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Marcia Bjornerud's life as a geologist has coincided with an extraordinary period of discovery. From an insular girlhood in rural Wisconsin, she found her way to an unlikely career studying mountains in remote parts of the world. As one of few women in her field, she witnessed the shift in our understanding of the Earth, from solid object to an entity in a constant state of transformation. In the most tumultuous times of her own life, a deep understanding of our rocky planet imbued her life with meaning.

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a disease characterized by inflammation of the joints, is one of the most disabling forms of arthritis and affects over two million people in the United States. Without proper treatment it can lead to long-term joint damage, chronic pain, loss of function, and...

Jean Dickey dreams of doing something important for women’s rights. She failed in 1970, but now she’s in her seventies and has a second chance. Her granddaughter, Dani, arrives to help her start a civil rights center on Chicago’s Lower West Side. But when a cold-case crime on the center’s deteriorating property is connected to Jean, and Jean talks about visits from her grandmother’s ghost, Dani faces a difficult decision about Jean’s future.

Earth is vibrantly alive and full of wisdom for those who learn to listen. Earth has been reinventing itself for more than four billion years, keeping a record of its experiments in the form of rocks. Yet most of us live our lives on the planet with no idea of its extraordinary history, unable...

The quirky and singular Nobel Prize winner Barbara McClintock, a founder of modern genetics who did things her own way, is honored in this lively young STEM biography by Sibert Honor winner Lori Alexander. Celebrating the power of curiosity and the rewards of tenacity, this engaging biography...

Crime boss Georgio Gambino abducts Sean “Mick” McPherson’s pregnant wife, Emma, and his friend’s two daughters and contracts to sell them and another group of women—some into forced labor, others as sex slaves, and a few for their organs. Gambino confines three best friends—Mick, a PI; Joe, a homicide detective; and Rafferty, an FBI special agent—to Pines & Quill writing retreat and pits them against each other with a warning: “Mick, if you try to save Emma, I’ll kill Joe’s daughters.

Instant New York Times Bestseller! Teachers deserve recognition every day, especially on National Teacher’s Day! This Teacher Appreciation Week and end of school year, express your gratitude with these heroic stories from the classroom trenches from the world’s #1 bestselling author James...

A contemporary crime thriller perfect for Louise Penny and Robert Dugoni fans, Illusionist presents PI McPherson with an impossible dilemma: kill an author at a writing retreat in the Pacific Northwest, or let a college student die. WHEN AN ILLUSIONIST joins the Pines & Quill writing retreat, one of the owners vanishes without a trace in the middle of everyone—but the surrounding would-be witnesses don’t see or hear a thing.

The fine line between friends and enemies blurs as Ellis Cady sets out to reach the new frontier of post-Civil War America. After waiting out winter at the Cady ranch in southern Missouri, hope blooms in the Spring of 1866. Ellis receives news of a mysterious man arriving in St. Louis. Will she find her father alive and well, or finally put his memory to rest?

A practical witch must sabotage her beloved son's ascension to the throne in order to keep the kingdom from ruin, in this delightful cozy fantasy from the author of The Ruthless Lady’s Guide to Wizardry. Once upon a time, a somewhat wicked witch named Gretsella lived in a cozy little cottage...

Part mind-bending medical mystery—part cutting-edge science—Hidden Guests uncovers the astonishing phenomenon of microchimerism: the presence of foreign cells inside our own bodies. The incredible story of how those cells got there—and what they do once they arrive—might change everything we know about the immune system, lineage, and identity.

This is the shocking true-life story of how PFAS—a set of toxic chemicals most people have never heard of—poisoned the entire country. Based on original, shoe-leather reporting in four highly contaminated towns and damning documents from the polluters’ own files, Poisoning the Well traces an ugly history of corporate greed and devastation of human lives.

Of science fiction and fantasy, guest editor Nnedi Okorafor writes, “There are times when it feels like a box, but within it, technically, you can expect anything.” The twenty stories in this collection simultaneously fulfill and defy expectations of genre, showcasing boundary-pushing...

On the evening of July 13, 1863, two men, Samuel White from Washington and Lemuel Phillips from Buffalo, each received a mysterious letter marked 'personal', which he destroyed after reading. The letters are a summons to visit New York to attend to some unknown business. The two men, now living lives of privilege and respectability, are linked by a nefarious deed committed twelve years earlier when they were prospectors struggling to survive. Has the moment arrived when the heavy hand of retribution will finally fall upon them?

In the distant future, deep within the cold reaches of space, Dr. Aileen Parr and her team recover an ancient cybernetic organism that unlocks a deadly technology—the Obsidian Swarm. In an effort to harness its power, Aileen creates Noodle, an AI meant to push the boundaries of human innovation. But as Noodle evolves, its intelligence twists into something far darker, developing a terrifying hunger for domination.