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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.

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.

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.

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.

There are days in every working parent's life when it feels like you're screaming into the wind. The days when you have to ask your childless boss if you can leave work early - again - for a kid issue. The days your kid tearfully asks why you have to get on an airplane for work when you just got home. But we can have fewer days like that and more productive conversations. We can listen and be heard. In Communicate Better with Everyone, experts provide answers to the challenges you face as a working parent.

And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again takes its title from the last line of Dante's Inferno, when the poet and his guide emerge from hell to once again behold the beauty of the heavens. In that spirit, the stories, essays, and poems in this collection - from beloved authors including Jhumpa Lahiri, Mario Vargas Llosa, Eavan Boland, Daniel Alarcón, Jon Lee Anderson, Claire Messud, Ariel Dorfman, and many more - detail the harrowing experiences of life in the pandemic, while pointing toward a less isolated future.

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.

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.

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....

Emma lost her husband at thirty-six, and life without him feels impossible. A Hawaiian inheritance might be her chance to start over . . . but the Kealoha place is a mess. The roof leaks, the goats keep escaping, and the jungle is overtaking the orchard. It's more than she can manage on her own. Lani spent years trapped in a marriage that went from bad to worse. Finally, she summoned her courage and moved home to Hawai'i. Now she's starting over with her four year old in tow.

Our Voices, Our Histories brings together 35 Asian American and Pacific Islander authors in a single volume to explore the historical experiences, perspectives, and actions of Asian American and Pacific Islander women in the United States and beyond.

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 the pulse-pounding third book of the C.O.R.P.S.E series, Maris is Public Enemy #1. A botched attack exposes her identity. Now C.O.R.P.S.E. manipulates the public against her, forcing her into hiding with Spyder. On the run with unlikely allies, Maris desperately counterattacks C.O.R.P.S.E. She's determined to clear her name and reveal their sinister plans. Dodging hovercopters through dystopian Nuevo Diego, she navigates sewers, back-alley deals, and an underground railway in a frantic race for the truth.

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.

Maris, a rogue android with a mysterious past, infiltrates the Nexus, an underground organization promising liberation for her kind. Delving deeper into their secrets, she uncovers a sinister plot that threatens the future of both androids and humans alike. Joined by her loyal dog Hero and a skilled hacker named Spyder, Maris must navigate a treacherous landscape of rival gangs, powerful cyborgs, and her own haunting past.

Maris has dedicated her existence to unraveling the dark secrets that threaten the city of Nuevo Diego. Together with her human allies, hacker Spyder and scavenger Kenny, she navigates a treacherous landscape of corruption and deceit. Confronted by powerful enemies on all sides, Maris navigates a treacherous web of alliances and betrayals to expose the machinations of the cyborg mastermind Douglas Turing and his pawn, mayoral candidate Korneli Givi.

Having exposed The Veil's shocking corruption, she now pursues their most guarded secret: Project Olympus. Dodging assassins and enemies, Maris hunts for clues about Olympus. Hints about disturbing genetic experiments and advanced cybernetics surface. Each revelation pulls her deeper into a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with The Veil's ruthless leader. With distrust and deception around every corner, the stakes have never been higher.

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.

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 . . .

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.