Identity Loss

Thursday, January 17 — 2019. Pacific International Airlines Flight PI019 leaves Honolulu on a routine trip to Los Angeles. Two hours later, the aircraft disappears without a trace. No debris. No distress call. 210 people—gone. After an exhaustive international search, Flight 19 becomes aviation’s greatest unsolved mystery. Five years later… Air Traffic Control at LAX receives a routine request to enter airspace. The caller? Pacific International Flight 19. When the plane lands, every passenger and crew member is alive—believing only minutes have passed since take-off. But for ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ""[An] outstanding debut.""—Publishers Weekly (starred review) The award-winning journalist and co-host of CBS Saturday Morning tells the candid, and deeply personal story of her mother’s abandonment and how the search for answers forced her to reckon with her own...

Former Army brat Morgan Albright has finally planted roots in a friendly neighborhood near Baltimore. Her friend and roommate Nina helps her make the mortgage payments, as does Morgan's job as a bartender. But after she and Nina host their first dinner party—attended by Luke, the flirtatious IT guy who'd been chatting her up at the bar—her carefully built world is shattered. The back door glass is broken, cash and jewelry are missing, her car is gone, and Nina lies dead on the floor.

A grief reversed. A hope deferred. Mistaken Identity tells the unprecedented story of Laura Van Ryn and Whitney Cerak: one buried under the wrong name, and the other in a coma being cared for by the wrong family. Five lives were lost in a tragic car accident, and the sole survivor was rushed to...

Myfanwy Thomas awakens in a London park surrounded by dead bodies. With her memory gone, she must trust the instructions left by her former in order to survive. She quickly learns that she is a Rook, a high-level operative in a secret agency that protects the world from supernatural threats. But...

She looks exactly like me. Same face, same scar, same life. And now she's stealing everything that's mine. When Madisyn Holmes moves in across the street, I can't shake the feeling that this isn't coincidence. She copies my garden design, my home décor, even my professional strategies. It's like watching someone erase me in real time. My husband thinks I'm paranoid. My neighbors think I'm losing it. But I know what I'm seeing. I start gathering evidence—photos, notes, proof of her systematic theft. Because someone has to stop her before she takes everything. The question is: how far will...

Are you struggling with unpredictable waves of sadness, anger, or numbness? Do you wonder if your way of grieving is “normal”—or if you’ll ever feel like yourself again? Grief Recovery After Loss is your real-world healing guide. Backed by research and filled with relatable stories, this book helps you restore your body, rediscover your identity, and rebuild relationships—without pressure, judgment, or clichés.

2010 Audie Award Finalist for Short Stories/Collections Thirteen “dazzling” (Associated Press) and “wonderfully wicked” (USA TODAY) stories from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King. A book salesman with a grievance picks up a mute hitchhiker, not knowing the silent man in...

Sun Shining on Morning Snow is a fearless and deeply moving memoir that celebrates the power of authenticity, love, and resilience. Ingrid Hu Dahl, a mixed-race, queer woman, takes listeners on an intimate journey through the challenges of self-discovery—navigating the weight of social, cultural, and familial expectations.

They called her mad. But she might be the only one still telling the truth. In a cold mental institution where silence is enforced and truth is dismissed, Emily begins to unravel memories no one wants her to remember. Labeled unstable, her voice is ignored and her story erased. But buried beneath the diagnosis is something far more dangerous than madness: the possibility that she’s right. Told through the mind of an unreliable narrator, this psychological novel explores what happens when identity fractures, memory fades, and a woman fights to reclaim her story from those determined to ...

“The rare kind of book that lives in your bones” (Ashley Audrain), this novel tells a gripping story of motherhood and motherloss and the brutal, mighty things women do to keep themselves and each other alive, marking Chelsea Bieker as a major fiction talent. Clove has gone to extremes to...

Although a mother's mortality is inevitable, no book has discussed the profound lasting and far reaching effects of this loss until Motherless Daughters. More than 20 years later, it is still the go-to book that women of all ages look to for comfort, help, and understanding when their mother dies. Building on interviews with hundreds of mother-loss survivors, Edelman's personal story of losing her mother, and recent research in grief and psychology, Motherless Daughters reveals the shared experiences and core identity issues of motherless women.

TRAPPED, YET FREE: A Psychological Thriller When memory fails, instinct becomes everything. A woman washes ashore on a deserted beach—battered, broken, and stripped of all identification. Markus, a reclusive German businessman, discovers her barely clinging to life and brings her to his isolated estate to recover. When she awakens, her mind is as empty as her pockets. No name. No past. No explanation for why someone might have wanted her dead. As her body heals, disturbing questions multiply. Why does Markus keep her doors locked? Why are there no phones? And why does she sometimes catch ...

In this spellbinding and provocative novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Miracles, a young mother is struck by sudden and puzzling psychological symptoms that illuminate the mysterious dimensions of the human mind—and of love. A Belletrist Book Club Pick A year after...

A love letter to the healing power of collaboration and feeling seen, The People's Purge: Words of a Goat Princess Vol II is a must-read for anyone looking to rid themselves of the guilt of existing and get lost in the razor sharp mind of Jessie Reyez. Born from a popular long-running series on...

Julien wakes in a dark Paris alley—cold, disoriented, and covered in blood. He doesn’t remember who he is, but one thing is certain: he’s not human. His reflection is wrong. His heartbeat feels mechanical. And the voices in his head whisper things that can’t be true. When a woman named Claire finds him, claiming to be someone from his past, she swears he isn’t a monster—but her lies run deeper than memory. Each step toward the truth leads Julien closer to the terrifying experiment that created him… and the realization that his nightmare may not be a delusion at all. Part ...

From one of the leading grief therapists, this compassionate and accessible guide to grieving offers a new framework for understanding and navigating loss. An intimate guide to grieving that offers hope and healing within loss from one of the nation’s top grief therapists. Conscious Grieving...

Claudia Shephard’s husband died in a fire. Everyone says it was tragic. Accidental. She doesn't remember much—just smoke, panic, the way her lungs burned as she ran. But three weeks after the funeral, a manuscript arrives on her doorstep. A book she didn’t write. A book that describes, in disturbingly intimate detail, her husband’s affair… and the precise steps she took to murder him. It’s written in her voice. With her quirks. Her phrases. Her secrets. And page by page, Claudia feels her grip on reality begin to unravel. As whispers swirl through their coastal town and friends ...

Read by the author. “There’s someone else.” “We found something on the X-ray we didn’t expect.” “We’ve eliminated your position.” When our circumstances unravel, how do we hold on to truth, to hope, to who we’re meant to be? After Carole Holiday experienced a series of...

Lose Weight The Mental Way: Choose Your Healthy Weight Identity and Allow The Weight To Go Diets. Meal plans. Gym memberships. Surgery. If you’ve tried them all and nothing has lasted, you’re not alone. The truth is, weight loss doesn’t start with food, exercise, or willpower. It starts with identity. If you see yourself as someone who always struggles, you’ll keep struggling. If you label yourself as addicted, lazy, or hopeless, your choices will match that story. If you shift into the identity of your healthy-weight self, everything changes. In this compassionate, practical guide,...