True stories of animals and the people who love them.--

When a young loner becomes the gestational surrogate for a single man in his 40s, the two strangers come to realize this unexpected relationship will quickly challenge their perceptions of connection, boundaries and the particulars of love.

And that's how it was that we were alone again, without any grown-ups or men at Rosewood, when Katie's father's brother came to call. For nearly two years, Mayme -- a former slave -- and Katie have kept Katie's family plantation in operation, disguising the fact that they are orphans of war and "sisters of the heart." Together they have sheltered others in need and battled threats of foreclosure, theft, and deadly danger. But now the girls face what...

Told in rhyming text, a young African American girl learns to ride a bike, with the help of her father.

Lily and Charlotte are as different as two thirteen-year-olds can be, but they are spending the summer together in a small beach house because their parents are dating; trouble is, they can not stop sniping at each other--until an accident gives them a new perspective on their lives.

Eighteen-year-old Lane, still dealing with her mother's suicide when she was five, must now adjust to her father's remarriage to Skye, making Lane's long-term, unrequited crush, Grey, her stepbrother. Lane Jamison's life is turned upside down the week before her senior year when her father introduces her to his new fiancée: mother of Grey McIntyre, Lane's longtime crush. With only a thin wall separating their rooms, it's hard to deny their growing...

The author describes how her husband of forty years was inexplicably paralyzed by a routine medical procedure and how they struggled to reclaim their lives together in the face of daunting losses.

In this urgent outpouring of American voices, our poets speak to us as they shelter in place, addressing our collective fear, grief, and hope from eloquent and diverse individual perspectives.As the novel coronavirus and its devastating effects began to spread in the United States and around the world, Alice Quinn reached out to poets across the country to see if, and what, they were writing under quarantine. Overwhelmed by the response, the onetime...

A century after the Supreme Court's infamous "separate but equal" decision, ancestors of Plessy and Ferguson form an inspiring partnership.

"Embarking on a quest to find hidden treasure, best friends Bird and Squirrel are worried about the dangers ahead, but this time, Red and Birdie join them as they encounter kooky clues, wacky weather and creepy creatures."--