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A luminous anthology in which authors from around the world reflect on the homes, neighborhoods, and people that formed them.

Part memoir and part self-help in nature, this compilation of emails¿written by a young psychologist to her beloved following his suicide¿chronicles the process of surviving and grieving the tragic death of a loved one, and of using grief for deeper psychospiritual healing and transformation.

Explosive volcanic eruptions are cool, really, cool. They inject ash into the stratosphere and deflect the sun's rays. When eighth grader Jamie Fulton learns that snow fell in June in his hometown because of an eruption on the other side of the world, he's psyched! He could have snowboarded if he'd lived back in 1815 during the year without a summer. Clara Montalvo, who recently arrived at Jamie's school after surviving Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, has a different take all this. She is astounded--and disturbed--by Jamie's frenzied enthusiasm for what she considers an obvious disaster. The teens' battling arguments cause science class disruption and create academic trouble: Jamie's headed for a failing grade in science, and may not even graduate from eighth grade; Clara's scholarship hopes are dashed. And school isn't the only place where Jamie and Clara are facing hardship: as they quarrel whether natural disasters can be beneficial, their home lives are also unraveling. Uncertainty about Jamie's wounded brother returning from Afghanistan and Clara's unreachable father back in Puerto Rico forces the two vulnerable teens to share their worries and sadness. As their focus shifts from natural disasters to personal calamities to man-made climate changes, the teens take surprising steps that astonish them. Ultimately, through hard work and growing empathy for each other, as well as for their classmates' distress over the climate change affecting their lives, Jamie and Clara empower themselves and the people they touch.

A charming and heartfelt novel about a girl helping her grandmother unravel an old family secret that leads to adventure and love over one unforgettable summer.

Days before their eighteenth birthday, Arden and Aurora's mother goes missing and they discover they belong to a family of Caribbean deities. Can these goddess twins uncover their evil grandfather's plot in time to save their mother, themselves, and the free world?

When Tessäs husband¿s obsession resurrects a trauma from her childhood, he insists to her that their livelihood depends on her silence. Everyone thinks she¿s living the perfect life—but she's really living the perfect lie.

When Shelley, who has always believed that her husband is a mild-mannered management consultant, discovers that he is actually a deep-cover CIA officer, the news sends her reeling-and that's just the first of many shocking surprises, and unexpected adventures, to follow.

In this second installment of the Sean McPherson series, a whale-watching cruise goes terribly wrong: two lovers on deck, one sniper on shore, and no way out.

When Bruce Duncan, a surgeon who is part of the “greatest generation,” returns home after WWII, he strives to hide his internal wounds by building a quiet life of running a small-town medical practice and fly-fishing in the area’s treasured waters. But when the idyllic peace of this new existence is shattered, Bruce finds himself fighting again for his life and for a new purpose—a battle that requires him to confront his deepest fears and find a stream to follow.

The Lovely Bones meets the Wild, Wild West in this haunting tale of betrayal, revenge, and redemption inspired by the true story of a much-sought-after nineteenth-century prostitute who longs to return to respectable society-but instead endures the ultimate betrayal.

A young woman serves as a surrogate mother for a gay couple in hopes of changing her own life for the better-only to discover ten years later that she accidentally gave away her own biological child.

Come back to the Texas Hill Country for the second installment in the Enchanted Rock series, where Sissie Klein meets her destiny-on the other side of tragedy.

In 1862, thirty-eight Dakota-Sioux men were hanged in the largest mass execution in US history. This is the story of two young women-one settler, one Dakota-Sioux-connected by the fate of the thirty-ninth man.

Riding High in April takes us across the world as one man risks it all for a final chance to make it big in the tech world. At stake are his reputation, his dwindling bank account, and his fifteen-year relationship with a woman grappling with who she is and what really matters to her.

One of the first Muslim women to graduate from West Point, a Jewish US Army captain, and a Somali migrant nicknamed Charlie Christmas risk everything for a refugee boy on a three-decade odyssey that takes them from Africa and Europe to Texas and Minnesota-and redefines what it means to be American in the twenty-first century.

She thinks he's either a nutcase or an eccentric Oxford professor. He thinks she's the descendant of Henry VIII's last Queen, Katherine Parr. They both harbor deep secrets, but their masks slip as they join forces to investigate the mystery of Queen Katherine's lost baby-endangering their hearts, their carefully constructed walls, and possibly their lives.

In this YA drama that features all of life's most exciting firsts, as well as real-life issues like teen drug use and mental health, studious surfer girl Kendra falls for new bad boy at school Brock, and learns an important life lesson: it takes more than just a game of 21 Questions to really get to know someone-or even more so, yourself.

In a near future in which overpopulation, resource depletion, and environmental degradation have precipitated a radical population control program, people can volunteer to be culled at a young age in exchange for immediate wealth.

Murder at a writing retreat in the Pacific Northwest, but this one isn't imaginary. Authors only kill with words. Or do they?