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This anthology envisions winters of the future, with stories of scientists working together to protect narwhals from an oil spill, to bring snow back to the mountains of Maine, to preserve ecosystems--even if they have to be under glass domes. They're stories of regular...

"Her story could be told in other people's things. The postcards and the photographs. A garnet ring and a needlepoint of the homestead. The aprons hanging from her kitchen door. Her soft, faded, dog-eared copy of Little House in the Big Woods. A closet...

G is for Greenwich is an A to Z book featuring all the wonderful parts of Greenwich, Connecticut.Author Alex Tenney is a long time resident of Greenwich, Connecticut. She lives in Greenwich with her husband and two daughters and loves everything the town has...

Three of Urban Book's most exciting novelists team up to tell the tales of the streets and the women who run them. Summer Fling in New York (Racquel Williams): It's something about them island boys that have the American girls going crazy!Good girl Naomi...

In this revised edition, bestselling author Nancy Rue provides a guide on how to deal with girl politics, God-style.Yesterday you were BFFs, planning to attend the same college and be in each other's weddings. Today you sat down at the lunch table and she...

Nominated for Tales of the Cocktails Spirited Awards 2021 This is a book about how to drink gin of all kinds. It's about classic gins and new-generation gins, about gins from all over the world. It's about gin enjoyed with tonic and Sicilian lemonade....

When Paula D'Arcy lost her husband and baby in a car crash, she began an inner search for a faith that was stronger than fear. She tells her story of spiritual exhaustion, her journey alone into the wilderness for three days, and the renewal...

Author: Erica WatsonPublisher: Porphyry PressPublished: 11/01/2025Pages: 194Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.45dISBN: 9781736755853About the AuthorWatson, Erica: - Erica Watson is an essayist, writing instructor, knitter, and occasional community organizer living on the boundary of Denali National Park, Alaska. Her experiences in...

First performed in 1882, "Ghosts" is the controversial and tragic play by the famed Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It is the story of Helen Alving, a wealthy widow who was unhappily married to her unfaithful husband. Helen has tried to shelter her son, Oswald,...

Now in paperback: Get Your Sh*t Together is the first book that exclusively features recent artwork in color by beloved British artist David Shrigley. Celebrating Shrigley's absurd, deadpan sensibility through both his signature drawing style and accompanying text, this art book is an ideal...

With astonishing honesty, this memoir reveals what mental illness looks and feels like from the inside, and how healing from borderline personality disorder is possible through intensive therapy and the support of loved ones. With astonishing honesty, this memoir, Get Me Out of Here,...

What's Geronimo to do in order to prevent the Pirate Cats from turning the almost-complete Eiffel Tower into a gigantic monument to Catardone's already monumental ego? No matter what the answer, this is a mission that will require the scientific expertise of Ampy Von...

Learn more than 10,000 of the most useful words and phrases in German with this beautifully illustrated dictionary for German-language students. Building on the success of the English for Everyone course books and the Bilingual Visual Dictionary series, the German English Illustrated Dictionary uses...

Timeless Rules of Civility and Decency from America's Founding FatherProudly printed in America, this beautiful gift edition is stamped in celebration of America 250Copied out by hand as a young man, George Washington's 110 rules of civility and decency in company and conversation were...

Discover how organizations are powering greater automation, prediction, and optimization with GeoAI. Publisher: Esri PressPublished: 09/02/2025Pages: 124Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.50w x 0.30dISBN: 9781589488441

Generative AI enables powerful new capabilities, but they come with some serious limitations that you'll have to tackle to ship a reliable application or agent. Luckily, experts in the field have compiled a library of 32 tried-and-true design patterns to address the challenges you're...

Based on the blockbuster Xbox game, this is the stunning story of the men and women who stood between a planet and total destruction--and now have to face the consequences of their actions. After a brutal fifteen-year war for survival, the Coalition of Ordered...

From the towering Sagrada Família to the shimmering, textured façade of Casa Batlló and the enchanting landscape of Park Güell, it's easy to see why Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) gained the epithet "God's architect." With fluid forms and mathematical precision, his work extols the wonder...

Rarely-seen color work from the preeminent master of postwar American street photographyThis monograph stands as a groundbreaking tribute to the early color work of renowned American photographer Garry Winogrand. While he is most recognized for his candid and lively black-and-white street photography, Winogrand's portfolio...

From veteran entertainment reporter Sam Kashner and biographer Nancy Schoenberger comes the definitive account of the greatest Hollywood love story ever told--the romance of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Kashner has interviewed Elizabeth Taylor numerous times and is the only journalist given access to...