empathy

"Sherry Turkle ties together her coming-of-age story and her groundbreaking research on technology, empathy, and ethics. Growing up in post-war Brooklyn in a house filled with mysteries, Turkle searched for clues. She mastered the codes that governed her secretive mother's world. She learned never to ask about her absent scientist father. And never to use his name, her name. Empathy was her strategy for survival. Turkle's intellect and curiosity propelled her to the thresholds of defining cultural moments that became life-lessons: she practiced friendship at Harvard/Radcliffe at the cusp of co-education during the antiwar movement, mourned the loss of her mother in Paris as students returned from the 1968 barricades, and faced the extent of her ambition while fighting for her place in the academy as a woman at MIT. There, Turkle found turbulent love and chronicled the wonders of the new computer culture, even as she warned of its threat to our most essential human connections"--Provided by publisher.

A young Dominican American girl in New York City moves from jealousy to empathy as her parents babysit children whose families work the overnight shift in this picture book debut. Night after night, a young girl watches her mami set up a cot in the living room for guests in their Washington Heights apartment, like Raquel (who's boring) and Edgardo (who gets crumbs everywhere). She resents that they get the entire living room with a view of the George Washington Bridge, while all she gets is a tiny bedroom with a view of her sister (who snores). Until one night, no one comes, and it's finally her chance! But as it turns out, sleeping in the cot in the living room isn't all she thought it would be. A celebration of the ways a Dominican American community takes care of one another while showing young readers that sometimes the best way to be a better neighbor is by imagining how it feels to spend a night sleeping on someone else's pillow.

After Estrella's father is deported because he is an illegal immigrant, her teacher at school invites her and the other students to meet around an old oak tree and share the things they wished their teacher knew about their life at home.

"A child recognizes his own humanity, his capacity for doing harm and being harmed, his ability to feel joy and sadness, and his belief in hope and promise to keep learning"--Provided by publisher.

Harley, Santana and other members of the San Diego coven travel to New York in search of kidnapped magical kids captured by the Twins. Harley receives a letter from Isadora purporting to contain information about her past.

Nineteen-year-old orphan Harley Merlin has always been able to sense people's emotions but has never understood why until she meets a monster one evening while working her casino security job. She also meets Wade Crowley, who has abilities like hers and introduces her to a magical world. Harley soon joins the coven and begins to learn about her abilities, her hidden past, and her enemies.

Harley and her friends at the San Diego Coven discover that other orphan kids with magical abilities are being targeted and she and her friends set out to help them join the coven so they can be protected. Harley also learns more about her past, including why her father killed her mother.

The evil witch Katherine's plan is to complete five rituals which will change her into a Child of Chaos in order to punish unworthy magicals. Harley works to unleash her full magical powers in order to stop Katherine and reveals her feelings for Wade.

Harley discovers the key to stopping Katherine is hidden in her parents' Grimoire and she and Finch, Wade, and Garrett set out to steal it. Meanwhile many of her coven friends are behind bars and Harley must work to clear their names.

With the help of her half-brother Finch, Harley infiltrates the cult of Eris in order to stop Katherine from completing the third ritual. But breaking Finch out of prison has made Katherine and her brothers wanted criminals.