For five years, Zibby Owens has been at the heart of Women on the Move, even as she morphed from avid reader to the host of the podcast Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books, editor of the online literary We Found Time, author, bookstore owner and now, CEO of her own publishing company, Zibby Books.

She returns to Women on the Move with four of her new authors who explore the tangled paths women travel to learn to thrive.

Inspired by Anne of Green Gables at the age of 14, Emma Grey has been writing ever since, producing four young adult novels, a parenting memoir and a fictional tribute to her recently deceased husband. She returns to bookstores with The Last Love Note, a novel about a single mother caught in an impossible tangle of loss, love and unexpected longing, finding resolution in a secret note.

In End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood, former TV writer/producer Patty Lin mines her experience writing for Freaks and Geeks, Friends, Desperate Housewives and Breaking Bad. She quit television to save her sanity — and you’ll understand why after you read her memoir about the chaotic and abusive work culture she endured as a woman and as the only Asian in the room.

Brittany Means was already an adult when she realized that hell wasn’t just the place she’d read about in the Bible that ruled the evangelical Christian culture in which she was raised. It was growing up riding shotgun alongside her nomadic mother, in a blur of highways, abuse and neglect. In Hell If We Don’t Change Our Ways, she shares a riveting coming-of-age tale about making sense of her place in a troublesome world.

By the time she turned 40, Alisha Fernandez Miranda had it all: a happy marriage, healthy children and a great job as a CEO. But dogged by dreams about working on Broadway, teaching fitness classes or exploring marine biology, she took a year-long sabbatical from her reality with a series of diverse internships drawn from her fantasies. In My What If Year, Alisha takes us on her journey of rediscovering her passions