Scientist and bestselling nature writer Bill Streever goes to any extreme to explore wind -- the winds that built empires, the storms that wreck them -- by traveling right through it. Narrating from a 50-year-old sailboat, Streever leads readers through the world's first forecasts, Chaos Theory, and a future affected by climate change. Along the way, he shares stories of wind-riding spiders, wind-sculpted landscapes, wind-generated power, wind-tossed airplanes, and the uncomfortable interactions between wind and wars, drawing from natural science, history, business, travel, as well as from his own travels. An effortless personal narrative featuring the keen observations, scientific rigor, and whimsy.

"Burton's second novel (following The Miniaturist) is a complex, vividly drawn tale centering on a mysterious painting from 1930s Spain brought to a London art institute in 1967, [involving] Trinidad-born Odelle Bastien, who works in late '60s London at a posh art institute where she becomes the protege of an eccentric office manager, Marjorie Quick, while adjusting to life in a new country. . .Olive's aspirations to be a painter are quashed by her father's misogynistic views toward women artists. . . unexpected and impressive, a most original story about creative freedom, finding one's voice, and the quest for artistic redemption." - Publishers Weekly

One night in 1917, Beatrice Haven sneaks out of her uncle's house on Cape Ann, Massachusetts, leaves her newborn baby at the foot of a pear tree, and watches as another woman claims the infant as her own. The unwed daughter of wealthy Jewish industrialists and a gifted pianist bound for Radcliffe, Bea plans to leave her shameful secret behind and make a fresh start. Ten years later, Prohibition is in full swing, post-WWI America is in the grips of rampant xenophobia, and Bea inadvertently reunites with the woman who has been raising her abandoned child -- now named Lucy Pear, with secrets of her own.

"Brilliant scientist Jason Dessen was on the verge of a major breakthrough when his life took a different turn -- instead of completing his work on quantum superposition, he married his pregnant girlfriend and now lives a relatively happy life. . .until the night he is abducted and bludgeoned, and wakes up in a different time and place . . . or, perhaps, it's a different plane. Turns out there's another world, one where Jason [went on to] create a box that can transport someone into a parallel universe. . .but all Jason really wants is to get home to his wife and son. . ." - Booklist, Starred Review

This is the unauthorized, uncensored and unbelievable true story behind the making of a pop culture phenomenon. The original Star Trek series debuted in 1966 and has spawned five TV series spin-offs and a dozen feature films, with an upcoming one from Paramount arriving in 2016. The Fifty-Year Mission is a no-holds-barred oral history of five decades of Star Trek, told by the people who were there. Hear from the hundreds of television and film executives, programmers, writers, creators and cast as they unveil the oftentimes shocking story of Star Trek's ongoing 50-year mission.