Heart of the Coast


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How do you dig up a 13,000 year-old footprint? Why do kelp forests need sea otters? How do you measure a shrinking glacier from an airplane? What is a �zombie urchin�? Heart of the Coast brings these questions to life in a deep exploration of the beauty, mystery and biodiversity of the Pacific coast. Join Hakai Institute researchers in the field�archaeologists, oceanographers, marine biologists and beyond�as they journey from the ice fields of Klinaklini Glacier to the dazzling undersea reefs of a place called Crazy Town.British Columbia�s Central Coast is a rich landscape called �a biologist�s dream� and �the Amazon of the north.� Since launching its Calvert Island ecological observatory there in 2009, the Hakai Institute has become a renowned centre of science and exploration. Collaborations with the Smithsonian Institution, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and several First Nations on the BC coast��along with a wide array of scientists hailing from other agencies and universities across North America�have uncovered new species, advanced our knowledge of marine food webs, and helped track the effects of climate change on watersheds and coastal ecosystems.Stunning photography illuminates the institute�s journey of discovery over the past decade. This unforgettable book will inspire you with wonder and awe for the natural world, but be careful�you may learn something along the way.




The Blindness of the Heart


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The international phenomenon and winner of the German Book Prize. “A devastating novel about war, love, and the art of survival” (Marie Claire). Julia Franck’s unforgettable English-language debut, The Blindness of the Heart is a dark marvel of a novel by one of Europe’s freshest young voices—a family story spanning two world wars and several generations in a German family. In the devastating opening scene, a woman named Helene stands with her seven-year-old son in a provincial German railway station in 1945 amid the chaos of civilians fleeing west. Having survived with him through the horror and deprivation of the war years, she abandons him on the station platform and never returns. The story quickly circles back to Helene’s childhood with her sister Martha in rural Germany, which came to an abrupt end with the outbreak of the First World War. Their father is sent to the eastern front, and their Jewish mother withdraws from the hostility of her surroundings into a state of mental confusion. As we follow Helene into adulthood, we watch riveted as the costs of survival and ill-fated love turn her into a woman capable of the unforgiveable. “Enthralling, richly imagined and remorseless.” —The New York Times Book Review “Spellbinding . . . The young woman at the center of Julia Franck’s acclaimed novel The Blindness of the Heart ranks among the most haunting characters to be found in European fiction about twentieth-century horrors . . . At times, the novel feels more like an eyewitness account than historical fiction.” —Vogue “Disturbing, original, and brilliant.” —Guardian (Best Books of 2009)




SEAL at Heart


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Navy SEAL John Roaker's PTSD leads him to physical therapist Laurie Smith, whose unconventional methods unpeel his layers of resistance and unearth secrets that go to the highest levels of the military.




The Left Coast of Paradise


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In the Heart of the Sea


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The Number One best-selling, epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the 19th century, beautifully reissued.




Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea


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A captivating debut, introducing a spirited young heroine coming of age in coastal Maine during the early 1960s. When her mother disappears during a weekend trip, Florine Gilham's idyllic childhood is turned upside down. Until then she'd been blissfully insulated by the rhythms of family life in small town Maine: watching from the granite cliffs above the sea for her father's lobster boat to come into port, making bread with her grandmother, and infiltrating the summer tourist camps with her friends. But with her mother gone, the heart falls out of Florine's life and she and her father are isolated as they struggle to manage their loss. Both sustained and challenged by the advice and expectations of her family and neighbors, Florine grows up with her spirit intact. And when her father's past comes to call, she must accept that life won't ever be the same while keeping her mother vivid in her memories. With Fannie Flagg's humor and Elizabeth Stroud's sense of place, this debut is an extraordinary snapshot of a bygone America through the eyes of an inspiring girl blazing her own path to womanhood.




A East Coast Billionaire Took My Heart For Ransom


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Tru Amor is no stranger to this cold world. After being abandoned by her father when she turned eighteen she has been getting it on her own ever since. She has dreams of leaving her small city and opening her own business so she won't become a product of her environment. Her and her best friend Kartier are like two peas in a pod both of them with big dreams and they have no plans to let anyone come in between them. Until a brush with death walks right into her life because of the actions of someone she least expected. Her entire existence is wiped out and she is left feeling lost and alone with no one to turn to. What happens when love sneaks in and breaks her down? Will she run for cover and live in fear constantly watching her back? Or will she allow love to take her soul straight to a billionaire's heart? Quinzell "Quincy" Jones's life has already been planned for him. Since he was a child his father already had his next move planned out. He has a seat at the Marchetti Cartel because of an arrangement his father made on his behalf even though he was against it. He deals with it head on like he's always done. He is given an assignment but when he gets there he is put in an compromising situation and he doesn't know what to do. Should he do what he is trained to do or go against everything that he lives by? Kartier is straight forward and gets to the point. She thinks that a man is only good for one thing and that's money! Because of her past she has a guard up and she never lets anyone get closed to her but when she meets a guy everything that she has ever known is tested and focuses her to reevaluate her entire life but will he stay when things get hard? Quinton Jones is on a straight and narrow path. Choosing to get into business instead of the street life. He is sent on a job and he ends up falling for an unsuspecting person, putting his skills to the test and bringing his dark side to the light.




A New Coast


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“This is a timely book... [It] should be mandatory reading..." — Minnesota Star Tribune More severe storms and rising seas will inexorably push the American coastline inland with profound impact on communities, infrastructure, and natural systems. In A New Coast, Jeffrey Peterson draws a comprehensive picture of how storms and rising seas will change the coast. Peterson offers a clear-eyed assessment of how governments can work with the private sector and citizens to be better prepared for the coming coastal inundation. Drawing on four decades of experience at the Environmental Protection Agency and the United States Senate, Peterson presents the science behind predictions for coastal impacts. He explains how current policies fall short of what is needed to effectively prepare for these changes and how the Trump Administration has significantly weakened these efforts. While describing how and why the current policies exist, he builds a strong case for a bold, new approach, tackling difficult topics including: how to revise flood insurance and disaster assistance programs; when to step back from the coast rather than build protection structures; how to steer new development away from at-risk areas; and how to finance the transition to a new coast. Key challenges, including how to protect critical infrastructure, ecosystems, and disadvantaged populations, are examined. Ultimately, Peterson offers hope in the form of a framework of new national policies and programs to support local and state governments. He calls for engagement from the private sector and local and national leaders in a “campaign for a new coast.” A New Coast is a compelling assessment of the dramatic changes that are coming to America’s coast. Peterson offers insights and strategies for policymakers, planners, and business leaders preparing for the intensifying impacts of climate change along the coast.




Heart Bones


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Moving, passionate, and unforgettable, this novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover follows two young adults from completely different backgrounds embarking on a tentative romance, unaware of what the future holds. After a childhood filled with poverty and neglect, Beyah Grim finally has her hard-earned ticket out of Kentucky with a full ride to Penn State. But two months before she’s finally free to change her life for the better, an unexpected death leaves her homeless and forced to spend the remainder of her summer in Texas with a father she barely knows. Devastated and anxious for the summer to go by quickly, Beyah has no time or patience for Samson, the wealthy, brooding guy next door. Yet, the connection between them is too intense to ignore. But with their upcoming futures sending them to opposite ends of the country, the two decide to maintain only a casual summer fling. Too bad neither has any idea that a rip current is about to drag both their hearts out to sea.