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Discover the Second Edition of A World of Illusions—newly enhanced with insights and updates reflecting the events of 2024, making it more relevant than ever!

The Silence of the Volcano is the prescriptive memoir of Almudena Konrad—a woman who grew up in the shadow of a mentally unstable father, left everything she knew as a young woman—her ocean, her language, her flamenco, her people—and arrived in California, where she became an undocumented immigrant cleaning houses for three dollars an hour.

Have you been thinking about a career change? Does the nonprofit sector sound like it might be for you? In Make the Jump: Reinvent Your Career in the Nonprofit Sector, you'll learn what nonprofit executive search leader Marcia Ballinger has figured out after working with hundreds of nonprofit organizations and counseling thousands of executives.

As a student and teacher of history, Robin Foster is well aware that humans have persisted through major hardships as long as they have existed. When faced with the anxious dread many felt at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Foster began seeking stories of tenacious women of the American West who had survived their own hardships in a world that threw the unexpected at them. During one of the most uncertain periods of her life, Foster hit the road, embarking on a journey to find these determined women of the past and finding herself along the way.

Everyone has a story. In Hope, author Karen Marchione tells some of those stories. In this collection of narratives, everyday people faced with extraordinary challenges relate their experiences that inspire, bring hope, and renew faith in the resilience of the human spirit.