Is a River Alive?The River’s Daughter is a captivating journey into the heart of nature, exploring the mystical idea that rivers are living beings. Through enchanting storytelling, Bridget Crocker takes the reader on an unforgettable adventure, weaving through the majestic landscapes of Ecuador, India, and Canada.

This novel invites readers to see rivers as more than mere water flows but as vibrant entities that share in the fate of our planet. With a rich narrative filled with extraordinary characters and breathtaking settings, this book challenges perspectives and opens hearts to the beauty and importance of our natural world.

Join this magical expedition and discover the life that flows within rivers, reminding us of the interconnectedness of all living things.

A Cat, A Seagull, An Impossible Task... Caught up in an oil spill, a dying seagull scrambles ashore to lay her final egg and lands on a balcony, where she meets Zorba, a big black cat from the port of Hamburg. The cat promises the seagull to look after the egg, not to eat the chick once it's hatched and - most difficult of all - to teach the baby gull to fly. Will Zorba and his feline friends honour the promise and give Lucky, the adopted little seagull, the strength to discover her true nature?

The Last White Ruby: The Vanishing Polar Circles is a captivating poetry collection that delves into the experiences of living and working in the polar environment. Ronnie Smith, an aviator who spent many years flying for the US Air Force in these extreme regions, shares his unique perspective.

Through his keen sensitivity to the human condition, Smith brings the surreal landscapes and flying phenomena to life, inviting readers to explore the beauty, danger, and unusual wonders of the polar regions. The elements present an ever-present challenge, as extreme cold and wilderness confront aviators and seamen with uncompromising force.

These remote regions, where nature reigns supreme, also offer scientists early clues about global warming and environmental decay. Smith's portrayal captures the pristine beauty and the vital role the icecaps play as the planet's cooling mechanism, a beauty we risk losing due to climate change.

With eloquent prose, Smith transports readers to places few will ever see, allowing them to appreciate the fragile magnificence of the polar circles.

BEWARE! THE PLANET IS WOUNDED... THE GEMINI ARE RISING AND OUR TIME ON EARTH IS LIMITED

Angry at the human race and its methodical destruction of her resources, Mother Earth recruits souls who have just left their bodies to serve Her, and turns them against humanity. Gemini, a clan of paranormal beings, picked from these possessed humans, emerges. A powerful, rising force proceeds to carry out Mother Nature’s plan to systematically destroy towns, cities, states… and eventually, the world.

Amidst the chaos, a forbidden relationship between a human girl, Violette, and Onyx, a lead Gemini, begins. They will both find themselves in the middle of a revolutionary war that will either save, or destroy our world.

Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between enthusiastic carnivore and occasional vegetarian. On the brink of fatherhood, facing the prospect of having to make dietary choices on a child's behalf, his casual questioning took on an urgency.

His quest for answers required him to visit factory farms in the middle of the night, dissect the emotional ingredients of meals from his childhood, and probe some of his most primal instincts about right and wrong. Eating Animals explores the many fictions we use to justify our eating habits—from folklore to pop culture to family traditions—and how such tales can lull us into a brutal forgetting.

Marked by Foer's profound moral ferocity and unvarying generosity, as well as the vibrant style and creativity that made his previous books widely loved, Eating Animals is a celebration and a reckoning, a story about the stories we've told—and the stories we now need to tell.

There are more crows now than ever. Their abundance is both an indicator of ecological imbalance and a generous opportunity to connect with the animal world.

Crow Planet reminds us that we do not need to head to faraway places to encounter nature. Rather, even in the suburbs and cities where we live, we are surrounded by wildlife such as crows, and through observing them, we can enhance our appreciation of the world's natural order.

Crow Planet richly weaves Haupt's own "crow stories" as well as scientific and scholarly research and the history and mythology of crows, culminating in a book that is sure to make readers see the world around them in a very different way.

For her birthday, Vicky receives the gift of a trip to the Antarctic, where her friend Adam Eddington is working as a marine biologist. But as Vicky meets her fellow travelers, it quickly becomes clear that some of them are not what they seem. Vicki's trip into adventure becomes a journey into icy danger.

In book five of the Austin Family Chronicles, Vicky Austin experiences the difficulties and joys of growing up. After a year in New York City and a summer with her grandfather, Vicky Austin returns to the rural Connecticut village she grew up in—and feels totally out of place. Then, she meets Adam Eddington's Great Aunt Serena, who reminds her of her beloved grandfather, and she begins to find a comfortable, if not exciting, routine to her days.

At Christmas, Serena gives Vicky a trip to Antarctica, to visit Adam. Vicky can't believe her luck. But the trip is not what Vicky imagined it would be. First of all, she doesn't know where she stands with Adam. He's pulled back, saying they are just friends. But weren't they more than that, Vicky thinks. And Vicky's fellow passengers are not what they seem or they are more than she knows. Finally, even Aunt Serena's motives are suspect, as Vicky discovers a journal that belonged to Adam's famous uncle who disappeared many years earlier.

As Vicky becomes more and more caught up in a mystery involving drugs, nuclear waste, and international espionage, she discovers that her assumptions about the world are hopelessly naive and that life, hers included, is as fragile as the ecosystem of Antarctica, the world's most remote continent.