Identity Loss

No one prepares you for losing the version of yourself that loss, trauma, and major life changes took. This book helps you discover who you are when life rewrites your identity. The Identity Reset: A Guide to Discovering Yourself After Loss, Change, and Survival is a lifeline for those...

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.

Skinny forever is not a diet. It is an identity. This powerful pocket book reveals the 48 laws that transform your mind, calm your nervous system, and reshape your relationship with food, discipline, and your body. If you have tried every diet, every plan, and every shortcut, and nothing ever lasts, it is because you have been trying to change the body without changing the identity behind it. This book changes that. Inside you will learn how to: • regulate your nervous system so cravings lose their power • stop emotional eating at the root • create simple routines that keep you in ...

You lost the weight. But no one prepared you for what comes next. The silence. The shifting identity. The unexpected fear of gaining it back. The question you can’t quite answer: Now what? If you’ve used GLP-1 medications like Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, or Zepbound, you already know they can change your body. This book is about what happens after that. Because long-term success isn’t just about weight loss. It’s about learning how to live in a body — and a life — that no longer revolves around food. Inside Life After the Shot, you’ll learn how to: • Navigate the emotional ...

How Loss Unravels Who You Were — and What Comes After Grief does not only take what you loved. It takes who you were when that life made sense. Many people expect grief to feel like sadness, tears, or longing. But what often arrives instead is something quieter and more disorienting: a loss of self. You may still function. You may still work, care for others, and meet expectations. Yet internally, something no longer aligns. Motivation fades. Meaning feels distant. The future you once assumed quietly collapses. And no one explains why. Grief and the Loss of Identity gives language to an ...

Hannah doesn’t remember her life before Peter. And in this quiet Victorian neighborhood, that’s exactly how he wants it. The house is charming. The marriage seems perfect. The neighbors are polite in a way that feels rehearsed. But inside this carefully controlled world, one thing stands out—the locked upstairs room Peter insists she never open. He tells her it’s a utility space with dangerous wiring. He tells her her memory loss comes from “a traumatic past” she’s not ready to face. He tells her she’s safe now, that he’s the only one she can trust. But the late-night ...

"Interesting characters, a chilling plot, lots of suspense and well read by January LaVoy make Identity a good listen!"—Toronto.com on Identity "Narrator January LaVoy brings a richly layered performance to a story.... She expertly handles the large cast of multigenerational characters"...

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.

Suspenseful and hilarious, this novel is an outrageously imaginative thriller for readers who like their espionage with a dollop of purple slime. 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...

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...

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...

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...

You did not just lose the income. You lost the answer to what do you do. Redundancy, a career that collapsed under you, a retirement you did not choose. Everyone wants to talk about your CV and your runway. Nobody mentions that the structure of your week, your standing among people you respected, and a large part of how you understood yourself all went at the same time. This book treats job loss as grief rather than a logistics problem. It covers the shame that arrives uninvited, the strain it puts on the people at home, and the identity vacuum that job hunting alone will not fill. Nobody ...

She ruined her reputation with a single leap. Now, only a fake engagement to a dangerous earl can save her family. Lady Eliza Fairchild has spent years crafting a perfect facade to hide her merchant roots. That facade shatters the night she leaps from her opera box to save a poisoned tenor—her secret half-brother. Now branded a scandal by the gossip sheets and facing a ruthless ultimatum to remarry or lose her fortune, Eliza finds herself cornered. She needs a shield, but she refuses to be controlled. A Spymaster with a mission. Sebastian Hawke, the Earl of Ravenswood, deals in secrets, ...

The hospital was supposed to heal you. It had other plans. Twenty tales of surgeries that take more than they remove, donors who refuse to stay dead, and medical records that write themselves into flesh. In these pages, the operating room becomes a site of violation, and every procedure leaves something behind that wasn't in the consent forms. A burn survivor's grafted skin begins remembering a life she never lived. A surgeon's transplanted hands practice procedures while she sleeps. A transcriptionist discovers that typing a surgery makes it real. A patient's body produces something every ...

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...

Kiran Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in over twenty-two countries. Now Desai takes us to the northeastern Himalayas where a rising insurgency challenges the old way of life. In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga...

Nine days after burying his wife, Evan receives a voicemail from her phone. Claire is dead. He signed the papers. He chose the urn. He sat through the funeral while everyone told him to take all the time he needed. Then her voice comes through the speaker at 2:17 in the morning. Her warning is impossible: a man will come to his building claiming to be from the gas company. Do not let him in. When the warning comes true, Evan is pulled into a quiet nightmare of hidden recordings, missing memories, false identities, and secrets Claire took to her grave. Each message leads him deeper into a ...

Losing a Parent as an Adult Is One of the Most Disorienting Losses You Can Face - and If You Were Your Parent's Caregiver, Your Grief Started Long Before the Death Itself. Your grief is real - even if no one around you seems to notice. The world moved on. You haven't. This book was written for that. Maybe people said "At least they lived a long life." Maybe you were back at work within days, holding everything together. Maybe you spent months or years as your parent's caregiver - managing appointments, absorbing fear, reversing roles - and now that they are gone, you are not sure who you ...

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...