In ‘Making Miracles’, bestselling author Fran Macilvey (‘Trapped: My Life with Cerebral Palsy’) explores what can happen when we listen to our dreams.“...Our dreams will always find a way to resurface in peaceful moments while daydreaming and sleeping. In 'Making Miracles'I share some of what I have discovered from gathering and listening to dreams, and how this process guides me to new and more effective approaches in dealing with life’s challenges. All our dreams are unique, and ...

Living in the Belgian Congo with her husband in the 1960s, Fran’s mother became pregnant with a daughter. However, right after she gave birth in the hospital, she felt strange. Unbeknownst to anyone, another daughter was on the way, but before anybody responded, an hour had passed. Because of the delay, Fran was born with cerebral palsy.Growing up with her siblings in Africa, Fran always felt different. When everyone else was playing and having fun, she would watch and wish she cou...

In Happiness Matters, bestselling author Fran Macilvey (Trapped: My Life with Cerebral Palsy) explores how we can make our lives joyful, whatever our circumstances.Despite forty years of walking the wrong way, Fran has always known that life is beautiful, a gift which can be filled with sunshine and laughter. After a decades-long journey from the depths of despair, she longed to find somewhere peaceful and fun, and a path home to self-acceptance. She started writi...

In ‘Making Miracles’, bestselling author Fran Macilvey (‘Trapped: My Life with Cerebral Palsy’) explores what can happen when we listen to our dreams.“...Our dreams will always find a way to resurface in peaceful moments while daydreaming and sleeping. In 'Making Miracles'I share some of what I have discovered from gathering and listening to dreams, and how this process guides me to new and more effective approaches in dealing with life’s challenges. All our dreams are unique, and ...

In Happiness Matters, bestselling author Fran Macilvey (Trapped: My Life with Cerebral Palsy) explores how we can make our lives joyful, whatever our circumstances.Despite forty years of walking the wrong way, Fran has always known that life is beautiful, a gift which can be filled with sunshine and laughter. After a decades-long journey from the depths of despair, she longed to find somewhere peaceful and fun, and a path home to self-acceptance. She started writi...

In 2009, college sophomore and track star Monika Kørra was grabbed by three men on her way home from a party and brutally raped. Within hours of being released, Monika resolved that she would not be a victim – she was going to be a survivor.Monika had traveled from her home in Norway to Southern Methodist University in Dallas, determined to acclimate to life in the States and excited for the opportunity of a full scholarship to do what she loved. As an athlete and ...

A lyrical and evocative memoir from Frances Mayes, the Bard of Tuscany, about coming of age in the Deep South and the region’s powerful influence on her life.The author of three beloved books about her life in Italy, including Under the Tuscan Sun and Every Day in Tuscany, Frances Mayes revisits the turning points that defined her early years in Fitzgerald, Georgia. With her signature style and grace, Mayes explores the power of landscape, the ide...

In However Long the Night, Aimee Molloy tells the unlikely and inspiring story of Molly Melching, an American woman whose experience as an exchange student in Senegal led her to found Tostan and dedicate almost four decades of her life to the girls and women of Africa.This moving biography details Melching's beginnings at the University of Dakar and follows her journey of 40 years in Africa, where she became a social entrepreneur and one of humanity's strongest voices for t...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! THIS NEW AND UPDATED EDITION FINALLY PROVES THE SHOCKING IDENTITY OF THE BLACK DAHLIA KILLER—AND THE POLICE CORRUPTION THAT CONCEALED IT FOR SO LONGIn 1947, the brutal, sadistic murder of a beautiful young woman named Elizabeth Short led to the largest manhunt in LA history. The killer teased and taunted the police and public for weeks, but his identity stayed a mystery, and the murder remained the most tantalizing unsolved case of the ...

**“This is a story intimately and compassionately told against the sensuous background of everyday life in Bombay.”—Washington Post Book World“Bracingly honest.”**—New York Times Book ReviewThe author of Bombay Time, If Today Be Sweet, and The Weight of Heaven, Thrity Umrigar is as adept and compelling in The Space Between Us—vividly capturing the social struggles of modern India in a luminous, ...

New York Times Bestseller: The "fascinating" true story of John Dale Cavaness, a much-admired Illinois doctor—and the cold-blooded killer of his own son ( The Washington Post).Fusing the narrative power of an award-winning novelist and the detailed research of an experienced investigator, author Darcy O'Brien unfolds the story of Dr. John Dale Cavaness, the southern Illinois physician and surgeon charged with the murder of his son...

On the night of July 18, 1969, a black Oldsmobile plunged off a narrow one-lane bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts. By morning, the car had been found submerged. Inside was the body of Mary Jo Kopechne, twenty-eight years old, a former campaign worker for Robert Kennedy. The next morning, Senator Ted Kennedy walked into the Edgartown police station and identified himself as the driver.What happened in those hours has never been fully explained. Kennedy himself said his ...