"In the Barrens, a vast wilderness in northern Canada bordering the Arctic Circle, night consumes every hour of the winter. Humans are scarce; ferocious predators roam freely. Locals say spirits do, too. Rookie cop Tana Larsson doesn't mind the dark and quiet. Five months pregnant and hoping to escape the mistakes of her past, she takes a post in Twin Rivers, population 320. Maybe here she can find peace and community for her child. But with her superior...

'... Ben shivered and looked with horror at what he saw. Before his eyes, the water in the lake slowly receded and an icy wind whistled through the window... He could not believe what was happening-everything was disappearing. The lake was a dry hollow, the meadows had become barren, and the trees stood before him stripped of their leaves and bark. The sky darkened and then everything turned white, and he could see a figure standing alone on the frosted...

"When Eric Toensmeier and Jonathan Bates moved into a duplex in a run-down part of Holyoke, Massachusetts, the tenth-of-an-acre lot was barren ground and bad soil, peppered with broken pieces of concrete, asphalt, and brick. The two friends got to work designing what would become not just another urban farm, but a 'permaculture paradise' replete with perennial broccoli, paw paws, bananas, and moringa—all told, more than two hundred low-maintenance...