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Summer Thomas thought she had it all; a great job as a professional in a major marketing firm, an amazing fiancé she adored and a life she loved in New York. But after a devastating realization comes to light and crumbles all of her illusions, she decides to do something drastic to change her life. She buys a rustic cabin in the backwoods of Alaska sight unseen from the internet. Within a matter of days, she is off on what she considers to be an exciting adventure that she has idealized since her childhood with her loving parents, whom, she has since lost to tragedy. However, as things ...

A beleaguered young lecturer. A striving adventurer. A remote Arctic community beset by modern problems and an ancient mystery. Jennifer Ritter, biologist, is stuck in New York. She yearns to get back to stunning Svalbard and the supportive relationships she found there. But Svalbard is moving forward on its own. Heavy snowfall and random violence are creating their own chaos in the wretched dark of polar winter. Will the sparkling Arctic spring ever arrive? And will Jen arrive with it? The surprising conclusion to the evocative Svalbard series.

In The Arctic, Klaus Dodds and Mark Nuttall offer concise answers to the myriad questions that arise when looking at the circumpolar North. They focus on its peoples, politics, environment, resource development, and conservation to provide critical information about how changes there can, and will, affect our entire globe and all of its inhabitants. Dodds and Nuttall explore how the Arctic's importance has grown over time, the region's role during the Cold War, indigenous communities and their history, and the past and future of the Arctic's governance.

In 1912, the SS Birmingham approaches India. On board is Morgan Forster, novelist and man of letters. It will be another 12 years, and a second time spent in India, before A Passage to India, E. M. Forster's great work of literature, is published. During these years, Morgan will come to a profound understanding of the infinite subtleties and complexity of human nature.