![]() ![]() “In the 60s, chemicals were everywhere - in food, in crops, in everything. Michelle Ferrari -Director, Writer, Producer.Drawn from Carson’s own writings, letters and recent scholarship, this film illuminates both the public and private life of the woman who launched the modern environmental movement and revolutionized how we understand our relationship with the natural world. Kennedy to launch the first-ever investigation into the public health effects of pesticides - an investigation that would eventually result in new laws governing the regulation of these deadly agents.įeaturing the voice of Mary-Louise Parker as the influential writer and scientist, Rachel Carson is an intimate portrait of the woman whose groundbreaking books revolutionized our relationship to the natural world. ![]() But it would also inspire President John F. A passionate and eloquent warning about the long-term dangers of pesticides, the book unleashed an extraordinary national debate and was greeted by vigorous attacks from the chemical industry. When Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was published in 1962, the book became a phenomenon. ![]()
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![]() Since the death of his wife Bella two years ago, Benneit, Duke of Lochmore, has steadfastly refused to yield to her family’s demands to give over care of their son, Jamie. Although this is the second novel in The Lochmore Legacy series, I read it as a standalone and had no problems keeping up with the story or the characters. ![]() The principal characters are appealing, their love story is a low angst, slow burner that’s both tender and affecting, and there’s even a young child who enhances every scene in which he appears. ![]() Unlaced by the Highland Duke, the second book in The Lochmore Legacy linked series of novels, features a widowed pair resigned to a lonely future without love or passion, suddenly surprised to discover their soulmate is someone they met (and dismissed) years ago. Craving some historical romance comfort food? Then look no further. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments Secretly Yours by Tessa Bailey![]() Until he finds an anonymous letter sent by a woman from his past.Įven as Julian wonders about this admirer, he's sucked further into Hallie's orbit. She's eccentric, chronically late, often literally covered in dirt-and so unbelievably beautiful, he can't focus on anything else. But having Hallie gardening right outside his window is the ultimate distraction. On sabbatical from his ivy league job, Julian plans to write a novel. One wine-fueled girls' night later, Hallie can't shake the sense that she did something reckless-and then she remembers the drunken secret admirer letter she left for Julian. ![]() ![]() But the starchy professor isn't the teenager she remembers and their polar opposite personalities clash spectacularly. Now the prodigal hottie has returned to Napa Valley, and when Hallie is hired to revamp the gardens on the Vos estate, she wonders if she'll finally get that smooch. Hallie Welch fell hard for Julian Vos at fourteen, after they almost kissed in the dark vineyards of his family's winery. From Tessa Bailey- #1 New York Times bestselling author, TikTok favorite, and "the Michelangelo of dirty talk" (Entertainment Weekly)- comes a spicy small town rom-com about a grumpy professor and the bubbly neighbor he clashes with at every turn. ![]() 7/8/2023 0 Comments Scalawags by Jim Christy![]() In 2008, it was a CBC Radio Toronto pick for one of the best nonfiction books of year. And quite frankly in many instances-George Francis Train, for instance, or Louis De Rougemont-you'd probably be right. You might call them something else nuts, perhaps. There is an ineffable quality, an indefinable something or other that sets some people apart, places them in the special category that Jim Christy calls scalawag. Many adventurers are not even interesting, come to think of it, let alone scalawags. ![]() But you can be an adventurer, a conman or conwoman, a fool, liar, gambler, rodomontade or ragamuffin and not be a scalawag. In these pages you will encounter gamblers and adventurers, conmen and conwomen, rodomontades and ragamuffins, outright fools and outrageous liars. ![]() CBC Radio Toronto selection, one of the Best Nonfiction Books of the Year (2008). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Career ĭennard focused on writing for publication upon leaving her PhD program. ![]() She currently lives in the Midwestern US. In 2009, she chose to forego venturing a PhD and joined her husband in Germany. This work led her around the world, to almost all of the seven continents, with the exception of Asia. She originally planned to major in English at University of Georgia, but was "sidetracked by science" and obtained a bachelor's degrees in fisheries and statistics instead, and then received her master's in marine biology at the Great Lakes Institute for environmental research in Windsor, Ontario, with the intention of solving the problem of overfishing. Susan Dennard was born on February 25, 1984, in the state of Virginia, but primarily grew up in Dalton, Georgia. Her debut novel, Something Strange and Deadly, was published in 2012 by HarperCollins. Susan Dennard (born February 25, 1984) is an American YA fantasy author. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments The inheritance games book![]() ![]() One character saves a puppy from being poked with a stick by a group of drunk people. The main plot involves a kidnapping, but the only violence directly narrated are a few scuffles, threats with a gun, and mention of bruises and blood. The story picks up soon after the events of the previous book. ![]() Parents need to know that The Final Gambit is the final installment in the popular Inheritance Games series about a high-schooler who inherits unimaginable wealth from someone she's never heard of. A couple of instances of older teens drinking champagne in celebration, and a couple of mentions of past drinking.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. A group of drunk people poke a puppy with a stick. ![]() 7/7/2023 0 Comments Uncultured memoir![]() ![]() Beholden to The Family’s strict rules, Daniella suffers physical, emotional, and sexual abuse -masked as godly discipline and divine love -and is forbidden from getting a traditional education.Īt fifteen years old, fed up with The Family and determined to build a better and freer life for herself, Daniella escapes to Texas. Her mother, at thirteen, was forced to marry the leader and served as his secretary for many years. Her great-grandmother donated land for one of The Family’s first communes in Texas. ![]() In the vein of Educated and The Glass Castle, Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured is more than a memoir about an exceptional upbringing, but about a woman who, no matter the lack of tools given to her, is determined to overcome.īehind the tall, foreboding gates of a commune in Brazil, Daniella Mestyanek Young was raised in the religious cult The Children of God, also known as The Family, as the daughter of high-ranking members. ![]() ![]() "A painful and propulsive memoir delivered in the honest tones of a woman who didn’t always think she’d live to tell her story." -The New York Times ![]() ![]() ![]() Almost thirty-five million Indians died because of acts of commission and omission by the Britishin famines, epidemics, communal riots and wholesale slaughter like the reprisal killings after the 1857 War of Independence and the Amritsar massacre of 1919. He was not the only one to denounce the rapacity and cruelty of British rule, and his assessment was not exaggerated. Almost thirty-five million Indians died because of acts of commission and omission by the In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britains conscious and deliberate bleeding of India greatest crime in all history. ![]() In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britains conscious and deliberate bleeding of India greatest crime in all history. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Malice heather walter book 2![]() ![]() Ultimately, the best part of this book was Alyce’s relationships with the people around her. It was an absolutely fascinating world and developed on the world we saw in Malice in a really interesting way. I loved getting to explore the Dark Court and the ruins of Briar after the ending of Malice. ![]() There’s a fairly significant time jump in Misrule, which matches the original Sleeping Beauty myth, and I think it suited this book very well. Or is true love only for fairytales? What did I think? But could Aurora love the villain Alyce has become? And the dream of the world they would have built together is nothing but ash.Īlyce vows to do anything to wake the woman she loves, even if it means descending into the monster Briar believed her to be. But it is a love that came with a heavy price: Aurora now sleeps under a curse that even Alyce’s vast power cannot seem to break. Princess Aurora saw through Alyce’s thorny facade, earning a love that promised the dawn of a new age. ![]() Not even the one person who holds her heart. And no one will escape the consequences of her wrath. Once a realm of decadence and beauty, Briar is now wholly Alyce’s wicked domain. Feared and despised for the sinister power in her veins, Alyce wreaks her revenge on the kingdom that made her an outcast. ![]() 7/6/2023 0 Comments Slow thinking![]() This can be due to cognitive bias, or there is an environmental influence affecting our emotional state and thus our decision. System blind spotsīlind spots can lead to incorrect decisions. This system requires more effort but it is also more reliable than system 1. Answering difficult equations such as 27x42, or extensively thinking through a problem with a high level of concentration. It is based on logical thought and complex problem solving. System 2 is the slower and deliberate thinking system. It is also the system that is responsible for answering simple equations such as 2+2. Based on our emotions and feelings, it helps us guide our everyday decisions. ![]() System 1 is the fast instinctive and unconscious way of thinking. ![]() This means that if we can be conscious of them, we can start making smarter decisions. These errors are part of a systematic pattern. But there are also cognitive errors in our mind that lead to irrationality and inaccurate judgements. Thinking Fast and Slow In the book Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman mentions two separate systems that we use to make decisions - fast and slow thinking. ![]() |