![]() ![]() ![]() Even the pace of our ability to read and write DNA increases tenfold every year.which means in ten short years, genetic engineering could be ten billion times faster.Īlready a lab has managed to create the first synthetically built cell (2010, Craig Venter). What once cost tens of thousands of dollars can be done for pennies now. Following clues from an ancient map rescued from the lost Library of Alexandria, Sigma will discover the truth about an ancient continent, about a new form of death buried under miles of ice.įrom millennia-old secrets out of the frozen past to mysteries buried deep in the darkest jungles of today, Sigma will face its greatest challenge to date: stopping the coming extinction of mankind.Ĭonsidering the fact that the cost of lab equipment and materials has been plummeting for years. ![]() To halt the inevitable, Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma must unravel a threat that rises out of the distant past, to a time when Antarctica was green and all life on Earth balanced upon the blade of a knife. The land is entirely sterile-and the blight is spreading. A remote military research station sends out a frantic distress call, ending with a chilling final command: Kill us all! Personnel from the neighboring base rush in to discover everyone already dead-and not just the scientists, but every living thing for fifty square miles is annihilated: every animal, plant, and insect, even bacteria. ![]()
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It was one small hilltop in a small, unnamed war in the late 1990s, but it would send out ripples still felt worldwide today. Evocative, emotionally wrenching, and yet clear-eyed and dispassionate, Pumpkinflowers is a stunning achievement.” -Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer and New York Times bestselling author of The Good Spy It, too, is destined to become a classic text on the absurdities of war. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Matti Friedman’s haunting war memoir reminds one of Michael Herr’s unforgettable Vietnam memoir, Dispatches. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A friend lent me this book as we struggled to come to grips with the 3rd huge fire in less than 2 years to ravage California and two of those fires had burned homes of my extended family. I had never heard of Peshtigo, Wisconsin before reading this book, and now I will never forget it or its people. Drawn from survivors' letters, diaries, interviews, and local newspapers, Firestorm at Peshtigo tells the human story behind America's deadliest wildfire. ![]() Through accounts of newspaper publishers Luther Noyes and Franklin Tilton, lumber baron Isaac Stephenson, parish priest Father Peter Pernin, and meteorologist Increase Lapham - the only person who understood the unusual and dangerous nature of this fire - Denise Gess and William Lutz re-create the story of the people, the politics, and the place behind this monumental natural disaster, delivering it from the lost annals of American history. Firestorm at Peshtigo places the reader at the center of the blow-out. The five-mile-wide wall of flames, borne on tornado-force winds of 100 miles per hour, tore across more than 2,400 square miles of land, obliterating Peshtigo in less than one hour and killing more than 2,000 people. On Octothe same night as the Great Chicago Fire - an even deadlier conflagration was sweeping through the lumber town of Peshtigo, Wisconsin, 260 miles north of Chicago. A riveting account of a monster firestorm - the rarest kind of catastrophic fire - and the extraordinary people who survived its wrath. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her interactions with these characters are nuanced and the side characters have personalities (dragonalities?), motivations, and backstories that are deftly crafted. Was the assassination carried out by humans or dragons who would return to the old ways? Seraphina, secretly half dragon and half human, is pulled into this intrigue, and finds support from a range of unusual characters, including a prince and a princess, musicians, dragons, and half dragons. Goredd is getting ready to celebrate 40 years of peace between dragons and humans, and the heir to the throne is murdered, ostensibly by dragons. 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One November evening in 1948, as I was trying to finish eating dinner, my father, Herbert Valentine Gaertner, a man who everybody loved dearly, including me, rose from his easy chair to speak to my mother. When I was 10, life as I knew it came to an abrupt end. Why? Because I think Sally's story may turn out to be the most important thing I've written. I am republishing the story in this new format with its new cover and title, Sally's Magic River. I wrote the story over twenty years ago and first published it as Sally and the magic River in 2014. Sally's Magic River is my only work of fiction. I am a retired molecular genetics scientist who has authored and co-authored well over 50 patents and academic publications. ![]() ![]() ![]() Shortly after his entire family dies of smallpox, young Will Godwin of the town of Adcombe is invited to London by an uncle he has never met. Imelza is seduced by him and he impregnates her that night. 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The Alchymist's Cat is a dark fantasy novel for children by British author Robin Jarvis. ![]() ![]() Now that I’ve finished fangirling about this adorable story, I suppose you want a description of what it’s actually about.Ĭonvenience Store Woman (in Japanese: コンビニ人間, Konbini ningen) is an adult contemporary about Keiko Furukura, who has worked part-time at the local convenience store for eighteen years and has no desire to change. ✅ And Keiko is so super snarky and relatable (her: ew, people! me: I KNOW RIGHT? PEOPLE ARE GROSS.) ![]() ✅ Not to mention that she’s got autism (!) when it’s rare to find an autistic woman depicted realistically in media ✅ A book about a woman who works at a convenience store and is happy with her lot in life despite everyone telling her she should want more ![]() ![]() Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata is an unassuming tiny book that somehow manages to hit all the sweet spots to be everything I’ve ever wanted in a book!īefore we dive into the meat of this review, let’s go ahead and look at all the things this book does right: ![]() |