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  • Inside the Inferno

    A Firefighter's Story of the Brotherhood That Saved Fort McMurray

    by Damian Asher ...
    An action-packed, on-the-ground memoir of the Fort McMurray wildfire and the courage, resilience, and sacrifice of the firefighters who saved the city.In May 2016, what began as a remote forest fire quickly became a nightmare for the ninety thousand residents of Fort McMurray. A perfect combination of weather, geography and circumstance created a raging wildfire that devoured everything in its ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Promise of Canada

    People and Ideas That Have Shaped Our Country

    What does it mean to be a Canadian? What great ideas have changed our country? An award-winning writer casts her eye over our nation’s history, highlighting some of our most important stories.From the acclaimed historian Charlotte Gray comes a richly rewarding book about what it means to be Canadian. Readers already know Gray as an award-winning biographer, a writer who has brilliantly captured ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Woman Who Changed Her Brain

    And Other Inspiring Stories of Pioneering Brain Transformation

    Barbara Arrowsmith-Young was born with severe learning disabilities that caused teachers to label her slow, stubborn—or worse. As a child, she read and wrote everything backward, struggled to process concepts in language, continually got lost, and was physically uncoordinated. She could make no sense of an analogue clock. But by relying on her formidable memory and iron will, she made her way to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Extraordinary Canadians

    Stories from the Heart of Our Nation

    From Peter Mansbridge, the beloved former anchor of CBC’s The National, and Mark Bulgutch, former CBC producer, comes a collection of first-person stories about remarkable Canadians who embody the values of our great nation—kindness, compassion, courage, and freedom—and inspire us to do the same.In this timely and heartwarming volume of personal stories, Peter Mansbridge and former CBC producer ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Canada

    by Mike Myers ...
    In this instant national bestseller, comedy superstar Mike Myers writes from the (true patriot) heart about his 53-year relationship with his beloved Canada.Mike Myers is a world-renowned actor, director and writer, and the man behind some of the most memorable comic characters of our time. But as he says: "no description of me is truly complete without saying I'm a Canadian." He has often winked ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Wave

    A Memoir

    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • One woman's searing account of losing her entire family in a tsunami.“The most exceptional book about grief I’ve ever read.... As unsparing as they come, but also defiantly flooded with light.... Extraordinary.” —Cheryl Strayed, The New York Times Book Review**A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the CenturyIn 2004, at a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Fragment

    by Craig Russell ...
    When avalanching glaciers thrust a massive Antarctic ice sheet into the open ocean, the captain of an atomic submarine must risk his vessel to rescue the survivors of a smashed polar research station; in Washington the President’s top advisor scrambles to spin the disaster to suit his master’s political aims; and meanwhile two intrepid newsmen sail south into the storm-lashed Drake Passage to ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Fire Line

    The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots and One of the Deadliest Days in American Firefighting

    The story of the Yarnell Hill wildfire of 2013 and the Arizona men who gave everything to fight it."Meticulously researched and as dramatic as any thriller." — People MagazineWestern Writers of America 2017Spur Award Winner, Best First Nonfiction BookSpur Award Finalist, Best Western Contemporary NonfictionThe Fire Line... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Severe Weather

    Series series National Geographic Shorts
    Severe weather events like hurricanes and tornadoes have increased fourfold in the last two decades, shaking the foundations of our existence. Weather-related tragedies have fascinated humans throughout time. For those who loved The Perfect Storm andKrakatoa, the millions who log onto daily weather forecasting sites and check weather apps, and people who can't get enough front-page headlines of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Facing the Wave

    A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami

    **Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)****Kansas City Star Best Books of the Year (2013)**A passionate student of Japanese poetry, theater, and art for much of her life, Gretel Ehrlich felt compelled to return to the earthquake-and-tsunami-devastated Tohoku coast to bear witness, listen to survivors, and experience their terror and exhilaration in villages and towns where all shelter and hope ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Superstorm

    Nine Days Inside Hurricane Sandy

    by Kathryn Miles ...
    The first complete moment-by-moment account of the largest Atlantic storm system ever recorded—a hurricane like no otherThe sky was lit by a full moon on October 29, 2012, but nobody on the eastern seaboard of the United States could see it. Everything had been consumed by cloud. The storm’s immensity caught the attention of scientists on the International Space Station. Even from there, it seemed ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Jumping Fire

    A Smokejumper's Memoir of Fighting Wildfire

    This "terrifying, grimly funny" memoir about fighting forest fires in Alaska offers "an affectionate portrait of a fraternity of daredevils" ( The New Yorker).A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the YearFighting fires since 1965, legendary smokejumper Murry A. Taylor finally hung up his chute after the summer of 2000—the worst fire season in more than fifty years. In Jumping Fire, Taylor recounts in ... Read more

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