Yuki Snow wishes she were anywhere but here. She hates Santa Dolores, where her mom and stepdad just moved the family. Her BFF back home, Julio, has already forgotten his promise to stay in touch, and worse, he like likes Yuki's mortal enemy. At her new school, the kids think she's either invisible or a know-it-all nerd. The only friend she's made so far is the shopkeeper at a Japanese antiques store. Among the treasures there is an ancient brass...

Imagine being less stressed, more focused, and happier every day of your life. An instant New York Times bestseller, Start Here outlines a program designed to help you achieve emotional fitness by cross-training the skill of lifelong wellbeing. If given the choice, we would all choose to be less stressed, feel happier, and experience a more optimal state of wellbeing. So why are these outcomes so hard to achieve? The answer is quite simple. No one...

"This Library of America volume gathers the essential novels and stories of Joanna Russ, an incandescent stylist, unabashedly feminist New Wave science fiction visionary, and, in Samuel R. Delany's words, 'one of the finest--and most necessary--writers of American fiction.' Here is her provocative, multidimensional classic The Female Man, in which four women's alternate worlds collide; We Who Are About To..., a dark reimagining of planetary colonization;...

The stories of 18 immigrant families from East Harlem and their experiences with one of New York's deeply-rooted organizations. On any given weekday, people stream in and out of Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service's bright, airy building on 115th Street. They are mostly mothers who find their way to LSA, sometimes only weeks after crossing the border from Mexico, having heard of the support that las hermanitas ( the little sisters...