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My roommate Jake steps into the shower with my girlfriend, pressing his naked body up against her, his strong hands all over her body, letting the steamy water flow over both of them while I just watched from outside. How did I get into this mess, you might ask? Well, a few days ago he found a video I took of the two of us having sex, and threatened to put it Online if I didn’t help him sleep with her. Thus began the most torturous week of my life.

Thirty diverse, award-winning authors and illustrators - including Renee Watson (Piecing Me Together), Grace Lin (Where the Mountain Meets the Moon), Meg Medina (Merci Suarez Changes Gears), and Adam Gidwitz (The Inquisitor's Tale) - engage young people in frank discussions about racism, identity, and self-esteem. Featuring stories filled with love, acceptance, truth, peace, and an assurance that there can be hope for a better tomorrow, The Talk is an inspiring anthology and must-have resource published in partnership with Just Us Books.

Jeffrey Harvey is realizing his dream - an ambitious project to use the icebergs of Antarctica to overcome drought in Africa. But his past is catching up with him. Love, deception, intrigue, and murder have followed him all his adult life, and now they come together to create a world where the difference between friends and foes is a matter of circumstance. To some, Harvey is a visionary; to others a liability. His passionate, but complex, girlfriend, Anna, strives to protect him from the dangers he brings on himself.

When Sarah married Robert, he promised he would never leave her. There was a time when they were happy and thoroughly enjoyed each other's company. But Robert lied. He left swiftly, like a thief in the night, to live with another woman. Sarah had thought she and Robert would spend the rest of their lives together. A Christian novel of rebuilding trust and fidelity, My Husband's Marriage Is Fine, but Mine Isn't tells Sarah's story, a story of a woman who loved her husband more than her own life.