Teaches safety measures to take when handling firearms.

Like countless others in 1931, Samuel Wortham lost his job. And he lost his wife's inheritance, their home, and much of his self-respect. Samuel, his wife, Julia, and their two young children hitchhike from Pennsylvania to Illinois in hope of work. Caught on the road by a sudden storm, the Worthams take shelter in an abandoned farmhouse out of desperation. Feeling oddly at home, Julia insists on finding the owner of the property, despite Samuel's...

Following an acrimonious divorce and the experience of being pursued by a stalker, criminal defense attorney Emily Graham accepts an offer to work in a major law firm in Manhattan. She buys her ancestral home, a restored Victorian house in the resort town of Spring Lake, New Jersey. Her family had sold the house in 1892, after one of Emily's forebears, Madeline Shapley, a young girl, disappeared. Now, more than a century later, as the house's backyard...

Covers the history of gun control and the laws' relationships to the Second Amendment, the controversies surrounding what types of gun control are legal and effective, and what gun control and gun violence look like today in the United States and around the world.

The external lives of Clark, a high school guidance counselor, and Charlotte, a bookkeeper, are utterly ordinary, but their interior lives are as bold and complex as abstract paintings colored by imagined possibilities, childhood joys and, more darkly, by deeply buried fears. When Clark rescues a young boy from drowning, a chain of events, some comic, some harrowing, is set in motion, revealing the fault lines of the couple's marriage and individual...

We live in the Age of the Gun. Around the globe, firearms are ubiquitous and define countless lives; in some places, it's even easier to get a gun than a glass of clean water. In others, it's legal to carry concealed firearms into bars and schools. In The Way of the Gun, Iain Overton embarks on a remarkable journey to understand how these weapons have become an integral part of twenty-first century life, beyond the economics of supply and demand. Overton...