![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tourists happily flock to the national park, enjoying its hot springs and powerful geysers, mostly ignorant or unconcerned about the dormant volcano. ![]() The narrator gives some foreshadowing environmental context: Alex’s town of Cedar Falls, Iowa is relatively close to Yellowstone National Park, the site of an underground supervolcano that has erupted only a few times in the past 2.1 million years. After a brief dispute, they agree to let him stay home for the weekend, leaving on the 140-mile drive to the farm. The book begins as Alex, a fifteen-year-old high schooler who prefers video games to socializing, is feuding with his parents because he doesn’t want to go with them to visit his uncle’s farm in Illinois. Blending scientific concepts, such as volcanology, engineering, physics, biology, and climate change, with the literary tropes of suspense, apocalypse, and the separation from one’s home, it offers a well-researched realist account of how an ordinary life might be impacted by this rare, but inevitable, natural disaster. Ashfall, a novel by Mike Mullin, poses a hypothetical account of a boy whose world is devastated by the eruption of the supervolcano beneath Yellowstone National Park. ![]()
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![]() ![]() His is the imprimatur that has helped shape contemporary music and, over the years, our popular culture. What began on the grass at the Monterey Pop Festival with the signing of Janis Joplin has evolved into a lifelong passion and calling, spanning genres, including rock, pop, R&B, country, jazz fusion, and hip-hop. Those ears contributed to the success of three companies-Columbia, Arista, and J-where Davis dis-covered and developed more unique artists than anyone in the history of the music industry. ![]() More surprisingly, he learned he had "ears," a rare ability to spot special talent and hit records. He served as General Counsel of Columbia Records and, in a totally unexpected stroke of fate, became head of the company overnight. Orphaned in his teens, Davis earned a full scholarship to New York University and another to Harvard Law School. Music legend Clive Davis recounts an extraordinary five-decade career in the music business, while also telling a remarkable personal story of encounters with some of the greatest musical artists of our time, including Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Simon & Garfunkel, Barry Manilow, the Grateful Dead, Patti Smith, Whitney Houston, Carlos Santana, Dionne Warwick, Aretha Franklin, and Alicia Keys. ![]() ![]() ![]() Without them I would not exist.īecause these words I write down are the only proof I have that I'm still alive. I can use letters to construct skyscrapers and metropolitan cities populated by people, places, things, and ideas that are more real to me than these 4 walls. I can fit them together to form planets and solar systems. I can stitch them together to create oceans and ecosysystems. I need to show you guys a passage of Juliette's Journal, so here yah go:Ģ6 letters are all I need. ![]() I'm really excited to see if Tehereh Mafi writes more books. He drove me insane! Juliette is such a strong character! She's broken and sad, but she's so head strong and she's just really amazing and Warner is one of the only person who really sees her full potential and Adam is just so freaking annoying! I hate Adam so that's why I'm rating it the way I did. He acted like she was a burden, and that she was holding him down, she's the weak link, she's trapped in her head, she can't protect herself. ![]() I found that Adam didn't care as much as he should've. This was also really interesting, but I had to wonder if Tehereh Mafi purposely wrote Adam the way he was or if she wrote his character the way that Warner imagines him. ![]() The series centers on Juliette Ferrars, a 17-year-old girl with a lethal touch. Fracture Me follows Adam right after Unravel Me. Unite Me: Destroy Me and Fracture Me (Shatter Me Novellas) by Tahereh Mafi, Paperback Barnes & Noble® Is shatter me and destroy me the same book Shatter Me is a young adult dystopian hexalogy written by Tahereh Mafi. ![]() ![]() She doesn’t write about the same thing twice. ![]() When I despair of the human race and of myself her books remind me both that I need to keep trying and that there are others out there trying too. She is an inclusive author for no other reason than that all people are a part of life and stories. No matter what she turns her hand to, there is a deliberateness to her writing – she is economical always, but also beautiful, poetic and elegant. And because I want to celebrate in my own small way just how many and various her work has been so far.īefore we begin, my three reasons for loving Jo Walton’s fiction are as follows: Because even if you’ve bounced off one book by Walton, doesn’t mean that another of her novels won’t grab you by the hair. ![]() So, I thought a sort of can-I-tempt-you? post was in order. She is an automatic-purchase author for me and someone I reread a lot. For such a wide-ranging and multi-award-winning author I am always surprised when her books don’t appear across a whole swathe of blogs like some others do. ![]() Maybe you’ve read something by Jo Walton, maybe you haven’t. Inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds… Not just one world. ![]() All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody – no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. “Everybody has a secret world inside of them. ![]() ![]() This fictional book, set primarily in southern Minnesota along the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers, weaves actual history into the storyline. ![]() The school is not so much a school as a prison with cruelty and abuse defining life there. Yes, such schools really existed long ago. In a nutshell, This Tender Land tells the story of orphaned brothers, Odie and Albert, who are sent to the Lincoln Indian Training School, although they are not Native Americans. And I didn’t start reading it immediately as I had to first finish The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ten days after I picked up the book from Buckham Memorial Library, where I’d been on a waiting list for months to get the 2019 release, I’d finished the novel. ![]() ![]() But now I can add another title to that list. I’VE LONG BEEN A FAN of Minnesota writer William Kent Krueger’s Cork O’Connor mystery series and stand-alone book, Ordinary Grace. ![]() ![]() ![]() The nine Little House books are inspired by Laura’s own childhood and have been cherished by generations of readers as both a unique glimpse into America’s frontier history and as heartwarming, unforgettable stories. And every night Laura and her family are safe and warm in their little house, with the happy sound of Pa’s fiddle to send them off to sleep. Pioneer life is sometimes hard for the family, but it is also exciting as they celebrate Christmas with homemade toys and treats, do the spring planting, bring in the harvest, and make their first trip into town. The great, dark trees of the Big Woods stood all around the house, and beyond them were other trees and beyond them were more trees. Four-year-old Laura lives in the little house with her Pa, her Ma, her sisters Mary and Carrie, and their dog, Jack. Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, in a little gray house made of logs. This beloved story of a pioneer girl and her family begins in 1871 in a log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin. The first book in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s treasured Little House series-now available as an ebook! This digital version features Garth Williams’s classic illustrations, which appear in vibrant full color on a full-color device and in rich black-and-white on all other devices. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some examples of the other stories include "Unendurable Labyrinth," which is about two friends discovering a disturbing religious cult, "The Hanging Balloons," which focuses on a town that is haunted by the spirit of a deceased celebrity, and "Where the Sandman Lives," which revolves around an insomniac that is plagued with fears that a dream version of himself is trying to escape into reality. This anime, which launches on Netflix in January 2023, will adapt 20 of Ito's stories, including Tomie. Ito and Doooo's novelty items are hitting shelves ahead of the upcoming series, Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre. After her murder, Tomie comes back as an enigmatic, regenerative entity that compels men to fall in love with her through emotional and psychological manipulation. Browse, create, buy, sell, and auction NFTs using OpenSea today. ![]() The creation of the aforementioned objects may have found inspiration from the fact that the killer hacked Tomie's body into pieces before its discovery. OpenSea is the worlds first and largest web3 marketplace for NFTs and crypto collectibles. It revolves around a beautiful high school student named Tomie Kawakami, whom a nameless killer brutally murders. The manga magazine Monthly Halloween serialized Ito's Tomie manga from 1987 to 2000. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He proved his mettle in a contest with a steam drill, only to die of exhaustion moments after his triumph. ![]() According to legend, John Henry, a black laborer for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, was a man of superhuman strength and stamina. In a glowing review of Colson Whitehead's first novel, The Intuitionist, the New York Times Book Review concluded, "Literary reputations may not always rise and fall as predictably as elevators, but if there's any justice in the world of fiction, Colson Whitehead's should be heading toward the upper floors." With John Henry Days, Colson Whitehead delivers on the promise of his critically acclaimed debut in a magnificent new novel: a retelling of the legend of John Henry that sweeps across generations and cultures in a stunning, hilarious, and unsettling portrait of American society.Immortalized in folk ballads, John Henry has been a favorite American hero since the mid-nineteenth century. ![]() ![]() ![]() To kick off the Worldwide Developers Conference each year, Apple holds a keynote event to introduce new software and occasionally, new hardware. Students are also invited to participate in the annual Swift Student Challenge to win prizes and a chance to visit Apple Park. With WWDC, Apple offers developers a first glimpse of new iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS updates, plus the opportunity to engage with Apple engineers through engineering sessions, one-on-one lab appointments, and the Apple Developer Forums. ![]() WWDC tickets have historically been priced at $1,599 for the in-person event, but WWDC has been free for all developers since 2020 in its all-online format and that continues in 2023. Apple announced on March 29 that its 34th Worldwide Developers Conference will take place the week of June 5 to June 9, 2023, beginning with a keynote event on Monday, June 5.Īs with the 2022 conference, WWDC 2023 will be an online event, although select developers and students will be invited to Apple Park on June 5 to watch the keynote and State of the Union presentation and meet with other attendees and Apple employees. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Juke Joints, Jazz Clubs, and Juice spotlights the creativity, hospitality, and excellence of Black drinking culture, with classic and modern recipes inspired by formulas found in two centuries’ worth of Black cookbooks. From traditional tipples, such as the Absinthe Frappe or the Clover Leaf Cocktail, to new favorites, like the Jerk-Spiced Bloody Mary and the Gin and Juice 3.0, Toni Tipton-Martin shares a variety of recipes that shine a light on her influences, including underheralded early-twentieth-century icons, like Tom Bullock, Julian Anderson, and Atholene Peyton, and modern superstars, such as Snoop Dogg and T-Pain.ĭrawing on her expertise and research in historic and rare texts, Toni Tipton-Martin shows how these drinks have evolved over time and shares the stories of how Black mixology came to be-a culmination of generations of practice, skill, intelligence, and taste. Toni Tipton-Martin is a culinary journalist and community activist and the author of the James Beard Awardwinning The Jemima Code.Her collection of more than three hundred African American cookbooks has been exhibited at the James Beard House, and she has twice been invited to the White House to participate in First Lady Michelle Obama’s programs to raise a healthier generation of kids. Discover the fascinating history of Black mixology and its enduring influence on American cocktail culture through 70 rediscovered, modernized, or celebrated recipes, by the James Beard Award–winning author of Jubilee. ![]() |