"It’s 10 p.m. on a Thursday in the spring of her freshman year of college, and April is standing at the back of a crowded Manhattan bar waiting for her friend, Rudy, to arrive. Their eyes lock the moment he enters the room, and in an instant, lives and legacies are altered forever.

Within hours, Rudy is arrested. Within days, April is expelled. Within weeks, he’s incarcerated. And within months, she meets Peter, a prodigious young attorney who makes her world recognizable again.

Nearly fifteen years later, April is happily living in Chicago married to Peter, a mother of three with a fulfilling career and standing yoga date with her girlfriends. On the eve of Peter’s election for local office, Rudy is up for parole. Headlines explode about April’s past, jeopardizing Peter’s campaign and everything they hold dear. Suddenly, April is faced with an impossible choice: protecting the life she created, or the person who sacrificed everything to make that life a possibility. Such Good People is a captivating portrait of blurred lines, divided loyalties, and what it means to love purely, steadfastly, and interminably."

Praise for Such Good People:

“An engaging, thought-provoking read with lasting emotional impact. Recommend to fans of Julia Glass and Jodi Picoult.”—Library Journal

“. . . this engaging novel succeeds as a story of dealing with the consequences and challenges of decisions made in one’s youth . . . A highly readable story of ties that bind and skeletons in the closet.”—Kirkus Reviews

About the Author

Amy Blumenfeld grew up in Queens, New York. She is a graduate of Barnard College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she received the James A. Wechsler Award for national reporting. Her essays and articles have appeared on the cover of People, in The New York Times, The Huffington Post, O, The Oprah Magazine, as well in George where she worked as a staff editor and writer. Amy’s debut novel, The Cast, was selected as a New York Post Best Book of the Week and named Winner of the Independent Publisher Book Award in Popular Fiction. She has also been a contributing author to a best-selling anthology and two non-fiction books. Amy lives in New York with her husband and daughter.

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In this one-hour program, award-winning author and Assistant Attorney General Adena J. Bernstein examines the ongoing global effort to recover art stolen by the Nazis during the Holocaust. Drawing from her new book, Stolen Legacies: The Fight for Nazi-Looted Art, Bernstein explains how the Third Reich organized the largest cultural theft in history — not only to enrich itself but to erase Jewish identity, culture, and memory.

Blending international legal research from thirteen countries with her personal view as the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, Bernstein tracks the complex process of restitution cases, the involvement of museums and governments, and the families still fighting for justice generations later.

This program encourages audiences to reflect on why these cultural losses still matter, what restitution means today, and how art serves as a vessel for memory, identity, and truth.

Adena J. Bernstein is a career prosecutor and Assistant Attorney General whose work spans international extraditions, ethics education, and public policy. She is the award-winning author of Living Among the Dead, a powerful retelling of her grandmother’s Holocaust survival story that she now speaks about internationally. The granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, Adena also serves as a national facilitator for the What You Do Matters (WYDM) program, teaching Holocaust lessons to law enforcement nationwide.

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Imagine if you could sit down and enjoy a meal with an astronaut. What questions would you ask? What could you learn after a couple drinks? Leroy Chiao answers that question and more in Dinner with an Astronaut, an insightful and witty deep dive into the world’s most unexplored realm: the cosmos.

As a child, Leroy always dreamed of going to space. One of only a few astronauts with experience aboard the Space Shuttle, Soyuz, ISS, and on spacewalks in both US and Russian spacesuits, he was selected to achieve his wildest dreams by NASA as one of twenty-three members of the thirteenth astronaut group. Leroy was the first full Chinese heritage professional astronaut, flying four space missions and serving as the commander of the International Space Station.

Using his unique perspective from flying with fellow American, Japanese and Russian professionals, Leroy now shares the wonders of space with those of us on Earth, detailing his astronaut training and otherworldly spaceflights.

Gorgeously luminary and deeply profound, Dinner with an Astronaut invites readers to join Leroy Chiao at the table, for fans of Scott Kelly, Chris Hadfield, and Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

Leroy Chiao is a former NASA astronaut and International Space Station commander. He is a a professional international speaker, and a co-founder and the CEO of OneOrbit, providing keynotes and training to companies and schools. A veteran of four space missions, Dr. Chiao most recently served as Commander and NASA Science Officer of Expedition 10 aboard the International Space Station. He has logged over 229 days in space – over 36 hours of which were spent on spacewalks.

This program is being presented in cooperation with NASA's Solar System Ambassador program.

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Two hundred years ago, an island disappeared. Benny has just two weeks to find it.

Everly "Benny" Benedict and her mom have always managed to get by, though they're broke most of the time. But all that could change. Benny's just learned she's the sole heir to the vast fortune of Evelyn Terry, a mysterious ancestor from the 1800s!

There's a catch, though. First Benny needs to play―and win―a game: following clues that are more than a century old, she must find her way to the tiny island Evelyn wrote about in her diary. It was somewhere off the shoreline of Evelyn's home town, but according to legend, it vanished long ago and hasn't appeared on maps for hundreds of years. Yet Benny has only a couple weeks to locate it. If she's successful, she'll collect the inheritance. But what if there's more than a fortune at stake in this game? What if Benny has to break an ancient curse to win?

Praise for Isle of Ever:

" A nail-biter of a novel for readers who like their mysteries with a touch of magic."― Booklist

"An engaging, puzzle-centered page-turner." ― Kirkus Reviews

"[An] atmospheric fantasy ride." ― Publishers Weekly, starred review

"The pacing is excellent, the character development enticing, and the finale positively nail-biting....This thrilling adventure mystery will capture the spirit of play in every reader." ― School Library Journal, starred review

"An absorbing adventure story for readers ages 10 to 13 that blends fantasy with classic mystery tropes." ― The Wall Street Journal

About Jen Calonita:

Jen Calonita is the New York Times and USA Today-bestselling author who has written over forty books for teens and middle grade readers. Her books have sold more than a million copies and have been translated into 15 languages. 

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