And every week, there was the unspoken question, the one I didn’t know enough to ask myself : Have you found her yet? The one who reminds you of you?

Twenty years after she lived at a homeless shelter for teens, Janice Erlbaum went back to volunteer. Now thirty-four years old and a successful writer, she’d changed her life for the better; now she wanted to help someone else-someone like the girl she’d once been.

Written with startling candor and immediacy, Have You Found Her is the story of one woman’s quest to save a girl’s life-and the hard truths she learns about herself along the way.

Kyra is an architect, involved in a project to design a new city. Andreas, a theater director, is staging an innovative production of the opera Tosca. Both have come through political upheaval and personal loss. Neither wants to fall in love. Yet when she asks him, “What is the opposite of losing?” and he says, “Finding,” it galvanizes a powerful attraction, and they risk opening themselves to love once again.

The one and only Vandana Shiva (Earth Democracy, Water Wars, Staying Alive) engages crucial questions and more in her new anthology, laying out, in practical steps and far reaching concepts, a program to ensure food and agriculture become more socially and ecologically sustainable.

Pimps Up, Ho’s Down turns down the volume and amplifies the substance of discussions about hip hop culture and to provide a space for young black women to be heard.