Newspaper reporter Chelsea Faust runs marathons for fun and spends most of her spare time in the darkroom. She's working for a small weekly newspaper now, but she hopes to win the Pulitzer Prize someday. At 28, she lives alone and lets no one tell her what to do, much to the chagrin of her Portuguese-American mother and her German-American father.Enter Simão Freitas, an immigrant from the Azores who brings with him old-country views about how men should be in charge and women should obey their husbands. He is part entrepreneur, part fish market worker, supporting his mother, sister and grandmother and dreaming of making enough money to build a big house in the hills.When they meet at a Portuguese festival, the attraction is instant, but any chance at a future together appears doomed as Simão battles memories of a painful loss while Chelsea pursues a news story headlong into a situation that could cost her life.We follow Chelsea into the colorful world of Little Portugal, where she becomes fascinated by the stories she hears of immigrants seeking a new life in America and begins to value the Azorean heritage of her ancestors.

Azorean Dreams

Literature & Fiction

Lick, Sue Fagalde

Contemporary

iUniverse

Discusses the history, culture, and religion of the Iberians, factors encouraging their emigration, and their acceptance as an ethnic group in North America

Iberian Americans (Peoples of North America)

Teen & Young Adult

More than 60 Portuguese immigrants and their descendants tell what it was like adapting to a new country and how it felt growing up Portuguese American. Chapters look at immigration, marriage, work, religion, culture, the arts and the connections between California and Portugal.

Stories Grandma Never Told: Portuguese Women in California

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Blue Hydrangea Productions

Newspaper reporter Chelsea Faust spends most of her spare time in the darkroom and runs marathons for fun. She's working for a small weekly newspaper now, but plans to move up. At 28, she lives alone and lets no one tell her what to do. When she meets Simao Freitas, a recent Portuguese immigrant, while on assignment in San Jose's Little Portugal, the attraction is instant. However, any chance at a future together appears to be doomed as Simao battles memories of a painful loss while Chelsea pursues a news story headlong into a situation that could cost her life.

It’s bad enough that PD’s husband left her a childless widow at 42, but when she heads west from Montana to the Oregon coast to remake her life with a new name, a new look and a new determination to become a professional musician, things keep going wrong. Her cabin has a few problems, but the landlord has disappeared. The She’s running out of money, and her first music gig is a disaster. Is she doomed to be penniless and pitiful? Not if she can help it.

Up Beaver Creek: A Novel

Genre Fiction

Although the title, Gravel Road Ahead, hints at what’s in store, readers may not be prepared for the heart-wrenching journey ahead. When poet Sue Fagalde Lick and her husband Fred left their careers in Silicon Valley for a new home on the Oregon Coast, they thought all their dreams were coming true. Then Fred, a former city administrator and part-time tax preparer, started forgetting things. In moving poems that range from darkly humorous to heart-breaking, Sue is unflinchingly honest in her chronicling of both the bitter and the sweet moments as she accompanies her husband of 25 years down the circuitous path of Alzheimer’s disease. For those traveling this road with a loved one, Lick’s a guide to be trusted, offering a lifeline of patience and forbearance gleaned from their journey. But there’s plenty of insight here for any couple growing older together—and a reminder of just what we sign on for when we repeat “I do.”

Gravel Road Ahead

Self-Help

Relationships

Finishing Line Press

No Way Out of This: Loving a Partner with Alzheimer's

She Writes Press

Nearly one million Portuguese Americans live in California, immigrants or the descendants of immigrants who left poverty behind to seek a better life. Stories Grandma Never Told collects the accounts of the women who settled a foreign land, facing a new language, new customs, and new expectations about their roles as wives, mothers, and workers. Here, too, are the stories of their daughters and granddaughters, and their own struggles to reconcile old-country ways and morality with American lives and identity.

It's like this giant secret that is right in front of everyone. One in five women reach menopause without having children. For more than half of them, it was not by choice. At least not their own. They don't have children because their partners were unable or unwilling to have children with them. This happens to men, too. Hooked up with a partner who a) never wanted children, b) already has kids from a previous relationship, c) never quite felt ready for parenthood, d) has had a vasectomy, or e) has fertility problems, they are forced to make a choice between this man or woman they love and the children they might have had. It's an unfair choice, one nobody should have to make, but the readers of my previous book and my blog, both titled Childless by Marriage, have to make it. The decision you make will affect everything else in your life. This book, Love or Children, is a compilation of the best of more than 700 posts and comments from the Childless by Marriage blog. Think Dear Abby or Dear Sugar, except I ask the questions and the anonymous readers answer them, sharing their own experience and advice. Love or Children unveils the secrets we don't feel comfortable telling our families, friends, our partners, or even our therapists. It also contains information and advice people in this situation--and their loved ones--need to read. Chapters tackle how childless relationships happen, whether to stay or look for someone else, how to deal with the grief of losing the chance to have children, how to cope with people's clueless comments and questions, the joys and frustrations of stepchildren, how to prepare for old age, and more.

Love or Children: When You Can't Have Both

Parenting & Relationships

First you marry a man who does not want children. He cheats and you divorce him. Then you marry the love of your life and find out he does not want to have children with you either. The three he has are more than enough. Although you always wanted to be a mother, you decide he is worth the sacrifice, expecting to have a long happy life together. But that's not what happens. This is the story of how a woman becomes childless by marriage and how it affects every aspect of her life.

Childless by Marriage

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Books by Lick, Sue Fagalde

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Azorean Dreams

Iberian Americans (Peoples of North America)

Stories Grandma Never Told: Portuguese Women in California

Azorean Dreams

Up Beaver Creek: A Novel

Gravel Road Ahead

No Way Out of This: Loving a Partner with Alzheimer's

Stories Grandma Never Told: Portuguese Women in California

Love or Children: When You Can't Have Both

Childless by Marriage