"The Heat Will Kill You First is about the extreme ways in which our planet is already changing. It is about why spring is coming a few weeks earlier and fall is coming a few weeks later and the impact that will have on everything from our food supply to disease outbreaks. It is about what will happen to our lives and our communities when typical summer days in Chicago or Boston go from 90°F to 110°F. A heatwave, Goodell explains, is a predatory...

"When you run, you get hot. When you sit still, you get cold. Heat is always moving in and out of our bodies."--

Abigail, Ralphie, and the other citizens of Lumberville struggle to endure a week-long heat wave.

Stanley goes for a drive on a hot day in the countryside.

Trying to pretend he is sick by warming up a thermometer, Tom Thomas accidently breaks the device. Now he needs the help of the Fixies to clean up the dangerous mercury.

Tom Thomas doesn't know where to hide the ice cream cone he bought as a Mother's Day gift. Simka's suggestion to store it inside a thermos in dad's office seems like a good idea until Nolik gets trapped inside.

Nolik gets stuck to a piece of chewing gum and Tom Thomas puts him in the freezer to help get it off. Unfortunately he forgets that he left Nolik inside of there. How will Nolik escape from this danger?

"This book shows readers the awesome power of heat waves and droughts"--

Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads. William Least-Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map--if they get on at all--only because some cartographer has a blank space to fill: Remote, Oregon; Simplicity, Virginia; New Freedom, Pennsylvania; New Hope, Tennessee; Why,...