahoma. Through the telling, Damon skillfully slips back and forth through time and her subtle choice of events provide both causes and results to become obvious tools for you to assess your own story of pain, suffering, and victory. You will find yourself thoroughly engaged in the gripping telling of this story including the discovery of the third of the author's three mothers, her growth from infancy to significant adulthood set against the backdrop of faith and redemption.

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Book SynopsisYou've heard of sexual chemistry?Now try sexual mathematics.For most people seeing 'mathematics' and 'sex' side by side is strange enough let alone discovering there is, in fact, a deep and captivating relationship between the two. Well, it's time to shatter the stereotypes!Join Dr Clio Cresswell on a fascinating, fun and at times frisky journey as she reveals how mathematics can unlock the secrets of love and relationships, dating and mating, pumping and grinding. Tackle such age-old dilemmas as:- How much should you compromise in a relationship?- Exactly what is it that we find attractive in a lover?- How many partners should you have before you stop playing the field?- What makes your biological clock tick along?Jump into bed with Mathematics and Sex and discover just how love, lust and the life's search for the ideal partner can be spiced up with a dash or two of mathematics.'This book is passionate about the role of mathematics in every human activity, and joyful about matters of sex. Dinner-party conversations may never be the same.'Professor Ian Sloan, President, International Council of Industrial and Applied Mathematics

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Book SynopsisThere is love in this place, just like there is love everywhere we care to look for it. There is beauty and there is hope and there is a boy and there is a mother and there is the past and there is the future but most importantly there is the now, and everything that exists between them that has got them from one moment to the next. The now is where we find the golden glow where, for the briefest of moments, the sky rips open and we see what it is we are made of.Tell me a story, he asked me.And so I began.Clementine Ford is a person who has loved deeply, strangely and with curiosity. She is fascinated by love and how it makes its home in our hearts and believes that the way we continue to surrender ourselves to love is an act of great faith and bravery. This tender and lyrical memoir explores love in its many forms, through Clementine's own experiences. With clear eyes and an open heart, she writes about losing her adored mother far too young, about the pain and confusion of first love - both platonic and romantic - and the joy and heartache of adult love. She writes movingly about the transcendent and transformative journey to motherhood and the similarly monumental path to self-love. 'We love as children, as friends, as parents and, yes, sometimes as sexual beings, and none of it is more important than the other because all of it shows us who we are.'How We Love is heartfelt, funny, confessional, revelatory, compassionate - and essential reading. It shows us to ourselves in moments of unwavering truth and undeniable joy.'Sensitive, soulful and utterly captivating.' -Jamila Rizvi, author and editor of The Motherhood 'Such gorgeous and powerful storytelling your heart will feel tender, shattered, and whole-all at once.' -Michelle Andrews and Zara McDonald, Shameless podcast'Clementine Ford is a phenomenon, unmatched in her fearlessness. Every time I read her work, it feels like I'm putting on armour.' -Benjamin Law, author of The Family Law'Ford reminds us that, even when they hurt, our feelings are the very meat of life.' -Yves Rees, author of All About Yves: Notes from a Transition 'Everything in How We Love pierced me as I read - the humour, the honesty, the blistering detail. I laughed, and my heart ached.' -Alice Robinson, author of The Glad Shout

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