Product Description: When Cal Lavender’s mother has an “unfortunate episode” at the library, Cal is taken to a group care home run by a strange old woman called “The Knitting Lady.” Cal is clear that this is not her real life, just a temporary detour...read more

Product Description: The recent radical cutbacks of the welfare state in the United Kingdom have kept poverty and income management at the heart of intellectual, public, and policy discourse. This innovative book adds to that conversation, taking as its focus the role and significance of family in the context of poverty and low-income conditions...read more

Product Description: An audiobook first! New York Times bestselling author Tamora Pierce has written the new novel in her popular Circle of Magic universe to go directly to audio--preceding the print version by at least a year. Residents on one of the islands south of Emelan have sent a call for help to Winding Circle temple: Their plants and trees and the animals that live around them are mysteriously dying...read more

After her mother is sent away to a mental facility and she is put in a group home with a strange cast of characters, Cal begins to plot a way to escape from the prison-like foster system until she meets other girls like her and develops meaningful friendships like none she had ever had before in her young, drama-filled life. Read by Grace Kelly & full cast. Book available.