For Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940. It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to a republican guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War . As a dynamiter, he is assigned to blow up a bridge during an attack on the city of Segovia

Final Respects is the story about people standing face-to face with one of the world's most devastating man-made ecological disasters – the tragedy of the shrinking and dying Aral Sea. The dramatic lives of two childhood friends eloquently unfold as they find themselves on opposite sides of the issues surrounding this awful catastrophe