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Emma Ren loves building things, so when she's given a school project to build a battle robot, she couldn't be happier...until she's partnered with Jeremy. Emma must use all her creativity and design skills to come up with the ultimate battle robot, but will it be enough? Emma Ren: Robot Engineer highlights a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) approach to learning, promoting key skills such as problem solving, creativity, critical thinking and collaboration. The Author Jenny Lu was born in Sacramento, California and now lives in Los Angeles, California. She holds a master's degree in education and is a passionate elementary school teacher and an Early Language and Literacy Coordinator. She is married with two boys and enjoys spending her weekends cheering them on at basketball tournaments. The Illustrator George Sweetland is a freelance illustrator with a sweet spot for fantastical creatures. Among his favourite things are music from the 80s and a good cheeseburger.

Winner of the 2020 Steel Toe Books Poetry Award, Focal Point is a scientist's unofficial dissertation, a daughter's faithful correspondence, and a coming-of-age story. Written largely while Jenny Qi was a young Ph.D. student conducting cancer research after her beloved mother's death from cancer, the collection turns to "all the rituals of all the faiths," invoking Western and Eastern mythology and history, metaphors from cell biology, and even Jimi Hendrix, as Qi searches for a container to hold grief. The opening poem of this debut collection primes us to consider all definitions of the titular "focal point," as the speaker evaluates this moment of early loss beneath a literal and metaphoric microscope. Here, the past and future converge, but from here, what does divergence look like? What can a scientific mind do except interrogate and attempt to measure the unknown and immeasurable? These poems, at once tender and suffused with wry humor, diverse in form and scope, go on to navigate illness, early relationships, racism, climate change, mass shootings, and the COVID-19 pandemic, unflinching in the face of death and the darker side of human nature. At its core, Focal Point is an uncompromising interrogation of how to be alive in the world, always loving something that has been or is in the process of being lost.

New York Times A compelling, edgily atmospheric portrait of an uneasy city and a young woman's struggle to find her place in the world. But, after two years of trying, Claire and Anthony have still not conceived a child, and pulsing with the fear of terrorist attacks, the city is crackling with tension.