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  • More Readings From One Man's Wilderness

    The Journals of Richard L. Proenneke

    Edited by John Branson ...
    Throughout history, many people have escaped to nature either permanently or temporarily to rest and recharge. Richard L. Proenneke, a modern-day Henry David Thoreau, is no exception. Proenneke built a cabin in Twin Lakes, Alaska in 1968 and began thirty years of personal growth, which he spent growing more connected to the wilderness in which he lived. This guide through Proenneke’s memories ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • My Name Is Selma

    The Remarkable Memoir of a Jewish Resistance Fighter and Ravensbrück Survivor

    An international bestseller, this powerful memoir by a ninety-eight-year-old Jewish Resistance fighter and Holocaust survivor “shows us how to find hope in hopelessness and light in the darkness” (Edith Eger, author of The Choice and The Gift).Selma van de Perre was seventeen when World War II began. Until then, being Jewish in the Netherlands had not been an issue. But by 1941 it had become a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Rainforest Survivors

    Adventures Among Today's Stone Age Jungle Tribes

    by Paul Raffaele ...
    Even in our hyper-connected world, there are tribes scattered across the far reaches of the globe who still live much the same way that their ancestors did thousands of years ago. Having had minimal contact with the outside world, these peoples currently live in harmony and unison with the environment around them. But as technology grows and the human population expands, the way of life of these ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • A Theory of Jerks and Other Philosophical Misadventures

    PHILOSOPHY HAS NEVER BEEN THIS FUN: Explore “consciousness, the multiverse, [and] what it all means” in this essay collection of “58 bite-sized gems from a leading philosopher” (Susan Schneider, NASA Chair).Have you ever wondered about why some people are jerks? Asked whether your driverless car should kill you so that others may live? Found a robot adorable? Considered the ethics of professional ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Fifth Miracle

    The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life

    by Paul Davies ...
    ARE WE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE?In his latest far-reaching book, The Fifth Miracle, internationally acclaimed physicist and writer Paul Davies confronts one of science's great outstanding mysteries -- the origin of life.Three and a half billion years ago, Mars resembled Earth. It was warm and wet and could have supported primitive organisms. If life once existed on Mars, might it have originated ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Alaskan Retreater's Notebook

    One Man's Journey into the Alaskan Wilderness

    by Ray Ordorica ...
    In the fall of 1978 Ray Ordorica packed everything he thought he would need into his Toyota LandCruiser and drove north to Alaska. He came to a land he had never seen, to find something he wasn't even sure existed: a wilderness cabin he could use for a year or more to live, think, relax, read, and write. Ordorica found his cabin, fixed it up, and, although it was just an un-insulated 12- by 16 ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Consolations of the Forest

    Alone in a Cabin on the Siberian Taiga

    Translated by Linda Coverdale ...
    A journalist embarks on the adventure of a lifetime—living in a remote cabin in Siberia—in this Thoreau-esque meditation on escaping the chaos of modern life and rediscovering the luxury of solitude.“…wry, exuberant, and a perfect balm for anyone who dreams of running away to the middle of nowhere.”—San Francisco ChronicleNo stranger to inhospitable places, journalist Sylvain Tesson exiles himself ... Read more

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  • The Sea Runners

    by Ivan Doig ...
    In 1853, in the farthest outpost of the Czar’s empire, four Scandinavian indentured servants—seven-year men no better off than slaves—resolve to escape from Russian Alaska. They steal an Indian canoe and point it south toward Astoria, in Oregon, twelve hundred miles away.This novel of audacity is based on a historical incident discovered by the author, and transformed by his imagination into a ... Read more

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  • Boy 30529

    A Memoir

    **A Holocaust survivor reflects on his childhood in Nazi concentration camps, and the hardships of being a postwar refugee, in this deeply moving memoir written with surprising wit and humor.“Weinberg’s graphic memories are haunting . . . an essential title for discussion.” —Booklist**In 1939, 12-year-old Felix Weinberg lost everything: hope, home, and even his own identity. Born into a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Forger of Marseille

    A Novel

    It’s 1939, and all across Europe the Nazis are coming for Jews and anti-fascists. The only way to avoid being imprisoned or murdered is to assume a new identity. For that, people are desperate for papers. And for that, the underground needs forgers.In Paris, Sarah, a young Jewish artist originally from Berlin, along with her music teacher and father figure, Mr. Lieb, meet Cesar, a Spanish ... Read more

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  • Mistress of Life and Death

    The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

    **A gripping, unflinching biography of SS Overseer Maria Mandl, one of the most notorious and contradictory figures at the heart of the Nazi regime, and her transformation from harmless small-town girl to hardened killer.With new details and previously unpublished photographs, this gripping, unflinching examination charts her transformation from engaging country girl to “The Beast” of Auschwitz.* ... Read more

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  • Sisters of Belfast

    A Novel

    by Melanie Maure ...
    In the spirit of Heather Morris, Kate Quinn, and Pam Jenoff, an enthralling and deeply moving story that begins during World War II, about orphaned twin sisters in Ireland whose lives diverge for decades, until fate—and faith—reunite them in the twilight of their lives.Orphaned during the Second World War, Aelish and Isabel McGuire—known as the twins of Belfast—are given over to the austere care ... Read more

    $6.99 USD