5/30/2023 0 Comments The time it never rained![]() Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at Harvard and first author of the paper. “If you were to look at a large patch of the deep tropics today, it’s always raining somewhere,” said Jacob Seeley, a Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Science and Engineering at the Harvard John A. ![]() In a new study, researchers from Harvard University found that during these epochs of extreme heat, Earth may have experienced cycles of dryness followed by massive rainstorms hundreds of miles wide that could dump more than a foot of rain in a matter of hours. Little is known about how the atmosphere and climate behaved during these so-called hothouse periods. Earth likely experienced these temperatures at various times in the distant past and will experience them again hundreds of millions of years from now as the sun continues to brighten. Now, imagine an Earth 20 to 30 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than today. ![]() Today, we are experiencing the dramatic impacts that even a small increase in global temperatures can have on a planet’s climate. ![]()
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![]() ![]() REPORTING STORES: Pyramid Books (Boynton Beach, Florida), 56 Not Just A Bookstore (St. An asterisk indicates a title that did not appear on that month's list. ![]() Numbers in parentheses indicate position on last Best Sellers List. Respondents are African-American bookstores. Woodson (The Book Tree, $17.95) (5) ABOUT THIS LIST: The ESSENCE Best Sellers List is based on reports of retail sales. The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. The Straight-Up Truth About the Down-low by Joy Marie (Creative Wisdom, $16.95)* 5. Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama (Three Rivers Press, $14.95) (2) 4. Change We Can Believe In by Barack Obama (Three Rivers Press, $13.95) (3) 3. The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama (Vintage, $7.99) (1) 2. Jakes (Bethany House, $19.99)* PAPERBACK NONFICTION 1. Hope on a Tightrope by Cornel West (SmileyBooks, $19.95)* 5. ![]() Letters to a Young Sister by Hill Harper (Gotham, $22.50) (2) 4. ![]() Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man by Steve Harvey (Amistad, $23.99) (1) 2. Push: A Novel by Sapphire (Vintage, $12.95)* HARDCOVER NONFICTION 1. The Someday List by Stacy Hawkins Adams (Revell, $12.99) (5) 5. The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah (Pocket Star, $7.99) (3) 4. Obsession by Kayla Perrin (Spice, $13.95) (4) 3. Queen B- (Part 4) by Deja King (A King Production, $15) (1) 2. A Mercy by Toni Morrison (Knopf, $23.95)*PAPERBACK FICTION 1. Midnight by Sister Souljah (Atria, $26.95) (2) 5. Up to No Good by Carl Weber (Dafina, $24) (3) 4. Join the ESSENCE Book Club »HARDCOVER FICTION 1. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Swamp Thing by Len Wein![]() ![]() Also, Phantom Stranger appears for no reason. ![]() Except now Lazlo looks inhuman and is exacting revenge on his former classmates! I guess that’s why most universities don’t kill their students as a general rule. Why involve the faculty or the police, when you can just go straight to a swamp monster for answers, right?! It seems some demented “professor” decided to kill Lazlo in an experiment to bring him back to life - and sort of succeeded. ![]() Swamp Thing co-creator Len Wein returns to his character for a new run with artist Kelley Jones in a throwback to older comics that DC’s elderly (guys in their 40/50s) audience are sure to enjoy! Younger readers who aren’t fanboys though are probably gonna be pretty bored with this one.Ī couple of parents approach Swampy after their son Lazlo goes missing at the ominously named Crowley College for the Evolving Arts. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Author of the martian new book![]() ![]() VIP ticket holders will receive a copy of Project Hail Mary, Weir’s newest book, and attend a pre-event book signing by Weir. in the Peters Township High School cafeteria. The VIP ticket includes a reception with passed appetizers from 5:45 to 6:45 p.m. Riverstone Books, The Foundation’s independent local bookselling partner, will sell Weir’s books before and after the program.Ī limited number of VIP tickets will be available for $60. All general admission tickets include a post-event book signing with Weir. Adult general admission tickets are $25, and Student tickets are $5. Previous featured speakers included Yaa Gyasi in 2017, Tim O’Brien in 2018, Anna Quindlen in 2019, and Taylor Jenkins Reid in 2021. This program will be the fifth in the Novel November series. at the Peters Township High School Auditorium at 121 Rolling Hills Drive in McMurray. The literary event will be held on Thursday, November 3, 2022, at 7:00 p.m. Andy Weir will be the featured author for The Peters Township Library Foundation’s upcoming Novel November. ![]() 5/30/2023 0 Comments Life of pi novel by yann martel![]() ![]() Early in the novel, we discover that the narrator majored in religious studies and zoology, with particular interests in a sixteenth-century Kabbalist and the admirable three-toed sloth.Did Pi's tale alter your beliefs about God? Adirubasamy said it would make him believe in God. Yann Martel recalls that many Pondicherry residents provided him with stories, but he was most intrigued by this tale because Mr.In terms of storytelling, what makes this town a appropriate choice for Pi's upbringing? Pondicherry is described as an anomaly, the former capital of what was once French India.In his introductory note Yann Martel says, "This book was born as I was hungry." What sort of emotional nourishment might Life of Pi have fed to its author?.May this guide serve as a pleasant companion. ![]() After all, Pi didn't have to make his voyage alone neither should you. We hope that the following questions will enrich your reading of Pi's fantastic journey. ![]() It's hard to imagine a more invigorating combination of discussion topics. ![]() ![]() The everyday world is mundane, but sprinkle a little magic and you have fantastic!Ĭolorado is home. Y With the majestic Rocky Mountains just outside the window, I sit at my computer with vampires,demons, witches, faeries, and a variety of paranormal creatures gathered around telling me their stories! That makes me an author of paranormal romance novels and cozy mysteries with magic spark. Another passion of mine is reading a good novel. We enjoy hiking, biking, and camping, also love water sports including kayaking and whitewater rafting, especially on the Arkansas River through the Royal Gorge. I share my life with a wonderful husband of many moons, our brilliant Chow Chow, a terribly spoiled companion parrot, and a forty-year-old box turtle. ![]() ![]() The everyday world is mundane, but sprinkle a little magic and you have fantastic! Colorado is home. ![]() With the majestic Rocky Mountains just outside the window, I sit at my computer with vampires,demons, witches, faeries, and a variety of paranormal creatures gathered around telling me their stories! That makes me an author of paranormal romance novels and cozy mysteries with magic spark. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Sula toni morrison sparknotes![]() ![]() this book very scarce to find in collectible condition, particularly signed. An outstanding copy of this novel by the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning author of "Beloved", "Song of Solomon", etc. ![]() SIGNED by the author on a bookplate affixed to the half title page. ![]() Stated First Edition with no mention of subsequent printings (First Printing), in the first issue dust jacket with the1070 code on the bottom of the front flap A Near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket. The entire assemblage is altogether near fine. Program is 4 pages including covers, measures 8.5 x 11" and is printed in purple on off-white paper with an orchid design on front by Sylvia Roth. The evening included performances and tributes by Harry Belafonte, Rosanne Cash, Peter Yarrow, Ruby Dee, Gordon Parks, et al, as well as Morrison reading selections from her works. ![]() John Cathedral which was filled with thousands of orchids for the evening (Kathy Willems iconic AP photo of Morrison holding an orchid was taken during the event). Housed in custom clamshell case with Nobel-citation quote on front TOGETHER WITH an INVITATION SIGNED BY MORRISON to a private reception in honor of her having been awarded the Nobel Prize (5.5 x 4.25" embossed heavy white cardstock printed on recto only original, plain envelope included) AND PROGRAM SIGNED BY MORRISON for the corresponding event, "An Evening with Toni Morrison & Her Friends" held Tuesday, April 5, 1994, in New York's St. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with professional repair to two small tears. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Riven by Roan Parrish![]() ![]() When Rhys returns, he finds Matt twisted by doubt. But when Rhys leaves to go on tour for his new album, Matt finds himself haunted by the ghosts of his past. Suddenly, Matt finds himself living a life he never thought possible: safe and secure in the arms of a man who feels like home. Their romance is unexpected, intense, and forever - at least, that's what their vows promise. Matt and Rhys come from different worlds, but when they meet, their chemistry is incendiary. After a childhood of abandonment, he never imagined someone might love him - much less someone like Rhys Nyland, who has the voice of an angel, the looks of a god, and the worship of his fans. Matt Argento knows what it feels like to be alone. ![]() ![]() After a whirlwind romance, a man with a painful past learns to trust the musician who makes him believe in happy endings. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments William gibson agency![]() ![]() “No comets crashing, nothing you could really call a nuclear war,” future Londoner Wilf Netherton explains of this ‘jackpot’. But it does appear in Gibson’s (2014) novel, The Peripheal, the first part of a trilogy split between two timelines: one taking place before and one somewhat after an event known as the ‘jackpot’. The word ‘pandemic’ had not yet been uttered by the World Health Organisation and nor did it come up in our conversation. ![]() When I met Gibson back in early February, the slow-cooked nightmare of the coronavirus was still very much in its infancy here in Europe. And I think that that may be what makes it so difficult for us to get our heads around what’s happening to us.” ![]() “But if we are in fact facing an apocalypse,” he continues, getting now into the swing of this particular riff, “that’s the sort we’re facing. Though a certain edge had crept into our conversation by this point, watching him stretch out on the leather chaise longue of this hotel library (“my second home,” he calls it, as we make our way up from the lobby), it struck me that few people are able to seem at once so apprehensive and yet so intensely relaxed about the prospect of the end of the world as we know it. “There’s never been a culture that had a mythos of apocalypse in which the apocalypse was a multi-causal, longterm event.” William Gibson speaks in the whisper-soft drawl of a man who for a long time now has never had to speak up in order to be heard. ![]() 5/29/2023 0 Comments Author of the wife between us![]() ![]() But as the story unfolds, it’s clear that Vanessa has secrets - a lot of them. A lot of her behavior does seem obsessive and jealous, as she seeks out opportunities to watch Nellie covertly, and she wants to do whatever she can from stopping the upcoming wedding from happening. She’s been struggling to move on since her divorce, working at a low-paying job, living with an aunt, and barely managing to hold it together. The story is told from two perspectives - one is Vanessa’s, the ex-wife, and the other is Nellie’s, the soon-to-be new wife.Īt first, Vanessa does seem to fit those assumptions. I went into this trying not to fall into the pitfalls described in the summary. ![]() Twisted and deliciously chilling, The Wife Between Us deftly explores the hidden complexities of marriage and the dangerous truths we ignore in the name of love. You will assume you know the anatomy of this tangled love triangle. You will assume she is obsessed with her replacement - a beautiful, younger woman who is about to marry the man they both love. ![]() You will assume you are reading about a jealous ex-wife. When you read this book, you will make many assumptions. ![]() |