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Are U Ok?

A licensed marriage and family therapist and You Tube personality, Kati Morton answers the most commonly asked questions about mental health, including when to get help and where to find it.

Black Swan Rising

Sarah Price wants a career in politics. But she has a secret past that won't stay past, threatening her job on a San Diego congressman's reelection campaign.

The Closer

Now, in an edition for young readers, Mariano Rivera will tell his story for the first time: from a childhood in Panama, to the championships, the rivalries, and the struggles of being a Latino baseball player in the United States and of maintaining Christian values in professional athletics.

Elevation : a novel

Castle Rock is a small town, where word gets around quickly. That's why Scott Carey wants to confide only in his friend Doctor Bob Ellis about his strange condition: he's losing weight, without getting thinner, and the scales register the same when he is in his clothes or out of them, no matter how heavy they are. 

Family Trust

A sharp and smart comedic family drama in the vein of The Nest based in California's Silicon Valley about a Chinese immigrant family's attempts (or not) to fulfill its dying patriarch's last bequest.

Becoming Grandma

Becoming Grandma : the joys and science of the New Grandparenting

After four decades as a reporter, Lesley Stahl says the most vivid and transforming experience of her life was not covering the White House, interviewing heads of state, or any other of her stories at 60 Minutes. It was becoming a grandmother

L.A. Candy : a novel book cover

L.A. Candy : a novel

When nineteen-year-old Jane Roberts is cast in a new reality show, she discovers that the fame and fortune of her new life come at a high price to herself and her friendships.

The house of broken angels book cover

The house of broken angels

 

Beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel De La Cruz, known affectionately as Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party.

This is what happy looks like book cover

This is what happy looks like

Perfect strangers Graham Larkin and Ellie O'Neill meet online when Graham accidentally sends Ellie an e-mail about his pet pig, Wilbur.

The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights book cover

The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights

On July 17, 1944, a massive explosion rocked Port Chicago, a United States Navy base in San Francisco Bay, killing 320 servicemen and injuring hundreds more. Surviving black sailors were taken to a nearby base and ordered to return to the same exact work. More than 200 of the men refused unless the unsafe and unfair conditions at the docks were addressed.

Wild : stories of survival from the world's most dangerous places book cover

Wild : stories of survival from the world's most dangerous places

The wilderness-forest, desert, glacier, jungle-has been the scene of the past century's most exciting stories, inspiring many of its greatest writers, including Jack London, Norman Mac Lean, Evelyn Waugh, Redmond O'Hanlon, Sir Wilfred Thesiger, H.M. Tomlinson and Algernon Blackwood

A long walk to water : based on a true story book cover

A long walk to water : based on a true story

When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, eleven-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan.


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