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Building Better Boundaries: Devotions and Faith-Guided Wisdom to Help You Develop Healthy Relationships
by Alexis WaidLearn to set boundaries using the wisdom of Scripture Establishing healthy boundaries makes life more manageable, but it's something many Christians struggle with. This weekly devotional draws on lessons from the Bible to show you that being a loving Christian doesn't have to mean putting the needs of others before your own. Over the course of a year, you'll learn to free yourself from feelings of obligation and guilt so that you can enjoy more rewarding relationships with the people in your life—including yourself. What sets this boundary book apart: Weekly themed devotions—Learn how to draw a line in the sand with 52 weeks of devotions each centered around an aspect of boundary-setting, like how to say no, manage your time, and more. Insightful exercises—Each devotion ends with a prayer and a goal for the upcoming week to help you reinforce God's guidance and put every lesson into practice. An uplifting read—It's easy to commit to this engaging devotional thanks to an empathetic approach that makes it feel as though you're in conversation with a supportive friend. Establish healthy boundaries while honoring God with this devotional book.
Insulin Resistance Diet for Beginners: The Complete Guide to Reverse Insulin Resistance & Manage Weight
by Marlee Coldwell RDHelp your body naturally reverse insulin resistance using delicious food. Whether you're dealing with diabetes, PCOS, or just looking to manage an erratic metabolism, the insulin resistance diet can be key to a very satisfying, healthy lifestyle. Break the monotonous boundaries of managing your insulin response with The Insulin Resistance Diet for Beginners. This complete lifestyle guide will help your body naturally regulate glucose and insulin levels while putting creative, delicious, and diverse meals on the table. Relatable analogies, food humor, and realistic recipes make it fun to understand how the insulin resistance diet and lifestyle can change not only your metabolism, but your entire life outlook. The included shopping guides and meal plans make it easy to start your new lifestyle right away. The path to steady glucose levels and a strong metabolism begins in the kitchen—here's your guide to the insulin resistance diet. Inside The Insulin Resistance Diet for Beginners you'll find: Roadmap for success—A five-step plan makes the insulin resistance diet something you can start today. Shop in a snap—Complete shopping lists to help fill your pantry with all the right food—no more wondering. A meal in 5—Most recipes use just five ingredients so they're fast and easy to prepare, but slow to digest. Insulin resistance and delicious meals don't have to be mutually exclusive. Start reversing insulin resistance and loving the food that you eat with The Insulin Resistance Diet for Beginners.
When Your Heart Says Go: My Year of Traveling Beyond Loss and Loneliness
by Judy ReevesWhat sort of mad longing besets a woman—nearing fifty and recently widowed—to sell everything she owns, buy an around-the-world airline ticket, pack a single suitcase, and set off alone on a year-long journey without a plan or agenda? When Your Heart Says Go answers that question. Set in 1990–&’91, Judy&’s story takes readers from San Diego through eleven European countries, the then-Soviet Union, and finally India, during the lead-up to the first Gulf War. Explorations of foreign locales and interactions with strangers and acquaintances who become a lifeline to friendship are interspersed with occasional flashbacks to Judy&’s life with her beloved husband, Tom, as well as his illness and death. Descriptions of sites historic and current serve as both daily life and background for Judy&’s struggle to find her way as a sober, single, independent woman in the vast world as it edges toward the collapse of the Soviet Union and war in the Middle East. The outer journey serves as a container for the inner; the more Judy experiences of the world, the more she learns about herself—and the closer she gets to realizing her lifelong dream of being a writer.
Rebecca of Salerno: A Novel of Rogue Crusaders, a Jewish Female Physician, and a Murder
by Esther ErmanThis book continues the story of Rebecca from Walter Scott’s 1820 novel Ivanhoe. The Ivanhoe backstory: Jewish women in medieval England do not fall in love with Christian knights like Ivanhoe. Neither do they heal knights from battle wounds. But Rebecca does both—and nearly pays with her life. Rescued by Ivanhoe from being burnt at the stake as a sorceress, she flees from England and the man she loves. Rebecca of Salerno: In Salerno, Kingdom of Sicily, Rebecca pursues her dreams by attending medical school. Practicing her profession, she defies family pressure to marry Rafael, the man who loves her. But more pressing is the conquest of Sicily by the Hohenstaufens and the arrival of rogue crusaders, both of which threaten Salerno’s long-standing atmosphere of tolerance. When a rabbi is falsely accused of murdering a crusader, Rebecca and Rafael commit to pursuing justice and protecting the Jewish community.This story provides fascinating history, as of the medical school in Salerno, where women and men—Christians, Muslims, and Jews—studied together. It also exemplifies the recurring Jewish experience of persecution, search for refuge, and resilience to remake lives.Rebecca struggles to balance community expectations and traditions with her desire for fulfillment—one of the great challenges facing women throughout the ages.
Don't Put the Boats Away: A Novel
by Ames SheldonIn the aftermath of World War II, the members of the Sutton family are reeling from the death of their &“golden boy,&” Eddie. Over the next twenty-five years, they all struggle with loss, grief, and mourning. Daughter Harriet and son Nat attempt to fill the void Eddie left behind: Harriet becomes a chemist despite an inhospitable culture for career women in the 1940s and &’50s, hoping to move into the family business in New Jersey, while Nat aims to be a jazz musician. Both fight with their autocratic father, George, over their professional ambitions as they come of age. Their mother, Eleanor, who has PTSD as a result of driving an ambulance during the Great War, wrestles with guilt over never telling Eddie about the horrors of war before he enlisted. As the members of the family attempt to rebuild their lives, they pay high prices, including divorce and alcoholism—but in the end, they all make peace with their losses, each in his or her own way.
Nothing Forgotten: A Novel
by Jessica LevineWhen Anna, now living in California, is contacted by the Italian lover she knew decades before, she recalls their affair and the child she gave up for adoption. As the episode returns to haunt her—threatening the life she&’s built, including her marriage—the story moves back in time to her youth in Europe. Rome, 1979. Anna, twenty-two and living abroad, is involved with a man already engaged to be married. When she meets and befriends his fiancée, she is forced to confront the moral consequences of her actions. But an unexpected pregnancy, an anonymous letter, and threatening relatives complicate the picture. A novel in which an unconventional heroine, far from home, is forced to reckon with the judgment of others.
Tattoo Monologues: Indelible Marks on the Body and Soul
by Donna L. Torrisi John GiuglianoBody art can tell personal stories. When linked to a difficult or traumatic life, it can even restore one&’s sense of well-being. As director of a community health center for twenty-seven years and as a nurse practitioner for over forty years, Donna Torrisi became fascinated with the stories behind her patients&’ tattoos. When she began to ask her female patients about their markings, themes of trauma, pain, and loss emerged, and it became clear that the art indelibly marked on their bodies had played a part in their healing and redemption.The women featured in Tattoo Monologues demonstrate vulnerability and courage as they share both their personal tattoo narratives and photos of the images on their bodies. These women represent diverse cultures, ethnicities, and professional contexts, but they are united by their use of tattoos as a tool for processing traumatic life experiences. The images, stories, emotions, and journeys in this book collectively tell a compelling story. A story of skin and ink. A story of trauma and adversity. A story of courage and resilience.
Still Needs Work: A Novel
by Ellen BarkerMarianne gets the call while attending a conference in San Francisco: laid off, department dissolved. Two days later, she&’s back home in the dicey Kansas City neighborhood she moved to after a reversal of fortune two years ago. After all this time rebuilding her life, it&’s all collapsed.The daily grind is just that—a grind. Until it isn&’t, until it&’s gone and taken health insurance, retirement contributions, and the currency to buy food and shelter, never mind the free coffee at the office, along with it. In the aftermath of her layoff, Marianne tries all the usual routes to re-employment, but a middle-aged woman, regardless of experience, has little job cred in the tech world, especially with an address in the heartland. A contract job at a Chicago startup morphs through two acquisitions in eight weeks. And then she&’s mugged in her own neighborhood, which frightens her enough to consider a permanent move away.An irreverent look at the alien denizens of the tech world, the fraught business of mergers and acquisitions, and the parallel universe of job openings, Still Needs Work is a contemporary story of the working world wrapped around a very human story of one person, her dog, and her community.
The Blue Witch: The Witches of Orkney, Book One (The Witches of Orkney #Bk. 1)
by Alane Adams2020 IPPY Awards Bronze Winner in Cover Design, Fiction 2019 American Fiction Awards: Best Cover Design: Children's Books—Finalist 2019 American Fiction Awards: Juvenile Fiction—Winner 2019 Readers' Favorite Awards Gold Medal Winner in Children's Mythology/Fairy Tale 2019 Moonbeam: Gold Medal Winner in Pre-Teen Fiction/Fantasy &“An enchanting new book full of magical mischief and adventure, Alane Adams&’s The Blue Witch is guaranteed to please&” —Foreword Clarion Reviews Before Sam Baron broke Odin's curse on the witches to become the first son born to a witch and the hero of the Legends of Orkney series, his mother was a young witchling growing up in the Tarkana Witch Academy. In this first book of the prequel series, the Witches of Orkney, nine-year-old Abigail Tarkana is determined to grow up to be the greatest witch of all, even greater than her evil ancestor Catriona. Unfortunately, she is about to fail Spectacular Spells class because her witch magic hasn't come in yet. Even worse, her nemesis, Endera, is making life miserable by trying to get her kicked out. When her new friend Hugo's life is put in danger by a stampeding sneevil, a desperate Abigail manages to call up her magic―only to find out it's unlike any other witchling's at the Tarkana Witch Academy! As mysteries deepen around her magic and just who her true parents are, Abigail becomes trapped in a race against time to undo one of her spells before she is kicked out of the coven forever! Rich in Norse mythology, The Blue Witch is the first of a fast-paced young reader series filled with magical spells, mysterious beasts, and witch-hungry spiders!
All the Ghosts Dance Free: A Memoir
by Terry BaldwinA sweeping exploration of beginnings and endings, loss and letting go, All the Ghosts Dance Free takes readers on a journey through author Terry Cameron Baldwin&’s life: from her childhood in a privileged but unstable enclave on the coast of Southern California, through her adolescence in Palm Springs and coming of age in San Francisco at the height of the sixties psychedelic revolution, and ultimately to her life as an ex-pat in Mexico. Struggling to deal with the death of her parents, as well as questions about her own mortality, Baldwin embarks upon a pilgrimage to a small town in Morocco—where, she finds, all of the ghosts dance free.
Last Place Called Home: A Novel
by Betsy HartmannAs the secret federal sting operation Snakehead targets the fentanyl trade, the small mill town of Stanton, Massachusetts, becomes a battlefield in the war on drugs and three mothers—newspaper reporter Laura Everett, businesswoman Mimi Sullivan, and machinist Angie Gillen—must overcome their differences and confront their pasts to keep their troubled teenagers out of the crossfire. Help comes from unexpected quarters when several Stanton cops break ranks with their superiors after learning that Snakehead&’s real mission is to militarize the police and northern border. Stakes rise as the opioid crisis deepens and Mimi&’s daughter sinks further into depression and heroin addiction. Laura&’s and Angie&’s sons try to save her, but their efforts only place her more at risk and she is forced to run away. Ultimately, the deadly violence being perpetrated all around her—by gangs, dealers, and those running the Snakehead operation—compels Laura to dig deep within herself for the power to take charge.A fast-paced, multilayered thriller that reveals the high human costs of the drug war, Last Place Called Home is also a story about love and loyalty to family, friends, and place. Stanton is a hard place to live in—but it&’s an even harder place to leave.
The Virgin Chronicles: A Memoir
by Marina DelVecchioKathy is a virgin in her twenties trying to navigate the blurred lines between sex and love even as outside forces attempt to detach her from her sexual autonomy. At home, her adoptive mother&’s eyes investigate her body for evidence of sexual promiscuity and, despite her protests, she is called a putana—a whore—for her perceived sexual debauchery. At work, meanwhile, she is sexually harassed by male managers who slap her butt, tell her they want Greek for lunch (wink, wink), and fill out recommendation forms about her sexy qualities. A young girl on the cusp of womanhood, she encounters a version of herself as men experience her: hypersexualized and objectified. As if this is not enough, Kathy enters the dating scene in search of love only to find herself fending off young men who want her just for sex. In each relationship, Kathy uncovers her own strength and conviction as she fights for the kind of sex she wants instead of the kind of empty sex boys seem to require of girls. The more demands they make, the more determined she is to hold out for love—even if it means losing a guy or going home single and alone. Raw and empowering, The Virgin Chronicles sends the message that love is worth waiting for and sex is better when it&’s paired with self-actualization.
The Quick & Easy Healthy Cookbook: 125 Delicious Recipes Ready in 30 Minutes or Less
by Carrie ForrestCooking this deliciously healthy was never this quick Organic, unprocessed ingredients are the building blocks of nutritious cooking. The Quick and Easy Healthy Cookbook is filled with 125 recipes using whole foods that can be on the table in 30 minutes or less! Shifting to a whole foods diet can be difficult when recipes require expensive items and ample prep time, or assume a lot of prior cooking knowledge. But with The Quick and Easy Healthy Cookbook, shopping is simplified, meal prep is smarter, and food hits the table faster than ever. The Quick and Easy Healthy Cookbook includes: Beyond organized—All recipes, from Loaded Sweet Potato Toast to Chicken Tortilla Soup, are arranged by time, serving size, and dietary breakdown, as well as helpful labels like "extra quick," "kids love it," and "freezer friendly." Be prepared—The Quick and Easy Healthy Cookbook turns your kitchen into a well-oiled machine with helpful prep lists including tools, appliances, and pantry items. Simple shopping—All whole ingredients in this healthy cookbook are common and simple to find; no wandering the grocery store for obscure items. The Quick and Easy Healthy Cookbook is your resource for putting faster, healthier meals on the table and adding more time back to your life.
The 30-Minute MIND Diet Cookbook: Recipes to Enhance Brain Health and Help Prevent Alzheimer's and Dementia
by Amanda Foote RDMeal plans and quick recipes for a healthy MIND diet Studies show that the right nutrition can help prevent and manage cognitive decline, including Alzheimer's disease and dementia. With The 30-Minute MIND Diet Cookbook, it's easy to make delicious meals that support your brain health. Discover the science behind the MIND diet and a wide variety of simple, affordable recipes that you can put on the table in 30 minutes or less. A 14-day jump start—Dive right into the MIND diet with a 2-week meal plan, complete with handy shopping lists and supplemental snack and dessert recipes. Recipes for every taste—Discover brain-healthy recipes including updated comfort food favorites, Mediterranean dishes, and a range of international flavors. Fresh, wholesome ingredients—Enjoy a delicious diet full of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, nuts, olive oil, seafood, poultry, and more. Start eating the right foods to protect your brain with help from this research-based guide to the MIND diet.
Hiking Activity Book for Kids: 35 Fun Projects for Your Next Outdoor Adventure
by Amelia MayerMake every hike an exciting adventure with these outdoor activities for kids ages 6 to 9 Hiking is an amazing way for kids to explore the great outdoors and learn new things about the world around them. This book is filled with 35 hands-on hiking projects that encourage kids to get outside, gain important skills, and discover all the awesome lessons nature can teach them. What sets this activity book about hiking for kids apart: Perfect for any hike—It doesn't matter where in the country you live; these activities are perfect for any hiking trail, walking path, or sidewalk in the U.S. All sorts of activities—From identifying animal tracks to designing a nature maze, kids will explore a variety of games and exercises that make it even more fun to spend time outdoors. Room to record adventures—Kids will find plenty of space to log details about their favorite trips and sketch what they saw during their hikes. Inspire kids to hit the trails with this engaging collection of hiking activities that combine learning and play.
5-Minute Core Exercises for Seniors: Daily Routines to Build Balance and Boost Confidence (Exercises for Seniors)
by Cindy Brehse Tami Brehse DzenitisStrengthen your core and boost your confidence with 5-minute exercise routines for seniors Having a strong core can improve mobility, reduce aches and pains, prevent falls, and build everyday confidence. 5-Minute Core Exercises for Seniors makes it easy to incorporate daily exercise for seniors, with a collection of 40 individual movements and 25 quick routines for strengthening the major core muscles. This guide to exercise for seniors helps you: Get to know your core—Learn the muscle groups that make up your core, the benefits of keeping them strong, the importance of breathing and stretching, and the latest science behind exercise for seniors. Enjoy a wide variety of exercises—Discover a range of seated, standing, on-the-mat, and weighted exercises that mimic everyday movement and don't require any special equipment. Follow step-by-step instructions—Find how-tos and illustrations for engaging the right muscles and preventing injury, as well as tips to increase or decrease the intensity of each movement to meet your needs. Improve strength, balance, and confidence with this detailed introduction to core exercise for seniors.
The Clean Eating Weeknight Dinner Plan: Quick & Healthy Meals for Any Schedule
by Michelle AndersonMake a habit of healthful living in your household with The Clean Eating Weeknight Dinner Plan. Planning meals night after night that will get your family excited about starting and sticking to clean eating can be challenging. Just ask Michelle Anderson, whose own experience running a clean eating household led her to create this fool-proof plan for toxin-free family dinners. Packed with grocery lists, meal plans, and delicious recipes, The Clean Eating Weeknight Dinner Plan paves the way for saying goodbye to processed foods for good. The Clean Eating Weeknight Dinner Plan includes: A 21-Day Meal Plan with shopping and storage tips for 3 weeks of healthy clean eating Over Clean Eating 100 Recipes all of which are budget-friendly, serve 4 or more people, and take less than 30 minutes to make Grab-N-Go suggestions for packed lunches and re-using leftovers to make sure your family sticks to clean eating no matter how busy life gets Helpful Tips to get your family excited about clean eating Get your fill of naturally nutritious meals every night of the week with The Clean Eating Weeknight Dinner Plan.
Ramen Made Simple: A Step-by-Step Guide
by Chris ToyThe easy step-by-step guide to making savory, satisfying ramen at home Ramen is the ultimate comfort food, whether it's a simple bowl of noodles and broth or a hearty meal with eggs, meat, and fresh veggies. Find out how easy it can be to make this iconic dish at home with Ramen Made Simple. With step-by-step instructions, infographics, and easy to follow illustrations, you can upgrade from a pack of instant noodles to a swoon-worthy soup from scratch. Get started right away with simplified guidelines that take you through building each element of a perfectly balanced bowl. Every recipe adds a variation to help you make near-endless options, and many include tips and tricks like store-bought hacks, pressure cooker time-savers, and more. The "Ramencyclopedia"—Learn the essential formula for building a bowl of ramen, and discover the tools and pantry staples to make preparation easy. 15 Core recipes—Follow along to make the four building blocks of ramen—broth, tare, noodles, and toppings—so you can mix and match to create dozens of variations. Flavorful final dishes—Learn to make iconic miso, shoyu, tonkotsu, and shio ramens, plus less common types like Yamagata cold ramen and lemon ramen. Create your own perfect bowl of ramen in the comfort of your home with Ramen Made Simple.
Wine Taster's Guide: Drink and Learn with 30 Wine Tastings
by Joe RobertsUncork your understanding of wine and develop your palate with 30 tasting lessons Ever wish you were the one to confidently grab the wine list and make a fantastic choice for the table? Wine Taster's Guide is your step-by-step manual to understanding why different wines taste the way they do through 30 tastings. You'll learn how grape varieties, wine-making processes, and regional styles impact the wine you drink. Find out how aging can affect the final flavor of a wine. Discover why swirling the wine in your glass will have a huge impact on what you smell. Before you know it, you'll be drinking and discussing wine like a sommelier at a winery in the French countryside. The Wine Taster's Guide includes: Tasting 101—Learn about the science of how we perceive aroma and flavor as well as the steps of wine evaluations—look, swirl, smell, and taste. Regional wines—Head straight to the source with a chapter on the major wine regions of the world, including France, Italy, the United States, and others, plus wine-tasting suggestions that will introduce you to the styles they are known for. Pairings galore—What is wine without food? Learn how to partner like a pro, whether it's brie or blue cheese, steak, or sushi. Learning everything there is to know about wine has never been more fun and easy than with the Wine Taster's Guide.
The Story of Audrey Hepburn: An Inspiring Biography for Young Readers (The Story of Biographies)
by Natasha WingDiscover the life of Audrey Hepburn—a story about grace, passion, and helping others for kids ages 6 to 9Audrey Hepburn was a famous actress, fashion icon, and humanitarian. Before she became a movie star, she was a young girl in Belgium who wanted to be a ballerina. She lived through a world war and many other difficult times, but never gave up on her dreams and was always kind to everyone around her. This Audrey Hepburn kids' book explores how she went from hiding her identity to being one of the most beloved celebrities in the world.Independent reading—This Audrey Hepburn biography is broken down into short chapters and simple language so kids 6 to 9 can read and learn on their own.Critical thinking—Kids will learn the Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How of Audrey's life, find definitions of new words, discussion questions, and more.A lasting legacy—Find out how Audrey's love of animals, children, and learning new languages made her an amazing ambassador who traveled the world to help people in need.How will Audrey's positive attitude and generous spirit inspire you?
The Artist Colony: A Novel
by Joanna FitzPatrickJuly 1924. Sarah Cunningham, a young Modernist painter, arrives in Carmel-by-the-Sea from Paris to bury her older sister, Ada Belle. En route, she is shocked to learn that Ada Belle&’s suspicious death is a suicide. But why kill herself? Her plein air paintings were famous and her upcoming exhibition of portraitures would bring her even wider recognition.Sarah puts her own artistic career on hold and, trailed by Ada Belle&’s devoted dog, Albert, becomes a secret sleuth, a task made harder by the misogyny and racism she discovers in this seemingly idyllic locale.Part mystery, part historical fiction, this engrossing novel celebrates the artistic talents of early women painters, the deep bonds of sisterhood, the muse that is beautiful scenery, and the determination of one young woman to discover the truth, to protect an artistic legacy, and to give her sister the farewell she deserves.
48 Peaks: Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains
by Cheryl SuchorsFloundering in her second career, the one she&’s always wanted, forty-eight year old Cheryl Suchors resolves that, despite a fear of heights, her mid-life success depends on hiking the highest of the grueling White Mountains in New Hampshire. All forty-eight of them. She endures injuries, novice mistakes, and the heartbreaking loss of a best friend. When breast cancer threatens her own life, she seeks solace and recovery in the wild. Her quest takes ten years. Regardless of the need since childhood to feel successful and in control, climbing teaches her mastery isn&’t enough and control is often an illusion. Connecting with friends and with nature, Suchors redefines success: she discovers a source of spiritual nourishment, spaces powerful enough to absorb her grief, and joy in the persistence of love and beauty. 48 Peaks inspires us to believe that, no matter what obstacles we face, we too can attain our summits.
Mating Calls: The Problem with Lexie and Number Seven
by Jessica Anya BlauBestselling author Jessica Anya Blau's delicious stories about women behaving badly are perfect for a before-bedtime literary romp. Could a little yellow pill be responsible for landing Lexie James in the bed of her lover-and her lover's wife? Whatever the reason for this charmingly reckless school counselor's bad behavior, you've never been on a bender like "The Problem with Lexie". In "No. Seven", Zandra runs into her seventh love-of 48-in a department store. Blau&’s newest novel, The Wonder Bread Summer, was featured on numerous Best Reads lists and her first novel, The Summer of Naked Swim Parties was a national bestseller and picked as a Best Summer Book by the Today Show, the New York Post and New York Magazine.
A Work of Art: A Novel
by Micayla LallyLetting go after her abrupt break-up with Samson is harder than Julene thought it would be, especially since her ex has wasted no time in burying himself in the local dating scene. But during an extended visit to her parents overseas, Julene rediscovers her love of art, and a burgeoning career develops. Samson, on the other hand, after trying valiantly—and unsuccessfully—to forget Julene, has settled instead on his own new career. When Julene returns home to Australia, a coincidental meeting leads to an emotional reunion—but her love and patience will be tested when she finds out just how busy Samson has been in her absence. Yes, they have both made mistakes they can work through and move past—but when a specter from Samson&’s past looms, Julene wonders: Can she trust him again?
The Mill of Lost Dreams: A Novel
by Lori RohdaBetween 1870 and 1900, twelve million people immigrated to America. Hundreds of thousands of them came to work in the textile mills of Fall River, Massachusetts. The Mill of Lost Dreams is a story of love, friendship and sacrifice that provides an inside view into the world of textile mills and the daily life of seven courageous souls who leave home and risk everything for their shared dream of a better life: Angelina and Guido Wallabee, who have left their family’s failed farm in Italy; eleven-year-old Miranda Alysworth and her fifteen-year-old brother, Francois, who have escaped from indentured service in Canada; twins Phoebe and Charlie Dougherty, the children of Irish immigrant parents, who, though not yet thirteen, are forced to work in Troy Mill to support their family after their father’s untimely death; and eleven-year-old, Anne Kenny, an orphan who’s never known where she came from. All but one take jobs in Troy Mill in Fall River. Over the course of seven decades, there are marriages, births, secrets exposed, friendships tested, and innocence lost. Some succeed in making a new life away from harm but pay a terrible price. Many cannot build the life they dreamed of and the consequences impact and shape the lives of their children—and their children’s children.