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This book is currently available at The Islander Bookshop in Kodiak, Alaska. Stop in to the shop, or purchase online. Pick-up, delivery, and mailing services are available. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores.

This book is currently available at The Islander Bookshop in Kodiak, Alaska. Stop in to the shop, or purchase online. Pick-up, delivery, and mailing services are available. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores.

This book is currently available at The Islander Bookshop in Kodiak, Alaska. Stop in to the shop, or purchase online. Pick-up, delivery, and mailing services are available. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores.

This book is currently available at The Islander Bookshop in Kodiak, Alaska. Stop in to the shop, or purchase online. Pick-up, delivery, and mailing services are available. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores.

This book is currently available at The Islander Bookshop in Kodiak, Alaska. Stop in to the shop, or purchase online. Pick-up, delivery, and mailing services are available. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores.

This book is currently available at The Islander Bookshop in Kodiak, Alaska. Stop in to the shop, or purchase online. Pick-up, delivery, and mailing services are available. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores.

This book is currently available at The Islander Bookshop in Kodiak, Alaska. Stop in to the shop, or purchase online. Pick-up, delivery, and mailing services are available. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores.

This book is currently available at The Islander Bookshop in Kodiak, Alaska. Stop in to the shop, or purchase online. Pick-up, delivery, and mailing services are available. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores.

This book is currently available at The Islander Bookshop in Kodiak, Alaska. Stop in to the shop, or purchase online. Pick-up, delivery, and mailing services are available. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores.

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Pucked series comes a romantic comedy about instant attraction, second chances, and not-so-little white lies.

Sometimes I need an escape from the demands, the puck bunnies, and the notoriety that come with being an NHL team captain. I just want to be a normal guy for a few weeks. So when I leave Chicago for some peace and quiet, the last thing I expect is for a gorgeous woman to literally fall into my lap on a flight to Alaska. Even better, she has absolutely no idea who I am.

Lainey is the perfect escape from my life. My plan for seclusion becomes a monthlong sex fest punctuated with domestic bliss. But it ends just as abruptly as it began. When I’m called away on a family emergency, I realize too late that I have no way to contact Lainey.

A year later, a chance encounter throws Lainey and me together again. But I still have a lie hanging over my head, and Lainey’s keeping secrets of her own. With more than lust at stake, the truth may be our game changer.

This book is currently available at The Islander Bookshop in Kodiak, Alaska. Stop in to the shop, or purchase online. Pick-up, delivery, and mailing services are available. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores.

This book is currently available at The Islander Bookshop in Kodiak, Alaska. Stop in to the shop, or purchase online. Pick-up, delivery, and mailing services are available. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores.

This book is currently available at The Islander Bookshop in Kodiak, Alaska. Stop in to the shop, or purchase online. Pick-up, delivery, and mailing services are available. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores.

This book is currently available at The Islander Bookshop in Kodiak, Alaska. Stop in to the shop, or purchase online. Pick-up, delivery, and mailing services are available. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores.

One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best History Books of 2021



A captivating, surprising history of timekeeping and how it has shaped our world.

For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in the Middle Ages, the Stock Exchange clock of Amsterdam in 1611, Enlightenment observatories in India, and the high-precision clocks circling the Earth on a fleet of GPS satellites that have been launched since 1978. Clocks have helped us navigate the world and build empires, and have even taken us to the brink of destruction. Elites have used them to wield power, make money, govern citizens, and control lives—and sometimes the people have used them to fight back.

Through the stories of twelve clocks, About Time brings pivotal moments from the past vividly to life. Historian and lifelong clock enthusiast David Rooney takes us from the unveiling of al-Jazari’s castle clock in 1206, in present-day Turkey; to the Cape of Good Hope observatory at the southern tip of Africa, where nineteenth-century British government astronomers moved the gears of empire with a time ball and a gun; to the burial of a plutonium clock now sealed beneath a public park in Osaka, where it will keep time for 5,000 years.

Rooney shows, through these artifacts, how time has been imagined, politicized, and weaponized over the centuries—and how it might bring peace. Ultimately, he writes, the technical history of horology is only the start of the story. A history of clocks is a history of civilization.

This book is currently available at The Islander Bookshop in Kodiak, Alaska. Stop in to the shop, or purchase online. Pick-up, delivery, and mailing services are available. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores.

This book is currently available at The Islander Bookshop in Kodiak, Alaska. Stop in to the shop, or purchase online. Pick-up and mailing services are available. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores.

This book is currently available at The Islander Bookshop in Kodiak, Alaska. Stop in to the shop, or purchase online. Pick-up, delivery, and mailing services are available. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores.

This book is currently available at The Islander Bookshop in Kodiak, Alaska. Stop in to the shop, or purchase online. Pick-up, delivery, and mailing services are available. Thank you for supporting indie bookstores.