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Meet Lucretia. A witty, acutely observant, stiletto-loving writer with an unwavering belief that Mr Right is just around the corner. She just needs to overcome some questionable decision making, lackluster sexual adventures and downright bizarre male behaviour along the way.
After falling out of love and ending her 10 year marriage, Lucretia finds herself navigating a strange new world as a thirty-something single woman without a road map.
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"As meaningful as The Alchemist; as brilliantly told as The Life of Pi, and as inspirational as Eat, Pray, Love"
This thought-provoking allegory offers an innovative approach to understanding meaning, purpose, and fulfillment. It tells the story of what is, what was, what could have been, and what could still be.
Jerry is a traditionally successful, yet unfulfilled man, who has isolated himself from the rest of the world by making decisions based...
83) Red Rain
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A bittersweet story of friendship and overcoming grief from a critically acclaimed author. Olivia Montag is a professor who doesn't have all the answers. The devastating loss of a child ended her marriage, and she's been overlooked for a job promotion one time too many. Not sure what comes next, she leaves it all behind and volunteers to teach English to schoolchildren in India. Ten thousand miles away, she connects with fellow volunteers and finds...
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"Each June, Tory Bilski meets up with fellow women travelers in Reykjavik where they head to northern Iceland, near the Greenland Sea. They escape their ordinary lives to live an extraordinary one at a horse farm perched at the edge of the world--if only for a short while" -- Google Books.
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Tracy Strauss helps readers empower themselves by taking a challenging look at the ways the negative events of their lives, including sexual harassment and abuse, have shaped their self-perception and created obstacles to personal success, and how readers can change that troubled self-image along with their (love) lives. I Just Haven't Met You Yet is a modern-day journey of the heart. It is a story about taking big risks, changing old habits and beliefs...
86) Stern men
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The "wonderful first novel about life, love, and lobster fishing" (USA Today) from the #1 bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, Big Magic and City of Girls
Off the coast of Maine, Ruth Thomas is born into a feud fought for generations by two groups of local lobstermen over fishing rights for the waters that lie between their respective islands. At eighteen, she has returned from boarding school-smart as a whip,...
Off the coast of Maine, Ruth Thomas is born into a feud fought for generations by two groups of local lobstermen over fishing rights for the waters that lie between their respective islands. At eighteen, she has returned from boarding school-smart as a whip,...
88) Black Gypsy: My Self-Discovery on an Adventure across France, Egypt, Bahrain, Thailand, and Laos
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Have you ever dreamed of quitting your job, traveling the world, and falling in love in a foreign land?
Narrated by the author, Black Gypsy is the true story of Shawna Sharee, a 30-something inner-city black girl that did just that...
After quitting her entire life following an ultimate betrayal, she makes her way traveling across three continents and six countries spanning seven months.
This sometimes funny, sometimes spiritual, sometimes gritty,...
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My Journey Through War and Peace: Explorations of a Young Filmmaker, Feminist and Spiritual Seeker is based on Melissa Burch's experiences as a war journalist for BBC, CBS, and other networks. Her team was one of the first documentary crews allowed in the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, and she was featured in a New York Times story about her time in Afghanistan. She was just in her twenties when she traveled with the mujahedeen, filmed...
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Two major trends have recently swept the travel world: the first, an overwhelming desire (thanks to Elizabeth Gilbert's bestseller, Eat, Pray, Love) to write one's own memoir; the second, an explosion of social media, blogs, twitter and texts, which allow travelers to document and share their experiences instantaneously. Thus, the act of chronicling one's journey has never been more popular, nor the urge stronger. Writing Away: A Creative Guide to...
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What do you do when everyone around you is embracing parenthood or focused on their careers, and you're not sure either path is right for you? Lisa Jansen decided to find out. At 33, Lisa had everything she ever wanted; A successful career in marketing, amazing friends, and the great outdoors of New Zealand as her playground. She was happy. Until one day, doubts started creeping in, and Lisa found herself at a crossroads. Unsure about whether she...
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It's the adventure of Wild, the contemplation of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and the neuroses of Eat, Pray, Love, all on a shoestring budget… and bicycles.Lessons of the road:-Worry doesn't help.-Just wait and see.-Let go of the trip you thought you'd be on.-Balance self-improvement with self-acceptance.-Be present.When Emily and Mary head west from Cape May, New Jersey, Emily imagines the peace she'll find bicycling across the open...
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Let yourself go...
Starting the Lonely hearts Travel Club was supposed to be the second chance that gave Georgia Green back her life. She thought it would be just like travelling, but the reality is far from rosy as she realizes that starting a new business is definitely not a beach!
So when Georgia finds herself on an impromptu work trip to India she knows something's got to give! Where has the girl gone who fought so hard to rebuild her life?...
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A success-driven CEO goes on a year-long journey of self-discovery in Bali in this memoir about rediscovering what's truly important.
A hard-charging CEO of a large enterprise, Ben Feder discovers that he is losing the very things that sustained him over his years of business success. Unsettled by his insight, he becomes determined to rebuild family relationships and rejuvenate his sense of purpose. Risking his career, Feder left New York with his...
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What if you had a second chance... to find yourself?
Instead of slipping on her something borrowed and tripping up the aisle to wedded bliss, Georgia spends her big day wondering where it all went wrong.
Forced to make a bucket list of her new life goals by best friend Marie, it's not long before travel-virgin Georgia's packing her bags for a long-haul trip to Thailand.
Yet, Georgia's big adventure doesn't seem to be going to plan. From strange...
96) Gently, Jolene
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Have you ever dreamed of starting over in a new place? Jolene acted on that dream, and now she's traveling to Italy on a one-way ticket.
Eager to leave her past disappointments behind, Jolene takes a leap of faith and accepts Filippo's unexpected proposal to travel back to Italy's fabled Cinque Terre with him.
Thrilled at the prospect of a new life with her new love in one of the world's most enchanting travel destinations, Jolene can't wait to...
97) Higher Love
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This is not your average love story…
Her entire life, Anne Friedman chased everything that society told her she should want: Marriage. Professional achievement. Thighs that didn't touch. But all that got her was depression, anxiety, and disordered eating.
When her fiancé dumps her without explanation, she buys a one-way ticket to Costa Rica in search of answers.
First, a spontaneous psychedelic experience in the jungle brings her peace with...
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Fly-by-the-seat-of-her-pants mom Jennifer Magnuson knew her spoiled suburban brood needed a wake-up call-she just couldn't find the time to fit one in. But when her husband was offered a position in India, she saw it for what it was: the perfect opportunity for her family to unplug from their over-scheduled and pampered lives in Nashville and gain some much-needed perspective. What she didn't realize was how much their time in India would transform...
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What would you do? Stay in Paris indefinitely or return to one of two homelands: a polarized and chaotic U.S. or a let's-pretend-everything's-normal-even-though-it-isn't Sweden? After two weeks in Paris, Michelle's choice was clear, persuaded by French President Macron's reassuring leadership and the imagined thrill of frolicking in a tourist-free Paris. A series of incremental incidents that left her 'stranded' in France without income converted...
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When, at age 39, the author is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness for which there is no cure or treatment, he joins his best friend, Claire, on a vision quest to New Mexico, where, at The Light Institute – a pioneer in past-life regression therapy – he relives a harrowing past-life in a Nazi concentration camp that illuminates the dark fate joining that lifetime with his current one, sowing the seeds for a broader personal inquiry into...