The Momentum Method by James J. Bauer (2020)

This book was written to help women get their relationship working again. Find out why your man is tired of you and lots more...

Trails by Gail Brown (2021)

A devastating cascade of earthquakes strike New Mexico's forgotten fault lines. Quakes spread across the continent. Fumeroles emerge in unknown hotspots. The Earth shakes and begins the process of opening the Rio Sea, where once, in prehistory, a great ocean thrived. Oceans heave as the Ring of Fire bursts with increased activity. Continental plates shift, rip apart, and bounce against each other. Oceans heave as the Ring of Fire bursts with increased activity. Disaster builds on disaster. Continental plates shift, rip apart, and bounce into each other. Everyone thought Arizona and New Mexico would be forever safe from earthquakes, volcanoes, and shifting water tables. Only, they aren't. As the continental plates shift, so do the lives of Amber and Alex as they struggle to find firm ground in the altered landscape. Aftershocks spread through the land, changing communities, forcing most to flee for their lives. The world as Amber and Alex knew crumbles around them. Family and friends missing. Communication relays fail. There is no power, or phone service, with remaining fuel reserved for military missions. Society as they knew it, teeters on the brink of collapse. Established communities melt apart, as walls between human population groups soar. Men, women, and cultures clash as if they had never learned to live together in peace. Together, survivors must build a future in a tangled environment of fear, hunger, cold, and desolation.

ONIMAI by Nekotofu (2021)

Mahiro Oyama was just a normal erotic-game loving dude...until he woke up one morning as a woman! Turns out his mad-scientist little sister, Mihari, tried out one of her new experiments on him...with a disastrous outcome, as far as Mahiro's concerned! But Mihari is as determined to study him as he is determined to go back to his shut-in, game-playing life, and one thing's for sure...life is going to get a whole lot weirder from here on out! (Source: [Kodansha USA](https://kodansha.us/product/onimai-im-now-your-sister-1/)).

ONIMAI by Nekotofu (2021)

Former shut-in Mahiro Oyama was transformed into a girl thanks to his little sister Mihari's experimental drug… and he's starting to like it! But his independent lifestyle is ruined when Mihari enrolls him in middle school! Can Mahiro survive middle school for a second time—and as a girl, to boot?! The brother-turned-beauty's schoolgirl life begins here! (Source: [Kodansha USA](https://kodansha.us/product/onimai-im-now-your-sister-3/))

Trails by Gail Brown (2021)

The middens of the ancestors slowly empty. The last few usable pieces are found. Only a generation since KlaPit mine was abandoned, the new mine at Shells is almost empty. Buried dangers emerge from the bottoms of the pit mines. Forgotten fears told as campfire tales emerge in their spectral forms. Rusty worries her life skill is at an end. She has no other interest, than being the dig leader following Zella. Ambrena feels threatened that her life skill will be less valued as Tanna's daughters grow up. Every mistake is magnified as if it were life threatening. Corandra fears her ancestors have cursed her. Corandra knows they don't want her. Everything she touches crumbles. The box she found spreads a devastating illness. She abandons her villa for a cure. Corandra feels abandoned by her older friends, Ambrena and Rusty, as they embrace their life skills. The only person who notices her anymore is her verbal sparring partner, Henry. Or so she thinks. Will Corandra forgive herself? Will she allow others to forgive her for the damage her ancestors committed? When she has to choose between saving Ambrena and Rusty, or saving Henry, how will she decide? What will that decision mean to the future of the Pit Miners? Will Ambrena and Rusty find the cure they so desperately seek? Is it even what they think it is? Will the battle in the Grass Sea lead to peace, or the forgotten specter of war?

ONIMAI by Nekotofu (2021)

One day, loser shut-in Mahiro was suddenly transformed into a girl by his little sister Mihari, and now he's forced to adjust to his new life as a she! Mahiro explores the new-to-her worlds of the hair salon, the girls' side of the arcade… and even what it feels like to have a crush on another girl?! Can she really hold on to her desire to return to manhood in the face of her new and exciting female life?! This collected edition of the popular gender-bending webcomic will have you rolling with laughter and squealing with delight at this brother-turned-beauty's antics! (Source: [Kodansha USA](https://kodansha.us/product/onimai-im-now-your-sister-2/))

АВАНТУРИТЕ НА ВИКТОР by АЛЕКСАНДАР РЕСАВСКИ (2022)

Фантастична и волшебна приказна која започнува во дом за деца без родители од каде започнува авантурата на Виктор, запознавајќи го светот на волшебниците и магијата. Тој е единствениот 10-ти наследник од лозата на Асорин кој можеше да се соочи со непријателот Шахор и неговите најблиски следбеници Бастинион, Волрат, Абел и Бун. Патот до Карпестата планина е многу тежок, несигурен и трнлив, но со помош на Старецот, бабата Маргарет, малото џуџе Протегус и мачката Абра успеваат да ги избегнат препреките. Дополнителна помош добиваат од Ендомиус, Принцезата Аканта или како што многумина ја нарекува Дебелата Дама и со нејзина помош пристигнуваат кај Петмината и добиваат апсолутна помош и моќ пред очекуваната борба кај планината. Последната мисија ја имаат Виктор и Старецот волшебник кои заминуваат во срцето на Карпестата планината, а тоа му беше и последната надеж да го спречат непријателот кој беше на самиот праг.

The Truth About Dragons by Julie Leung (2023)

*Lean in close,* *my darling bao bei,* *and I will whisper* *a most precious secret* *about a powerful magic* *that lives inside you.* Brought to life with lavish and ornate illustrations, ***The Truth About Dragons*** follows a young child on a journey guided by his mother's bedtime storytelling. He quests into two very different forests, as his two grandmothers help him discover two different, but equally enchanting, truths about dragons. Eastern and Western mythologies coexist and enrich each other in this warm celebration of mixed cultural identity.

The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall by Katie Alender (2016)

Backpack Literature -- Fifth Edition by X. J. Kennedy (2016)

Fiction. Talking with Amy Tan -- Reading a story -- The art of fiction -- Types of short fiction -- Death has an appointment in Samarra / Sufi Legend -- The north wind and the sun / Aesop -- The tortoise and the geese / Bidpai -- Independence / Chuang Tzu -- Godfather death / Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm -- Plot -- The short story -- A & P / John Updike -- Writing effectively -- Point of view -- Identifying point of view -- Types of narrators -- How much does a narrator know? -- Stream of consciousness -- [A Rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) / William Faulkner -- [Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) / Edgar Allan Poe -- Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty -- Girl / Jamaica Kincaid -- Writing effectively -- Character -- Characterization -- Motivation -- The jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter -- Bullet in the brain / Tobias Wolff -- Everyday use / Alice Walker -- Cathedral / Raymond Carver -- Writing effectively -- Setting -- Elements of setting -- Historical fiction -- Regionalism -- Naturalism -- The storm / Kate Chopin -- To build a fire / Jack London -- The gospel according to Mark / Jorge Luis Borges -- A pair of tickets / Amy Tan -- Writing effectively -- Tone and Style -- Tone -- Style -- Diction -- A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway -- [Barn burning](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20080279W) / William Faulkner -- Irony -- The necklace / Guy de Maupassant -- [The story of an hour](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078864W) / Kate Chopin -- Writing effectively -- Theme -- Plot versus theme -- Summarizing the theme -- Finding the theme -- Dead men's path / Chinua Achebe -- The house on Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros -- The parable of the prodigal son / Luke -- Harrison Bergeron / Kurt Vonnegut Jr. -- Writing effectively -- Symbol -- Allegory -- Symbols -- Recognizing symbols -- The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- Writing effectively -- Stories for further reading -- This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona / Sherman Alexie -- Happy endings / Margaret Atwood -- [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The gift of the magi / O. Henry -- Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston -- Saboteur / Ha Jin -- [Araby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20570121W) / James Joyce -- Before the law / Franz Kafka -- Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield -- Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates -- The things they carried / Tim O'Brien -- A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- Tell them not to kill me! / Juan Rulfo -- A haunted house / Virginia Woolf -- Poetry. Talking with Kay Ryan -- Reading a poem -- Poetry or verse -- How to read a poem -- Paraphrase -- The Lake Isle of Innisfree / William Butler Yeats -- Lyric poetry -- Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden -- Aunt Jennifer's tigers / Adrienne Rich -- Narrative poetry -- Sir Patrick Spence / Anonymous -- "Out, out --" / Robert Frost -- Dramatic poetry -- My last duchess / Robert Browning -- Didactic poetry -- Writing effectively -- Ask me / William Stafford -- Listening to a voice -- Tone -- My papa's waltz / Theodore Roethke -- The wayfarer / Stephen Crane -- The author to her book / Anne Bradstreet -- To a locomotive in winter / Walt Whitman -- I like to see it lap the miles / Emily Dickinson -- For my daughter / Weldon Kees -- The speaker in the poem -- White lies / Natasha Trethewey -- Luke Havergal / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Dog haiku / Anonymous -- Theme for English B / Langston Hughes -- The farmer's bride / Charlotte Mew -- The red wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams -- Irony -- Oh no / Robert Creeley -- The unknown citizen / W.H. Auden -- Rite of passage / Sharon Olds -- Second fig / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The workbox / Thomas Hardy -- For review and further study -- Deliberate / Amy Uyematsu -- To Lucasta / Richard Lovelace -- Dulce et decorum est / Wilfred Owen -- Writing effectively -- Words -- Literal meaning : what a poem says first -- This is just to say / William Carlos Williams -- Diction -- Cargoes / John Masefield -- Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you / John Donne -- The value of a dictionary -- Aftermath / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- That will to divest / Kay Ryan -- Friend, on this scaffold Thomas More lies dead / J.V. Cunningham -- Bread / Samuel Menashe -- Grass / Carl Sandburg -- Word choice and word order -- Upon Julia's clothes / Robert Herrick -- The ruined maid / Thomas Hardy -- Lonely hearts / Wendy Cope -- For review and further study -- anyone lived in a pretty how town / e.e. cummings -- Carnation milk / Anonymous -- English con salsa / Gina Valdés -- My heart leaps up when I behold / William Wordsworth -- Mutability / William Wordsworth -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- Writing effectively -- Saying and suggesting -- Denotation and connotation -- London / William Blake -- Disillusionment of ten o'clock / Wallace Stevens -- Fire and ice / Robert Frost -- The minefield / Diane Thiel -- Bilingual/bilingüe / Rhina P. Espaillat -- Tears, idle tears / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Love calls us to the things of this world / Richard Wilbur -- Writing effectively -- Imagery -- In a station of the Metro / Ezra Pound -- The piercing chill I feel / Taniguchi Buson -- Imagery -- The winter evening settles down / T.S. Eliot -- Root cellar / Theodore Roethke -- The fish / Elizabeth Bishop -- A route of evanescence / Emily Dickinson -- Reapers / Jean Toomer -- Pied beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- About haiku -- The falling flower / Arakida Moritake -- Heat-lightning streak / Matsuo Basho -- In the old stone pool / Matsuo Basho -- On the one-ton temple bell / Taniguchi Buson -- Moonrise on mudflats / Taniguchi Buson -- only one guy / Kobayashi Issa -- Cricket / Kobayashi Issa -- Haiku from Japanese internment camps -- Rain shower from mountain / Suiko Matsushita -- Cosmos in bloom / Suiko Matsushita -- Even the croaking of frogs / Hakuro Wada -- The war, this year / Neiji Ozawa -- Contemporary haiku -- The old neighborhood / Nick Virgilio -- Visitor's room / Lee Gurga -- Born again / Jennifer Brutschy -- Learning to shave / Adelle Foley -- For review and further study -- Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art / John Keats -- Lipstick / Tami Haaland -- El hombre / William Carlos Williams -- Drinking alone by moonlight / Li Po, translated by Arthur Waley -- Not waving but drowning / Stevie Smith -- Driving to town late to mail a letter / Robert Bly -- Writing effectively -- Figures of Speech -- Why speak figuratively? -- The eagle / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / William Shakespeare -- Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Howard Moss -- Metaphor and simile -- My life had stood, a loaded gun / Emily Dickinson -- Flower in the crannied wall / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- To see a world in a grain of sand / William Blake -- Metaphors / Sylvia Plath -- Simile / N. Scott Momaday -- A Martian sends a postcard home / Craig Raine -- Other figures of speech -- The wind / James Stephens -- You fit into me / Margaret Atwood -- Epitaph / Timothy Steele -- Money / Dana Gioia -- Fog / Carl Sandburg -- For review and further study -- The secret sits / Robert Frost -- Turtle / Kay Ryan -- Love and friendship / Emily Brontë -- Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats -- Writing effectively -- Sound -- Sound as meaning -- Who goes with Fergus? / William Butler Yeats -- (from) Ulalume / Edgar Allan Poe -- A slumber did my spirit seal / William Wordsworth -- Alliteration and assonance -- The watch / Frances Cornford -- The splendor falls on castle walls / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Rime -- The hippopotamus / Hilaire Belloc -- Leda and the swan / William Butler Yeats -- God's grandeur / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Desert places / Robert Frost -- How to read a poem aloud -- In memoriam John Coltrane / Michael Stillman -- Writing effectively -- Rhythm -- Stresses and pauses -- Stress and meaning -- Line endings -- We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks -- Break, break, break / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Résumé / Dorothy Parker -- Meter -- Counting-out rhyme / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- When I was one-and-twenty / A.E. Housman -- Beat! beat! drums! / Walt Whitman -- Writing effectively -- Closed form -- The value of form -- Formal patterns -- Days of wine and roses / Ernest Dowson -- Song ("Go and catch a falling star") / John Donne -- Ballads -- Bonny Barbara Allan / Anonymous -- Ballad of Birmingham / Dudley Randall -- The sonnet -- Let me not to the marriage of true minds / William Shakespeare -- What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Acquainted with the night / Robert Frost -- Shakespearean sonnet / R.S. Gwynn -- The Facebook sonnet / Sherman Alexie -- The epigram -- Of treason / Sir John Harrington -- Two somewhat different epigrams / Langston Hughes -- Other forms -- Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas -- We wear the mask / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Sestina / Elizabeth Bishop -- Writing effectively -- Open Form -- Ancient stairway / Denise Levertov -- Free verse -- Buffalo Bill's / e.e. cummings -- The dance / William Carlos Williams -- The heart / Stephen Crane -- Cavalry crossing a ford / Walt Whitman -- Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird / Wallace Stevens -- Prose poetry -- The magic study of happiness / Charles Simic -- For review and further study -- in Just- / e.e. cummings -- I shall paint my nails red / Carole Satyamurti -- I, too / Langston Hughes -- Writing effectively -- Symbol -- The meanings of a symbol -- The Boston Evening Transcript / T.S. Eliot -- The lightning is a yellow fork / Emily Dickinson -- Identifying symbols -- Neutral tones / Thomas Hardy -- Facing it / Yusef Komunyakaa -- Allegory -- The parable of the good seed / Matthew -- Redemption / George Herbert -- Proverbios y cantares (XXIX) / Antonio Machado -- Traveler / translated by Michael Ortiz -- The road not taken / Robert Frost -- Up-hill / Christina Rossetti -- For review and further study -- Wild geese / Mary Oliver -- Popcorn-can cover / Lorine Niedecker -- Anecdote of the jar / Wallace Stevens -- Writing effectively -- Myth and Narrative -- The subjects and uses of myth -- Origins of myth -- Nothing gold can stay / Robert Frost -- The world is too much with us / William Wordsworth -- Helen / H.D. -- Archetype -- Medusa / Louise Bogan -- First love : a quiz / A.E. Stallings -- Personal myth -- The second coming / William Butler Yeats -- Memento mori in middle school / Diane Thiel -- Lady Lazarus / Sylvia Plath -- Myth and popular culture -- Cinderella / Anne Sexton -- Writing effectively -- What is poetry? -- Poems for further reading -- thirteen ways of looking at a tortilla / Aaron Abeyta -- First poem for you / Kim Addonizio -- The powwow at the end of the world / Sherman Alexie -- Last words of the prophet / Anonymous (Navajo chant) -- Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold -- Musée des Beaux Arts / W.H. Auden -- One art / Elizabeth Bishop -- The tyger / William Blake -- the mother / Gwendolyn Brooks -- How do I love thee? let me count the ways / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister / Robert Browning -- Dostoevsky / Charles Bukowski -- Quinceañera / Judith Ortiz Cofer -- Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Care and feeding / Billy Collins -- Wild nights, wild nights! / Emily Dickinson -- I felt a funeral, in my brain / Emily Dickinson -- Because I could not stop for death / Emily Dickinson -- Death be not proud / John Donne -- The flea / John Donne -- The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock / T.S. Eliot -- Mending wall / Robert Frost -- Birches / Robert Frost -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost -- A supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg -- The convergence of the twain / Thomas Hardy -- Digging / Seamus Heaney -- Easter wings / George Herbert -- To the virgins, to make much of time / Robert Herrick -- Spring and fall / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- The windhover / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Loveliest of trees, the cherry now / A.E. Housman -- To an athlete dying young / A.E. Housman -- The Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes -- Harlem [dream deferred] / Langston Hughes -- The death of the ball turret gunner / Randall Jarrell -- Fire on the hills / Robinson Jeffers -- Missed time / Ha Jin -- On my first son / Ben Jonson -- On the death of friends in childhood / Donald Justice -- Ode to a nightingale / John Keats -- Home is so sad / Philip Larkin -- Piano / D.H. Lawrence -- Learning to love America / Shirley Geok-lin Lim -- To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell -- The Harlem dancer / Claude McKay -- Recuerdo / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- When I consider how my light is spent / John Milton -- We are many / Pablo Neruda, translated by Alastair Reid -- Anthem for doomed youth / Wilfred Owen -- Daddy / Sylvia Plath -- Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe -- The river-merchant's wife : a letter / Ezra Pound -- Naming of parts / Henry Reed -- Miniver Cheevy / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- Song ("When I am dead, my dearest") / Christina Rossetti -- When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes / William Shakespeare -- My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun / William Shakespeare -- Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- The emperor of ice-cream / Wallace Stevens -- Ulysses / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Fern Hill / Dylan Thomas -- When I heard the learn'd astronomer / Walt Whitman -- O captain! my captain! / Walt Whitman -- Spring and all // William Carlos Williams -- Queen-Anne's-lace / William Carlos Williams -- Composed upon Westminster Bridge / William Wordsworth -- Autumn begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio / James Wright -- In this strange labyrinth / Mary Sidney Wroth -- He wishes for the cloths of heaven / William Butler Yeats -- Sailing to Byzantium / William Butler Yeats -- When you are old / William Butler Yeats -- Drama. Talking with David Ives -- Reading a play -- Interpreting plays -- Theatrical conventions -- Elements of a play -- Trifles / Susan Glaspell -- Analyzing Trifles -- Writing effectively -- Tragedy and comedy -- Tragedy -- (Scene from) Doctor Faustus / Christopher Marlowe -- Comedy -- (Scene from) The importance of being earnest / Oscar Wilde -- Soap opera / David Ives -- Writing effectively -- The theater of Sophocles -- Theater in ancient Greece -- The civic role of Greek drama -- Aristotle's concept of tragedy -- Sophocles -- The origins of Oedipus the King -- Oedipus the King / Sophocles, translated by David Grene -- Writing effectively -- The theater of Shakespeare -- William Shakespeare -- A note on Othello -- Picturing Othello -- Othello, the Moor of Venice / William Shakespeare -- Writing effectively -- The modern theater -- Realism -- A doll's house / Henrik Ibsen, translated by R. Farquharson Sharp, revised by Viktoria Michelsen -- The glass menagerie / Tennessee Williams -- Experimental drama -- The Cuban swimmer / Milcha Sanchez-Scott -- Documentary drama -- (Scenes from) Twilight : Los Angeles, 1992 / Anna Deavere Smith -- Writing effectively -- Plays for further reading -- The sound of a voice / David Henry Hwang -- El Santo Americano / Edward Bok Lee -- Click / Brighde Mullins -- Fences / August Wilson -- Writing. Writing about literature -- Read actively -- Nothing gold can stay / Robert Frost -- Think about the reading -- Plan your essay -- Prewriting : generate ideas and issues -- Sample student prewriting exercises -- Develop your argument -- Strengthen your argument : rhetorical appeals -- Draft your argument -- Revise your argument -- Some final advice on rewriting -- What's your purpose? common approaches to writing about literature -- The form of your finished paper -- Topics for writing -- Writing a research paper -- Browse the research -- Choose a topic : formulate your argument -- Begin your research -- Evaluate your sources -- Organize your research -- Organize your paper -- Maintain academic integrity -- Acknowledge all sources -- Document sources using MLA style -- Concluding thoughts -- Reference guide for MLA citations.

Matahari by Tere Liye (2016)

Namanya Ali, 15 tahun, kelas X. Jika saja orangtuanya mengizinkan, seharusnya dia sudah duduk di tingkat akhir ilmu fisika program doktor di universitas ternama. Ali tidak menyukai sekolahnya, guru-gurunya, teman-teman sekelasnya. Semua membosankan baginya. Tapi sejak dia mengetahui ada yang aneh pada diriku dan Seli, teman sekelasnya, hidupnya yang membosankan berubah seru. Aku bisa menghilang, dan Seli bisa mengeluarkan petir.Ali sendiri punya rahasia kecil. Dia bisa berubah menjadi beruang raksasa. Kami bertiga kemudian bertualang ke tempat-tempat menakjubkan. Namanya Ali. Dia tahu sejak dulu dunia ini tidak sesederhana yang dilihat orang. Dan di atas segalanya, dia akhirnya tahu persahabatan adalah hal yang paling utama.

The Ones We Choose by Julie Clark (2018)

**Lisa Genova meets 23andMe in this “extraordinary breakthrough novel” (Sarah McCoy, New York Times bestselling author) about the genetic and emotional ties that bind as a young boy searches for his place in this world and a mother comes to terms with her own past.** The powerful forces of science and family collide when geneticist Paige Robson finds her world in upheaval: Her eight-year-old son Miles is struggling to fit in at his new school and begins asking questions about his biological father that Paige can’t answer—until fate thrusts the anonymous donor she used into their lives. Paige’s carefully constructed life begins to unravel as the truth of Miles’s paternity threatens to destroy everything she has grown to cherish. As Paige slowly opens herself up—by befriending an eccentric mother, confronting her own deeply buried vulnerabilities, and trying to make sense of her absent father’s unexpected return—she realizes breakthroughs aren’t only for the lab. But when tragedy strikes, Paige must face the consequences of sharing a secret only she knows. “An absolutely dazzling, profound ruby of a novel” (Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author), The Ones We Choose shows that while the science is fascinating, solving the intimate mysteries of who we are and where we come from unleashes emotions more complex than the strands of DNA that shape us.

Kinship by Robin Wall Kimmerer (2021)

Kinship by Robin Wall Kimmerer (2021)

Damián by Alex Mírez (2022)

Padme ha vivido durante toda su vida en el pueblo de Asfil. Es una chica normal, buena. O eso parece. En el fondo tiene varios secretos, y uno de ellos se llama Damián. Es su peculiar vecino, que siempre le dio la impresión de estar ocultando algo y a quien ella trató de descifrar sin éxito. Un día, Damián desaparece y su vida sigue un curso corriente, pero meses después vuelve, y con él regresa la peligrosa curiosidad que Padme tanto intentó reprimir. Ella decide, finalmente, seguirlo. Es entonces cuando descubre eso que tanto Damián como Asfil, han intentado...¿esconder? ¿Y si te preparas para adentrarte en este perverso mundo? Aquí no existen la moral ni la cordura. Si decides dejar eso atrás, entonces ellos te recibirán...

Maze of Bones (Graphic Novel) by Rick Riordan (2023)

Minutes before she died Grace Cahill changed her will, leaving her descendants an impossible decision: "You have a choice - one million dollars or a clue." Grace is the last matriarch of the Cahills, the world's most powerful family. Everyone from Marie Curie to Harry Houdini is related to the Cahills, yet the source of the family power is lost. 39 Clues hidden around the world will reveal the family's secret, but no one has been able to assemble them. Now the clues race is on, and young Amy and Dan must decide what's hunting clues or uncovering what REALLY happened to their parents.

Happiness Falls by Angie Kim (2023)

"We didn't call the police right away." Those are the first words of this extraordinary novel about a biracial Korean-American family in Virginia whose lives are upended when their beloved father and husband goes missing. Mia, the irreverent, hyperanalytical twenty-year-old daughter, has an explanation for everything--which is why she isn't initially concerned when her father and younger brother Eugene don't return from a walk in a nearby park. They must have lost their phone. Or stopped for an errand somewhere. But by the time Mia's brother runs through the front door bloody and alone, it becomes clear that the father in this tight-knit family is missing and the only witness is Eugene, who has the rare genetic condition Angelman syndrome and cannot speak.

Miracle by RJ Scott (2023)

**An abandoned baby, a poignant note from his long-lost twin, and unexpectedly, Jax’s world is turned upside down.** Despite being adopted by a loving family when he was a child, Jax feels part of his life is missing, and driven by dreams of his brother being in danger, Jax is consumed by his search for his biological twin. Shocked to find a surprise delivery on his doorstep, Jax discovers that not only is he an uncle, but apparently, he’s a legal guardian to baby Charlie. He calls on the unwavering support of his friends and family to solve the mystery surrounding the new arrival, but also finds help from an unexpected source — Arlo, the enigmatic bear of a man who works for him. Arlo is no stranger to caring. When his parents passed, he dropped out of college to care for his siblings, working construction to pay the bills. With his brothers grown and having left home, it’s Arlo’s turn to live, but when the next stage of his life means owning up to his love for Jax, he can’t find the words to be honest about how he feels. The problem for Arlo is that he’s been in unrequited love with his boss for three years and can’t bear to not be part of his life. Is it too much to wish for a miracle to make Jax fall for him too?

Pride by RJ Scott (2023)

**A blazing connection between single dads from opposite sides of the tracks is fraught with secrets and lies, and a happily ever after is impossible, unless they take a chance on love.** Saved a long time ago by a man who saw a diamond in the rough, Logan is a single dad and the owner of Redcars Automotive, a haven for those in need. With custody of his daughter under scrutiny, his life is upended when a journalist looking for a story slips into his life without him realizing. Logan doesn’t want Gray more than once, but when sharing the secrets of his past won’t get the journalist to leave, what else can he do? After blaming himself for missing signs that his son was ill, Gray feels Ben is safer with his ex-wife and her new pediatrician husband. With a heart heavy with guilt, and his documentary company failing to find a story, he’s searching for some spark in his life to fix everything. When a series of arson attempts draws him to Los Angeles, he meets the secretive, scarred, and tattooed Logan, who makes him an offer that Gray knows he should refuse.

Jared by RJ Scott (2024)

**Jared's world is turned upside down after Luka hands over his pocket money to hire him as a friend for his lonely, widowed dad.** Jared is good at his job, but his soft heart means that he often finds himself in the weirdest of situations. A kind-of-threesome, a disappearing swan, and a destroyed hotel room are just the tip of the iceberg, but he is a popular boyfriend-for-hire and always in demand. He dreams of working as a family psychologist one day, and as his work with Bryant & Waites is funding his studies, the last thing he wants is to lose his job. At a make-or-break meeting, Jared vows to focus on being strictly professional. Still, almost immediately, he meets Luka sitting on the office steps with pocket money in hand and with a sadness that melts Jared's resolve. Luka explains that his mom passed away some years ago, and his hardworking father needs a friend. Jared has no intention of taking Luka's pocket money, but he wants to make Luka smile again, and if being hired as a friend for Luka's widowed dad is what it takes, then he's all in. Being a single dad to eleven-year-old Luka is the best thing in Nate's world, but add running a bar with long hours, and his work-life balance is screwed. There's certainly no time for relationships, and even though Luka worries about his dad's love life daily, romance is the last thing on Nate's agenda. Owning Rhea's Bar and keeping his head above water is second only to his love for Luka. His entire world consists of his son and the bar until Jared stumbles into his life. Even though Nate won't admit it, he's lonely, and Jared is the first friend he's made in a very long time. Could their friendship become something more?