Divorce Memoir

When Delia's beloved first husband, Jerry, died of cancer in 2015, after 35 years of marriage, she struggled without him. Focusing on the day-to-day, she decided to make one small move forward and cancel Jerry's dedicated landline. This spiralled into days of frustration, prompting Delia to turn to words to process her grief and bewilderment. Her New York Times piece about the woes of customer service caught the eye of Peter, who emailed to commiserate.

As a 12-year-old girl, Maria Housden's vision of a happy future included everything that society expects girls to yearn for: a home, a husband, and, of course, children. Life had other plans.

When Lauren Peacock was 23 years old, she got her fairy-tale wedding. But she soon discovered that a dream wedding doesn’t guarantee a dream marriage. Divorced at 27, Lauren did a figurative face-plant onto the floor of the dating scene and had to learn some awkward lessons, like how it’s not socially acceptable to push a crush into the dirt after the age of seven. With unapologetic honesty, she reveals even the least-flattering details of her dating life, which are so relatable they’ll make listeners either cringe or laugh out loud.

I wrote this book during one of the most difficult years of my life. This is my journey through the grieving process of losing my 27 year relationship and trauma work before and after. It is a glimpse into how I used the therapeutic processes of Compassionate Inquiry and Internal Family Systems to navigate through the year, as well as chronicle how my childhood shaped my life and how I show up in relationship, my worldview, coping mechanisms, and more.

The Miracle of the Breaking entreats you to look beyond the meager pieces of yourself, a scattering of qualifications that are most certainly not enough for the task ahead, and look to the Miracle Worker who can transform even the smallest offering. Darlene Rhodes, pastor and international speaker, shares her intimate story of rising from an ocean of fear steeped with abuse and disappointment, and taking hold of a new hope and future with God.

This book is a result of my own journey, wherein I found myself navigating through such tribulations without aid. I don't wish for you to endure what I faced. I understand your pain intimately and I aspire to equip you with the necessary tools to traverse through these challenging times—from dealing with divorce, exorbitant medical bills, credit card debts, to understanding your rights concerning your vehicle or home for a period of up to a year.

The true accounts of my personal abusive marriage narrative are revealed with the intent to engage the listener in self-reflection and self-awareness, and much more. How do we know when it is safe to rightly say we have become victims of domestic violence?

Here's the Bright Side is a wise, moving, and funny book about what people gain from situations of loss. Using examples from others' experiences as well as her own, Rollin inspires with stories that illustrate how the hardest times can lead to happier, richer, more powerful lives.

En octubre de 2006 muere Héctor Libertella, escritor de culto de la literatura argentina y padre de Mauro Libertella. Cuatro años después el hijo escribe esta novela, que recuerda los últimos días de su padre y también los momentos fundamentales de la relación entre los dos. Mi libro enterrado enhebra así el hilo dorado de un vínculo filial. Como una caja de resonancias en miniatura, es al mismo tiempo una despedida, un réquiem, un homenaje, una canción desesperada y un texto que relata una entrada a la literatura: un libro sobre cómo se escribe un primer libro.

Sarah Cooper is an expert in the business of being embarrassed. Whether it's in auditions, on dates, at work in the Google offices, or on the set of her very own Netflix special, she knows what it's like to feel a little bit...foolish. From tech to comedy, marriage to divorce, Jamaica to Hollywood, Sarah's journey to stardom has not been the straightest road, and along the way she has perfected the fine art of trying, failing, giving up and then trying again. And what has she learnt? Periwinkle blue is NOT her color.

Caught up in rebound dating after divorce, Davida Kincaid Henderson, a young divorcee, invites you to journey with her on a colorful quest for Mr. Right. She shares lessons learned along the way, her joy in finding him and their permanent love relationship.

If happiness has a hiding place, Roxane Battle may have found it. As a new mom with a divorce decree and a reporting job on the five o'clock news, she landed on a few thorns among the roses as she learned to raise a child by herself while trying to keep it together in front of the camera. Guided by a strong belief things could, and would, get better, Roxane shed a few tears and found a lot of joy. Pockets of joy are what she calls them - moments where it feels like everything is going to be okay.

In her early twenties, drifting and directionless, Marina Gibson fled the city for the countryside, and picked up a fishing rod for the first time in years. She was returning to a childhood pursuit and a passion passed on by her mother. Fishing overtook Marina's life as she grew enraptured by the quiet magic of angling and the silent mysteries of the river. The complexity of fly fishing, the ritual of casting and the music of the waterways provided her refuge from a failing marriage, a source of serenity, and a connection to the tradition of female anglers stretching back generations.

Caro Giles lives on the far edge of the country, with her tribe of daughters: The Mermaid, The Whirlwind, The Caulbearer and The Littlest One. She is at once alone and yet surrounded. Bound by circumstance, financial constraints, illness and the challenges of single motherhood, she has nowhere to go but the fierce landscape that surrounds her. Over the course of the year, the moon becomes her fellow traveller through dark times, and companion through joyful ones – and even when the sky is wreathed in cloud, the moon is still felt in the pull of the tides.

"There are children who blend well into a new family and for that, I salute you. When the transitioning adults are genuine in the approach of creating a safe and solid atmosphere between all parties, harmony flows. However, for the children who get lost in the midst of adults yearning to fulfill missing pieces without properly investigating whether the intended target is healthy for everyone, stories like mine are birthed." - Otishia E.

In this powerful memoir, Harker shares her painful journey through multiple divorces, trauma and addiction. By examining a lifetime of family dysfunction, secrets and lies, Harker is forced to confront her demons. With raw honesty and vulnerability, she recounts the pain of failed marriages, learning along the way the signs of the disordered mind, and the importance of seeking professional help.

When Meredith May is abandoned by both parents, she ends up learning life lessons about family, generosity and resilience from a rather unexpected source: the honeybees her grandfather keeps in Big Sur. In a converted WWII military bus marooned in the backyard, Grandpa shows her the nuances of harvesting honey while the bees become a guiding force in her life, bonding her to the natural world and modeling a successful community that thrives on industry, democratic decision-making and loyalty.

Within the Tokyo underworld there is an industry which exists to break up marriages. It is known today as 'wakaresaseya' - agents who, for a fee, can be hired by one spouse to seduce the other and provide grounds for divorce on favourable terms. Inspired by a real case, this is the story of Kaitaro Nakamura, a wakaresaseya agent, who is hired by a man to seduce his wife. Kaitaro falls in love with his target, Rina, and after the divorce she moves in with him, unaware of his role in the demise of her marriage.

In this deeply moving memoir, A.D. Russell takes us on a transformative journey of self-discovery and healing after facing two of life's most heart-wrenching challenges: the untimely death of her daughter and the dissolution of her marriage.

Bo and Brooklyn’s relationship is tested while Bo’s soon-to-be ex-wife tries to hold on for dear life. Bo’s ongoing divorce battle seems never-ending. Brooklyn acquires many valuable lessons about herself, not without making many costly mistakes along the way. Now that she has found what she considered her “soul mate” in Bo, she would have to defend herself against even her closest of friends, family members, and Bo’s soon-to-be ex-wife, Ruth.