"Whether you want to spot wildlife in national parks, step foot on a glacier, or ski on world-class slopes, the local Fodor's travel experts in the Canadian Rockies are here to help! Fodor's Canadian Rockies guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. This new edition has been designed with an easy-to-read layout, fresh information,...

The internationally acclaimed author presents her first collection of poetry in over a decade that addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, nature, and zombies.

Amy, Ty , Jack and Tim sacrifice Christmas at Heartland to save starving horses trapped by and avalanche in a remote mountain area, in the process bringing together and town and a family divided by a long-ago tragedy.

"Sittenfeld was met by the same feeling selecting the stories for this year's edition. The result is a striking and nuanced collection, bringing to life awkward college students, disgraced public figures, raunchy grandparents, and mystical godmothers. To read these stories is to experience the transporting joys of discovery and affirmation, and to realize that story writing in America continues to flourish."--Provided by publisher.

"When three siblings run away to hide in the mountains, they have to face search parties, hunger, injury -- and the danger of their team unravelling. First a Canadian Rockies avalanche kills their parents. Then Children's Services threatens to separate them. That's when the three Gunnarsson kids, Jon, Korka, and Aron, decide to run away into the mountains and fend for themselves until Jon turns eighteen and becomes their legal guardian. But can they...

In her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2021, guest editor Jesmyn Ward says that the best fiction offers the reader a "sense of repair." The stories in this year's collection accomplish just that, immersing the reader in powerfully imagined worlds and allowing them to bring some of that power into their own lives. From a stirring portrait of Rodney King's final days to a surreal video game set in the Middle East,with real consequences,...

Roach has been living on the streets since age 14, he's rebellious, loud and defiant. As part of S.P.I.T., Roach has been given a camera to document his world. The footage he gets is urgent, because there's a war against squeegee kids. The RoachCAM is positioned behind enemy lines: living in derelict buildings, squeegeeing for money, being hunted by police. The viewer is forced to look at the living reality of Roach and his friends: Hungry on the...

Collects a series of humorous short stories that explore the things kids think about, from what trees talk about to lies their mother tells them.

"A collection of five spine-tingling short stories"--