![]() As he consistently demonstrates, you can learn a lot from examining how the world might work in very specific extreme circumstances.įilled with bonkers science, boundless curiosity, and Randall's signature stick-figure comics, What If? 2 is sure to be another instant classic adored by inquisitive readers of all ages. Unfazed by absurdity, Randall consults the latest research on everything from swing-set physics to airplane-catapult design to clearly and concisely answer his readers' questions. What If 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If, Book 2) by Randall Munroe Requirements. Welcome (back) to the mind-blowing world of What If? Want to know what would happen if you rode a helicopter blade, built a billion-storey building, made a lava lamp out of lava, or jumped on a geyser as it erupted? Okay, if you insist. Hoping to cool the atmosphere by opening everyone's freezer doors at the same time? Maybe it's time for a brief introduction to thermodynamics. Planning to ride a fire pole from the moon back to Earth? The hardest part is sticking the landing. ![]() The millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions, and those questions are getting stranger. AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An NPR Best Book of 2022 The questions. The Sunday Times-bestselling author and xkcd creator, Randall Munroe is here to provide the best answers yet to the important questions you probably never thought to ask. Buy a cheap copy of What If 2: Additional Serious. ![]() one man decided to answer all the unanswerable questions, using science. ![]() Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo WHAT IF. ![]()
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![]() ![]() It's a story of two men's separate journeys confronting trauma and loss. What will happen to his wife and his two young children? John must continue uncovering Gene's story of survival as he himself confronts the greatest trial of his life. But both men persevere, bonded by their close and growing friendship.Īs the interviews go on, John faces an ordeal of his own. ![]() But John has no idea what wounds he's reopening. Gene, nearing his ninetieth birthday, recounts incredible tales. It turns out the tail gunner, Gene Moran, lives just a few miles up the road. Add to Cart A rookie social studies teacher overhears a conversation about a World War II tail gunner who survived a four-mile fall from the sky. So begins a series of "Thursdays with Gene" interviews. Tailspin by John Armbruster 1799 Shipping calculated at checkout. But when John, a young history teacher, learns of Gene's amazing fall, he's desperate to learn more. His nine children knew little of their dad's war story. When Gene returned home, he kept those memories locked up for nearly seventy years. Captured by the Germans, he survived a harrowing eighteen months as a prisoner of war, including a six-hundred-mile death march in 1945 across Central Europe. World War II tail gunner Gene Moran fell four miles through the sky without a parachute and lived. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What emerges in this riveting portrait is the story of an unconventional, high-spirited woman who drew on her love of writing and her Southern home to create a book that continues to speak to new generations of readers. Shields is the author of the New York Times bestselling biography Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee, which he has adapted here for younger readers. Lee's life is as rich as her fiction, from her girlhood as a rebellious tomboy to her days at the University of Alabama and early years as a struggling writer in New York City.Ĭharles J. ![]() Yet onetime author Harper Lee is a mysterious figure who leads a very private life in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, refusing to give interviews or talk about the novel that made her a household name. It's also a perennial favorite in highschool English classrooms across the nation. To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the most widely read novels in American literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. The original “TekWar” TV series filmed in Toronto and aired on CTV in Canada from 1994 to 1996. Matt Michnovetz, who’s worked as a writer on “24” and various “Star Wars” animated programs, will develop and write “TekWar.” Tekwar Trailer 1994Director: William ShatnerStarring: Greg Evigan, Sheena Easton, William Shatner, Eugene Clark, Torri Higginson, Official Content From Univ. ![]() Producers say the series is being envisioned as a “mixed-reality” program where viewers can watch the standalone show or participate in a “real-time multiverse” that incorporates other layers of the storyline on mobile, tablets and wearable devices. detective who’s framed as a dealer of an addictive mind-altering drug that’s administered in the form of a bio-digital microchip. The storyline is set in 2043 and follows an L.A. Los Angeles-based Pure Imagination Studios says it has struck a deal with the “Star Trek” actor’s company Shatner Universe to resurrect the 1990s franchise, which started as a book series before it was spun off into TV movies, a series, comic books and a video game. Hard-to-find Series starred Greg Evigan as a former cop whose career wound him in jail. TORONTO - William Shatner’s Canadian science-fiction franchise “TekWar” is being redeveloped for television as an animated series for adults. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her Shahiid, Mercurio, has trained her as well as he was able to, but now after her first kill, it is time to further her training and to journey to the school in the hope of becoming one of the elite and feared Red Church assassins, all to serve her ultimate goal: revenge. ![]() The Maw is the goddess of the Red Church and Mia’s tithe will serve as her entry requirement to this elite school. Sisterwife to Aa, and mother to the hungry Dark within us all.” ![]() The story starts off with her making her first kill which will serve as a tithe to the Maw. The protagonist, Mia, is a girl bent on revenge, hoping to make the cut in a fabled assassin school called the Red Church. Martin’s Press (US)Ī deviously dark and thrilling tale, Nevernight is the first book I read by Jay Kristoff and I loved every murderous second of it. Published: 25 th July 2016 by Harper Voyager (UK) & 9 th August 2016 by St. Series: The Nevernight Chronicle (Book #1 of 3) ![]() ![]() ![]() Only this one strolls around the place in a towel, has a distracting grin, and an irresistible accent. Lucas seems intent on coming to her rescue like a Spanish knight in shining armor. But Rosie doesn’t know that Lina has already lent her apartment to her cousin Lucas, who Rosie has been stalking-for lack of a better word-on Instagram for the last few months. Luckily she has her best friend Lina’s spare key while she’s out of town. Then, the ceiling of her New York apartment literally crumbles on her. She hasn’t told her family and now has terrible writer’s block. ![]() She just quit her well paid job to focus on her secret career as a romance writer. Book excerpt: A Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Cosmopolitan, Goodreads, PopSugar, and more! From the author of the Goodreads Choice Award winner The Spanish Love Deception, the eagerly anticipated follow-up featuring Rosie Graham and Lucas Martín, who are forced to share a New York apartment. This book was released on with total page 400 pages. Book Synopsis The American Roommate Experiment by : Elena Armasĭownload or read book The American Roommate Experiment written by Elena Armas and published by Simon and Schuster. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sexism in the workplace has shot up the agenda in the wake of numerous scandals in 2017, yet it seems much of what goes on mid-air still falls under the radar. “It did bother me that this could make it more difficult to assist in an emergency, as well as being revealing…which becomes just another thing to worry about in an already very pressurising situation,” she adds.įor Jade, it was just one example of how the practicalities of doing her job clashed with the strict dress code requirements tied to her company’s public image. Yet in a real scenario mid-air, she would be dressed in her uniform, including the regulation red lipstick and nail varnish, plus a tight, red, pencil skirt. ![]() Her CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) training took place on land, in a trouser suit. “Depending on exactly how the passenger may land, and their position,” she says, “I always questioned the fact that I could be on all fours pressing down on their chest while wearing a restrictive skirt,” says Jade, who did not want to use her last name because she still has a family member working for Virgin Atlantic. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Maupin lives in San Francisco with his husband, Christopher Turner. Tales will be directed by Jason Moore ( Avenue Q and Shrek). He is currently writing a musical version of Tales of the City with Jason Sellards (aka Jake Shears) and John Garden (aka JJ) of the disco and glam rock-inspired pop group Scissor Sisters. The Night Listener became a feature film starring Robin Williams and Toni Collette. Three miniseries starring Olympia Dukakis and Laura Linney were made from the first three Tales novels. Maupin is the author of nine novels, including the six-volume Tales of the City series, Maybe the Moon, The Night Listener and, most recently, Michael Tolliver Lives. In 1976 he launched his groundbreaking Tales of the City serial in the San Francisco Chronicle. ![]() Maupin worked as a reporter for a newspaper in Charleston, South Carolina, before being assigned to the San Francisco bureau of the Associated Press in 1971. A graduate of the University of North Carolina, he served as a naval officer in the Mediterranean and with the River Patrol Force in Vietnam. ![]() Armistead Maupin was born in Washington, D.C., in 1944 but grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. ![]() ![]() ![]() It has nothing specific to do with the book they’re adapting, and, through the rest of the three episodes sent to critics, it has nothing to do with their TV show. It’s a clever thing for creators Dan Dworkin and Jay Beattie to acknowledge at the beginning of their streaming conspiracy thriller. This, to some not insignificant degree, is the primary legacy of Dan Brown’s wildly popular novels and the infinite conspiracy-baiting fictions they’ve emboldened. He notes that these groups have created or appropriated imagery, gestures and slogans and built QAnon-style movements around misinterpreted and out-of-context clues. ![]() ![]() Cast: Ashley Zukerman, Valorie Curry, Sumalee Montano, Rick Gonzalez, Eddie Izzard and Beau KnappĬreators: Dan Dworkin and Jay Beattie, from the book by Dan Brownįrom there, Langdon goes on to discuss the symbols that bind alt-right groups and fringe conspiracy theorists. ![]() ![]() I like that these elements simply blend with the story. She sees visions, premonitions sort of, and it is never dissected too much or treated as something odd. Hope was the reason she had some normalcy in her life. I think this is one of the reasons why Hope’s loss is felt so deeply by Tory even years later because she was her best friend and her family. Her home life was unbearable, her father abusive, and her mother unconcerned about her at all. Hope was Tory’s best friend and her solace. This is when she meets Cade Lavelle again, Hope’s older brother. ![]() Back to the present, Tory has returned to Progress, South Carolina years later. Then, Hope is murdered, and the way that scene is described and even Tory’s situation at that exact time is tough to read. It starts by showing the cute friendship of Tory and Hope when they are children. The beginning of the book is disturbing to read. ![]() The story focuses on Tory Bodeen, who returns to South Carolina years after her best friend Hope was murdered there when they were kids, and she left. Carolina Moon is a paranormal romance set in a small town in South Carolina. It’s something comforting and familiar to me to read her works. ![]() I have read many of Nora Roberts’ books over the years. ![]() |