"A sixteen-year-old homeschooled math genius finds herself out of her element at a theater summer camp and learns that life--and love--can't be lived by the (text)book"--

"Cooper Gosling is adrift at thirty, unmoored by a family tragedy and floundering in her career as a painter. So she applies to the National Science Foundation Artists & Writers Program and flees to Antarctica--the bottom of the Earth--where she encounters a group of misfits motivated by desires as ambiguous as her own ... The only thing they have in common is the conviction that they don't belong anywhere else. Enter Frank Pavano, a climatologist...

"Skyler, Ellie, Scarlett, and Amelia Grace are forced to spend the summer at the lake house where their moms became best friends. One can't wait. One would rather gnaw off her own arm than hang out with a bunch of strangers just so their moms can drink too much wine and sing Journey at two o'clock in the morning. Two are sisters. Three are currently feuding with their mothers. One is hiding how bad her joint pain has gotten. All of them are hiding...

"It's not easy being Japanese American in her small, mostly white Northern California town. Raised by a single mother, Izumi?or Izzy, because "it's easier this way"?has always felt it's been her and her mom against the world. But then Izumi discovers a clue to her previously unknown father's identity . . . and he's none other than the Crown Prince of Japan. Which means outspoken, irreverent Izzy is literally a princess. In a whirlwind, Izumi travels...

Promoted to principal dancer at the New York City Ballet, Cece Cordell, a young black woman, still feels like she doesn't belong, and, despite her dream achievement, is faced with a choice that may derail her career, sending her on a pilgrimage to find her missing older brother and reclaim the parts of herself lost in the pursuit of her art. At twenty-two years old, Cece Cordell reaches the pinnacle of her career as a ballet dancer when she's promoted...