A fish name Alba loves to look for beautiful things to collect in her bright nad colorful coral home deep within the ocean. After years pass Alba notices a change in the ocean and decides to do something about it.

1942. Even though there was a war on, the Woolworths girls brought Christmas cheer to their customers. With their loved ones away busy fighting the enemy, their bonds of friendship strengthen each day. Betty Billington is a manager at Woolworths, and a rock for the girls, having given up on love-- until a mysterious stranger turns up one day. Could he reignite a spark in Betty? As the year draws to a close and Christmas approaches, the girls must...

"How we come to feel at home in our towns and cities is what Warnick sets out to discover in This Is Where You Belong. She dives into the body of research around place attachment--the deep sense of connection that binds some of us to our cities and increases our physical and emotional well-being--then travels to towns across America to see it in action. Inspired by a growing movement of placemaking, she examines what its practitioners are doing to...

When it comes to Mars, the focus is often on how to get there: the rockets, the engines, the fuel. But upon arrival, what will it actually be like? In 2013, Kate Greene moved to Mars. That is, along with five fellow crew members, she embarked on NASA's first HI-SEAS mission, a simulated Martian environment located on the slopes of Mauna Loa in Hawai'i. For four months she lived, worked, and slept in an isolated geodesic dome, conducting a sleep study...

"Wordplay with homonyms puts autumn on display and captures the art and science of season change"--

"A powerful, persuasive, thought-provoking vision for how to finish the long struggle for equality between men and women, work and family. When Anne-Marie Slaughter accepted her dream job as the first female director of policy planning at the U.S. State Department in 2009, she was confident she could juggle the demands of her position in Washington, D.C., with the responsibilities of her family life in suburban New Jersey. Her husband and two young...

From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York magazine's work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to navigating 200 difficult professional conversations--featuring all-new advice! There's a reason Alison Green has been called "the Dear Abby of the work world." Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don't know what to say. Thankfully,...

A young girl is upset and doesn't know how to manage her anger but takes the time to cool off and regain her composure.

It's 2041 and climate change has irreversibly altered our planet andlifestyles. Nova and Joule are fourteen-year-old twins whose scientist parents have recently uprooted the family from their urban home and moved to the country on a year-long research assignment, studying the effects of GMO 'SuperCrop' farming on the environment in the final regulatory phase before global expansion. Surrounded by nature and quiet, open spaces, shy, bookish Nova is...