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A late-in-life coming-of-age escapade told with humor and heart, Don’t Think Twice is a moving and irreverent account of grief, growing up, and the healing power of adventure. Within six months, Barbara Schoichet lost everything: her job, her girlfriend of six years, and her mother to...

“We can do extraordinary things when we lead with love,” Barbara Becker reminds us in her debut memoir Heartwood. When her earliest childhood friend is diagnosed with a terminal illness, Becker sets off on a quest to immerse herself in what it means to be mortal. Can we live our lives more...

We weten maar één ding zeker in ons leven en dat is dat we op een dag doodgaan. Toch stoppen we de gedachte hieraan bij voorkeur zo ver mogelijk weg. Toen de ouders van Barbara van Beukering ongeneeslijk ziek waren, wilde haar vader er niet over praten, terwijl haar moeder heel bewust alle tijd nam om afscheid te nemen van haar dierbaren. Hierdoor realiseerde Van Beukering zich dat de manier waarop je afscheid neemt van het leven grote impact heeft op je nabestaanden.

Christine Hemp's debut work of nonfiction, Wild Ride Home, is a brilliant memoir, looping themes of finding love and losing love, of going away and coming home, of the wretched course of Alzheimer's, of cancer, of lost pregnancies, of fly fishing and horsemanship, of second chances, and, ultimately, of the triumph of love and family—all told within the framework of the training of a little white horse named Buddy. Wild Ride Home invites the listener into the close Hemp family, which believes beauty and humor outshine the most devastating circumstances.