“Goes for the heart and doesn’t miss.” —Booklist (starred review)Love is a wild ride. Hold on.When life lassoes Josie and Shawn back together three years after their dreamy first date, their second chance at love is anything but easy. A big-hearted rodeo romance set in Houston, Texas, by the critically acclaimed Liara Tamani, author of What She Missed, All The Things We Never Knew, and Calling My Name. Thi...

Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi, and featuring some of the most acclaimed bestselling Black authors writing for teens today—Black Enough is an essential collection of captivating stories about what it's like to be young and Black in America. A selection of the Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List.Black is…sisters navigating their relationship at summer camp in Portland, Oregon, as written by Renée Watson.Black is…three ...

Why would someone ever voluntarily become a sex worker? Liara Roux writes about the salacious details leading up to her decision to become a career sex worker, and the unexpected truths she learned while working in the industry.Liara Roux is accustomed to being mislabelled and misunderstood.As a child, Liara’s inquisitive, instinctive, and rebellious nature was frequently problematised in a world designed around the requirements of their ne...

This is not a book about correspondence. It is a formal, unhurried investigation of the object that precedes it: the unopened envelope. For author E. L. Sutton, the sealed object exists in a state of perfect, unviolated integrity. The core of this book is a sensory inquiry into the edge the barrier that defines this state. With the unhurried precision of a method essayist, this book analyzes the barriers of our daily lives. It begins with the fingernail, the core habit, testing the flap of...

This isn't a book. It's a mess of thoughts I wrote late at night. For years, I felt like a permanent work-in-progress, always trying to fix myself. I thought everyone else had a secret map to life, and I missed it. Honestly, this book is for anyone who feels that way. It's for the messy, the lost, and the kind of broken. We'll talk about the small, beautiful rebellions against a perfect world, the quiet power of just showing up, and how to find peace in your unfinished, chaotic, and totall...

“Calling My Name is a treasure.”—Nic Stone, New York Times–bestselling author of Dear MartinCalling My Name is a striking, luminous, and literary exploration of family, spirituality, and self—ideal for readers of Jacqueline Woodson, Jandy Nelson, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Sandra Cisneros.This unforgettable novel tells a universal coming-of-age story about Taja Brown, a young African American girl growing up in Houston, Texas,...

“Calling My Name is a treasure.”—Nic Stone, New York Times–bestselling author of Dear MartinCalling My Name is a striking, luminous, and literary exploration of family, spirituality, and self—ideal for readers of Jacqueline Woodson, Jandy Nelson, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Sandra Cisneros.This unforgettable novel tells a universal coming-of-age story about Taja Brown, a young African American girl growing up in Houston, Texas,...

**“Tamani masterfully bounces and slams two heartsup and down a shrouded court of first love and revelations.”—RitaWilliams-Garcia, National Book Award Finalist and New YorkTimes-bestselling author“A superb, complex romance full of heart,humor, and unforgettable characters.”—Kirkus (starred review)A glance was all it took. That kind of connection, the immediate and rawunderstanding of another per...

This is not a book about correspondence. It is a formal, unhurried investigation of the object that precedes it: the unopened envelope. For author E. L. Sutton, the sealed object exists in a state of perfect, unviolated integrity. The core of this book is a sensory inquiry into the edge the barrier that defines this state.With the unhurried precision of a method essayist, this book analyzes the barriers of our daily lives. It begins with the fingernail, the core habit, test...

Sixteen-year-old Ebony Jones is devastated when her family moves from Houston to her grandmother’s house in the country. There’s absolutely nothing for Ebony in Alula Lake, Texas. So she thinks.Award-winning author Liara Tamani’s What She Missed is a rich and emotional novel that celebrates change, nature, friendship, growing up, and love, for readers of Sarah Dessen’s The Rest of the Story and Elizabeth Acevedo’s Clap When You Land

Fungi are both the cause of many major health problems and an incredible source of compounds for developing new medicinal treatments, and with the increasing emergence of multidrug resistance, the need for new antimicrobial agents is greater than ever. Antifungal Compounds Discovery provides researchers with a detailed study of both natural and synthetic compounds that can be effective against a variety of fungal species, supporting and encouraging the design of innovative, potent new drug...

To save her husband, can she do the unthinkable?This audiobook is narrated using advanced digital voice technology for clear, natural-sounding storytelling.One evening, Kenna and her husband are attacked on the street and her driver's license is stolen. The next night, when the same thugs break into their house, they realize it wasn't just a random mugging. The gang leader, Eli, then makes a shocking demand.Kenna's husband is kidnapped by the ...