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  • The Golden Spruce

    A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed

    by John Vaillant ...
    A tale of obsession so fierce that a man kills the thing he loves most: the only giant golden spruce on earth.When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest, they reignite a mystery surrounding a shocking act of protest. Five months earlier, logger-turned-activist Grant Hadwin had plunged naked into a river in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Fire Weather

    On the Front Lines of a Burning World

    by John Vaillant ...
    **PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION • FINALIST FOR THE PEN/GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION • A stunning account of a colossal wildfire and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind from the award-winning, best-selling author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce • Winner ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Tiger

    A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

    by John Vaillant ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A gripping story of man pitted against nature’s most fearsome and efficient predator. This "travelogue about tiger poaching in Russia’s far east opens up a new genre ... [the] conservation thriller" (Nature).Outside a remote village in Russia’s Far East a man-eating tiger is on the prowl. The tiger isn’t just killing people, it’s murdering them, almost as if it has a vendetta ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Adaptation to Life

    by George E. Vaillant ...
    Between 1939 and 1942, one of America's leading universities recruited 268 of its healthiest and most promising undergraduates to participate in a revolutionary new study of the human life cycle. The originators of the program, which came to be known as the Grant Study, felt that medical research was too heavily weighted in the direction of disease, and their intent was to chart the ways in which ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Portals

    Two Lives Intertwined by Adoption

    by William R. Miller, Lillian Kathleen Homer ...
    Portals tells intertwining true life stories of adopting and being adopted as an older child. Spanning forty years of development the saga is told both from the perspective of Lillian, adopted at age nine, and of her adoptive father, each of them writing alternating chapters. Lillian frankly relates the harrowing abuse and neglect of her early childhood as well as her turbulent post-adoption ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spiritual Evolution

    A Scientific Defense of Faith

    by George Vaillant ...
    In our current era of holy terror, passionate faith has come to seem like a present danger. Writers such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens have been happy to throw the baby out with the bathwater and declare that the danger is in religion itself. God, Hitchens writes, is not great.But man, according to George E. Vaillant, M.D., is great. In Spiritual Evolution, Dr. Vaillant ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Great Soul of Siberia

    Passion, Obsession, and One Man's Quest for the World's Most Elusive Tiger

    by Sooyong Park ...
    In The Great Soul of Siberia, renowned tiger researcher Sooyong Park tracks three generations of Siberian tigers living in remote southeastern Russia. Reminiscent of the way Timothy Treadwell (the so-called Grizzly Man) immersed himself in the lives of bears, Park sets up underground bunkers to observe the tigers, living thrillingly close to these beautiful but dangerous apex predators. At the ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Chef's Journey

    Book 2

    by Nicolas Wouters ...
    Illustrated by Mathilde Van Gheluwe ...
    Series Book 2 - Magda, Intergalactic Chef
    Against all odds, Magda has reached the second stage of the Intergalactic Cooking Tournament.But her joy is short-lived: if she wants to win, she'll have to eliminate her friend and former teammate, Hector. Nevertheless, Magda is determined to go all the way—not for the glory, but to ensure that the all-powerful Nectar doesn't fall into the wrong hands. It won’t be easy: between the Imperium’s ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Equal Opportunities

    by Mathilde Madden ...
    David thinks his love life is over when he is left unable to walk after a car accident. But then he meets kinky Mary, who finds the idea of a boy in a wheelchair too sexy for words.But is their love affair just based on satisfying Mary's kinks, or on something deeper? As David's scars begin to heal, soon both of them are having to face questions about what their attraction to one another really ... Read more

    $17.69 USD

  • Triumphs of Experience

    The Men of the Harvard Grant Study

    by George E. Vaillant ...
    At a time when people are living into their tenth decade, the longest longitudinal study of human development ever undertaken offers welcome news for old age: our lives evolve in our later years and often become more fulfilling. Among the surprising findings: people who do well in old age did not necessarily do so well in midlife, and vice versa. ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Aging Well

    Surprising Guideposts to a Happier Life from the Landmark Study of Adult Development

    by George E. Vaillant ...
    "An outstanding contribution to the study of aging" from a psychiatrist and professor at Harvard Medical School ( Publishers Weekly).In an unprecedented series of studies, Harvard Medical School has followed 824 subjects—men and women, some rich, some poor—from their teens to old age. Harvard's George Vaillant now uses these studies—the most complete ever done anywhere in the world—and the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Cup of Ghosts (Mathilde of Westminster Trilogy, Book 1)

    Corruption, intrigue and murder in the court of Edward II

    by Paul Doherty ...
    Journey to the reign of Edward II, where murder was part of the tapestry of life...The first in Paul Doherty's series featuring Mathilde of Westminster is played out against the glorious, violent and decadent court of Edward II where ghosts throng, and old sins and innocent blood cry to heaven for vengeance. Perfect for fans of Susanna Gregory and Michael Jecks.By 1322, Mathilde of Westminster was ... Read more

    $2.99 USD