![]() ![]() There are several possible ends to the universe that Mack, a theoretical astrophysicist at North Carolina State University, discusses in the book. ![]() ![]() And while there’s general agreement about the broad outlines of the Big Bang, there’s far less certainty about how everything will end, as Katie Mack expertly explains in The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking).Ī Big Rip sounds like a particularly painful end of the universe, but such a fate is not imminent: cosmologists estimate the earliest a Big Rip could take place is in about 200 billion years. While most associate cosmology with studying the origins of the universe in the Big Bang, some are looking at how the universe will end. But, perhaps, you are a little curious about how it will all come to an end-whether or not you want to accelerate the process.Īstronomers and physicists are curious, too. It’s something that is (presumably) very far in the future, and also something we have absolutely no control over. ![]() The end of the universe is probably one of the last things on everyone’s minds these days, given all the problems that make you wonder how we’ll get through just this year. The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() More Books by Morgan Harper Nichols All Along You Were Blooming. This illustrated collection of poetry and essays invites you to reclaim moments of. How Far You Have Come is an excellent gift for college and high school graduations, celebrations and anniversaries, life transitions, and birthdays or simply a gift for yourself. In the midst of the hurt and the mundane, the questions and the not yets, you can forget just how far you have come. Become who you are in the moment you hold right now.Discover meaning in the losses and embrace anticipation for the splendor ahead. ![]()
![]() ![]() In some, he sees it amid a pile of bananas on the deck of a ship plying the Alabama River on a lazy summer afternoon. He rushes inside, grabs the owner by the lapel, and makes him tell everything he knows. In some versions, Sam sees the banana in the gutter in Selma, Alabama, where it's fallen from a pushcart in some, he sees it in the window of a grocery and is smitten. ![]() There is much variation in the telling of this story, meaning each expert has written his or her own history meaning the story has gone from reportage to mythology meaning Sam the Banana Man is Paul Bunyan and the first banana is Babe the Blue Ox. ![]() As it was his first banana, I imagine it situated on a velvet pillow, in a display alongside Adam's rib and Robert Johnson's guitar. It is seen from a great distance, then very close, each freckle magnified. In some versions, the original banana is presented as a platonic ideal, an archetype circling the young man's head. In the lore, this is presented as a moment of clarity, wherein the future was revealed. Sam Zemurray saw his first banana in 1893. ![]() ![]() ![]() Guided by the mysterious Oberon, he soon finds himself in the Radiant Isles, a magical land populated by legendary creatures and horrifying monsters alike. When his chronically ill younger brother needed a kidney, Zeke didn’t hesitate to offer one of his own-only to die on the operating table.īut eons later, after Earth has been ravaged by disasters both natural and man-made, Zeke is reborn. That is, until an opportunity came along for him to prove his worth. ![]() But then a horrific car accident ruined his arm, eliminating any hope of a professional baseball career.Ĭonsumed by depression, Zeke gave up on his future, preferring to wallow in self-pity. Since childhood, all he’d ever wanted to do was play baseball, and through hard work, discipline, and no small degree of talent, his goal of reaching the major leagues was finally in sight. In pursuit of his abusive father’s approval, Zeke Blackwood pushed himself to the very pinnacle of his chosen obsession. Death is only the beginning in this brutal and bloody post-apocalyptic fantasy about humanity’s next phase. ![]() ![]() Yearling: An imprint of Random House LLC, 1992.Ĭhildren of the Dust: An Okie Family Story. Greenwood Press, Inc., 1973.Ĭhildren of the Dust Bowl: The True Story of the School at Weedpatch Camp. Eakin Press, An Imprint of Wild Horse Media Group, 2001.Ĭalifornia and the Dust Bowl Migration. The McCall Publishing Company, 1970.īlack Sunday: The Great Dust Storm of April 14, 1935. ![]() Capricorn Books, New York, 1971.Īn American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion. 1995.Ī Nation in Torment: The Great American Depression 1929-1939. A Production of Florentine Films and WETA Television. The photographs of Dorothea Lange and Arthur Rothstein.ĭust Bowl: A Film by Ken Burns. The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl. ![]() On the Dirty Plate Trail: Remembering the Dust Bowl Refugee Camps. ![]() University of California Press, 1994.Įndangered Dreams: The Great Depression in California. Stein, Greenwood Press, Inc., 1973ĭark Sweat, White Gold: California Farm Workers, Cotton, and the New Deal. Oxford University Press, 1989.Ĭalifornia and the Dust Bowl Migration. American Exodus, The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nor is “lush” sufficient in the figurative as McLemore weaves layer after countless layer of rich nuance and emotion into her narrative, which uses the devastation and exuberance of family as the backdrop for a bewitching fairy tale.Įstrella and her four cousins-there are always five women and no sons born to each generation of the Nomeolvides family-were all raised on the stories from their mothers and their grandmothers about their family’s curse: if any of the Nomeolvides women loves too deeply, their lover will vanish. Look almost anywhere for descriptions or reviews of Wild Beauty and you will encounter the word “lush.” It’s not a word that does this book justice in the literal, for La Pradera, the novel’s main setting and home of the Nomeolvides women, is indescribably luxuriant and abundant in the flowers that each of the women draws from the earth. ![]() I’m so thrilled to talk about it as part of the importance of visibility and self-determination that National Coming Out Day recognizes. ![]() I offer the full disclosure that queer fairy tales will always capture my attention, and knowing already what McLemore can do with a little magic and some flowers, I have been excited for this YA novel since the Publisher’s Weekly Rights Report announcement last year. We talk about books that pull at us, books that swallow us, books “ of exceptional merit” (whatever that might mean). We talk about contenders (for the most part) in these individual posts. ![]() ![]() Tracker calls his uncle out for having fled with the grandfather to the city at first before coming back. Before he dies, the uncle reveals that it was Kava who betrayed them and told the village that Tracker was stockpiling the mingi curses against the Ku. Tracker kills the guards, Kava, and the witchman (thanks in part to the Sangoma’s enchantments).įinally, he finds his uncle. Tracker’s nose wins him that argument and he tracks his uncle’s men through the forest. The two argue briefly about which of them will go after the Ku and which will stay behind with the children. Tracker and Leopard are both convinced that it was the Ku, led by his uncle and the witchman who moved against the Sangoma. ![]() ![]() They return to find the Sangoma’s camp burned out with her and most of the children slaughtered.They recover the few remaining children (giraffe boy, ball boy, the twins, the albino, and smoke girl) and fight off some scavenging hyenas and tracker injures his left hand. Tracker and Leopard flee, taking Asanbonsam’s head with them. ![]() ![]() At the same time, strong-willed Svanhild finds escape in the form of Solvi, the self-confessed instrument of her brother's betrayal, who takes her as his latest bride. Exposing his stepfather, Ragnvald goes off to fight alongside Harald Halfdansson, the future king of Norway. The source of both their unhappiness is their stepfather, Olaf Ottarsson, who plotted to have Ragnvald killed and Svanhild married off. Rescued by a fisherman, Ragnvald eventually returns home to his beloved sister, Svanhild, who is miserably betrothed to an older man, Thorkell. ![]() It is 11.48pm and I Just finished the Sea Queen.I have enjoyed both the Half Drowned King and The Sea Queen and look forward to the third book in the trilogy. I am also an avid knitter, Crosfitter, traveler. Ragnvald Eysteinsson is on his way home from a raiding expedition across the North Atlantic when he is betrayed by his captain, Solvi Hunthiofsson, and flung overboard. Those explorations gave me the seeds of my first novel, The Half-Drowned King, and the subsequent books in the trilogy. ![]() The first book in a viking trilogy telling the compelling story of the political intrigues, battles, and struggles for power that led to the rise of King Harald the Fair-Haired, first king of Norway, seen through the eyes of the young man who became his most trusted warrior and advisor. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The epic television event follows Nick Groff and Katrina Weidman from the hit series PARANORMAL LOCKDOWN as they conduct a special investigation of the Black Monk House in Yorkshire, England – universally feared as the home of the most violent poltergeist activity ever reported. (Silver Spring, Md.) – From the network that delivered the first-ever live televised exorcism last fall comes the two-hour Halloween special PARANORMAL LOCKDOWN: THE BLACK MONK HOUSE, now premiering Monday, October 31 at 9/8c only on Destination America. Halloween Night: Monday, October 31 at 9/8c. Two-Hour PARANORMAL LOCKDOWN: THE BLACK MONK HOUSE Special Premieres ![]() ![]() Parents need to know that since this Newbery Honor book is set in 1899, readers will learn a great deal about the period, including the limitations placed upon an intelligent girl. Calpurnia's mother often takes a "tonic" for headaches that's later revealed to contain 20 percent alcohol.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. Brief mention of other adults drinking port and other alcohol at a celebration. ![]() He offers Calpurnia whiskey on two occasions she tries it and dislikes it. ![]() Calpurnia's grandfather drinks whiskey and port daily, but he's not portrayed as drunken. ![]() All references are used in service of setting the scenes and are not gratuitous. ![]() |