How can we save the ocean? And how can the ocean save us?From protecting nesting sea turtles on the beaches of Sri Lanka and deep-sea diving in the icy waters of Antarctica to taking school children in England to see the sea for the first time, award-winning marine biologist Emily Cunningham has seen and felt the wonder of the ocean. She's also seen it changing.Our Ocean to Save is an urgent call to action, drawing on her years of experien...

How can we save the ocean? And how can the ocean save us?From protecting nesting sea turtles on the beaches of Sri Lanka and deep-sea diving in the icy waters of Antarctica to taking school children in England to see the sea for the first time, award-winning marine biologist Emily Cunningham has seen and felt the wonder of the ocean. She's also seen it changing.Our Ocean to Save is an urgent call to action, drawing on her years of experien...

Citizens of Planet Earth, Welcome to the New World. When an anonymous terrorist group announces they have crashed the world's financial institutions, ending life as we know it, Hope Taylor races home to be with her family - but never makes it there. Waking from a coma in an idyllic future, where money, governments, and crime no longer exist; she must learn to accept this new world or risk exile to the mysterious Outlands. Hope will embark on a journey to discover if humanity has found its ...

Celebrate the special bonds between mothers and daughters through the stories of iconic families.Minnie Riperton and Maya Rudolph. Judy Garland and Liza Minelli. Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher, and Billie Lourd. These dynasties of powerful women not only inspire us as individuals, but also embody the complex and special connections between generations. Mothers often imagine their daughters will follow in their footsteps. But if your mom is a beloved star of stage o...

"Emily Pike Stewart’s narration brings the entire story to life. I sometimes had to remindmyself that this wasn’t a great true crime or wilderness podcast, but a novel." —The Berkshire EagleIn this captivating novel of suspense from the USA Today bestselling author of These Silent Woods, a wilderness guide must team up with the man who ruined her life years ago when the friend who introduce...

The curious flight patterns of crows lead a teen computer programmer down a path of mystery and romance.Gin trusts logic a little too much. She even designs programs to decide what to eat and how to spend her time. All that changes when she’s paired with a new transfer student, Felix, on a computer modeling assignment to explain certain anomalies in the behavior of crows.Speaking of anomalies, why is Gin so disappointed that Felix isn’t a match for her in t...

Providing detailed information on structural HIV prevention interventions, this book is intended for health care practitioners and researchers to plan, implement, and evaluate such interventions in their own communities. As defined by the CDC, structural interventions focus on the physical, social, cultural, political, economic, legal, and/or policy aspects of the environment. Designed to reach a large number of individuals, structural interventions usually occur across entire communities,...

Michael Cunninghams Pulitzerprisvindende Timerne skildrer tre dage i tre vidt forskellige kvinders liv.Clarissa Vaughan, forlagsredaktør i 1990'ernes New York, forbereder et selskab for sin ven, digteren Richard, og går en smuk junimorgen ud for at købe blomster.Virginia Woolf er mere end 70 år tidligere i færd med at skrive sin berømte roman Mrs. Dalloway og overvejer forskellige åbninger.I Los Angeles i 1949 er den hjemmegående husmor Laura Brown netop be...

Provokerende og kompromisløs efterfølger til succesromanen Timerne (dansk 2000). I Udvalgte dage hyldes livet i New York, og samtidig undersøges den amerikanske skæbne i en moderne verden i denne originale blanding af spøgelseshistorie, thriller og fremtidsvision.

The poignant story of a Japanese American woman's journey through one of the most shameful chapters in American history.Sipping tea by the fire, preparing sushi for the family, or indulgently listening to her husband tell the same story for the hundredth time, Kimi Grant's grandmother, Obaachan, was a missing link to Kimi's Japanese heritage, something she had had a mixed relationship with all her life. Growing up in rural Pennsylvania, all Kimi ever wanted to do was fit in, spurni...

When Toni wakes up, there’s a strange man asleep in the hotel bed next to her. Last night, she’d decided to give him her virginity and experienced a night like no other… She sneaks out of the room, knowing she’ll never see him again. Soaking in the afterglow of the night before, Brand reaches out and is startled to find that Toni is gone. He hurriedly checks his wallet, but she didn’t take any money. Then what was her goal? Brand leaves the room in a hurry, eager to chase after his mystery...

When Toni wakes up, there’s a strange man asleep in the hotel bed next to her. Last night, she’d decided to give him her virginity and experienced a night like no other… She sneaks out of the room, knowing she’ll never see him again. Soaking in the afterglow of the night before, Brand reaches out and is startled to find that Toni is gone. He hurriedly checks his wallet, but she didn’t take any money. Then what was her goal? Brand leaves the room in a hurry, eager to chase after his mystery...