5/11/2023 0 Comments The sixth great extinction bookThey have happened before, they can happen again." -President Barack Obama " is a wonderful book, and it makes very clear that big, abrupt changes can happen they're not outside the realm of possibility. She shows that the sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy, compelling us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human. Interweaving research in half a dozen disciplines, descriptions of the fascinating species that have already been lost, and the history of extinction as a concept, Kolbert provides a moving and comprehensive account of the disappearances occurring before our very eyes. In prose that is at once frank, entertaining, and deeply informed, New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert tells us why and how human beings have altered life on the planet in a way no species has before. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. Over the last half-billion years, there have been Five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARĪ NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALISTĪ major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes
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True or not – we could call it “creative” non-fiction – it is a fascinating book of a girl growing up in Lewiston, New York in the mist of Niagara Falls. This memoir became an instant best seller and was read by book clubs across the country – most exclaiming “it can’t possibly be true but it is a great read”. Last week I wrote about The Year of Finding Memory by Judy Fong Bates, this week it is Catherine Gildiner and her most recent memoir After The Falls.Ĭatherine Gildiner came to the attention of readers in 1999 with the publication of her first book Too Close to the Falls. Two accomplished Canadian writers, Judy Fong Bates and Catherine Gildiner will read from their work on Wednesday 19 May at the Charles W. Coming of Age in the Sixties – and living to tell the tale 5/11/2023 0 Comments Brandon taylor novelTaylor followed that success with Filthy Animals, which was also largely set in Madison and won the 2022 Story Prize for the year’s best collection of short stories. The novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and musician Kid Cudi purchased the rights to develop it into a film. His story of a gay Black chemist navigating a mostly white Midwestern university not only mirrored Taylor’s life but changed it. The scientist turned novelist’s acclaimed debut, Real Life, was inspired by his time in Madison, Wisconsin, where he was a doctoral student in biochemistry when he wrote the manuscript. PHOTO: COURTESY BRANDON TAYLOR Acclaimed author Brandon Taylor returns with The Late Americans, a novel that follows a group of friends in Iowa City on a journey of self-discovery.ī randon Taylor (19MFA) is fascinated by college towns. 5/11/2023 0 Comments Take hint dani brownTurns out, his sports charity for kids could really use the publicity. Now half the internet is shipping #DrRugbae-and Zaf is begging Dani to play along. But before she can explain that fact, a video of the heroic rescue goes viral. When brooding security guard Zafir Ansari rescues Dani from a workplace fire drill gone wrong, it’s an obvious sign: PhD student Dani and ex-rugby player Zaf are destined to sleep together. So Dani asks the universe for the perfect friend-with-benefits-someone who knows the score and knows their way around the bedroom. Romantic partners, whatever their gender, are a distraction at best and a drain at worst. But romance? Been there, done that, burned the T-shirt. Talia Hibbert returns with another charming romantic comedy about a young woman who agrees to fake date her friend after a video of him “rescuing” her from their office building goes viral.ĭanika Brown knows what she wants: professional success, academic renown, and an occasional roll in the hay to relieve all that career-driven tension. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Headstone by Ken BruenNow they have their sights set on Taylor and everyone close to him. Of course, moments of grace are fleeting in Bruen’s world, and things rapidly head south after Taylor receives a miniature gravestone in the post, courtesy of a group of psychopaths calling themselves “Headstone.” Led by a fanatic recidivist criminal from a previous Taylor case, they target the “weak,” including the handicapped, the mentally ill, and the homeless. For once, however, Taylor appears to have found a promising love interest in Laura, an American-born crime novelist, with whom he’s recently enjoyed a romantic idyll in Paris. Irish author Bruen’s hard-hitting ninth Jack Taylor novel (after The Devil) finds the Galway PI coping with alcoholism, a permanent limp, hearing loss, and emotional scars that continually threaten to take him down. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Alvin maker seventh sonEvery day she felt in every brood box and brought in every egg, every single one, that's what she did.Įvery one, she said in her mind, over and over. Mama said she was too young for egging, but little Peggy showed her. All this while standing tiptoe on a wobbly stool, reaching high above her head. She just pushed the straw apart, wrapped her hand around the egg, and lifted it out of the brood box. Even when the chicken drips were wet and stringy and made her fingers stick together, little Peggy gave no never mind. After all, when folk with babies stayed at the roadhouse, Mama never even crinkled her face at their most spetackler diapers. She gave no never mind to the chicken drips. She rooted her hand through the straw till her fingers bumped something hard and heavy. LITTLE PEGGY WAS VERY CAREFUL with the eggs. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Lightforce by PB & JasonThe Arrow Garden is a delicately-wrought tale of truth, selfhood, and acceptance, which transcends time in its lyrical exploration of what it means to live. Humanity redefines heroism and fiction becomes reality. A young man changes the world and watches his own world change as his unique abilities raise questions about what it means to be 'normal'. To visit the past or the future, even in imagination, is to change it. Lightforce by PB & Jason Synopsis Lightforce: A modern, original superhero tale. LightForce is unique amongst laser devices in our singular focus in rehabilitation and pain management. With thousands of customers across the globe, LightForce estimates over 1 million+ treatments are performed using our devices per month. Setting out on a hike to a mountain village shrine, away from the charred city, she begins a life to which she is not sure she is entitled, a life which feels like living on the other side of the sky. LightForce is the worldwide leader in therapeutic laser science and technology. In wartime Tokyo, Tanaka Mie finds herself wandering the burned-out ruins of her dead parents' fire-bombed home with only hazy recollections of how she survived. When lonely and socially isolated translator, Gareth, takes up traditional Japanese archery in 1990s Bristol, he learns that to study Kyudo is to reach out, to another culture, another time, other people… But when one of them reaches back, two lives that should never have touched become strangely entangled. Thom's commitment to obtaining factual evidence as a basis for his novels leads him to seek out not only public documentation of historical events, but also those individuals, such as members of the Shawnee nation, who have preserved the past through generations of oral history. Believing that "character is a product of one's landscape," Thom uses his respect for and knowledge of the skills, resourcefulness, and self-reliance of contemporary "hill people" to re-create a visceral sense of living in the past. Filmed before the scenery of his rural Southern Indiana homestead, novelist James Alexander Thom talks about the philosophies and methods that frame his historical fiction. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Www the prince warriors comAvailability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered. The book, The Prince Warriors ISBN# 9781087748573 in Paperback by Priscilla Shirer Gina Detwiler may be ordered in bulk quantities. Written by New York Times Best-Selling author Priscilla Shirer, The Prince Warriors series was created for middle-grade readers and will include the fiction trilogy as well as Unseen: The 365 Prince Warriors Devotional and the Unseen app. The Prince Warriors is an epic, new, fiction, adventure trilogy that brings to life the invisible struggle ensuing in the spiritual realm and uncovers some of the truths from Ephesians 6:10-18. There they meet their guide, Ruwach, who offers wisdom and direction as the kids’ initial adventure begins-an adventure filled with armor and danger and a very real enemy. The Prince Warriors is the first book in Priscilla Shirer’s epic new series that brings to life the invisible struggle ensuing in the spiritual realm. Xavier, Evan, and their friends have typical lives until they enter a mysterious land called Ahoratos. Xavier, Evan, and their friends have typical. The Prince Warriors is the first book in Priscilla Shirer’s epic new series that brings to life the invisible struggle ensuing in the spiritual realm. The Prince Warriors is the first book in Priscilla Shirer’s epic new series that brings to life the invisible struggle ensuing in the spiritual realm. But now they’re discovering that there is a much bigger battle going on all around them. As brothers, Xavier and Evan are used to battling each other. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Shakespeare by michael woodBut the pictures used to persuade us of this are blocky, pixellated computer graphics, sometimes manipulated and overlaid with irrelevancies for "artistic" purposes. The thesis is that particular mental states and processes can be pinpointed to areas in the brain. For a book about imaging, the images are terrible. What lets this book down is not art but science, or rather technology. In a way, any sufficiently prolific creator might have worked - "Understanding the Mind Through the Art of Walt Disney" anyone? - but Shakespeare has both range and insight. My suspicion is that this book began as a set of photographs, and Shakespeare only arrived as an organisational device: a neat and reasonably familiar package of ruminations on the differences betwen men and women, madness, depression, physical courage, the senses, dreaming, memory, language, race, music, love and the imagination. |