![]() ![]() Professionally, Wohlleben manages a beech forest on behalf of the municipality of Hümmel, Germany. As he grew more familiar with the woodlands he was overseeing, he became disenchanted due to the damage caused by the techniques and technologies he was expected to employ, including the felling of mature trees and the use of insecticides. Background Īfter graduation from forestry school in Rottenburg am Neckar, he took up a job as a government wood ranger in the Rhineland-Palatinate in 1987. He is the author of the New York Times Bestseller The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate, which was translated from German into English in 2016. Peter Wohlleben (born 1964) is a German forester and author who writes on ecological themes in popular language and has controversially argued for plant sentience. The Hidden Life of Trees, The Inner Life of Animals, The Secret Wisdom of Nature, Can You Hear the Trees Talking? ![]()
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![]() Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. My whole body shook, trying to suppress my laughter made me snort and I accidentally doinked myself on the head with my kindle. She doesn't leave a glass slipper, either-just a pair of panties with chocolate bunnies printed on them. I want a repeat, but my flying Cinderella disappears immediately afterward. What follows is the hottest experience of my adult life. ![]() But when a curvy woman in a red wrap dress charges me like she's a gymnast about to mount my high bar, all I can do is brace myself and catch her. ![]() But when my besties dare me to leap on the first single man I see, they don't expect me to actually go through with it.Īll I need right now is some peace and quiet while my home renovation TV show is on hiatus. ![]() Too bad my ex shows up with his new arm candy. I'm still taking a hard pass.įree designer cocktails, they say. I just want to stay home and post a new recipe on my blog: Brynn's Dips and Balls.īut my friends aren't having it. He puts the "screw" in screwball comedy.Īt thirty-four, I'm reeling from a divorce. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When she received her BA degree in psychology from the University of Texas, she had no idea she had gained a foundation that would help her to create believable characters-characters that are often described as “real people.” She began her career writing training manuals and computer code for the IRS, but something was always missing. Her "dual" nationality has given her a love for all things British and Texan, and she enjoys weaving both heritages through her stories. Lorraine was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, but soon after moved to Texas. She is the daughter of a British beauty (her mom won second place in a beauty contest sponsored by Max Factor® during which she received a kiss from Caesar Romero, (the Joker on the original Batman TV series) and a Texan who was stationed at Bovingdon while serving in the air force. No doubt because growing up, watching movies with her mom, she was taught that the best movies "won't half make you cry." Lorraine Heath has always had a soft spot for emotional love stories. ![]() Also writes Young Adult under Rachel Hawthorne, Jade Parker, and with her son as J.A. ![]() ![]() ![]() Internal views of swimming sperm and gestating babies speak to the science of conception and pregnancy. In vitro fertilization and the unpredictable timeline of typical fertilization are both addressed before the book moves on to pregnancy and birth, the latter of which is visually presented as directly as intercourse was. When Papa’s penis is in Mama’s vagina they’re as close as two people can be.” Illustrating this is a goofy cartoon of nude sexual partners, the penis uttering a cheery “Hello!” and the vagina responding, “Come in!” It’s as far from prurient as can be imagined. They hug, kiss and touch each other.” So far this is much like many others of its ilk, but then: “To get even closer they take off their clothes and hug. “People in love enjoy being as close as possible. This frank, cartoon-illustrated picture book answers its titular question with Scandinavian directness. ![]() Finally: a “where do babies come from” book that doesn’t mince words-or pictures. ![]() ![]() ![]() Travels with Charley in Search of America is an intimate look at one of America's most beloved writers in the later years of his life-a self-portrait of a man who never wrote an explicit autobiography. ![]() ![]() His course took him through almost forty states: northward from Long Island to Maine through the Midwest to Chicago onward by way of Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana (with which he fell in love), and Idaho to Seattle, south to San Francisco and his birthplace, Salinas eastward through the Mojave, New Mexico, Arizona, to the vast hospitality of Texas, to New Orleans and a shocking drama of desegregation finally, on the last leg, through Alabama, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey to New York. To reassure himself, he set out on a voyage of rediscovery of the American identity, accompanied by a distinguished French poodle named Charley and riding in a three-quarter-ton pickup truck named Rocinante. He felt that he might have lost touch with the country, with its speech, the smell of its grass and trees, its color and quality of light, the pulse of its people. In September 1960, John Steinbeck embarked on a journey across America. An intimate journey across and in search of America, as told by one of its most beloved writers, in a deluxe centennial edition ![]() ![]() ![]() The new novel we couldn't put down.in the crisp, noirish prose of the era, Towles portrays complex relationships in a city that is at once melting pot and elitist enclave - and a thoroughly modern heroine who fearlessly claims her place in it. This very good first novel about striving and surviving in Depression-era Manhattan deserves attention The great strength of Rules of Civility is in the sharp, sure-handed evocation of Manhattan in the late '30s.Įven the most jaded New Yorker can see the beauty in Amor Towles' Rules of Civility, the antiqued portrait of an unlikely jet set making the most of Manhattan. ![]() With this snappy period piece, Towles resurrects the cinematic black-and-white Manhattan of the golden age of screwball comedy, gal-pal camaraderie and romantic mischief. ![]() ![]() The novel is set in 1990 in Cleveland, Ohio, though it’s not like the Cleveland I know, and I should know, since I’m from Ohio myself. Instead of writing one of those minimalist novels that take place somewhere between the K-Mart and the trailer camp, where everyone speaks in monotones and everything is described in short sentences written in the present tense and all the women have Ann in their names somewhere, the man decides to write an incredibly complicated metafiction, if you’ll excuse my French, of the kind not seen since the heyday of John Barth and Donald, not Frederick, Barthelme and William Gass and William Gaddis and, oh yes, Thomas Pynchon.” ![]() The man certainly can write, but he seems to have a serious problem with the style of fiction now in vogue. A man named David Foster Wallace writes a novel called ‘The Broom of the System.’ The man is a 24-year-old graduate of Amherst, who is pursuing an MFA at the University of Arizona. ![]() “I did read a rather interesting one recently.” ![]() ![]() ![]() In the Honor Harrington series, as well as Path of the Fury, these technology systems are set in the distant future. That's okay he's a sci-fi author, after all, so as long as those parts of his works support their own weight, we can enjoy the sci-fi bits for their own particular flair. The first one is the most important most of his political and social systems are thinly-disguised versions of historical Earth polities and societies - and sometimes not even disguised at all. As I described in a writeup on the writer, he has a marvelous ability to construct, populate and most importantly describe fairly complex systems of fictional technology, politics and social systems. Hopefully I can offer a description of this dichotomy without providing any egregious spoilers. This book, and its successor, are notable for displaying some of the best of David Weber's writing tendencies as well as some of the worst, side by side. It's his latest creation, and as of now (mid-2009) has two sequels. ![]() Off Armageddon Reef is the first book of a science fiction series written by David Weber. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet the deeper Zhou delves into this new world of excess and wealth, the more muddled his plans become. Jin Corp not only manufactures the special suits the rich rely on, but they may also be manufacturing the pollution that makes them necessary. With the help of his friends, Zhou infiltrates the lives of the wealthy in hopes of destroying the international Jin Corporation from within. Frustrated by his city’s corruption and still grieving the loss of his mother who died as a result of it, Zhou is determined to change things, no matter the cost. The rich wear special suits, protecting them from the pollution and viruses that plague the city, while those without suffer illness and early deaths. Jason Zhou survives in a divided society where the elite use their wealth to buy longer lives. ![]() Set in a near-future Taipei plagued by pollution, a group of teens risk everything to save their city in this thrilling novel from critically acclaimed author Cindy Pon. ![]() “Vividly conjured…positively chilling.” - The New York Times “Fresh, compelling-and timely.” -Veronica Roth, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Carve the Mark and the Divergent series ![]() ![]() "He was found under a large tree branch after it fell on top of him … his death was declared at the scene," Sgt. Provincial police said a man in his 60s died Thursday morning when he was crushed by a tree branch while attempting to cut down branches on his property in Les Coteaux, Que., southwest of Montreal. "I can already confirm to you that there will be some, unfortunately, where it will go into the Easter long weekend, possibly Saturday, depending on some areas that are more complex," Régis Tellier, a vice-president of operations and maintenance, told reporters. By Thursday at 5:30 p.m., about 887,000 customers were still without electricity from a high of more than one million. Hydro-Québec said it expected to restore power to between 300,000 and 350,000 clients by the end of the day, and to 70 or 80 per cent of affected customers by midnight Friday. ![]() ![]() MONTREAL - Hydro crews in Quebec worked on Thursday to restore power ahead of the Easter long weekend after a fierce ice storm left more than one million customers in the dark and led to the death of a man who was crushed by a tree.įreezing rain sent ice-laden tree branches crashing down onto power lines, streets and cars, knocking out power across large areas of southern Quebec, particularly around Montreal and to its south, in the Montérégie region. ![]() |