John and Susan Sterling take a much needed break from world class modeling and photography to sail their custom built 90 foot sailing yacht to Tahiti. After years of hard work and planning for the cruise they arrive in the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia. After only a few idyllic days in a remote cove on Nuka Hiva Island, they are attacked by a man and woman with a machine pistol from another boat. Wounded and bleeding they hide under their skiff which is riddled with bullet holes, while the pirates make off with the Sterling's 90 foot yacht. Stranded and penniless in a foreign country John and Susan set out on a valiant but naive and dangerous attempt to recover their stolen yacht

From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! School is always fun in Ms. Colman's class! The playground is covered with snow. The kids in Ms. Colman's class are busy building snow forts and throwing snoballs. It is fun at first. But then the snowball fights turn mean. Ian does not like the snow war. He wants it to stop. Can Ian and the snow war all by himself?

'A remarkable book . . . It's a powerful testament to the healing balm of gardening and the resilience of the human spirit in the direst of circumstances.' Financial Times 'Not a happy book and yet it's magically heartening. It makes a gardener question his or her values.' The Times 'This extraordinary book...warm and engaging...like a photograph magicked to life.' Spectator 'Snow has spent ten years as a photographer and filmmaker covering unrest . . . Throughout that time she has sought comfort in green oases and come to understand "how vital gardens are 'against a horrid wilderness' of war". . . There can be few counter-narratives as enchanting and sad as those Snow recounts in War Gardens.' Times Literary Supplement 'For all these victims of war, their gardens are places in which to breathe, providing moments of calm, hope and optimism in a fragile life of horror and uncertainty. For many, it helps them to grieve. Books seldom bring a lump to my throat, but this one did.' Spectator 'What makes War Gardens the most illuminating garden book to be published this year, is the realisation that people's gardens are the antidotes to the horrors of their surroundings.' Country Life A journey through the most unlikely of gardens: the oases of peace people create in the midst of war In this millennium, we have become war weary. From Afghanistan to Iraq, from Ukraine to South Sudan and Syria, from Kashmir to the West Bank, conflict is as contagious and poisonous as Japanese knotweed. Living through it are people just like us with ordinary jobs, ordinary pressures and ordinary lives. Against a new landscape of horror and violence it is up to them to maintain a modicum of normality and colour. For some, gardening is the way to achieve this. Working in the world's most dangerous war zones, freelance war correspondent and photographer Lally Snow has often chanced across a very moving sight, a testimony to the triumph of the human spirit in adversity, a celebration of hope and beauty: a war garden. In Kabul, the royal gardens are tended by a centenarian gardener, though the king is long gone; in Camp Bastion, bored soldiers improvise tiny gardens to give themselves a moment's peace; on both sides of the dividing line in Jerusalem families tend groves of olives and raise beautiful plants from the unforgiving, disputed landscape; in Ukraine, families tend their gardens in the middle of a surreal, frozen war. War Gardens is a surprising, tragic and beautiful journey through the darkest places of the modern world, revealing the ways people make time and space for themselves and for nature even in the middle of destruction. Illustrated with Lally Snow's own award-winning photography, this is a book to treasure.

When the kids in Ms. Colman's class begin a snow war, the fighting gets out of hand and spreads indoors, until Ian comes to the rescue with a new sled and convinces his peers that it is more fun. Original.

Journey Through Hell: The Logan Nighthawk Story By: LS Jordan Based partially on the author’s real life experience, Journey Through Hell: The Logan Nighthawk Story is tender portrait of the life of Logan Nighthawk, a boy growing up in rural Tennessee with his Cherokee grandfather. Having been all but abandoned by his birth parents, Logan finds solace in his grandfather’s house, where he learns what it means to be a good man and an important member of his community. As Logan gets older, he realizes he cannot remain under his grandfather’s wing forever, so he enters the world in order to make his own way, and finds purpose when enlists in the military service. Through his hard work, dedication, and talent, Logan is recruited to become a member of the Black Ops Special Forces, and despite Logan’s excitement at serving his country, he understands that this line of duty will force him to distance those he loves most so no danger will ever come to them. Despite all of life’s hardships, all the isolation and disappointment Logan must feel, he ultimately finds a family that loves and supports him—a family worth fighting for.

'What happens once democracy has been used up? When it has been hollowed out and emptied of meaning?' Combining brilliant political insight and razor-sharp prose, Listening to Grasshoppers is the essential new book from Arundhati Roy. In these essays, she takes a hard look at the underbelly of the world's largest democracy, and shows how the journey that Hindu nationalism and neo-liberal economic reforms began together in the early 1990s is unravelling in dangerous ways. Beginning with the state-backed killing of Muslims in Gujarat in 2002, she writes about how 'progress' and genocide have historically gone hand in hand; about the murky investigations into the 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament; about the dangers of an increasingly powerful and entirely unaccountable judiciary; and about the collusion between large corporations, the government and the mainstream media. The collection ends with an account of the August 2008 uprising in Kashmir and an analysis of the November 2008 attacks on Mumbai. 'The Briefing', included as an appendix, is a fictional text that brings together many of the issues central to the collection.

Van Jones, Al Gore, Elizabeth Kolbert, Naomi Klein, and other essential voices on global warming, from its 19th-century discovery to the present, in a volume edited by Bill McKibben, our most widely respected environmental writer With the rise of extreme weather events worldwide--witness the devastation wrought by Hurricanes Sandy, Irene, and Katrina, and the sustained drought across the American West--global warming has become increasingly difficult to deny. What is happening to our planet? And what can we do about it? The Global Warming Reader provides more than thirty-five answers to these burning questions, from more than one hundred years of engagement with the topic. Here is Elizabeth Kolbert's groundbreaking essay "The Darkening Sea," Michael Crichton's skeptical view of climate change, George Monbiot's biting indictment of those who are really using up the planet's resources, NASA scientist James Hansen's testimony before the U.S. Congress, and clarion calls for action by Al Gore, Arundhati Roy, Naomi Klein, Van Jones, and many others. The Global Warming Reader is a comprehensive resource, expertly edited by someone who lives and breathes this defining issue of our time.