"In the third novel in this highly praised mystery series, Edie Kiglatuk works as a summer school teacher in the Canadian arctic. When one of her female students is found dead in nearby Lake Turngaluk, Edie enlists the help of Sergeant Derek Palliser to pursue the case, promising the girl's Inuit family that they will uncover the truth. Meanwhile, lawyer Sonia Gutierrez investigates the toxicity of the lake and suspects that there might be a larger...

By examining relicst̄he bits and pieces of long-dead saints at the heart of nearly all religious traditionsP̄eter Manseau delivers a book about life, and about faith and how it is sustained. The result of wide travel and the author?s own deep curiosity, filled with true tales of the living and dubious legends of the dead, Rag and Bone tells of a California seeker who ended up in a Jerusalem convent because of a nun?s disembodied hand; a French forensics...

From the joy and anguish of her own experience, Sexton fashioned poems that told truths about the inner lives of men and women. This book comprises Sexton's ten volumes of verse, including the Pulitzer Prize-winner Live or Die, as well as seven poems form her last years.

"The Big Book of Belonging is a timely celebration of all the ways that humans are connected to life on planet Earth. With children at the heart of every beautifully illustrated spread, this book draws parallels between the way humans, plants, and animals live and behave. We all breathe the same air and take warmth from the same sun, we grow, we adapt to the seasons, and we live together in family groups. Readers will be fascinated to learn that instead...

I'm not a yogi from the Himalayas, a preacher from the pulpit, or a guru with dollar signs in my eyes, says Chris Grosso. The truth is, as a result of years of heavy drug and alcohol addiction, I've been to some extremely dark places that resulted in a literal life-or-death search for something more. Now this emerging voice of the spiritual counterculture presents a riveting and insightful book about meditation, the search for deeper meaning, and...

A compilation of six volumes of the author's poetry: Chicago poems (1916), Cornhuskers (1918), Smoke and steel (1920), Slabs of the sunburnt West (1922), Good morning, America (1925), and The people, yes (1936); and a new section of 74 poems not previously collected.