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For Maya, a young widow trying to escape her complicated past, teaching school in a secluded mountain village offers a promise of peace. Here she feels close to the calm heart of the land, where lush foothills meet clear skies. In the evenings she teaches a peasant girl, Charu, to write so she can correspond with her lover in secret. As Maya finds out, however, no refuge is remote enough to keep out the modern world, or her own past. The community...

When her mother has a new little cow, Raisin hates the changes his arrival creates, but when she sees how scared the new baby is during a thunderstorm, she offers comfort and even inspired to give him a name as sweet as her own.

"In a near-future world where tree pollen has made outdoor air unbreathable, a woman's safe but tedious life is thrown into turmoil when she witnesses a murder and her young daughter starts sleep-talking about the killer"--

"It's been two weeks since Juliette and Warner toppled The Reestablishment for good. Everyone at the Sanctuary is working round the clock to stabilize the world in the aftermath. Warner is thinking about more than politics. Since Juliette accepted his proposal, he's been eager for the two of them to officially begin their lives together. But it's been hard to find peace and joy amidst so much chaos. Even Juliette is distracted by all they have to...

Lance Cottonwood is the best and brightest in his class, but when it is time for his final exam, he is afraid to fall like the rest of the leaves.

Ben is upset when a substitute teacher changes his school routine, until a visit from his regular teacher and her new baby reveals that change can be good.

A chorus of men who died of AIDS observes and yearns to help a cross-section of today's gay teens who navigate new love, long-term relationships, coming out, self-acceptance, and more in a society that has changed in many ways.

Growing up on a pineapple farm in Mexico, a young girl discovers the magic in everyday transformations that take place around her.

Rhyming text encourages girls to join together in speaking up for themselves to achieve their dreams and care for the earth.

"An environmental tale of land evolving over the millennia up to present day environmental changes, as well as the role one can take in caring for it"--