"The Flash works hard to protect Central City, helping people in need. He is grateful for the awesome teamwork of the Justice League. His super speed makes him a super hero, but being kind and compassionate makes him a great friend." --

"An evocative picture book intended to foster reconciliation among children and encourage them to show each other love and support." --

"He was a hedonist and a misogynist, a cynic and a narcissist. But that all changed when, on a seemingly regular day, in a seemingly normal tone, his uncle told him that he was immortal. The Immortalists is a story of one man's life and his transformation from materialism to spiritualism. It is an enlightening tale that shows how one man, against seemingly insurmountable odds, can make a difference in the lives of millions. Follow along on a journey...

Fiction. Poetry. This collection of short fiction and poetry from author Malka Older, examines otherness, identity and compassion across a spectrum of possible existence. In stories about an AI built for empathy, a corps of fighting midwives traveling to a new planet, and a young anthropologist who returns to study the cultures of a dying Earth, Older's characters grapple with what it means to belong and be othered, to cling to the past and face the...

"In this retelling of an ancient legend, a boy left at the gates of a Buddhist temple is adopted by monks and discovers the meaning of enlightenment" Cf. Our choice, 2002.

Approached by a variety of animals driven out of their homes by climate change, a young girl heads to the halls of power and throws a tantrum that just might save the world. Includes a science section explaining global warming, climate change, and the perils of environmental destruction.

Khorramshahr, Iran, May 1982--it was the bloodiest battle of one of the most brutal wars of the twentieth century, and Najah, a twenty-nine-year-old wounded Iraqi conscript, was face to face with a thirteen-year-old Iranian child soldier who was ordered to kill him. Instead, the boy committed an astonishing act of mercy. It was an act that decades later would save his own life. This is a remarkable love story. It is gut-wrenching, essential, and astonishing....

Introduces the importance of treating all animals with the care and compassion they deserve, encouraging readers to love and respect all living creatures, regardless of whether they have hands, hooves, scales, or fur.

"Pilgrim Finch is an adventurous astronaut bear who explores the cosmos with a mission to bring samples of life back to his home planet. But when he crash lands on a new planet full of surprises and danger around every corner, Pilgrim will be forced to question his orders and learn that there's only one mission that matters - compassion to all living creatures no matter the stakes!"--Page [4] of cover.

"The last survivors of the Multiverse live among us under new, superheroic identities, five survivors of doomed worlds... taking a second chance to ensure our world lives on. A new twist on strange superhero comics, with a bleeding-edge eye on the modern moment, COMMANDERS IN CRISIS follows in the footsteps of Doom Patrol and Thunderbolts as five unexpected heroes come together to solve a murder unlike any other. The victim? Compassion itself... This...