Laura Tucker

Set in 1981 SoHo, this "dazzling debut novel about resilience, courage, home and family" (Rebecca Stead, Newbery Award-winning author of "When You Reach Me") follows 12-year-old Olympia as she searches for her missing father, an artist who brought antique painting back to life. Illustrations.

All the Greys on Greene Street

"A dazzling debut novel about resilience, courage, home and family."--Rebecca Stead, Newbery Award-winning author of When You Reach Me SoHo, 1981. Twelve-year-old Olympia is an artist--and in her neighborhood, that's normal. Her dad and his business partner Apollo bring antique paintings back to life, while her mother makes intricate sculptures in a corner of their loft, leaving Ollie to roam the streets of New York with her best friends Richard and Alex, drawing everything that catches her eye. Then everything falls apart. Ollie's dad disappears in the middle of the night, leaving her only a cryptic note and instructions to destroy it. Her mom has gone to bed, and she's not getting up. Apollo is hiding something, Alex is acting strange, and Richard has questions about the mysterious stranger he saw outside. And someone keeps calling, looking for a missing piece of art. . . . Olympia knows her dad is the key--but first, she has to find him, and time is running out. Lauded by critics in five starred reviews, All the Greys on Greene Street has been called "a remarkable debut" and "a triumph."

Marianne J. Legato

Existen diferencias biol&ógicas entre hombres y mujeres que determinan que los sexos aborden los problemas y las experiencias del mundo de modo muy distinto. La doctora Marianne J. Legato, creadora del concepto medicina espec&ífica de g&énero, propone c&ómo solucionar esta brecha. &¿Por qu&é los hombres no se comprometen? &¿Por qu&é las mujeres siempre quieren hablar de la relaci&ón? &¿Por qu&é &él es incapaz de ver que algo la est&á molestando? Pero quiz&á la pregunta m&ás importante que resuelve este libro es &¿por qu&é es tan dif&ícil que hombres y mujeres se entiendan entre s&í... y qu&é podemos hacer al respecto? Seg&ún la doctora Legato, los cerebros de hombres y mujeres son qu&ímica y estructuralmente diferentes. Los neurocient&íficos est&án descubriendo ahora c&ómo estas diferencias moldean la percepci&ón. &¿C&ómo cerramos esta brecha? La doctora Legato pone a nuestro alcance estrategias y consejos para aprender a "pensar" como el sexo opuesto y as&í superar nuestras diferencias. Este innovador libro fomentar&á el entendimiento entre los sexos en todos los niveles, tanto en las relaciones personales como en las profesionales.

Por qué los hombres nunca recuerdan y las mujeres nunca olvidan

Hard. Tough. Alone. Karura Solari was contemplating what to do with his existence when he left off where he had been with Lautu Loman. That existence had a bleak outlook until General Kenning called him in on a rescue operation, to free some slaves rooted to dark operations on Solari ́s home planet of Qinir. In the operation Karura meets a formerly enslaved, fascinating languages professor, Nicole Watson. That begins the end of everything...and possibly an end to the beginning he desires.

His Name Was Karura Solari

C. Vivian Stringer

“Lots of people have dreams, but C. Vivian Stringer is the dream—a coalminer’s daughter who believed when her Poppa told her there was no obstacle she could not surmount. And she lives that dream, teaching others to rise up to meet challenges, turning underdogs into champions again and again—on and off the court. This is the quintessential American story, of a woman and of a family pulling together against the odds. Standing Tall offers an important message of hope to so many.” —John Chaney, Hall of Fame college basketball coach At a time when heroes are too rare, C. Vivian Stringer sets a shining example. She has time and again shown character, fortitude, and heart, both on and off the hardwood, and in the face of unbearable loss. In Standing Tall, she shares her remarkable life story, inspiring us to find this fortitude within ourselves. “Work hard, and don’t look for excuses,” Stringer’s parents told her, “and you can achieve anything.” But her faith and perseverance would be tested many times. A gifted athlete, she had to fight for a place on an all-white cheerleading squad in the sixties. In 1981, just as her coaching career was taking off, her fourteen-month-old daughter, Nina, was stricken with spinal meningitis. Nina would never walk or talk again. Still grieving, Stringer brought a small, poor, historically black college to the national championships—a triumph hailed as “Hoosiers with an all-female cast.” In 1991, her husband, Bill—her staunchest supporter, the father of her children, and the love of her life—fell dead of a sudden heart attack, but that same year, she led yet another young team to the Final Four. Through these dark times and others—including her bout with cancer, shared here for the first time—Stringer has carried her burdens with grace. Given her history, it was no surprise that she led her team to respond to Don Imus’s slurs with dignity and courage. Standing Tall is a story of quiet strength in the face of punishing odds. Above all, it is an extraordinary love story—love for the game, for the players she has coached, for her close-knit family, and for the husband she lost far too soon. It will resonate long after the last page.

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