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Five sisters, fresh starts, and a whole lot of Aloha. Dawn Kalama fostered hundreds of children over the years. She was a pillar of their community in rural Hawai'i . . . until her husband passed away. The Aloha Sisters come together to support their mother and seek refuge from their own lives...

Tips, tools, advice, and activities for raising eco-friendly kids while nurturing compassion, resilience, and community engagement. Drawing from cutting-edge social-science research, parent interviews, and experiential wisdom, science writer and parenting blogger Shannon Brescher Shea shows how...

White Feathers, Crimson Leaves is a new must-listen fantasy novel by the author of the Warhammer 40,000 series...

Maris, a rogue android with a mysterious past, infiltrates the Nexus, an underground organization promising liberation for her kind. Delving deeper into their secrets, she uncovers a sinister plot that threatens the future of both androids and humans alike. Joined by her loyal dog Hero and a skilled hacker named Spyder, Maris must navigate a treacherous landscape of rival gangs, powerful cyborgs, and her own haunting past.

Maris has dedicated her existence to unraveling the dark secrets that threaten the city of Nuevo Diego. Together with her human allies, hacker Spyder and scavenger Kenny, she navigates a treacherous landscape of corruption and deceit. Confronted by powerful enemies on all sides, Maris navigates a treacherous web of alliances and betrayals to expose the machinations of the cyborg mastermind Douglas Turing and his pawn, mayoral candidate Korneli Givi.

Having exposed The Veil's shocking corruption, she now pursues their most guarded secret: Project Olympus. Dodging assassins and enemies, Maris hunts for clues about Olympus. Hints about disturbing genetic experiments and advanced cybernetics surface. Each revelation pulls her deeper into a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with The Veil's ruthless leader. With distrust and deception around every corner, the stakes have never been higher.

There are days in every working parent's life when it feels like you're screaming into the wind. The days when you have to ask your childless boss if you can leave work early - again - for a kid issue. The days your kid tearfully asks why you have to get on an airplane for work when you just got home. But we can have fewer days like that and more productive conversations. We can listen and be heard. In Communicate Better with Everyone, experts provide answers to the challenges you face as a working parent.

You are not alone. In Betrayed by Work, authors Julia Erickson, MBA, and Suzanne Vosburg, PhD, bear witness to the stories of women just like you - and just like them. This book shows how women lost their jobs, describes what happened to them immediately and in the aftermath, validates women's feelings about being fired, and offers a source of hope and companionship to those of us coping with either our own job loss or the sudden job loss of someone we know or love.

A well-known story of holiday generosity and true love, The Gift of the Magi has long been a Christmas classic. Husband and wife Jim and Della want to give each other beautiful gifts for the holiday, but they have very little money. On Christmas Eve, each of them makes a bold sacrifice to give the other something truly special. First published in 1905 in The New York Sunday World, O. Henry’s tale is just as relevant and touching now as ever.

When Valena Beety first became a federal prosecutor, her goal was to protect victims, especially women, from cycles of violence. What she discovered was that not only did prosecutions often fail to help victims, they frequently relied on false information, forensic fraud, and police and prosecutor misconduct. Seeking change, Beety began working in the Innocence Movement, helping to free factually innocent people through DNA testing and criminal justice reform. 

How the Future Works: Leading Flexible Teams to Do the Best Work of Their Lives offers a blueprint for using flexible work to unlock the potential of your people. The book offers the steps necessary to building the new principles and guardrails to empower flexible, high-performing teams. And it teaches listeners to lead with purpose, to manage and measure differently, and to believe that by letting go, they'll get more back than they thought possible.

Victorian era steam engines and particle physics may seem worlds apart, yet a new branch of science, quantum thermodynamics, reenvisions the scientific underpinnings of the Industrial Revolution through the lens of today's roaring quantum information revolution. In her exciting new book, Harvard physicist Dr. Nicole Yunger Halpern introduces these concepts with what she calls "quantum steampunk," after the fantastical genre. Quantum Steampunk explores the field's aesthetic, shares its whimsy, and gazes into the potential of a quantum future.

Cynthia Owyoung has spent more than two decades working in the space of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB). She's seen it all, and she knows what works - and what doesn't. In All Are Welcome, Owyoung explains what DEIB is and why it matters, and she delivers the information and insights you need to make DEIB a key element of your company culture. 

In 2014, after fighting through yards of bureaucratic red tape, leaving her family, and putting her own health at risk in order to help suffering strangers, Kwan Kew Lai finally arrived in Africa to volunteer as an infectious disease specialist in the heart of the largest Ebola outbreak in history. What she found was not only blistering heat, inhospitable working conditions, and deadly, unrelenting illness, but hope, resilience, and incredible courage.

Our Voices, Our Histories brings together 35 Asian American and Pacific Islander authors in a single volume to explore the historical experiences, perspectives, and actions of Asian American and Pacific Islander women in the United States and beyond.

Edie Falco, Sheryl Crow, Athena Jones, Heidi Heitkamp, and an inspiring array of other breast cancer survivors and "previvors" lend their voices to this collection of powerful stories.  

In the town of Howler's Hollow, conjuring magic is strictly off-limits. Only nothing makes Delpha McGill's skin crawl more than rules. So when she finds her family's secret book of hexes, she's itching to use it to banish her mama's money troubles. She just has to keep it quieter than a church mouse-not exactly Delpha's specialty.

Throughout the chaos of recent months, Emma found unexpected refuge in her friendship with Keith. She's long since made it clear that friendship is the only thing that she's open to, because she could never love anyone the way she loved her late husband. But as they spend more time together, feelings that she'd thought long dead begin to stir.

The Big Island Saga continues . . .Emma's life is in an uproar as her niece faces a decision that will change their lives forever. She's got Juniper's back, no matter what . . . but as things between Jun and her dad go from bad to worse, Emma begins to wonder if the fragile peace between her and her brother can survive this growing rift in their family. Next door, Tara deals with a fresh twist of fate that throws her family life into chaos.

In the pulse-pounding third book of the C.O.R.P.S.E series, Maris is Public Enemy #1. A botched attack exposes her identity. Now C.O.R.P.S.E. manipulates the public against her, forcing her into hiding with Spyder. On the run with unlikely allies, Maris desperately counterattacks C.O.R.P.S.E. She's determined to clear her name and reveal their sinister plans. Dodging hovercopters through dystopian Nuevo Diego, she navigates sewers, back-alley deals, and an underground railway in a frantic race for the truth.