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The moth snowstorm, a phenomenon Michael McCarthy remembers from his boyhood when moths "would pack a car's headlight beams like snowflakes in a blizzard," is a distant memory. Wildlife is being lost, not only in the wholesale extinctions of...
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Remembering Ursula K. Le Guin
"The iconic science fiction and fantasy writer, poet, essayist and translator, has died at the age of 88. Remember the influential novelist with a look back at her books for all ages."
In Lois Lowry's Newbery Medal-winning classic, twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal world. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver does he begin to understand the dark secrets behind his fragile community. Life in the...
