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Unmapped Solo Women Travelers on Bold Journeys of Healing, Resilience, and Self-Discovery

Real women--most in midlife or beyond--step out of their comfort zones and into the world, one bold journey at a time. From camping in the next county to navigating a foreign city alone, these stories prove transformation doesn't require luxury or perfect planning--just the courage to say yes. Born from survival, reinvention, and resilience, Unmapped captures the laughter, friendships, quiet bravery, and freedom found when women travel on their own terms. Half the royalties support the YWCA's mission to help women and families escape violence and reclaim their futures--because sometimes the

On Earth as It Is in Heaven

To turn earth into heaven is a tall order, but no matter where they live on this planet, the people in these stories hold out hope that at least a small portion of heaven might brighten their patch of earth. A doctor and his relatives are at loggerheads over whether England will be more of a paradise if a splash of Pakistan is added. A Tamil doctor who flees his homeland torn by civil war struggles to make a new life in the American Midwest. A New Zealander visiting India strikes up an unlikely friendship with a little boy facing hard times.

Shaking Up the World

Shaking Up the World is a collection of stories by the Naval Academy Class of 1957 members. Some classmates watched Japanese planes bombing Pearl Harbor (Tom Marnane). Walt Meukow spent the war as a prisoner in the Philippines; another Art Aronson, was a prisoner in the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz. The Shaking and shaping of four years at Annapolis molded men who would spend their lives shaking up the world, large and small, in uniform and as civilians. Brad Parkinson's architecture of the Global Positioning System (GPS) was monumental.

How I Learned English

I purchased this book as a Christmas present for my Guatemalan wife because she like millions of other Latinos, has struggled to master the quirks and challenges of English. Ligia took English in school in Guatemala. But I've always insisted we speak Spanish to maintain my fluency, and she patiently corrected my grammar, which she continues to do. After our first year of marriage, I took her to my hometown of Evergreen, Colorado, in winter's dead (cold), where she tried to communicate with my mother by writing notes.

Writing on the Edge: A Borderland Reader

I’ve gotten to know the author over the years based on a shared appreciation of iconic writer Moritz Thomsen, whom Tom met in Ecuador. He accompanied me to the University of Arizona Library, which acquired his archives, including six boxes of materials on Thomsen that I used to research and write several articles. With Tom’s help, I’d write my anthology, Moritz Thomsen: The Greatest American Writer Nobody Knows About.

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