A thriller that explodes with taut suspense and raw emotion, The Ice Curtain pulls us into a murder mystery that is at once compelling and deeply moving. With the skill of a master storyteller, the bestselling author of Siberian Light breathes life into a haunting and unforgettable landscape, weaving a dazzlingly original story of murder, deceit...and diamonds.The Ice CurtainThe Iron Curtain is down, and Russia has become a...

Reports From The Soul is a balm for pain, joy and an antidote for self-validation. The poetry inspires one to break through confined walls and move like liquid over mountains. It is a recipe of dreams with spicy thoughts, fusing emotions, people and time together.Reports From The Soul is filled with restorative cultural dialects once forgotten, family and magic, trials and tribulations that is connected to anywhere USA.The illustrations pai...

There are fixed points in the world in the midst of chaos. And from time to time, people who move in the endless round dance of life must fix their eyes on something. Remember who they are and why they came into this world. One such point is Lao Tzu.

In 1994, Interface founder and chairman Ray Anderson set an audacious goal for his commercial carpet company: to take nothing from the earth that can't be replaced by the earth. Now, Anderson leads the way forward and challenges all of industry to share that goal, with Business Lessons from a Radical Industrialist.The Interface story is a compelling one: in 1994, making carpets was a toxic, petroleum-based process, releasi...

"America's greenest CEO" and the hero of the award-winning documentary The Corporation makes the urgent, compelling case that sustainable business pays.In 1994, Interface founder and chairman Ray Anderson set an audacious goal for his commercial carpet company: to take nothing from the earth that can't be replaced by the earth. Fifteen years later, he had cut his company's greenhouse emissions by 82%, c...

His story is now legend. In 1994, after reading The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken, Ray Anderson felt a “spear in the chest.” The founder of Interface, Inc., a billion-dollar carpeting manufacturer, realized that his company was plundering the environment and he needed to steer it on a new course. Since then, Interface has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by eighty-two percent, with a goal to reach a zero environmental footprint by 2020. Thoughtful and winning, Confessions...

Parisian Pauline Guyot (1805–1886), who wrote under the nom de plume Camille Lebrun, published many novels, translations, collections of tales, and articles in French magazines of her day. Yet she has largely been forgotten by contemporary literary critics and readers. Among her works is a hitherto-untranslated 1845 French novel, Amitié et dévouement, ou Trois mois à la Louisiane, or Friendship and Devotion, or Three Months in Louisiana, a moralizing, educational travelog...

'Best book I've read this year! Amazing police procedural!!... When is the next one coming out !?! I need to know!' Reader Review⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐A TEENAGER FOUND DEADA FAMILY SEEKING ANSWERSA DETECTIVE WITH A GUILTY SECRET...When teenager Ben Renshaw is found dead, DCI Robin Lyons is plunged into the heart of one of the most contentious cases in Birmingham's history.At an out-of-control house par...

The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’ (Claudia Rankine). Refer...

'Full of hearts, guts and intelligence. Highly recommended' Sarah Hilary, author of Black ThornSOME SECRETS SHOULD STAY BURIEDOn a warm May night, a woman is found dead at the wheel of her car on a Birmingham back street, a single knife wound to her throat.To DCI Robin Lyons, the clinical murder initially suggests organized crime, especially when she learns that the victim, Heather Pethick, lived on a farm with access to se...

**The International Bestseller'With clarity and compassion, DiAngelo allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to "bad people." In doing so, she moves our national discussions forward. This is a necessary book for all people invested in societal change' Claudia Rankine**Anger. Fear. Guilt. Denial. Silence. These are the ways in which ordinary white people react when it is pointed out to them that they have done or said something that has - unintentionally ...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBuilding on the groundwork laid in the New York Times bestseller White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explores how a culture of niceness inadvertently promotes racism.**In White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explained how racism is a system into which all white people are socialized and challenged the belief that racism is a simple matter of good people versus bad. DiAngelo also made a provocative claim: white progressiv...