Thick, crunchy layers of ice and snow once covered land — too cold for even the thickest fur coat and the most padded of paws. A few chilly bears took shelter deep under ground and there they stayed for hundreds of years. Until one little bear went exploring... The Balmaha Bears are back!
A family moves into an old, abandoned house. Jules's parents love the house, but Jules is frightened and feels a sense of foreboding. When she sees a pale face in an upstairs window, though, she can't stop wondering about the eerie presence on the top floor—in a room with a locked door. Could it be someone who lived in the house a century earlier? Her fear replaced by fascination, Jules is…
Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What should we teach our children? Yuval Noah Harari takes us on a thrilling journey through…
This collection of poems is the work of former refugee, Abdul Samad Haidari. The poems, grouped in five sections, give expression to the author's experiences of flight from war torn Afghanistan to Iran as a child of the oppressed Hazara ethnic group, and later travel by boat to Indonesia where he remained as a 'stateless' refugee without his family for 10 years until being accepted in 2023 to l…
One afternoon Sammy takes Tom Rabbit out to the back field to see the real rabbits. The Sammy goes in, leaving Tom Rabbit outside on the wall. The sun sets. The moon rises. And the real rabbits come...