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The New York Times bestselling author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, a Richard and Judy bookclub pick, returns with a wonderful collection of enchanting, strange and magical stories....

In Willful Creatures Aimee Bender takes us on a journey to a fantastical world in which authentic love blossoms. This is a place where a boy with keys for fingers is a hero, a family of pumpkin heads embrace their ironhead son and potato-children dotingly follow their mother around as she completes her daily chores....

On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents\" attention, bites into her mother\"s homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother\"s emotions in the slice....

The New York Times bestselling author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake returns with a wonderful collection of enchanting, strange and magical stories....

Operation Excellence shows readers how to harness the same strategies used to great effect by the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marines in their own personal and professional lives Using action-packed examples to deliver the message behind each lesson, the book reveals how a combination of discipline, confidence, and sacrifice can help anyone achieve ...

When Mona Gray is ten, her father contracts a mysterious illness. His gradual withdrawal from everyday life marks a similar change in Mona, who removes herself from anything - or anyone - that might bring her happiness....