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A CBC Best Canadian Nonfiction Book of 2020 In a book equal parts travelogue and pandemic guide, the journalist Ethan Lou examines the societal effects of COVID-19 and takes us on a mesmerizing journey around a world that will never be the same. Visiting Beijing in January 2020 to see his dying...

Amma—Mata Amritanandamayi—is a cosmic dynamo of spiritual light, love, and power. To say she is the greatest spiritual light the world has ever known is a bold but provable statement. Also known as the “Hugging Saint”, she travels the world having hugged more than 35 million people in the last 40 years. These are not ordinary hugs but transcendental hugs—hugs flowing with the nectar of incomprehensible love, compassion, and supreme power.

‘A compulsive thriller’ Ann Cleeves ‘Not to be missed!’ Daniel Sellers His team is compromised As dusk falls the night before the trial of notorious crime boss Thomas Unwin, the prosecution’s star witness is brutally murdered, his killer escaping in plain sight from a secure hotel. His...

Did you know bears never die? There are many unknown facts about these fur-adorned mammals. Because the hard truths about bears can be difficult to process, society often shields itself from the realities of the true threat bears pose to mankind. Every book written on bears has been a lie. People live under the false impression that bears can be avoided, that bear attacks are survivable, and even that bears are not immortal. Suffice it to say, people have a lot to learn about bears, bear safety, bear attacks, and the impending war between man and bear.

My favorite time of year meets my favorite thrill. Amusement rides and haunted houses. Only, there’s a jester following me through each attraction. An unexpected overshot leads to broken rules and midnight promises. A new job with a strict code. Don’t touch the attendees. But, they didn’t say I couldn’t keep an eye on her. A fortunate miscalculation has me ready to risk it all.

Have you ever looked at your dog and had half a dozen questions flit through your brain? Dogs have a history as long as humans do and in all that time, they have undergone more changes than a person might expect. From hunting to companionship, these animals have worked alongside people for centuries.

Volume I is the account of the rise and fall of the first creation, the Light-Bringer, and The Great War in Heaven. The Great War that begot all wars, and stained the seven realms with blood and clashes of combat across its kozmic firmament. A Great War that no mortal mind could even begin to fathom that is, until now.

Amren is dead. But he doesn't want to be. He wants to go on living with his master. Still dead, Amren goes looking for him, just in time to save his master from assassination. With Amren's resurrection, the scientific and political worlds ignite in a battle for control over him. Amren learns that he can do things, but not even his master truly understands what is happening to him. Amren must discover who and what he is, before he is torn from everything he loves.

Kaysa enjoys a carefree life within the cozy village of Quenthell. She knows nothing of the world of Kel’Thara, or the great life tree Tharador, save for stories and legends told by the village elders. Born in peace and plenty, the young elf has no desire to see more than what the next day brings. Yet, soon, chance and circumstance will shatter Kaysa’s world forever, and with it all she knows and loves.

Including evidence from the Old Testament and the New Testament, combined with historical and scientific facts, with this book, Enrix enlightens listeners with a fresh perspective about the concrete reality of God's word. The Secret Science of the Bible will open your eyes to creation, the science of good and evil of this world, and God's plan for salvation.

Hadrian made a promise to the new creator of Eden: find the scattered incubi and bring them home. But his intentions weren’t completely pure. Two thousand years ago, he lost his own incubus when he made the biggest mistake of his life. Now that he’s free from his involuntary service and seen the restored Garden of Eden, he’s convinced his incubus could be alive. He’ll do anything to find Pheo again.

We live in an age of connection, one that is accelerated by the Internet. This increasingly ubiquitous, immensely powerful technology often leads us to assume that as the number of people online grows, it inevitably leads to a smaller, more cosmopolitan world. We’ll understand more, we think. We’ll know more. We’ll engage more and share more with people from other cultures. In reality, it is easier to ship bottles of water from Fiji to Atlanta than it is to get news from Tokyo to New York.

The world is not what we think. It is a dark place where politicians and special interests force us into rebellion. Revolts have their price and the best of us pay the tax -through violence! Now, we are on the edge of the unknown, with only the combat-action-reports of The Venger to guide us. From the moment New Orleans was put to the torch, to the sacking of Panama and the invasion of West Africa -The war is on! Here, you'll survive shipwrecks, cannibals and... dreaded politicians.

This binge-worthy romance collection is packed with grumpy/sunshine, forced proximity, protective heroes, and curvy heroines who refuse to let these rugged men stay lonely for long. They swear they don’t want love, but in Wolf Valley? The grumps always fall first.

Shadows are not born, they're made. A boy and his brother want to do more than survive, they want to live, but in a place where even flowers bloom wilted and the ground is dead, that is nearly impossible. Two boys grow up and find love in the darkest places only to have it stolen away in a torrent of traumatic experiences until their only option is to make the ultimate sacrifice to save The ones they will leave behind.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Stephen Hawking’s closest collaborator offers the intellectual superstar’s final thoughts on the cosmos—a dramatic revision of the theory he put forward in A Brief History of Time. “This superbly written book offers insight into an extraordinary individual...

A poignant masterpiece of wrenching personal expression from the author of On the Road and The Dharma Bums In this 1962 novel, Kerouac's alter ego Jack Duluoz, overwhelmed by success and excess, gravitates back and forth between wild binges in San Francisco and an isolated cabin on the...

Most knights want to slay dragons. Sir Percival just wants to find a very sturdy bush to hide behind. In the Kingdom of Nitetown, bravery is measured by the size of your sword and the loudness of your roar. Sir Percival has a very small sword and a roar that sounds more like a polite cough. He spends his days polishing his armor not for battle, but so he can use it as a mirror to see what’s sneaking up behind him.

An epic new fantasy about a demon hunter and a foot soldier thrown together in a centuries-old war. . . and the forbidden love that could change the course of history. A bloody war between demons and the Vatican has waged for more than a century, with two elite soldiers now at its center: Selene...

“The Serpent King is a book you won’t be able to resist or forget. The Southern boy in me savored every syllable and the reader in me fell in love with every page.” —John Corey Whaley, National Book Award finalist and Printz Award winner Dill has had to wrestle with vipers his whole...