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  Glimmer - From the Outskirts of...

  Ilona Wiśniewska

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  ‘On the horizon of the frozen sea there is no trace of light.’ 
   
  In the darkness of the polar night, writer and photographer Ilona Wiśniewska travels to two of the most remote settlements in northern Greenland, where distant geopolitics and the very present climate crisis threaten the traditions and culture of the indigenous people. There, she is welcomed into the homes of the Inughuit community and shares their days, their rituals, their conversations, bearing witness to a way of life increasingly at risk. 
   
  Intertwining arresting photography and storytelling, Glimmer: From the Outskirts of Greenland explores the stark beauty of the polar landscape, and the lives of the people who call it home.

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  Wicked Strange - Your Guide to...

  Jeff Belanger

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  Go legend hunting with explorer of the unexplained Jeff Belanger, visiting haunted places, where monsters lurk, and other roadside oddities. “Legends have always run deep in New England—thankfully, Jeff Belanger is here to uncover them and bring them to life. This collection of mysteries, secrets, and folklore from America’s birthplace is as illuminating as it is fascinating.” —Josh Gates, explorer, host of Discovery’s Expedition Unknown  Wicked Strange is a journey and a celebration of all the things that make New England like no other place on earth. In a time when so much of the world is becoming homogenized—as big-box stores and chain restaurants move in and so many communities lose their identity—we still have these legends. They belong to specific towns and streets. These are stories locals will share with you . . . if they trust you.   This travel guide takes readers on a journey to the strange and frequently unseen world that is often right under their noses. Covering numerous haunted places, environs where mysterious creatures have been spotted, areas where unusual events have happened, eccentric locals, and roadside oddities to explore, noted expert of the strange Jeff Belanger is your guide to all that’s local and strange. Haunted locations from all over New England are covered:  The Haunting of Conimicut Lighthouse—Warwick, Rhode Island  Maine’s Sistine Chapel—South Solon, Maine  Edith Wharton’s Haunted Mansion, The Mount—Lenox, Massachusetts  Emily’s Haunted Bridge—Stowe, Vermont  The Sleeping Giant—Hamden, Connecticut  The Haunted Mt. Washington Hotel—Bretton Woods, New Hampshire  New England is also full of monsters and devils that lurk in the woods, lakes, and seas. Explored are some of the best known and most obscure, including Lake Champlain’s Champ; the Cumberland Vampire of Rhode Island; Gloucester’s Sea Serpent; the Black Dog of West Peak in Meriden, Connecticut; and the Flying Moose of Maine.   Also covered are unusual events, such as UFO sightings (Connecticut’s UFO crash at Bantam Lake / Betty and Barney Hill’s UFO experience), and roadside oddities, such as the World’s Tallest Filing Cabinet (Burlington, VT), Boston’s Big Steaming Tea Kettle, and the literal Fork in the Road of Westport, MA. Wicked Strange takes you off the beaten path, revealing a hidden world right under your nose. Come journey through the towns, hamlets, and hills that hide the strangest of history. Uncover the wickedly strange.

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  Scrambles Amongst the Alps in...

  Edward Whymper

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  The Alpine years that ended on the Matterhorn - the first ascents, the guides, the failures and the accident. Whymper illustrated it with his own engravings and it is the book that made mountaineering a thing English readers wanted to do. Its 78 original illustrations have been carefully restored and coloured for this edition.

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  Deep Sea Creatures: Life in the...

  Nature & Wonders

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  You have watched the ocean documentaries and felt that pull toward the dark water below the last blue light, and then wondered what actually lives down there and how any animal survives it.
  
  This is a descent, one layer at a time, from the sunlit shallows into the trench floor, with one remarkable animal and one genuine wow-behaviour in every chapter. You meet the octopus that rewrites its own skin texture in a heartbeat, the anglerfish carrying a lantern of living bacteria, and the whale fall that feeds an entire city of creatures on the seabed for decades. Everything is told in warm spoken pictures, no textbook language, no prior science needed.
  
  By the end, the deep sea stops feeling alien and starts feeling close, populated and worth loving, and you will know exactly what to look for on your next walk along the shore. Press play and start the descent.

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  Northern Highlands - The Empty...

  Tom Atkinson

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  The Empty Lands are that great area of northern Scotland between Ullapool and Cape Wrath, and between Bonar Bridge and John O'Groats. It is truly the land of the Mountain and the Flood, where land and sea mingle in unsurpassed glory.
  From the pier-head at Ullapool to the Smoo Caves at Durness and from Dornoch Cathedral to Dounreay Nuclear Establishment, Tom Atkinson describes it all, with his usual deep love for the land and its people.
  Myths and legends, history, poetry and a keen eye for the landscape and all its creatures make this book and essential companion for all who travel to that magnificent part of Scotland.

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  The Adverse Childhood...

  Donna Jackson Nakazawa, LCSW...

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  Trauma and its effects can feel like a never-ending storm, and there's no safe harbor in sight from the thoughts and emotions that toss and turn so violently and unpredictably in your head. But healing is possible. Your brain can actually rewire these thoughts and emotions. And you can direct that powerful healing process through journaling. By putting your thoughts to paper, you can identify, choose, and permanently adopt new ways of responding to stress. You can create a new narrative of your life—one that breaks you out of your most deeply ingrained and self-destructive thoughts and behaviors. 
   
   
   
  In this powerful guided journal, internationally acclaimed neuroscience journalist and author Donna Jackson Nakazawa outlines her inspiring, innovative, trauma-informed, and mindful Neural Re-Narrating™ program to help you: acknowledge your past while engaging in the present moment; create a new and empowering written narrative you can revisit again and again; release worry and trauma from your body by putting it onto the page; reduce your anxiety and alleviate symptoms of depression; and access inner calm—even in stressful situations. The act of unburdening oneself is essential when working through troubling or traumatic experiences. Through thoughtful, guided writing experiences, you'll find the strength to live authentically—with hope and optimism for the future.

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