An insightful look at the American environmental crisis and emerging solutions from the heartland to the coasts in the era of global climate change'Ć'ÄπEminent ecologist Jeremy B. C. Jackson and award'Ć'Äòwinning journalist Steve Chapple traveled the length of the Mississippi River interviewing farmers, fishermen, scientists, and policymakers to better understand the mounting environmental problems ravaging the United States. Along their journey, which quickly expands to Californi...

Chicago, 1925. Manny Shelton has just finished a job in the Big City, and is ready to head home. Before embarking on his four-hour drive in the dead of night, he decides to stop for a drink at nearby speakeasy. Manny uses the bottle to fight off the ghosts of his past, but on this night, ghosts are the least of his worries.

Eminent ecologist Jeremy B. C. Jackson and award-winning journalist Steve Chapple traveled the length of the Mississippi River interviewing farmers, fishermen, scientists, and policymakers to better understand the mounting environmental problems ravaging the United States. Along their journey, which quickly expands to California, Florida, and New York, the pair uncovered surprising and profound connections between ecological systems and environmental crises across the country. Artfully wea...

Melinda Faswell, Marion Creek's #1 realtor, is about to show Marion Creek's most infamous house for the first time. No motive for the brutal murder/suicide was ever uncovered...until now.

Now a National Bestseller!Climate change is real but it’s not the end of the world. It is not even our most serious environmental problem.Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world’s last unprotected redwoods. He co-created the predecessor to today’s Green New Deal. And he led a successful effort by climate scientists and activists to keep nuclear plants operating, preventing a spike o...

New York Times bestselling author Alex Kava returns in a blaze of glory with a gripping, action-packed thriller featuring special agent Maggie O'Dell,who is leading the search for a serial arsonist whose crimes threaten Maggie dangerously close to home.When a building bursts into flames on a cold winter night in D.C., investigators see a resemblance to a string of recent fires in the area. There is one difference, however: This one has a human casualty. Th...

The new novel from Nobel laureate Toni Morrison.Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child is a searing tale about the way childhood trauma shapes and misshapes the life of the adult. At the centre: a woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life; but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love until she told a lie that rui...

An Instant New York Times Bestseller!New York Times best-selling journalist Jeff Goodell presents an important examination of the impact that temperature rise will have on our lives and on our planet, offering a vital new perspective on where we are headed, how we can prepare, and what is at stake if we fail to act.“Masterful, bracing” (David Wallace-Wells)

*First Place Winner of the Society of Environmental Journalists' Rachel Carson Environment Book Award*"If you're looking for something to cling to in what often feels like a hopeless conversation, Schlossberg's darkly humorous, knowledge-is-power, eyes-wide-open approach may be just the thing."--VogueFrom a former New York Times science writer, this urgent call to action will empower you to stand up to climate change and e...

"Fierce and fantastic – a totally different type of heroine who keeps you clinging to the edge of your seat!"…If a kickass middle-aged bookkeeper got sucked into a spy's life…Middle-aged bookkeeper Aydan Kelly never wanted to moonlight as a spy, but she doesn't have a choice. Working with computer networks in a secured building sounds safe, but it turns out the job's a killer – literally.When Aydan's trusted co-worker is shot while committing an apparently treasonou...

Who's pinching Tori Cannon's panties?Tori Cannon and her BFF, Kathy Grant, get together for a girl’s weekend of wine, cookies, and laughter, but there’s also the specter of a panty pincher hanging around the laundry room of the complex where Tori lives. Kathy thinks they can catch the culprit red-handed in a panty raid!This mini mystery introduces the two main characters of the Lotus Bay Mysteries. With Baited Breath is the first full-length novel ...

A Pulitzer Prize Finalist, this powerful elegy for our disappearing coast "captures nature with precise words that almost amount to poetry" ( The New York Times).Hailed as "the book on climate change and sea levels that was missing" ( Chicago Tribune), Rising is both a highly original work of lyric reportage and a haunting meditation on how to let go of the places we love.With every record-breaking hurricane, it grows clearer that c...