Thao is a young Vietnamese woman who sits in a wheelchair with physical deformities due to the effects of Agent Orange. Despite her struggles, her one driving desire is to buy more books for her makeshift library. Half a world away an American woman, Elizabeth, is fighting a crippling depression brought on by her famed younger sister's sudden death. When she hears of Thao's wish, she experiences a spark of hope. She travels halfway around the...

Immersive. Compelling. Hypnotic. Brilliantly imaginative. Endlessly thrilling. Pick your term. The mystery of the universes deepens in the critically acclaimed 22-episode third season of television's most exciting sci-fi. The Fringe team escapes from the parallel universe, except for Olivia, trapped in the other world and replaced in ours by her double, who turns Peter and Olivia's tentative relationship into a love affair.

After country singer Will Brown's wife passes away, his grief sidelines his career and pushes him away from his young daughter until a bright and talented horse trainer shows him strength, forgiveness, and grace to live life again.

Although seventeen-year-old Amber Appleton is homeless, living in a school bus with her unfit mother, she is a relentless optimist who visits the elderly at a nursing home, teaches English to Korean Catholic women with the use of rhythm and blues music, and befriends a solitary Vietnam veteran and his dog, but eventually she experiences one burden more than she can bear and slips into a deep depression.

"Jan Walker was married for 23 years but while her hubby watched 'the football,' she discovered 'The L Word,' little knowing her life would soon be transformed. Catapulted into a new world of speed dating, dining clubs, conventions, cruises and global gay pride events, Jan searches for Sapphic insights, dating and flirting tips in her quest to establish her new found identity"--Container.

This book is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated. Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest poetry, anything but nature poetry. This is particularly true when the definition of what constitutes...

"A comprehensive reference guide to the spiritual healing qualities and scientific properties of hundreds of sacred crystals, minerals, and gemstones, this book includes color photographs to aid in stone identification"--