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Large masses of ice move slowly across the land. Over thousands of years, glaciers greatly shaped the land. Listen to Glaciers to find out how this landform continues to change Earth.

Glaciers: The Politics of Ice is a scientific, cultural, and political examination of the cryosphere - the earth's ice - and the environmental policies that aim to protect it. Jorge Daniel Taillant discusses the debates and negotiations behind the passing of the world's first glacier protection law in the mid-2000s and reveals the tension between the industry experts, politicians, and glacier conservationists.

Since that fateful day she was snatched from her job and turned into a Vampire, Mandy's life has sucked - literally. Forced to become an assassin for the Vampire Council, she finds solace in taking out the scumbag rogues she's often assigned to kill. Things go south when she realizes her next mark is an old coworker from her human days…a seriously hot one, who she had deep feelings for.

Trouble is brewing in the small town of Trafalgar. Constable Smith nearly stumbles over a body, the victim of a murder. The deceased was a highly unpopular newcomer who had big plans for developing a luxury resort outside of town.

Jack Slade and Sam Healey, flying partners during World War II, establish a bush pilot business in Alaska after the war. When their C-47 Dakota is forced down on a glacier by a wolverine in the cargo deck that breaks out of its cage, they discover a valley that offers the realization each man's dreams. To Jack Slade, it’s the ideal place to homestead, raise a family, and live simply as a professional hunting and fishing guide; to Healey, the pool of crude oil he locates under the glacial ice promises the wealth he always wanted.

Isabel is a single, twentysomething thrift-store shopper and collector of remnants, things cast off or left behind by others. Glaciers follows Isabel through a day in her life in which work with damaged books in the basement of a library, unrequited love for the former soldier who fixes her...

Going-to-the-Sun Road, in Glacier National Park, is one of the most spectacular drives in the world. It promises sensational mountain scenery and the opportunity to view wildlife up close. You won’t be disappointed!

In The Big Melt, Rolling Stone contributing editor and leading environmental journalist Jeff Goodell takes the listener up close and personal to one of the world’s most remote locations—Western Antarctica—and to the foot of the staggeringly important Thwaites Glacier.

Count Hamnet Thyssen is a minor noble of the drowsy old Raumsdalian Empire. Its capital city, Nidaros, began as a mammoth hunters camp at the edge of the great Glacier. But that was centuries ago, and as everyone knows, its the nature of the great Glacier to withdraw a few feet every year. Trasamund, a clan chief of the mammoth-herding Bizogots, the next tribe north, has come to town with strange news. A narrow gap has opened in what they'd always thought was an endless and impregnable wall of ice.

Caine Moreno liebt seinen Job als Feuerwehrmann, seine Freiheit und Frauen. Mit Letzteren ist allerdings Schluss, als Sadie, die Cousine seines besten Freundes, bei ihm einzieht. Die feurige Schönheit ist absolut tabu, was das Zusammenleben nicht gerade einfacher macht. Ein neuer Job, eine neue Stadt, eine neue Wohnung – Sadie McKinney kann ihr Glück kaum fassen, zumindest, bis sie Caine begegnet. Der attraktive Firefighter schafft es wie kein Zweiter, sie auf die Palme zu bringen.

From New York Times bestselling author R. A. Salvatore comes the follow-up to Starlight Enclave and thrilling second novel in his newest trilogy, The Way of the Drow, expanding the Forgotten Realms through the adventures of Drizzt, Catti-brie, Jarlaxle, Artemis Entreri, and Zaknefein…and a...

Pour le comprendre, d'abord tu devras savoir que ton père avait un frère dont il ne t'a jamais parlé. Ensuite, que ce frère vient de mourir. Et pour finir, que tu es cité dans son testament comme seul héritier d'une mystérieuse propriété à El Chaltén, un village idyllique de Patagonie. Tu voyageras jusque là-bas pour la vendre, mais tu commettras l'erreur de poser trop de questions. Tu comprendras alors que, trente ans après le crime, à El Chaltén se cache quelqu'un qui est décidé à te rayer de la carte pour que tu n'arrives pas à la vérité.

It is 10,000 B.C. In the receding ice age of the vast Tanana River Valley of interior Alaska, mammoth hunters encounter a mysterious and beautiful treasure.

The King family wouldn't have lasted as long as they have in the remote, perilous Rockies if they didn't know a thing or two about survival. But even after all these years, the wilderness has a few surprises for them. There's something not quite right about a glacier high atop a peak near their valley. The Indians claim it’s bad medicine and won't go near it. Of course, that doesn't stop Louisa King from cajoling her husband to go on a getaway up to the high country. But something terrible lives on that glacier....

Cet essai chante la vie, la nature, l’amour. Olivier Dodane se sert des mots pour soulager les maux, les siens dû à un cancer, ceux de son ami de toujours, un glacier qui souffre du réchauffement climatique, de la nature qui l’entoure et qui révèle nos obsessions humaines. Cet ovni littéraire entre essai et poésie emmène le lecteur hors des sentiers battus pour mieux approcher nos âmes en délicatesse. Avec pudeur aussi, comme si près des cimes, la poésie permettait de mieux exprimer la beauté de la vie...de la ressentir avec plus de vigueur encore.

The official website for the studio Glacier Road. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1HwW0Msd5N_b199BmrjFjYqayDBfJAQEsafRzLdhKSk0/edit

As The Campground Kids head to Montana to visit Glacier National Park, they find this trip is nothing short of bizarre. It all starts when their truck breaks down, and they use a loaner from a local displaying an odd bumper sticker. On their way into the park, they are nearly run off the road by another driver. While setting up camp, they hear yelling in the distance between two people. To top it off, Ethan insists a yeti is running wild in the woods.

Heart of the Dawn: Ascendant* is the latest installment in the acclaimed Heart of the Dawn universe, created by Chad Tait. This epic drama promises to deepen the rich narratives established in previous seasons. The first season will feature 15 gripping episodes that delve into the lives of familiar characters while introducing fresh faces that will shape the story's future.

Heart of the Dawn: Part VI marks a significant entry into the epic crime saga set in the Heart of the Dawn universe. This installment is the first main chapter in Trenton Parker’s journey since 2018's *Heart of the Dawn: Destruction*. With *Part VI*, we embark on a fresh narrative that promises to be grander, more cinematic, and deeply story-driven than its predecessors.

What exactly lies beyond the treacherous and previously impassable Canadian glacier? From the collection In Search of the Unknown comes a chilling tale of the things nature can do when nobody’s watching.