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Chemistry for Breakfast is a perfect book for anyone who wants to deepen their understanding of chemistry without having prior knowledge of the science. With Mai as your guide, you'll find something fascinating everywhere around you.

Olivia Huang Christenson is excited-slash-terrified to be taking over her grandmother’s matchmaking business. But when she learns that a new dating app has made her Pó Po’s traditional Chinese zodiac approach all about “animal attraction,” her emotions skew more toward furious-slash-outraged. Especially when L.A.’s most-eligible bachelor Bennett O’Brien is behind the app that could destroy her family’s legacy....

How the Future Works: Leading Flexible Teams to Do the Best Work of Their Lives offers a blueprint for using flexible work to unlock the potential of your people. The book offers the steps necessary to building the new principles and guardrails to empower flexible, high-performing teams. And it teaches listeners to lead with purpose, to manage and measure differently, and to believe that by letting go, they'll get more back than they thought possible.

Maybelline Chen isn’t the Chinese Taiwanese American daughter her mother expects her to be. May prefers hoodies over dresses and wants to become a writer. When asked, her mom can’t come up with one specific reason for why she's proud of her only daughter. May’s beloved brother, Danny, on the other hand, has just been admitted to Princeton. But Danny secretly struggles with depression, and when he dies by suicide, May's world is shattered.

Edie Falco, Sheryl Crow, Athena Jones, Heidi Heitkamp, and an inspiring array of other breast cancer survivors and "previvors" lend their voices to this collection of powerful stories.

What happens when the world's deadliest operative is activated with no target to take out? Tina Hutchinson was a member of the black ops team known as C.O.R.P.S.E.-until she was killed. But her death triggered a secret program, activating an android that was trained to kill, yet is now confused about its mission.

In 2021, women represented 54.3% of the US workforce but only held 35% of senior leadership positions. Of that percentage, only 2.7% of Asian women were seen in management roles. While there have been great leaps for women in the workplace in the last decade, women of color still fall behind. The Tao of Self-Confidence book sets a foundation to help Asian women start being seen as leaders in work and life rather than by our stereotypes. In order to move forward with true confidence, we must learn the lessons our challenges have taught us and heal our trauma.

Victorian era steam engines and particle physics may seem worlds apart, yet a new branch of science, quantum thermodynamics, reenvisions the scientific underpinnings of the Industrial Revolution through the lens of today's roaring quantum information revolution. In her exciting new book, Harvard physicist Dr. Nicole Yunger Halpern introduces these concepts with what she calls "quantum steampunk," after the fantastical genre. Quantum Steampunk explores the field's aesthetic, shares its whimsy, and gazes into the potential of a quantum future.

The Big Island Saga continues . . .Emma's life is in an uproar as her niece faces a decision that will change their lives forever. She's got Juniper's back, no matter what . . . but as things between Jun and her dad go from bad to worse, Emma begins to wonder if the fragile peace between her and her brother can survive this growing rift in their family. Next door, Tara deals with a fresh twist of fate that throws her family life into chaos.

Mia Verick grew up on a remote homestead far from civilization. Most young women raised in the Kerrick Confederacy of Aligned Planets go to school. Mia had daily firearms practice, tactical exercises, and pilot training. She never cared about her life, only about living up to the expectations of her father. His mysterious job often takes him away on missions, leaving her to self-training until the day she can surpass him. Now she will never get the chance.

Nell has no car, no phone, and no home for herself and her two children. What she does have is community, fueled by the Aloha Spirit of Hawai'i. Her friends and neighbors pull together to help her through the grueling process of building a new life from the ground up. Soon she has a new phone, a roof over her head . . . and a distressingly handsome family law attorney.

Fern just kicked her cheating boyfriend out of their two-story home, which she can't possibly afford on her own. She needs to figure something out, and fast. Renting the upstairs unit to a single dad seems like the perfect solution . . . until she finds herself falling for him and his baby. Dating her tenant is absolutely not an option, but babysitting his four-month-old son? Fern can't resist those chubby cheeks and gummy smiles. As she spends more time with both father and son, it becomes increasingly clear that she's going to get her heart broken . . .

Lani's life is turned upside down when Rory's biological father shows up in Pualena. He's eager to meet the daughter he never knew and become a family, whatever that looks like. But what will this new disruption mean for Lani and Tenn? 'Ōlena and her ex-husband are working to repair their relationship, but coming back together after years apart has its challenges. Can they rebuild their family, or will the rift created by their separation prove too deep to cross? Join Lani, Emma, 'Ōlena, and the rest of the Pualena community as they navigate life and love on the Big Island.

'Ōlena finally found a safe haven for her homeschool co-op: New Horizons Community Center. But just when it's time to move in, the community center loses its funding and closes its doors. She has to find a way to keep New Horizons open—for her daughters, their friends, and everyone else who needs this place of refuge.

When Tara's husband quits his job and extends his trip to the mainland indefinitely, she's left to care for their three children alone. With an overflowing hobby farm and a rapidly dwindling savings account, it will take all of her creativity and courage to keep her family afloat. Next door, Emma searches for fresh purpose that will carry her through her ongoing grief. Lani navigates new love even as her ex works to destroy the life that she's built in Hawai'i.

In 2008, a serial killer known as the Cajun Cannibal brutally murders and consumes the flesh of eight people in a small Louisiana parish. With law enforcement closing in on him, he takes his own life before he can face the inside of a courtroom.

When Valena Beety first became a federal prosecutor, her goal was to protect victims, especially women, from cycles of violence. What she discovered was that not only did prosecutions often fail to help victims, they frequently relied on false information, forensic fraud, and police and prosecutor misconduct. Seeking change, Beety began working in the Innocence Movement, helping to free factually innocent people through DNA testing and criminal justice reform.

Cynthia Owyoung has spent more than two decades working in the space of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB). She's seen it all, and she knows what works - and what doesn't. In All Are Welcome, Owyoung explains what DEIB is and why it matters, and she delivers the information and insights you need to make DEIB a key element of your company culture.

In 2014, after fighting through yards of bureaucratic red tape, leaving her family, and putting her own health at risk in order to help suffering strangers, Kwan Kew Lai finally arrived in Africa to volunteer as an infectious disease specialist in the heart of the largest Ebola outbreak in history. What she found was not only blistering heat, inhospitable working conditions, and deadly, unrelenting illness, but hope, resilience, and incredible courage.

In the town of Howler's Hollow, conjuring magic is strictly off-limits. Only nothing makes Delpha McGill's skin crawl more than rules. So when she finds her family's secret book of hexes, she's itching to use it to banish her mama's money troubles. She just has to keep it quieter than a church mouse-not exactly Delpha's specialty.