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In this bicoastal and razor-sharp look at women in the workplace and the true meaning of success, earnest female journalist Jamie Roman squares off against Anna Bright, the enigmatic founder of a multibillion-dollar company who is committing fraud-and who will do whatever it takes to protect her secrets.

Neuroscience PhD student Frankie Conner sets out to discover a cure for her depression. Instead, she finds herself being mentored by a mysterious group of talking animals with ties to her forgotten past-an experience that, gradually and sometimes painfully, reveals to her the magic that's possible when you stop trying to grow out of your imperfections and start learning to grow into them.

In this coming-of-age story about the cycle of life in and out of the garden, Bella Fontaine comes to understand as a young woman trying to make her way in the world, that when it's time to leave home, it's time-whether you feel ready or not.

Fourteen-year-old Naya's artist family can secretly see time, but she wants to be a doctor. To win her dream she has to rise to Grandmother's challenge-but someone who's after their secrets is rigging events and getting in her way. Good thing she's too smart to get caught. Right?

When Rick and Maizie's home is invaded and their three-month-old daughter is kidnapped-possibly by a wealthy, well-connected man with a good reason to want to take revenge on Rick-they call on Maizie's long-deceased grandmother, Fannie, to help them from beyond the grave, setting in motion a search that takes them all the way from the US to Dubai and back again.

In this suspense thriller, identical twin sisters Anjali Murphy and Riah Arora are reunited in their thirties after being separated at birth, only to find themselves caught up in a deadly con game that tests the fine line between sisterly loyalty and rivalry. One sister wants the money; the other wants to be free. Which one will win?

Twelve-year-old Leon is among a group of 120 boys sent to New England in the 1870s by the Emperor of China as part of a Chinese educational mission. Once there, he falls in love with baseball, even though he's expressly forbidden to play. The boy's host father, who's recently lost his own son in an accident, sees and cultivates Leon's interest, bringing joy back into his own life and teaching Leon more about America through its favorite sport than any rule-bound educational mission could possibly hope to achieve.

Fortysomething Sam Hughes is at a crossroads-disillusioned professionally, stretched financially, strained in family life. As he teeters toward midlife crisis, a return to his midwestern roots and fortunate mishap give his start-up career one more chance?but also force him to choose between massive entrepreneurial success and his morals, friends, and family.

A coming-of-age YA novel about the daughter of a Pacific Northwest fisherman, whose presumed drowning in 1967 has her searching for answers, including whether or not he's really dead.

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.

When fifteen-year-old Courtney Hoffman starts getting visits from aliens at night, she's sure she's going crazy-but when she meets a mysterious older girl who has alien stories of her own, she embarks on a journey that takes her into her own family's deepest, darkest secrets.

Abigail's third year at the Tarkana Academy is off to a rocky start: a deadly curse has been placed on the coven's leader, Madame Hestera, making room for Anarae, a cruel and powerful High Witch to take over. Can Abigail and Hugo uncover the mystery behind Anarae's past and stop her before the coven is destroyed?

Get ready to meet everyone's favorite alien in the attic. Ever since Dexter and Dougal's mom passed away, life has been different-but things take a whole new turn when a shooting star turns out to be a creature from outer space!

When thirteen-year-old Caley Cross, an orphan with a dark power, is guided by a jumpsuit-wearing mole into another world-Erinath-she finds a place deeply rooted in nature where the people have animal-like powers and she is a Crown Princess-but she soon learns that the most powerful evil being in any world is waiting for her there.

If an eighteen-year-old boy must risk his life in a motorcycle race to the very edge of a forty-story rooftop, his bike better be the one with brakes. That¿s what Niko faces in this dystopian story of love and survival: a race to the death that, if he survives it, will get him the girl of his choice and a kingdom of wealth laid out for him in an endless buffet. Except prizes like these come with strings in a city where corruption permeates everything, and there is no escape. Or is there?

Welcome to Glendoch!Hidden to most, this glacial world once crackled with alchemy. Now it waits for war-divided and bound by strict rules. So when twelve-year-old Meylyne falls from a tree onto Glendoch's sickly prince, she must flee or face imprisonment in the Shadow-Cellars. The only way she may return home is with a cure for the prince's peculiar disease. Convinced she will perish, Meylyne and her companions embark on their journey-and before they know it, they are knee-deep in a plot to sink Glendoch into shadow, like other worlds before it. Poisoned guardians, cursed wizards, and cunning witch-spirits bound into wands are just some of the dangers that dot the way of their travels. And behind it all is the Thorn Queen. Mysteriously magnetic (or murderously vengeful, depending on whose side you're on), she is always one step ahead of them . . .