"Parents, educators, therapists, and social workers alike have declared The Invisible String the perfect tool for coping with all kinds of separation anxiety, loss, and grief. In this relatable and reassuring contemporary classic, a mother tells her two children that they're all connected by an invisible string. "That's impossible!" the children insist, but still they want to know more: "What kind of string?" The answer is the simple truth that binds...

Magnetic as the Sun Jimmy Alsop, a vivacious journalist, longs to trade his sheltered life for a summer of adventure but lacks the confidence to launch his stellar plan. Lonely as the Moon Nova Skye, an aloof scientist, wants to resuscitate his dead love life but hasn't found the right man to kickstart his guarded heart. Eclipse of the Heart Sparks fly when a chance encounter drops Jimmy and Nova into the same orbit. Though their approach to...

The Paths of Our Invisible Strings follows the emotional journey of a conflicted teenage girl. Leaving her boyfriend behind, Madelyn moves with her family from Arizona to begin a new life in Connecticut where she discovers new friendships, experiences, and even falling for someone. As a tennis star, Madelyn struggles to balance her relationships-battling a friend for an athletic college scholarship and a secret attraction to an unlikely crush-along...

Fans of the Invisible String will love this story about a grandmother and granddaughter who must find different ways to stay connected even when they are far apart. A little girl is moving far away from Grandma. Neither wants to say goodbye. But when Grandma brings the girl into her sewing room, she shows her that they have the longest, strongest thread in the whole world to keep them connected. Full of hope and heart, this book reminds kids that...

"Margot Lee's mother isn't returning her calls. It's a mystery to twenty-six-year-old Margot, until she visits her childhood apartment in Koreatown and finds her mother dead under suspicious circumstances. The discovery sends Margot digging through the past, unraveling the facts of Mina's life as a Korean War orphan and undocumented immigrant, only to realize how little she truly knew about her mother"--Dust jacket flap.

In 1900, sleek steamliners bridged the vast distance between the Far East and North America. On the West Coast, they brought rare goods and news to cities that still held elements of the rough and tumble frontier. Creating a perfect breeding ground for confidence men and smugglers. A challenge from a lethal gangster pits John Granville and Emily Turner against a shadowy villain who lurks behind the scenes. One who may have pulled invisible strings...

Yellow hospital socks on my mom's feet, Yellow buildings surrounding me in Milan, Yellow backpack slung across my back, Yellow roses from my first love, Yellow... Who knew that one color could be the invisible string that ties your whole life together? In this dazzling memoir, Liz Irons brings to life the multitude of emotions she went through when faced with the hardships of her mother's colon cancer diagnosis and the death of her distant father....

Another plane exists just below ours, just as another plane exists above ours: like paper stacked atop paper. These are the stories of two twins, L-on, and Kai'rah, who transcend these planes. Through them, the ebbs and flows of our lives become waves of consequence. Each represents half of the universe, and each brings to us the soft chaos in our lives. It often feels as though our days are a series of tests. This framework is not lost in the stories...

Janna Levin is an Advanced Fellow in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge University. She holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and worked previously at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics and the Center for Particle Astrophysics at the University of California, Berkeley. Is the universe infinite, or is it just really big? Does nature abhor infinity? In startling and beautiful...