Author, podcaster, and outdoor enthusiast Baratunde Thurston explores some of America's diverse landscapes, focusing on how these landscapes define our experience of nature.

After years of service, John Furst settled into a low-key bureaucratic post within the US military, coordinating funeral arrangements for soldiers. With a loving woman in his corner, and a punch work crew he enjoys, he could ride this thing out to retirement. Then a call comes in. His father's cracking voice informs John that his disliked elder brother has suddenly died. John must journey home to face the questions around his drug addicted brother's...

"A mixed-media illustrated exploration of the grief that follows the death of a pet, and a loving tribute to the author's border collie Momo"--

With the help of her family, friends, and school counselor, Raya finds a way to grieve the loss of her unborn sister Nura, and to share the love she will always feel for her.

When children lose someone they love, they lose part of their very identity. Life, as they knew it, will never be quite the same. The world that once felt dependable and safe may suddenly seem a frightening, uncertain place, where nobody understands what they're feeling. In this deeply sympathetic book, Phyllis R. Silverman and Madelyn Kelly offer wise guidance on virtually every aspect of childhood loss, from living with someone who's dying to preparing...

"Six roses. Six vials of blood. Six visits to a vampire who could be her salvation... or her damnation. Lilith has been dying since the day she was born. But while she long ago came to terms with her own imminent death, the deaths of everyone she loves is an entirely different matter. As her town slowly withers in the clutches of a mysterious god-cursed illness, she takes matters into her own hands. Desperate to find a cure, Lilith strikes a bargain...

After her brother-in-law is imprisoned for murdering her sister, Etta Mitchell will do anything to keep her five-year-old niece--a potential witness--safe. But when their home is broken into, resulting in the assailant's death, Etta has no choice but to accept help from her ex-fiancé, Steven Hunt. Can they bring a criminal to justice and protect her niece...before hit men track them down?

"Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his life: Juan Gay. Playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized, Juan has a project to pass along, one built around a true artifact of a book--Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns--and its devastating history. The book contains accounts collected in the early twentieth...

"Donal Cameron was killed at San Juan Hill in Cuba, but Donal Cameron was coming home. Both father and son shared the same name. Both had served with Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders, but only one was coming home. Everyone was anxious to know which one it was. Fear stalked the range at Rio Seco, and murder lurked in every mesquite bush. The Circle C foreman who had helped Isabel Cameron run the ranch while her husband and son were away had been murdered...

Life is full of love, but it is also full of loss. Like paper cuts to the heart, every big and seemingly insignificant loss-the loss of friendships, faith, dreams, health, community, and everything in between-grieves us more than we think it will, and often more than we let on. Why? Because they matter. In this compassionate and deeply personal book, Rachel Marie Kang invites you to see and be seen in the midst of your sorrow, your suffering-your...