Outcasts and best friends Serena Velasco and Melody Grimshaw strive together to survive senior year and break away from their rural factory town. Serena Velasco and her friend Melody Grimshaw are dying to get out of Colchis. They've been keeping a safe distance from the bleakness of home and the banality of high school. To make things more interesting Serena fixates on communism, eager to get a rise out of their conservative small town. Her Western...

Polarization occurring in the United States today is not only a social concern, it's also a spiritual condition of the heart. How can we connect with others in the midst of our differences when deep in our hearts we might harbor shadows such as judgment or fear? In Common Spaces Between Us, Melynne Rust explores this question by inviting readers into the diverse college campus community where she served as chaplain and where, much to her surprise...

Set in modern-day India, this evocative novel follows upper-middle-class Parsi housewife Sera Dubash and 65-year-old illiterate household worker Bhima as they make their way through life. Though separated by their stations in life, the two women share bonds of womanhood that prove far stronger than the divisions of class or culture.

When three people suffer strokes after seeing dazzling lights over Edinburgh, then awake completely recovered, they're convinced their ordeal is connected to the alien creature discovered on a nearby beach... an adrenaline-soaked, deeply humane, life-affirming first-contact novel from one of Scotland's most revered authors... Lennox is a troubled teenager with no family. Ava is eight months pregnant and fleeing her abusive husband. Heather is...

Willie's life is altered by war; his life is falling into a spiral. He can't walk and is bound by a wheelchair rendering him helpless. On top of that his sexual life has taken a dive. Along with being unable to walk he can't get an erection. And the once happy life he and his wife had built together starts falling apart. With this last nail, his wife of several years can no longer take it. Leaving Willie to fend for himself all alone in a house that...

Though sixteen-year-old Gardner Elliot has lived his whole life with a team of scientists on Mars, he has always longed to see Earth, to find the father he has never known, and to meet Tulsa, a beautiful street-smart girl he has become friends with online. But when his chance finally comes, doctors discover his heart can't withstand the Earth's atmosphere. Eager to find his father, Gardner and Tulsa escape on a cross-country race against time to unravel...

Identifies an interconnectedness between the brain and matter to reveal how the key to life is in the relationship between things and outlines a scientific paradigm that can be applied practically to improve society and the planet.

Tension in our personal relationships are at an all-time high. Dialogue-when it happens at all-is heated. It isn't that we've lost hope in what faith and politics can accomplish in our world. It's that in our polarizing times, faith and politics seem to be leading more to rage than actual change. It's discouraging, disheartening, and disappointing. But, it doesn't have to stay that way. Civility is not a pipe dream. Nuance is not, unrecoverable. Peace...