Wounded during an ambush, the rebel-boy soldier Hasan climbs a tree to escape the military. He is caught in the dirty war for Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia, where his people suffer a brutal occupation.While resting in the tree-tops and considering his limited options for survival, an orangutan befriends him, caring for him while he recovers. When he has recovered his strength sufficiently to leave the tree, he thinks about the orangutan, and decides tha...

SynopsisJude Cameron is summoned to Marmande Hospital, south west France, by his wife, Arabella, because their daughter, Clelia, is gravely ill. On the way there from his apartment in the city of Bordeaux, he reflects on the circumstances which have brought his family to this point.When he arrives, he finds Arabella in deep discussion with Dr. Ghorbani, a paediatrician who first recognised that something was wrong with Clelia’s development – they had taken him there on the ...

In the jungles of Chiang Mai, Thailand, Krung, A Hill Tribe boy spends his days helping his rice farmer family, and dreaming of life in the big cities. Meanwhile, a Siamese tiger, the last of his kind, is forced to stalk Krung's village to survive. What will happen when boy and beast clash? Read The Last of the Siamese Tigers to find out.

An emotional, rousing novel inspired by the incredible true story of two giraffes who made headlines and won the hearts of Depression-era America.“Few true friends have I known and two were giraffes…”Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave.It’s 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is th...

Drawing on rarely examined diaries and journals, Down the Great Unknown is the first book to tell the full, dramatic story of the Powell expedition.On May 24, 1869 a one-armed Civil War veteran, John Wesley Powell and a ragtag band of nine mountain men embarked on the last great quest in the American West. The Grand Canyon, not explored before, was as mysterious as Atlantis*—*and as perilous. The ten men set out from Green River Station, Wyoming Territory ...

Hot-blooded Georgiana Stockwell will break a man’s heart while he’s eating out of her hand. Moving from the East to join her schoolteacher sister in the rugged wilds of Tonto Basin, Arizona, Georgiana makes quite an impression. Despite her sister’s best efforts, Georgiana creates a culture clash as her modern, free-spirited personality comes up against the code of the West, the unwritten law of the range that everyone is expected to follow. Georgiana’s flirtations and coquetry provoke and ...

In this moving new novel from celebrated author Nickolas Butler, a Wisconsin family grapples with the power and limitations of faith when one of their own falls under the influence of a radical church.Lyle Hovde is at the onset of his golden years, living a mostly content life in rural Wisconsin with his wife, Peg, daughter, Shiloh, and six-year old grandson, Isaac. After a troubled adolescence and subsequent estrangement from her parents, Shiloh has finally come h...

When Marc Harrison became CEO of Intermountain Healthcare, the organization was already a well-regarded and financially stable player in the industry. Nevertheless, Harrison led an ambitious transformation that has unleashed Intermountain's workforce to look beyond the organization and tackle a range of problems that have hobbled both the healthcare industry and our broader society. Bucking the prevailing culture of conflict and polarization, leaders at all levels are empowered to convene ...

**This program includes an introduction read by the author.A fascinating biography and in-depth look at the work of bestselling writer and psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson, by award-winning author Jim Proser.**Who is psychologist, professor, bestselling author, and YouTube personality Dr. Peterson? What does he believe in? Who are his followers? And why is he so controversial? These are among the many questions raised in this compelling, exhaustively researched account of h...

Following the end of the Civil War, Mississippians responded to broader movements in the country, to changes in the economy, and to congressional initiatives as they worked to recover from the devastation of war and pursue new expressions of freedom. Reconstruction in Mississippi, 1862–1877 is a compelling account of how Black Mississippians embraced this freedom and how white Mississippians could not.Recording the mechanics of how the Confederate states were allowed to re...

Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades. As a flight director in NASA's Mission Control, Kranz witnessed firsthand the making of history. He participated in the space program from the early days of the Mercury program to the last Apollo mission, and beyond. He endured the disastrous first years when rockets blew up and the United States seemed to fall further behind the Soviet Union in the space race. He helped t...

The definitive history of the Jamestown colony, the crucible of American history**"An absolutely terrific book." —**New York TimesIn this beautiful, vividly told story, James Horn describes the beginnings of England's first successful colony in America, persuasively demonstrating that Jamestown was the first great crucible of American history.A Land As God Made It describes the unimaginable hardships endured by ear...