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Amazing Grace

On a warm May night in San Francisco, a glittering, celebrity-studded crowd gathers for a charity event. Just minutes before midnight, the room begins to sway. Glass shatters, the lights go out, and p...

Granite Mountain

A "unique and bracing" (Booklist) first-person account by the sole survivor of Arizona's disastrous 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire, which took the lives of 19 "hotshots"--firefighters trained specifically to...

Floods, Famines, and Emperors

Reissued and updated ten years after its original publication, a dazzlingly original bookfar ahead of its timeexplains how the worlds best-known climate event affect ed the rise and fall of civilizati...

A House of One's Own

What happens to people after an earthquake destroys their homes? What is daily life like under a humanitarian regime? Is aid a gift or is it a form of power? A House of One's Own explores these enduri...

Sudden Sea

Draws on period newspaper accounts, eyewitness testimony, archival footage, and weather forecasters to provide an in-depth account of the Great Hurricane of 1938, which left a trail of death and destr...

Mayday Over Wichita

Love At Fourteen Vol 2

Amid the hormones and the angst of middle school adolescence, Kazuki and Kanata go from being boy and girl friends to boyfriend and girlfriend. But with love comes intense emotions and, with their mod...

Easystart

Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life through the joy of reading. Well-written stories entertain us, make us think, and keep our interest page after page. Pearson English...

Barnaby Rudge

'One of Dickens's most neglected, but most rewarding, novels' Peter Ackroyd...

In The Trees

All around him, the smell of trees rose from the ground, earthy and dank, just the way he'd smelt it that first day. And he'd heard a voice that day, which he'd thought was calling out a welcome. But...