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"Upward Bound is not a place anyone dreams of spending their days. The dreary adult daycare center for Los Angeles's disabled community is, for many of its clients and staff, a place of last resort. This includes Carlos, a young aide who lost his mother as a boy and now works there alongside his beloved sister Delia; Jorge, the gentle nonverbal giant whom Carlos seeks to befriend (and prevent from escaping); Tom, a beautiful young man with cerebral...

After saving a federal judge from a concealed explosive device, wounded Detective Roanne Engle wakes up in the hospital to face intense questioning by handsome FBI agent Nolan Cantrell. To solve the mystery of the bomber's identity, the workaholic Fed decides to partner with the smart, determined local cop. Because the bomber isn't done--now the accidental heroine who foiled his attack becomes his target, and Nolan is moved to protect her. When terror...

"A sunny YA romance about a road trip and life's unexpected turns from the author of Give Me a Sign. Iris doesn't trust the odds. Not when she has a 1 in 4 chance of inheriting the same vision diagnosis as her sister, Amelia. When Iris travels to the east coast to help Amelia drive her things back from college, the last person she expects to run into on campus is Declan, her board game club rival, but he's also there to drive his brother home for...

A picture book about the different ways communities can be made safer and more accessible to people with disabilities, from the author of Oshun and Me. Today is the best day of the year: PARADE DAY! It's the day that Hazel's city is a little bit shinier, everyone's a little bit happier, and she gets to wear her sparkliest, coolest gear to celebrate and attend the Disability Pride Parade. As Hazel takes readers on an eye-opening journey through her...

A trailblazing historical romance that brings pride--without prejudice--to a reimagined, more inclusive, queer-normative Regency London. A place where segregation, bigotry, persecution and exclusion do not exist. Strikingly beautiful, ferociously strongminded and famously rakish, London socialite Miss Georgina 'George' Pace has seduced many beautiful women in her time. Her days are not quiet: when she isn't running half-naked through the streets of...

In order to update her family-owned Deaf Center, eighteen-year-old Natalie agrees to teach ASL to Felix, the lead singer of a popular boy band whose sister is losing her hearing, but their professional arrangement turns into a high-stakes romance that forces them to choose whether love and their dreams can survive life in the spotlight.

Underwater, everything looks different--and everybody moves differently too. During swim therapy, a child discovers he can be anything: a catfish, a seahorse, a starfish cartwheeling across the universe. He finds the magic of moving in wholly new ways, just like he does on land in his trusty wheelchair.