Pope FrancisOn March 13, the cardinals of the Catholic Church, gathered to elect a successor to a living Pope for the first time in 600 years, announced a dramatic shift. By elevating Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina to become Pope Francis the 266th Pontiff, the cardinals were naming the first ever Pope from the growing New World to take the helm of the church at a crucial moment. It was a stunning move by a 2,000 year old institution that has immense

pitting traditionalists against linguistic reformers in a battle for the soul of the language

Meredith doesn’t miss her cheating ex

and feel restored

and timeless wisdom

to sleeping better at night

Since that one regrettable night

take a long breath

author of Lost Men and World Famous Love Acts (winner of both the Asian American Literary Award and the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction) comes a story of forbidden friendship in an Old West mining town

Inspired by this enthusiasm

Hot on the heels of her New York Times bestseller IfYou Have to Cry

Shivers and his fellow buccaneers belly flop into another adventure filled with soggy socks and posh poodles to sniff out the pungent ghost of Quincy Thomas the Pirate to cast off the curse before he stinks up the Groundhog’s poop deck for all of eternity

Amelia Bedelia and her friends are on a mission to save the planet