![]() ![]() Tyson met Sagan when he was 17, after Sagan invited him to visit Cornell one snowy Saturday in December. If you grew up loving Bill Nye’s show, you owe much of that love to Carl Sagan. Now, Nye gets to continue part of Sagan’s legacy. ![]() Nye later went on to be the CEO of The Planetary Society, an organization founded by Sagan. ” Bill Nye the Science Guy premiered in 1993, winning numerous accolades (including 19 Emmy awards ) and inspiring a generation of future scientists. Sagan advised him to “focus on pure science, kids resonate with pure science. At his 10-year class reunion in 1987, Nye told Sagan about his idea for a TV show that he wanted to gear towards children. Nye learned much about the universe from Sagan, saying that his lectures were like Cosmos episodes. While Nye was studying at Cornell University in the late 70s, Sagan was his astronomy professor. How would you like to have Carl Sagan as your astronomy professor? For Nye, this was reality. Two of today's most popular scientists, Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson, each claim Sagan as their inspiration. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Exquisitely written and bursting with sharply observed detail, Kahakauwila's stories remind us of the powerful desire to belong, to put down roots, and to have a place to call home. "The Old Paniolo Way" limns the difficult nature of legacy and inheritance when a patriarch tries to settle the affairs of his farm before his death. With striking versatility, the title story employs a chorus of voices-the women of Waikiki-to tell the tale of a young tourist drawn to the darker side of the city's nightlife. In the gut-punch of "Wanle," a beautiful and tough young woman wants nothing more than to follow in her father's footsteps as a legendary cockfighter. ![]() Exploring the deep tensions between local and tourist, tradition and expectation, façade and authentic self, This Is Paradise provides an unforgettable portrait of life as it's truly being lived on Maui, Oahu, Kaua'i and the Big Island. 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As she was finishing the book, Longo said the idea, concept and characters for “Inside” came about. Longo admitted that “Under Another Sun” was the first book she started working on and felt strongly about completing. In creating the book, Longo was inspired by the HBO show, “The Leftovers” and the 2011 psychological thriller “Take Shelter.” “With 2020, I feel that a lot of people sense some of that resonates.” “It’s an apocalyptic world about the end of the world,” said Longo. He questions his sanity, and begins to lose touch with reality when faced with the dilemma of saving his family. He and his wife take in his six-year old niece who speaks to her dead mother. The book depicts a man haunted by the ghost of his twin sister warning him of impending disasters. Siciliano, is back with her second book “Under Another Sun.” EAST LONGMEADOW – After the release of her first book “Inside,” horror author Darlene Longo, writing under the pen name D.M. ![]() ![]() His mother's sacrifice was an inspiration to Anh and he worked hard during his teenage years to help her make ends meet, also managing to graduate high school and then university.Īnother inspiration was the comedian Anh met when he was about to sign on for a 60-hour a week corporate job. Things got harder when their father left home when Anh was thirteen – they felt his loss very deeply and their mother struggled to support the family on her own. But there was a loving extended family, and always friends and play and something to laugh about for Anh, his brother Khoa and their sister Tram. ![]() Life in Australia was hard, an endless succession of back-breaking work, crowded rooms, ruthless landlords and make-do everything. But nothing – not murderous pirates, nor the imminent threat of death by hunger, disease or dehydration as they drifted for days – could quench their desire to make a better life in a country where freedom existed. His entire family came close to losing their lives on the sea as they escaped from war-torn Vietnam in an overcrowded boat. ![]() ![]() Anh Do nearly didn't make it to Australia. ![]() ![]() Valued for his literacy and for the magical skill the Underground believes he possesses, Hiram comes to learn that the fight for freedom comes with its own sacrifices and restrictions. After he wakes up, mysteriously saved even as Maynard dies, Hiram yearns for a life beyond “the unending night of slavery.” But when his plans to escape with Sophia, the woman he loves, are dashed by betrayal and violence, Hiram is inducted into the Underground, the secret network of agents working to liberate slaves. ![]() Deep in the river, Hiram is barraged with visions of his ancestors, and finally a woman water-dancing, whom he recognizes as his mother. When the novel opens, Hiram is 19, and he and Maynard are on their way back to Lockless when the bridge they’re traveling over collapses. Born to Rose and Howell Walker, master and owner of Lockless, the land Hiram works, Hiram is called up at age 12 to the house to serve Maynard, his half-brother. Born on a Virginia plantation, he realizes at five that he has a photographic recall-except where it concerns his mother, Rose, who was sold and whom he can only reconstruct through what others tell him. ![]() ![]() Coates ( We Were Eight Years in Power) makes his ambitious fiction debut with this wonderful novel that follows Hiram Walker, a boy with an extraordinary memory. ![]() ![]() ![]() Uneasy in the midst of the malevolent Unseelie Court, pixie Kaye is sure of only one thing-her love for Roiben. In Ironside, the sequel to Tithe, the time has come for Roiben’s coronation. ![]() ![]() When one talks Val into tracking down the lair of a mysterious creature, Val finds herself torn between her affection for an honorable monster and her fear of what her new friends are becoming. But there’s something eerily beguiling about Val’s new friends. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city’s labyrinthine subway system. In Valiant, the companion to Tithe, seventeen-year-old Valerie runs away to New York City, trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. There, amid the industrial, blue-collar New Jersey backdrop, Kaye soon finds herself as an unwilling pawn in an ancient power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms-a struggle that could very well mean her death. Fierce and independent, she travels from city to city with her mother’s rock band until an ominous attack forces Kaye back to her childhood home. In Tithe, Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Home » The Modern Faerie Tales » The Modern Faerie Tales: Tithe, Valiant, Ironside The Modern Faerie Tales: Tithe, Valiant, Ironside ![]() ![]() She is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW) and John 3:16 Marketing Network. ![]() She has written book reviews for The Christian Pulse online magazine. The first novel in the Veronica "Ronnie" Ingels/Dawson Hughes series HARMRUL INTENT won in the Grace Awards 2014 Mystery/Romantic Suspense/Thriller/Historical Suspense category. Her four novel Sanctuary Point series (out of print), set in the mid-1940s has finaled, won an award, and garnered critical acclaim. She has been a judge in the 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2016 Carol Awards in the suspense, mystery, and romantic suspense categories and an Inspy Awards 2010 judge in the Suspense/Thriller/Mystery category. Nike is the founding board member of the Grace Awards and its Chair, a reader's choice awards for excellence in Christian fiction. She likes her bad guys really bad and her good guys smarter and better. Today, you might call her a crime fictionista with a humorous side. Her first major work was a Crayola, fully illustrated book she penned as a little girl (colored might be more accurate) about her then off-the-chart love of horses. ![]() In fact, your ‘partner in crime’ (solving) Deputy. Nike: Ronnie, in the first book in the series, HARMFUL INTENT, you start out as a meat and potatoes kinda girl. So it was a natural leap to interview her about her passion for food as well as other oddities in her life. Like so many writers, Nike Chillemi started at a very young age. One the most obvious quirks of personality is that Ronnie loves to eat. ![]() ![]() ![]() "A delicious, elegant gothic. At Spence Academy she meets plain Ann, beautiful Pippa, and strong Felicity. It’s 1895, and 16-year old Gemma Doyle is faced with the death of her mother and a move from India to an English boarding school. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence's most powerful girls-and their foray into the spiritual world-lead to? Written by Libba Bray Review by Nancy Castaldo. The first book in the critically acclaimed New York. ![]() ![]() To make things worse, she's been followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. A Great and Terrible Beauty - The Gemma Doyle Trilogy van Libba Bray (boek, ebook, ISBN 9780375890499). Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma's reception there is a chilly one. It's 1895, and after the suicide of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. With Hugh OConor, Owen McDonnell, Rick Burn, Karen Ardiff. The first book in the critically acclaimed New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling Gemma Doyle trilogy, the exhilarating and haunting saga from the author of The Diviners series and Going Bovine. A Terrible Beauty.: Directed by Keith Farrell. ![]() |