Burning coal to make energy to run machines has been the world's ugly secret for centuries. The truth is now known: Coal combustion is killing the planet. The scary thing is we all know that but nothing changes; more and more CO2 each year joins the greenhouse gas gang to raise Earth's temperature slowly but inexorably. We even go so far as to call coal "clean" creating the world's biggest oxymoron. This book goes to the heart of the matter---where coal comes from under what tortures---and...

Welcome to Twin Oaks-the new B and B in Cooper's Corner. Some come for pleasure, others for passion-and one to set things straightCheck-in: The cozy Twin Oaks B and B…a perfect retreat for divorced dad and dentist Michael Flynn to kick back over spring break with his two young daughters-and his St. Bernard. Single mom and supermarket cashier Colleen O’Connor had the same idea for her and her two little boys…and their Siamese cat. Bad combination! No sooner had the...

An ode to our national parks, timed for the centennial, by the beloved author of When Women Were Birds.Longlisted for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for ExcellenceA Washington Post Notable Book of the YearAmerica's national parks are breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why more than 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now Terry Tempest Williams, the author of the e...

"Why, Cara, why did you do it?" "Maybe no one wants to see me as I really am. Maybe in this family it isn't all right to be different. And I am different, Kitty, whether anyone wants to admit it or not." "But, Cara,--it just seems like tonight you set out deliberately to cause trouble." "Even you don’t understand, do you, Kitty?" "I do, I mean I'm trying to. You're my twin, I want to understand!" "Yes, I know we're twins, but who am I?" demanded Cara hotly. "We're not like paper dolls cut ...

Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Booklist, and Shelf AwarenessA School Library Journal "In the Margins" Recommendation“An elegiac memoir and social jeremiad,” Cuz is “a literary and political event like Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark” (Henry Louis Gates Jr.).First appearing in The New Yorker, Danielle A...

Big deer and big diamonds both harvested on the same weekend. This is the true story of how the author shot the two, largest bucks of his fifteen-year deer hunting adventure. And he got these 8-point and 10-point bucks within 24 hours of each other! On that same weekend two of his diamond mining buddies found two large diamonds less than a mile away at southwest Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds State Park. Read this exciting adventure of discovery.

In 1809, Simon-Rene and Monique Braille lived in a small town in France. The town of Coupvray was 25 miles (40 km) outside Paris.Life was good for the family. Simon worked as a harness maker and leatherer. He made many items out of leather, including harnesses and saddles for horses, leather slippers and shoes, and leather satchels. Simon was well known in the town, and his work supported his wife and three children, two girls and a boy.On January 4, 1809, the new year brough...

In your hands is a poetry journal written by an undead poet, recounting his firsthand experience during the zombie plague. Little is known about the author before he turned into a zombie, but thanks to his continued writings in this journal - even after his death - you can accompany him from infection to demise. Through the intimate poetry of haiku, the zombie chronicles his epic journey through deserted streets and barricaded doors. Each three-line poem, structured in the classic 5-7-5 sy...

Arriving in Montana, Megan’s disconcerted to find that her husband-to-be is not the older and homely man she’d expected but young and handsome. Lorne Wilson is a respected young rancher, and he’s smart and hard-working, in other words perfect. The life he offers her is one she wants desperately, but the secret she’s hiding could tear it all apart before it even has a chance to begin.

PrepperPrepper Urban Survival - The Comprehensive Prepper Guide towards Disaster Readiness and Emergency Preparedness for the Urban Survivalist (Prepper, Prepper Books, Prepper Survival)No one wishes to be an unwilling participant in any disaster - whether that disaster is manmade or a force of nature. Everyone desires safety and security at all times. This is the reason why people live in houses. They desire protection from the elements. In earlier years, houses were caves ...

"A gift . . . One wonders how the world might be different if works in The Best American Nonrequired Reading were indeed required." — USA TodaySarah Vowell, author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States and other best-selling titles "gilded with snark, buoyant on charm" (NPR), worked with the students of the 826 Valencia writing lab to edit this year's anthology. They compiled new fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics, and the category-d...

She falls down and can't get up.