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Best known for his #1 international bestseller The Weather Makers, Tim Flannery is one of the world's most influential scientists, a foremost expert on climate change credited with discovering more species than Charles Darwin. But Flannery didn't come to his knowledge overnight. With its selection of exhilarating essays and articles written over the past thirty years, An Explorer's Notebook charts the evolution of a young scientist doing field...

An essential resource."--Alana Chernila, author of The Homemade Pantry Your all-in-one guide to making creamy milks, velvety butters, and satisfying treats from almonds, cashews, hazelnuts, and more! DIY Nut Milks, Nut Butters & More brings nut power to the people with more than 50 recipes for homemade nut milks and butters--along with delicious, whole-food snacks and desserts that put them to use. Inside you'll even find tasty ideas for using...

People don't understand. Jodi Price knows she still has her guitar and her music and her life. But the accident took her singing voice and left behind the jagged reminder that she isn't whole. Feeling anything means feeling pain.Computer geek Sam Werstler doesn't need to get out more, she tells her friends. She's been perfectly okay all by herself since she threw out that cheating, lying witch. But they finally coax her out to a concert.At fir...

A frank, poignant memoir about an unlikely marriage, a tragic death in Iraq, and the soul-testing work of picking up the pieces” (People) in the tradition of such powerful bestsellers as Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking and Carole Radziwill's What Remains. Artis Henderson was a free-spirited young woman with dreams of traveling the world and one day becoming a writer. Marrying a conservative Texan soldier and becoming an Army wife w...

The first of the Grantchester Mysteries, and inspiration for the PBS/Masterpiece television series, finds Vicar Sidney Chambers beginning his career, as both a spiritual leader and a detective.It is 1953, the coronation year of Queen Elizabeth II . Sidney Chambers, vicar of Grantchester and honorary canon of Ely Cathedral, is a thirty-two-year-old bachelor. Tall, with dark brown hair, eyes the color of hazelnuts, and a reassuringly gentle mann...

The sharp-shooting authors in Justified and Philosophy take aim at many of the same philosophical problems that the Justified TV series grapples with. For instance, is Tim Olyphant's character, Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, morally justified in using his Wild-Wild-West-style vigilante tactics to clean up Harlan County, Kentucky? After all, the meth dealers, thieves, murderers, and other low-life scumbags all deserve what's coming to them,...

By the 1920s, women were on the verge of something huge. Jazz, racy fashions, eyebrowraising new attitudes about art and sex-all of this pointed to a sleek, modern world, one that could shake off the grimness of the Great War and stride into the future in one deft, stylized gesture. The women who defined this the Jazz Age-Josephine Baker, Tallulah Bankhead, Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Zelda Fitzgerald, and Tamara de Lempicka-would presage the ...

Gregg Kaplan is not an ordinary man, but a man with special skills, courtesy of the United States Government. His assignment is to stay off the grid when he innocently stumbles into a blown witness protection detail in Little Rock, Arkansas. He simply could not walk away from the impending mayhem. After the dust settles, a mortally wounded Deputy U.S. Marshal makes him promise to personally deliver the witness to a U.S. Marshals Service ...

Caro Pai/Encarregado de educação, Fico muito contente por ter escolhido o meu livro, O Presente da Amizade. Gostei muito de o escrever. Espero que o ache útil para falar sobre bullying com as suas crianças. Há perguntas no fim da história para ajudar as crianças com a compreensão do texto, quer esteja a ler para elas ou elas tenham começado a ler independentemente. Duas meninas, Sofia e Natália, encontram-se e desenvolvem uma amizade baseada n...

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El matrimonio fue idea de Dios. Él decidió que el hombre y la mujer deberían ser una carne. Aún más, la Biblia dice: Dios es amor.Desafortunadamente, muchas parejas no han aprendido a amarse el uno al otro. Un sentimiento, una pasión o alguna otra influencia los unió, pero no han aprendido a conocerse o a explorarse el uno al otro, o descubrir lo que les hace felices. Cuando no conocemos a otra persona, es imposible amarla porque no sabemos lo...

In 1876 Sophia Duleep Singh was born into Indian royalty. Her father, Maharajah Duleep Singh, was heir to the Kingdom of the Sikhs, one of the greatest empires of the Indian subcontinent, a realm that stretched from the lush Kashmir Valley to the craggy foothills of the Khyber Pass and included the mighty cities of Lahore and Peshawar. It was a territory irresistible to the British, who plundered everything, including the fabled Koh-I-Noor dia...

In this second book in The Superlatives trilogy from Endless Summer author Jennifer Echols, Harper and Brody think they're an unlikely match—but the senior class says they belong together.As yearbook photographer, Harper is responsible for those candid moments that make high school memorable. But her own life is anything but picture perfect. Her parents' bitter divorce left her wondering what a loving relationship looks like. And ever since th...

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Another wild, expansive collection from the eternally surprising Pulitzer Prize-winning poetSmuggling diesel, Ben-Hur (the movie, yes, but also Lew Wallace's original book, and Seosamh Mac Grianna's Gaelic translation), a real trip to Havana, an imaginary trip to the Château d'If: Paul Muldoon's newest collection of poems, his twelfth, is exceptionally wide-ranging in its subject matter-as we've come to expect from this master of self-reinvent...

Three ordinary women with nothing in common. They are different ages, come from different backgrounds, and lead drastically different lives. The only thing that binds them together is their red hair-and that each of them has been targeted for murder. When these women receive chilling letters in the mail from a killer known only as the Big Bad Wolf, their lives are upended. The "Red”s spend every waking moment in fear as the Wolf stalks them, b...

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