She Writes Press: 369 books
Make a Wish for Me
A Family's Recovery from Autism
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Indie Reader Discovery Awards Winner for Parenting
National Indie Excellence Award Finalist
Hollywood Book Festival 2016 Honorable mention in general non-fiction
Bookvana 2016 Finalist in Parenting/Family
Bronze Medal Winner Inspirational Memoir-Female
Living Now Book Awards-Books for Better Living
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Lum
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Lum has always been on the outside. At eight, she was diagnosed with what we now call an intersex condition and is told she can't expect to marry. Now, at thirty-three, she has no home of her own but is shuttled from one relative's house to another—valued for her skills, but never treated like a...
Don't Call Me Mother
A Daughter's Journey from Abandonment to Forgiveness
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
“I wanted to tell the secret stories that my great-grandmother Blanche whispered to me on summer nights in a featherbed in Iowa. I was eight and she was eighty . . .” At the age of four, a little girl stands on a cold, windy railroad platform in Wichita, Kansas, watching a train take her mother...
by Kristen Harnisch
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
In the sweeping, poignant sequel to The Vintner’s Daughter, the Lemieux family’s ambition to establish an American winemaking dynasty takes Sara and Philippe from pastoral Napa to the Paris World’s Fair and into the colorful heart of early 20th-century San Francisco.
It is 1897, and Sara and...
Flip-Flops After Fifty
And Other Thoughts on Aging I Remembered to Write Down
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Who hasn’t experienced life’s painful jabs—especially those of us who have rounded the corner into middle age? Emotional family events, stress from lousy jobs, the bittersweet feelings when the kids leave home, body image issues, and turning the big 5-0 . . . it’s all covered here in Cindy...
by Michelle Cox
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Henrietta Von Harmon works as a 26 girl at a corner bar on Chicago’s northwest side. It’s 1935, but things still aren’t looking up since the big crash and her father’s subsequent suicide, leaving Henrietta to care for her antagonistic mother and younger siblings. Henrietta is eventually persuaded...
Mikey and Me
Life with My Exceptional Sister
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
When Mikey is young, the Sullivans are a closely knit unit, all of them devoted to caring for her. But as Mikey grows older, she also grows increasingly violent. By the time she’s twelve, institutionalization is the only available option—and without the shared purpose of caring for Mikey, the...
Think Better. Live Better.
5 Steps to Create the Life You Deserve
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Francine Huss spent years working with the best and brightest creative professionals to become an expert on the creative process. After she started creating her own miracles, she realized she could help others harness their natural creativity to create the life they deserve. In Think Better. Live...
Scattering Ashes
A Memoir of Letting Go
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
When her alcoholic and emotionally abusive mother’s health declines, Joan Rough invites her to move in with her. Rough longs to be the “good daughter,” helping her narcissistic mother face the reality of her coming death. But when repressed memories of childhood abuse by her mother arise, Rough...
To Play Again
A Memoir of Musical Survival
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
At age twenty-one, while she was working with the legendary Nadia Boulanger in France, concert pianist Carol Rosenberger was stricken with paralytic polio—a condition that knocked out the very muscles she needed in order to play. But Rosenberger refused to give up. Over the next ten years, against...
Letting Go into Perfect Love
Discovering the Extraordinary after Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
As a college administrator, Gwen Plano lived her professional life in a highly visible and accountable space—but as wife and mother, after hours and behind closed doors, she experienced the daily terror of domestic violence. It was her secret; it was her shame. But when her husband turned his brutality...
Her Beautiful Brain
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Her Beautiful Brain is Ann Hedreen’s story of what it was like to become a mom just as her beautiful, brainy mother began to lose her mind to an unforgiving disease. Arlene was a copper miner’s daughter who was divorced twice, widowed once, raised six kids singlehandedly, survived the turbulent...
Rethinking Possible
A Memoir of Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Becky Galli was born into a family that valued the power of having a plan. With a pastor father and a stay-at-home mother, her 1960s southern upbringing was bucolic—even enviable. But when her brother, only seventeen, died in a waterskiing accident, the slow unraveling of her perfect family began.
Though...
A Tight Grip
A Novel about Golf, Love Affairs, and Women of a Certain Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Some people might that, at age forty-six, Jane “Par” Parker is too old to win golf tournaments; too old to fear her mother; and too old, after twenty years, to still feel such heavy grief over the murder of her father. But Par has an obsessively tight grip on the past, and no one can tell her...