Tag: audio books

Book of the Day–The Sixth Extinction

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I was sent a copy of The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert Release Date: 2014-02-11 From the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe, a powerful and important work about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a compelling account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes.Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently…

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Book of the Day – The Museum of Extraordinary Things

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I was sent a copy of The Museum of Extraordinary Things: A Novel by Alice Hoffman The Museum of Extraordinary Things: A Novel by Alice Hoffman Release Date: 2014-02-18 Mesmerizing and illuminating, Alice Hoffman’s The Museum of Extraordinary Things is the story of an electric and impassioned love between two vastly different souls in New York during the volatile first decades of the twentieth century. Coralie Sardie is the daughter of the sinister impresario behind The Museum of Extraordinary Things, a Coney Island boardwalk freak show that thrills the masses.…

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