![]() ![]() ![]() Vegetation temperature changes were much larger than the 2-m air temperature changes because of the finescale spatial heterogeneity of the imposed vegetation change. Natural vegetation changes alone caused summer daily-mean 2-m air temperature changes of -0.7 to +1 C in regions without persistent snow cover, depending on the location and the type of vegetation change. The land-cover scenarios included historical and future natural vegetation from the Mapped Atmosphere-Plant-Soil System-Century 1 (MC1) dynamic vegetation model, in addition to a future 8-million-ha California afforestation scenario. Using WRF3-CLM3.5, the authors performed six 13-yr experiments using historical and future large-scale climate boundary conditions from the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Climate Model version 2.1 (GFDL CM2.1). The ability of WRF3 to simulate California's climate was assessed by comparing simulations by WRF3-CLM3.5 and WRF3-Noah to observations from 1982 to 1991. The impact was evaluated on California's climate of changes in natural vegetation under climate change and of intentional afforestation. A regional atmosphere model and a land surface model were coupled to study the interactions between the atmosphere and possible future California land-cover changes. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Clarke is the charming playboy Audrey can always count on, and he knows that the ever-loyal Audrey will never not play along with his strategy for dodging his matchmaking mother-announcing he’s already engaged…to Audrey.īut what starts out as a playful game between two best friends turns into something infinitely more complicated, as just-for-show kisses begin to stir up forbidden feelings. After all, they’ve been best friends since childhood without a single romantic entanglement. One of O, The Oprah Magazine’s “22 Romance Novels That Are Set to Be the Best of 2020” and one of Goodreads’s “ 28 of the Hottest Romances of 2020”įrom New York Times bestselling author Lauren Layne, the “queen of witty dialogue” (Rachel Van Dyken, New York Times bestselling author), comes the final installment of the Central Park Pact series, a heartfelt and laugh-out-loud romantic comedy that’s perfect for fans of Sally Thorne and Christina Lauren.Ĭan guys and girls ever be just friends? According to Audrey Tate and Clarke West, absolutely. ![]() ![]() But Whitman’s daring originality seems more than a mere response to Emerson’s demands. In 1842 he listened to “The Poet”, a lecture in which philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson called for a national bard who could write about the US in all its diversity. We don’t know how or why Whitman began to invent his extraordinary poetry. Bart E/flickr, CC BY Whitman’s innovation Walt Whitman’s tomb in Camden, New Jersey. Whitman enjoyed this different culture, but never lost his horror of slave auctions. Luckily, an opportunity arose to work on a newspaper in New Orleans. Having had some success – a novel and newspaper pieces – he became chief editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, but lost this position when his opposition to the spread of slavery clashed with the views of the newspaper’s owner. He worked by turns in Manhattan and Brooklyn as a printer’s apprentice, a schoolteacher and a newspaper publisher, before resolving to become a writer. His formal education ended when he was 11. He was born in 1819 and grew up in and around Brooklyn, moving often as his family tried to make money from farming and real estate. Whitman’s life was interesting and varied. ![]() But the poetry many people now love won him notoriety before it won him fame. Celebrations will be especially joyful around his birthday on May 31 and in New York City, whose citizens were often depicted in his poems. This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Walt Whitman, America’s most admired poet. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1926, Sayers married WWI veteran and writer Anthony “Mac” Fleming.Ħ. ![]() Awkward circumstances (see below) led Sayers to give John Anthony to her cousin, Ivy Shrimpton, a foster mother.ĥ. In 1924, Sayers gave birth to her only child, John Anthony. In 1923, Sayers published her first detective novel, Whose Body? Sayers wrote 11 novels and various short stories featuring the hero, amateur detective Lord Peter Wimsey.Ĥ. Oxford did not give women degrees, so she didn’t receive her Master of Arts and Bachelor of Arts in Modern Languages until 1920.ģ. In 1915, Sayers graduated from Somerville College, Oxford. Sayers was born in Oxford to Reverend Henry Sayers and his wife, Helen.Ģ. 10 Important Events in the Life of Dorothy L. Lewis and shocking many Christians with her plays about Christ’s life. Not only was Sayers a memorable writer, but she also lived a remarkable life that included friendship with C.S. Sayers (1893-1957), her writing is memorable. Maybe you know her mystery novels, or maybe you are reading her Dante translation. ![]() ![]() Where can you find the Ken Kesey Museum? The Ken Kesey House? Take the drive along the Siletz River to find the movie house. Ken Kesey, inventor of the 1960’s, magnetic center of legendary Acid Test, the post-war poster boy for party-to-the-edge, delivers hardcore Oregon backwoods. The family house itself manifests the physical stubbornness of the Stamper family as the nearby river widens slowly and causes erosion, all the other houses on the river have either been consumed or wrecked by the waters or moved away from the current, except the Stamper house, which stands on a precarious peninsula struggling to maintain every inch of land with the help of an arsenal of boards, sand bags, cables, and other miscellaneous items brandished by Henry Stamper in his fight against the encroaching river. Or is it the nature of Oregon business on these back roads? Maybe it’s the lack of alligators and swamps? That Oregon is the backwoods and back roads are all there is? Rolling up on someone’s business uninvited is a surprise no one wants.īut Oregon back roads feel different than places like Louisiana. ![]() They drive fast on 229 and I was looking hard. The Siletz Highway, OR 229 headed east off of 101 north of Depoe Bay, is one of those roads. Those roads show more about a shared history if you look hard enough. In some parts of America I balk at driving the back roads. ![]() ![]() Kernville house for Ken Kesey’s Sometimes A Great Notion ![]() ![]() This graceful novel risks stretching beyond easy, reductive constructions of black male coming-of-age stories and delivers a sincere, authentic story of resilience and finding one's voice." - Kirkus Reviews, starred review This compassionate, courageous, and hopeful novel explores the constraints placed on black male identity and the corresponding pains and struggles that follow when a young black boy must confront these realities both at home and in school. ![]() ★ "Grimes' newest follows a young black boy searching for his own unique voice, lost among his father's wishes and society's mischaracterizations. ![]() A short, sweet, satisfying novel in verse that educators and readers alike will love." - School Library Journal, starred review Grimes writes about adolescent friendships in a way that feels deeply human. (readers) will fall hard for Garvey, a tender, sincere boy who dislikes athletics. ★ "(A) sensitively written middle grade novel in verse. ![]() (w)ritten from Garvey's point of view, the succinct verses convey the narrative as well as his emotions with brevity, clarity, and finesse.' - Booklist, starred review ★ 'Grimes returns to the novel-in-verse format, creating voice, characters, and plot in a series of pithy tanka poems, a traditional Japanese form similar to haiku, but using five lines. School Library Journal Best Book of the Year ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She is the author of many novels, including Labrador, The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf, Hell, The Walking Tour, The Thin Place, Versailles, Duplex, and Silk Road. Kathryn Davis has received the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Throughout her long career, Carrington published novels, stories, and plays, in addition to making paintings, sculptures, and tapestries. Nearly mad with grief and terror, she was thrown into a lunatic asylum in Spain, and, after escaping, married a Mexican diplomat, fleeing Europe for New York City then Mexico City, where she lived for the rest of her life. After Ernst was taken from their home to a Nazi internment camp in 1940, Carrington fled France. Four years later, she ran off with Max Ernst and became a darling of the art world in Paris: serving guests hair omelets at one party, arriving naked to another. ![]() She was born to a wealthy English family in 1917, expelled from two convents as a girl, and presented to the king's court in 1933. Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) was a key figure in the Surrealist movement and an artist of remarkable individuality. ![]() ![]() Praise for Gregor the Overlander:"Kids who love adventure books will find this one. This unforgettable novel by Suzanne Collins, the international bestselling author of the Hunger Games series, is rich in suspense and brimming with adventure. Reluctantly, Gregor embarks on a dangerous adventure that will change both him and the Underland forever. ![]() Gregor wants no part of it - until he realizes it's the only way to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance. A prophecy foretells that Gregor has a role to play in the Underland's uncertain future. This world is on the brink of war, and Gregor's arrival is no accident. ![]() Includes exclusive bonus content!When Gregor falls through a grate in the laundry room of his apartment building, he hurtles into the dark Underland, where spiders, rats, cockroaches coexist uneasily with humans. ![]() Gregor the Overlander joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. This irresistible novel by Suzanne Collins tells the story of a boy who embarks on a dangerous quest in order to fulfill his destiny - and find his father - in a strange world beneath New York City. ![]() ![]() ![]() He’s even more a mystery to himself he knows nothing more about who he ![]() ![]() But then, after generations of vanishings, aĮstrella, the Nomeolvides girl who finds him, and to her family, but They’ve also hidden a tragic legacy: if they fall in love tooĭeeply, their lovers vanish. Pradera, the lush estate gardens that enchant guests from around the Nearly a century, the Nomeolvides women have tended the grounds of La Now, in Wild Beauty, McLemore introduces a spellbinding setting and two characters who are drawn together by fate-and pulled apart by reality. Anna-Marie McLemore's debut novel The Weight of Feathers garnered fabulous reviews and was a finalist for the prestigious YALSA Morris Award, and her second novel, When the Moon Was Ours, was longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() Our brains, the historical and scientific evidence reveals, change in response to our experiences. As he describes how human thought has been shaped through the centuries by “tools of the mind”-from the alphabet to maps, to the printing press, the clock, and the computer-Carr interweaves a fascinating account of recent discoveries in neuroscience by such pioneers as Michael Merzenich and Eric Kandel. Now, Carr expands his argument into the most compelling exploration of the Internet’s intellectual and cultural consequences yet published. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: As we enjoy the Net’s bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply? “Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr posed that question, in a celebrated Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. ![]() |