The Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, Tanzania, Spain, Sri Lanka: Marilyn Wouters has called all these countries home. But her astonishing book Picking Up the Pieces is far more than a richly detailed memoir of time spent in exotic locales among diverse peoples. Marilyn sweeps you along on a personal journey of heart-wrenching discovery and extraordinary courage. From confronting the swindler who seized her life savings and threatened to destroy her professional reputation...to escaping the control of a drug-dealing madman...to surviving attempted murder at the...