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In 1908 Mohandas Gandhi spoke to a crowd of 3,000. Together they protested against an unjust law without guns or rioting. Peacefully they made a difference. Gandhi’s words and deeds influenced countless others to work toward the goals of freedom and justice through peaceful methods. Mother and son team, Anne Sibley O’Brien and Perry Edmond O’Brien, highlight some of the people and events that Gandhi’s actions inspired. From Rosa Parks to the students at Tiananmen Square to Wangari Maathai,...

From friends … to lovers … to murder.Haley Montgomery chases dreams she can never quite catch. After giving up on love, becoming a successful thriller screenwriter is the next best thing, right? She'll do anything to escape her family's failing vineyard and unrequited love for her best friend Marc. Then the opportunity of a lifetime arrives in her small town as renowned film producer Allen Michaels offers her a ticket to a better future. But not wi...

**National Bestseller · A CBC Best Nonfiction Book of the Year · Finalist for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize · Finalist for the Hamilton Literary Awards"Bunny told me there were secrets about me that she would take to the grave, secrets that no one would ever hear, including me . . ."**Tom Wilson always felt something wasn't quite right. His parents, Bunny and George, were much older than other kids' parents. There were no baby photos of him in the house. At school, classma...

**This audiobook edition is read by Lucy Boynton (Bohemian Rhapsody)One of The New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturyA dreamy atmospheric novel set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse. Emily St John Mandel's Station Eleven is now an HBO Max original TV series.**What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty.One snowy night in Toronto famous actor Arthur...

Six months after leaving home to live with her aunt, Suzanne is forced to spend Christmas with her family in the town she left behind. Even though all she wants is to be back in Brighton with her friends, where happiness is, she can get through one day, right?A companion short story to Beautiful Broken Things.

Thomas Hill (January 7, 1818 – November 21, 1891) was an American Unitarian clergyman, mathematician, scientist, philosopher, and educator. Taught to read at an early age, Hill read voraciously and was well regarded for his capacious and accurate memory. His father taught him botany, and he took a delight in nature and devised scientific instruments, one of calculated eclipses and was subsequently awarded the Scott Medal by the Franklin Institute. Though not formally educated in his youth,...

* This classic established Child as one of the great mountaineering writers of our time* Describes Child's apprenticeship to such climbing legends as Doug Scott, Don Whillans, and Alan Rouse* Written with a keen eye for detail, a firm sense of drama and, of course, witClimbing a Himalayan peak was the stuff of Greg Child's wildest dreams. Then in the late 1970s came a surprise berth on an expedition that was to define his career as a high-altitude mountaineer and tran...

Mistletoe, merriment, and a mysterious disappearance.Amidst the enchanting backdrop of Pine Bend, where winter magic is tangible and elk tracks crisscross the snow, Elise, a tenacious private investigator from Seattle, stumbles upon a cold case that ensnares her heart.With each carol that floats through the crisp air and every twinkling light that illuminates the town, Elise finds herself not only drawn into the web of the town's enigmas but also to Nichola...

What did C. S. Lewis really think about gender roles? In this book, a widely recognized expert on male and female roles evaluates Lewis's understanding and presentation of gender, revealing that he ended his life thinking differently about gender than many of his followers assume. This is the first book to provide a close examination of Lewis's thought on gender and what it means for today. It addresses the tension between faith and science and offers insight into the continuing debate ove...

An authoritative history of the race to unravel DNA’s structure, by one of our most prominent medical historians.James Watson and Francis Crick’s 1953 discovery of the double helix structure of DNA is the foundation of virtually every advance in our modern understanding of genetics and molecular biology. But how did Watson and Crick do it—and whywere they the ones who succeeded?In truth, the discovery of DNA’s structure is the story of five towering minds in pursuit ...

Town bad girl Amy is visiting her sister Carla and Carla's husband Bob for Christmas, and she finds that Bob has been been involved in some inappropriate behavior online. To put him in his place, Amy and her well-hung ally Owen are going to give Bob a big Christmas surprise ...This is another hot and humorous sexy short story from Natasha Stevens, author of I OWN YOU and TAKEN AT THE HAUNTED HOUSE.