North Korea’s political prison camps have existed twice as long as Stalin’s Soviet gulags and twelve times as long as the Nazi concentration camps. No one born and raised in these camps is known to have escaped.
Read MoreThe year is 1967, the town is Pocatello, Idaho. Fresh out of high school, Rigby John is leaving behind his bohemian ex-girlfriend, his prayerful mother, his distant father, and the hay dust of his harsh farm town Catholic upbringing. As he stands by the side of the road desperately waiting for that one ride out, he reflects on the events that brought him there: the discovery of love, friendship, literature, and all the small joys that set him...
Read MoreJordan Thorne was a normal person on NESS (nicknamed Nessie), a spaceship that escaped Earth’s destruction many years before his time. Then, Jordan finds a signal that could mean Earth actually did not get destroyed. The ship’s government decides to take a trip back, but another organization has different plans for Nessie.
Read MoreWith his latest book, Friedman brings a fresh and provocative outlook to another pressing issue: the interlinked crises of destabilizing climate change and rising competition for energy–both of which could poison our world if we do not act quickly and collectively.
Read MoreAn atlas of cool world maps that teaches twenty-first century kids new ways of seeing our changing Earth’s history, people, environment, and wildlife.
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