**NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER of the 2021 Banff Mountain Book Prize in Adventure TravelWINNER of the 2020 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Non-Fiction PrizeShortlisted for the 2021 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-FictionShortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain LiteratureShortlisted for Canada Reads 2021On CBC’s list of “the best Canadian nonfiction of 2020”An exhilarating, anti-colonial reclamation of nature w...

Tucked away along a shady path towards the north-east edge of Hampstead Heath is a sign: Women Only. This is the Kenwood Ladies' Bathing Pond.Floating in the Pond's silky waters, hidden by a canopy of trees, it's easy to forget that you are in the middle of London. On a hot day, thousands of swimmers from eight to eighty-plus can be found waiting to take a dip before sunbathing in the adjoining meadow. As summer turns to autumn and then winter, the Pond is still visited by a large ...

**INSTANT TORONTO STAR BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITINGThe prize-winning and bestselling author of Two Trees Make a Forest turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human world to explore belonging, displacement, identity, and the truths of our shared future**A seed slips beyond a garden wall. A tree is planted on a precarious border. A shrub is stolen from its culture and its land. What happens wh...

Are you ready to embark on a journey of self-discovery, inspiration, and transformation? "25 Quotes That Will Change Your Life Forever" by Lee Murphy is a captivating collection of powerful quotes that will ignite your inner potential and motivate you to live your best life. Each quote is carefully selected and accompanied by personal reflections, practical applications, and engaging stories that resonate with readers of all ages.Through the pages of this book, you will:Dis...

When Laine Sullivan, an undercover NOVAS operative, takes a mission in Ireland, she is faced with unraveling the murder of thoroughbred horses. She uses her interior designer cover to work for a handsome, wealthy racehorse owner and breeder, Miles Bourke. He hires her to design a party room in his lighthouse tower on his remote island in Ireland. Her investigation of him turns into a romantic affair that is surrounded by murder, money laundering and drugs. To complicate matters, Laine disc...

"[A] fascinating book. . . . [Barnéoud] ruminates on how microchimerism might change our understanding of ourselves."—Sam Kean, Wall Street Journal**What if some of your cells were not your own? What if they once belonged to someone else?Part mind-bending medical mystery—part cutting-edge science—Hidden Guests uncovers the astonishing phenomenon of microchimerism: the presence of foreign cells inside our own bodies. The incredible story of...

When thirteen-year-old Andy Mackpeace's psychic grandmother Geri bequeaths him some mysterious incense sticks, he lights one in her memory, and the smoke hurls him back to March 5, 1770 in Massachusetts. There he meets Samuel Maverick, a soon to be victim of the Boston Massacre. Andy experiences the horrible event and is almost killed. He discovers that lighting the unused portion of the stick brings him back to his New Hampshire home in the present.Andy and his best friend Roger S...

Richmond, Kentucky was supposed to be Rob Murray's quiet way out.After twenty-three years with the CIA, all he wanted was an ordinary job at the Bluegrass Army Depot and a peaceful road to retirement. Then the animals started disappearing. Strange lights flickered over forgotten farmland. And Rob found his own name buried inside a classified government ledger — not as an employee, but as a test subject.What begins as a small-town mystery unravels into secret experiments, ma...

**Longlisted for the 2018 Frank Hegyi Award for Emerging Authors“Jessica J. Lee is a writer of rare and exhilarating grace. In Turning, she sounds the depths of lakes and her own life, never flinching from darkness, surfacing to fresh understandings of her place in the welter of natural and human history. A beautiful, moody, bracing debut.” —Kate Harris, award-winning author of Lands of Lost BordersThrough the heat of summer to the frozen depths of winter,...

Bestselling Author Reveals How God Empowers Women for Leadership and PurposeChristian women are often led to believe they are God's afterthoughts--as if they were created inferior to men or destined by God to play a secondary role in life. Not so, says bestselling author J. Lee Grady, father of four daughters and a leading international voice confronting the abuse of women. He counters that the Bible's message is neither sexist nor patronizing.Through sharing the lives of 2...

A step-by-step, easy-to-use drawing book that will help kids and adults alike develop their technical drawing skills and build a repertoire of animal subjects.Fifty furry, scaly, and feathered friends are here for aspiring young artists to learn how to draw, including a lion, a giraffe, a dinosaur, a penguin, a bunny, a shark, and much more. It's easy to bring these animals to life the Draw 50 way.Over the past thirty years, celebrated author Lee J. Ames’s ...

. How could Mr. Straight-Arrow be mixed up with vampires? Cindy finds the answer at the bottom of a mine shaft facing the wrong end of a gun.Cindy doesn't consider herself an amateur detective. She owns Finders Inc., a computer search company, and gets paid to locate missing documents, pets, deadbeat dads and the occasional separated-at-birth sibling. When her trusty 'puter, Watson, runs out of leads, Cindy will "go on location," traveling from her home in Reno, Nevada, to Northern...