Tabitha Ruth lives on a vegetable farm with her mom, dad, and pesky little brother. More than anything, Tabitha dreams of having a pony to ride and care for.When her family keeps saying "no" to pets, Tabitha takes matters into her own hands. She prepares the barn, buys all the supplies, and eagerly awaits the arrival of her dream pony. But when she opens the barn door the next morning, she doesn't find a pony... she finds a moose!Get ready to fall i...

A dazzling collection of stories about how the familiar can suddenly turn strange.A guidebook introduces foreign visitors to a recognizable but dreamlike America, where mirrors are haunted and the Statue of Liberty wears a bowler hat. A department-store supervisor must discipline employees who don't smile enough at customers, but finds himself unexpectedly drawn to the saddest of them all. A woman reluctantly agrees to buy her daughter a robot pet, then is horrifie...

LGBTQ+ advocacy and support continues to be a priority in the U.S. higher education, and recent research shows this as a critical population who continues to be marginalized and mistreated on college and university campuses. Over the last few decades there has been significant research describing how LGBTQ students experience higher education and highlighting that these students are not graduating or succeeding at the same rates as the general population. However, few if any research studi...

Olivia Sharp, cousin to super sleuth Nate the Great, is a detective too! Rather than solve mysteries like Nate, Olivia helps friends with their problems by detecting what's wrong beneath the surface. You'll be won over by Olivia's spunk, eccentricities, and can-do spirit.Sometimes it takes a sleuth to catch a sleuth!Olivia Sharp, agent for secrets, always comes through to help those in need--especially her friends. But this time Olivia is the one with a pro...

Olivia Sharp, cousin to super sleuth Nate the Great, is a detective too! Rather than solve mysteries like Nate, Olivia helps friends with their problems by detecting what's wrong beneath the surface. You'll be won over by Olivia's spunk, eccentricities, and can-do spirit.THE PIZZA MONSTER: Meet Olivia Sharp. She's bold. She's eager to help people. She's a special kind of detective. She's an agent for secrets. Duncan is Olivia's first case. He belie...

After thirteen years of federal law enforcement assignments that took him to every Indian nation but his own, Emmett Parker has come home to Oklahoma on convalescent leave, badly wounded and estranged from his partner and love interest, Anna Turnipseed. At once a son of the Comanche people and a government investigator for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, he has ties to both sides—and is about to discover which side pulls harder.On the reservation, Emmett finds an intricate web of fam...

Living with chronic kidney disease can make everyday meal decisions feel overwhelming. What should you eat? Which ingredients should you limit? How can you prepare satisfying meals without relying on excessive salt or highly processed foods?The New Renal Diet Cookbook to Slow Down CKD provides a practical introduction to kidney-conscious cooking, helping readers understand the nutritional principles that can matter when managing chronic kidney disease while turning those principles...

Living with chronic kidney disease can make everyday meal decisions feel overwhelming. What should you eat? Which ingredients should you limit? How can you prepare satisfying meals without relying on excessive salt or highly processed foods?The New Renal Diet Cookbook to Slow Down CKD provides a practical introduction to kidney-conscious cooking, helping readers understand the nutritional principles that can matter when managing chronic kidney disease while turning those principles...

"Absorbing…Mitchell's novel [is] the real thing." — Boston GlobeIn the summer of 1918, with the Germans threatening Paris, Edward Steichen arrives in France to photograph the war for the American army. There, he finds a country filled with poignant memories for him: early artistic success, marriage, the birth of two daughters, and a love affair that divided his family. Told with elegance and transporting historical sensitivity, Emily Mitchell's first novel...

Living with chronic kidney disease can make everyday meal decisions feel overwhelming. What should you eat? Which ingredients should you limit? How can you prepare satisfying meals without relying on excessive salt or highly processed foods?The New Renal Diet Cookbook to Slow Down CKD provides a practical introduction to kidney-conscious cooking, helping readers understand the nutritional principles that can matter when managing chronic kidney disease while turning those principles...

A Love AnthemLet me stroke you like the morning breezeOn a warm summer dayUnderneath the treeLet that be our hideawayWe can talk about the moonWe can talk about the starsWe can talk about our pastAnd how weve become who we areI wanna rock your mindAnd make love to your soul all night longI wanna cuddle with your intellectAnd Ill return the warmth with my intelligenceLets explode with hon...

In 1986 the Compact of Free Association marked the formal end of U.S. colonialism in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, while simultaneously re-entrenching imperial power dynamics between the two countries. The U.S.-RMI Compact at once enshrined exclusive U.S. military access to the islands and established the right of “visa-free” migration to the United States for Marshallese citizens, leading to a Marshallese diaspora whose largest population resettled in the seemingly unlikely destin...