Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000
Megan Elias2026-09-30T13:31:17-04:00The long-awaited collection by one of the most distinguished poets working today.…
Silent Spring
Megan Elias2026-09-30T13:31:17-04:00Rarely does a single book alter the course of history, but Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring did exactly that. The outcry that followed its publication in 1962 forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water.…
Best Short Stories of Edgar Allen Poe
Megan Elias2026-11-02T14:22:46-05:00This volume contains a collection of some of the best short stories ever written by Edgar Allan Poe.
A master of the macabre, Poe exhibits his literary prowess in these classic short stories.
Contained within this volume are the following: eleonora, the black cat, the masque of the Red death, the house of usher, the masque of the Red death, the murders in the Rue morg, the pit and the pendulum and the assignation.…
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass – An American Slave
Megan Elias2026-09-30T13:31:17-04:00Douglass begins by saying that he does not know his birthday and this bothers him.
What a simple statement yet is conveys so much of the laments of an ex slave and the cruelty of the slave system.
Douglass was a famous orator who wrote his memoirs as a means of discussing abolition.…
Dead Moose on Isle Royale: Off Trail with the Citizen Scientists of the Wolf-Moose Project
Megan Elias2026-09-30T13:31:17-04:00Isle Royale in Michigan is one of the most remote and pristine of all the U.S. national parks, and it is the site of the world’s longest-running predator-prey study. Every summer, Jeffrey M. Holden leads groups of citizen scientists on week-long expeditions to search for dead moose.…
The Globalization of Wheat: A Critical History of the Green Revolution
Megan Elias2026-09-30T13:31:17-04:00In The Globalization of Wheat, Marci R. Baranski explores Norman Borlaug’s complicated legacy as godfather of the Green Revolution. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his role in fighting global hunger, Borlaug, an American agricultural scientist and plant breeder who worked for the Rockefeller Foundation, left a legacy that divides opinions even today.…
Smokescreen: Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save Our Forests and Our Climate
Megan Elias2026-11-02T14:23:32-05:00Natural fires are as essential as sun and rain in fire-adapted forests, but as humans encroach on wild spaces, fear, arrogance, and greed have shaped the way that people view these regenerative events and given rise to misinformation that threatens whole ecosystems as well as humanity’s chances of overcoming the climate crisis.…
The Last Free Women: A Daring Escape from Afghanistan & Coming of Age in America
Madison Wood2026-10-02T14:02:44-04:00…
Marble Hall Murders by Anthony Horowitz | PBS Books Readers Club
Megan Elias2026-10-29T08:37:06-04:00…
