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"Vienna Price never intended to return for more than a passing visit to Oregon and all the bad memories she'd left behind. But when your career tanks, home is where you go to nurse your wounds and chart a new course. Only temporarily, of course -- because as much as she loves her quirky mom, anything more than a short stay would drive them both crazy. A trip to Oregon isn't in Matt Quinn's plans, either, until a perfectly timed appeal for help arrives...

In Accra, Ghana, after Ato's father dies his mother sends him to spend the summer with his grandmother where he learns about his father's vibrant, complicated life, and learns to honor his past with hope for his own future.

Nadia L. Hohn's prose, written in a blend of standard English and Caribbean patois, tells a warm story about the importance of family, especially when adjusting to a new home. Readers of the first Malaika book will want to find out what happens when she moves to Canada, and will enjoy seeing Malaika and her family once again depicted through Irene Luxbacher's colorful collage illustrations.--Provided by Publisher.

"The next two books in the Baby Loves series tackle the first law of thermodynamics (energy cannot be created or destroyed, but it can change forms) and Schrödinger's Cat, the famous thought experiment involving quantum theory (quantum physics states that a particle can exist in multiple places at once). Accurate enough to satisfy an expert and simple enough for the rest of us to comprehend, the Baby Loves board books are perfect for geeky moms and...

Crossing Over is the true story of one woman's extraordinary flight from the protected world of the Amish people to the chaos of contemporary life. Ruth Irene Garrett was the fifth of seven children raised in Kalona, Iowa, as a member of a strict Old Order Amish community. She was brought up in a world filled with rigid rules and intense secrecy, in an environment where the dress, buggies, codes of conduct, and way of life differed even from other...

A girl waits impatiently as she and her father prepare a surprise birthday party for her mother.

A girl explains how her parents are different in color, tastes in art and food, and pet preferences, and how she herself is different too but just right.

"The people of Toyton woke up to some strange things. Houses were upside down, someone put ketchup in Jean's teapot, and Clive's turkey . . . it was . . . Anyway, will Toyton solve the mystery?"--

Based on the best-selling book by Irene Nemirovsky, a story of the power of love and the tradgedy of war, set during the German occupation of France in the 1940's. Suite Francaise tells the story of Lucille Angellier, she awaits news from her husband, whom is a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees pour into their small town, followed by a regiment of German soldies who take up residence in the villagers' homes. Lucille's life is turned upside down.