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Rainforests are as much a mystery as the ocean depths. Explore the most fertile, varied, and surprising ecosystem on the planet, home to plants and animals still unknown to us. Also includes the programs: Borrowed Water, Fleeting Water and Salt Forests.
"Have you heard the one about the skull who borrowed body parts to pass himself off as a human so he could trick the village beauty into marriage? No? Well, what about when the daughters of Frog and Snake had a playdate? Okay, fine. But surely you've heard the story of the crocod...
Nothing is Okay is the second full-length poetry collection by Rachel Wiley, whose work simultaneously deconstructs the lies that we were taught about our bodies and our beings, and builds new ways of viewing ourselves. As she delves into queerness, feminism, fatness, dating, and...
Through the long, hot summer of 2019, Hong Kong burned. Anti-government protests, sparked by a government proposal to introduce a controversial extradition law, grew into a pro-democracy movement that engulfed the city for months. Protesters fought street battles with police, and...
After her years in domestic service, Winifred Foley married and started a family. But, while scraping a living as a charwoman in a rundown north London tenement, she continued to long for her home in the Forest of Dean. Determined to give their children the rural upbringing she h...
The New York Times bestselling Library Lover's mysteries continue with a hot new case... Loving a good cup of coffee runs in the family for Briar Creek library director Lindsey Norris. But when her brother, Jack, a consultant for a coffee company, goes missing, her favorit...
"One man's trash": building a garbage kingdom -- Garbage into gold: the early waste management years -- Waste management: regulatory woes and industry triumphs -- Wayne's companies after waste management: toliets, lawns, bugs, and water -- Video venture: taking charge of Blockbus...
For four centuries, dykes held back the largest tides in the world, in the Bay of Fundy region of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. These dykes turned salt marsh into arable land and made farming possible but by the 1940s, they had fallen into disrepair. Dykeland was in danger. Agai...
"This debut thriller reads like The Devil Wears Prada meets Single White Female . I couldn't put it down."-Catherine Steadman, author of Something in the Water and Mr. Nobody She's borrowed your life. But what if she decides to keep it? Glamorous Margot Jones is ...
"This debut thriller reads like The Devil Wears Prada meets Single White Female . I couldn't put it down."-Catherine Steadman, author of Something in the Water and Mr. Nobody She's borrowed your life. But what if she decides to keep it? Glamorous Margot Jones is ...