Richard Ho

"This picture-book biography encourages children to look to the story of Jeremy Lin, the first NBA basketball player of Chinese or Taiwanese descent, for inspiration and empowerment"--

Mars has a visitor. It likes to roam, observe, measure, and collect. It explores the red landscape - crossing plains, climbing hills, and tracing the bottoms of craters - in search of water and life. It is not the first to visit Mars. It will not be the last. But it might be the most curious.--book jacket.

Jeremy is a young man who was born with a strange condition. He has the uncontrollable ability to transfer pain and injury he endures to the person his attacker loves the most. Jeremy has been sheltered from the outside world and his condition kept a secret by his overly protective mother. Upon her passing, he is forced to venture outside of his house to confront the realities of a harsh society and the cruelties of people.

"Long before Wonder Woman came to Man's World, a fearless band of emissaries set out from Paradise Island to traverse the globe. Everywhere they traveled, they brought a message of peace--a noble goal for which they were prepared to fight fiercely. Led by the intrepid Hessia, the Amazons' mission is to find immortal warrior women like themselves from around the world, and bring them back to Themyscira to join their sisters in arms. But now these envoys...