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Decades ago, the first thing you’d do in a new job was print out fresh business cards. They’d have your name, your ...

A polar-bear parent speaks poetically of love for a child. A genderless adult and cub travel through the landscapes of an arctic year. Each of the softly rendered double-page paintings has a very ...

After praying to a Fate for help, Evangeline discovers the dangerous world of magic. When her father passes away, Evangeline is left with her cold stepmother and kind but distant stepsister, Marisol.

On the orders of her mother, a woman goes to dragon-riding school. Even though her mother is a general in Navarre’s army, 20-year-old Violet Sorrengail was raised by her father to follow his path as a ...

A caring bear puts his own needs aside to help his friends and gets an unexpected surprise in return in Hendrick’s picture book. Bernard the bear is good at building things—he even built his very own ...

Betrayed by her husband, a severely depressed young woman gets drawn into the over-the-top festivities at a lavish wedding. Phoebe Stone, who teaches English literature at a St. Louis college, is ...

Two people with bad luck in relationships find each other through a popular Reddit thread. Emma Grant and her best friend, Maddy, are travel nurses, working at hospitals for three-month stints while ...

In a haven for the displaced called the Sea, a girl tends her ailing father and is nurtured by fellow refugees from across the centuries. “The buildings of the Sea are made of time,” Lina’s father, ...

A Wizard of Oz–themed guide to self-care for caregivers from Green. The Wizard of Oz and its adaptation, The Wiz, are employed as metaphors for the caregiving experience in this self-help book.The ...

A carbon standard? The idea is nothing if not audacious: solving global warming by removing carbon from the atmosphere and sequestering it, perhaps in bank vaults where it would function like the gold ...

I Who Have Never Known Men ($22.00; May 1997; 224 pp.; 1-888363-43-6): In this futuristic fantasy (which is immediately reminiscent of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale), the nameless narrator ...