I couldn't sleep the night summer ended. I looked and listened instead of closing my eyes. A collection of poetry and photography by Kawiria Creed, centered around nature and personal experiences. Have you ever stopped to wonder if there's a shark in the community lake? Have you made the first snowfall of every year a special event? I have. If you believe happiness is found in the little things, this is the book for you.

"The harrowing true survival story of an early polar expedition that went terribly awry-with the ship frozen in ice and the crew trapped inside for the entire sunless, Antarctic winter-in the tradition of David Grann, Nathaniel Philbrick, and Hampton Sides. In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three year expedition aboard the good ship Belgica with dreams of glory. His destination was the uncharted end of...

George and Catherine Stewart share not only the burden of Catherine's heart disease, which could cause her death at any time, but the memory of Jerome Martell, her first husband and George's closest friend. Martel, a brilliant doctor passionately concerned with social justice, is presumed to have died in a Nazi prison camp. His sudden return to Montreal precipitates the central crisis of the novel. Hugh MacLennan takes the reader into the lives

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Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every page of this novel. Filled with slang and obscenities and written in raw, colloquial language, Journey to the End of the Night is a literary symphony of violence, cruelty and obscene nihilism. This book shocked most critics when it was first published in France in 1932, but quickly became a success with the reading public...

Spending quiet moments to reflect and renew at the end of your day can bring you untold inner serenity. Home, family, friends, and neighbors--these are a woman's "garden," her sphere of influence. Quin Sherrer shows you how to cultivate and tend your garden to reap a bountiful spiritual harvest. Based on Sherrer's own personal experiences, these delightful, sometimes heartrending stories will encourage you to gain the most from each day--no matter...

New forensic evidence brings one of Gemma's rapists to light, but he refuses to reveal who his partner was. Can Boyd find the second rapist before Gemma decides to take justice into her own hands?

It's tornadoes, hurricanes, electrical storms, and mass destruction as the effects of global warming brew into a superstorm that threatens to rend the earth with an unprecedented power. Princeton Professor Ross Duffy and Judith Carr, the head of FEMA, can stop the inevitable from happening-if they have the courage to venture into the roiling blackness of the storm itself.

Three million Polish Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, wiping out nearly 98 percent of the Jewish population who had lived and thrived there for generations. Night Without End tells the stories of their resistance, suffering, and death in unflinching, horrific detail. Based on meticulous research from across Poland, it concludes that those who were responsible for so many deaths included a not insignificant number of Polish villagers and townspeople...

Unlock the more straightforward side of Journey to the End of the Night with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, which centres around a man who relentlessly chases joy from Africa to New York, before discovering the truth about his pursuit of happiness. Despite controversy due to the novel's unapologetic condemnation of post-war...