Ian Patterson
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May 2025
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From the publisher: Nicholas, Charon, and Dorothy are separated, and stranded in a cosmos they don\u2019t understand. Behind is a City that would kill them, and the cooling gulf of rage that split them. Their only landmarks now are the distant stars, galaxies, and antique wooden doors that litter the plane. Through each door, the promise of a new world brims with possibility, but all they find are dead ends. A translucent tunnel extends before them and shows their direction. Or does it determine it? Are they in control of their decisions, or is something else guiding them? And who, or what, is the Narrator?<\/p>\n
From Jeffery Payne, assistant retail manager: Colorado author Ian Patterson returns with book two of the Narrator cycle, \u201cTranscendence,\u201d picking up from his wonderfully written debut novel \u201cTransference.\u201d The first volume introduced amazing technology, a uniquely original storyline and thought-provoking moral questions. In the second volume we are treated to more mind-bending concepts and ethical challenges.<\/p>\n
In \u201cTranscendence,\u201d we follow the characters as they seek answers (and maybe just a bit of revenge) from someone who has been messing with their lives and future. Readers delve into the fourth and fifth dimensions. Now, I am not a physics person, at all, but through adroit writing I think I understand the concepts. I think.<\/p>\n
I highly recommend reading the first volume before taking this novel on. It will save a lot of head scratching. I look forward to reading more of this author\u2019s work in the future!<\/p>\n
\u00a0Is A River Alive?<\/p>\n
By Robert Macfarlane From the publisher: Hailed in the New York Times as \u201ca naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler,\u201d Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a profound work of travel writing, reportage, and natural history. The book is a joyful, mind-expanding exploration of an ancient, urgent idea: that rivers are living beings who should be recognized as such in imagination and law.<\/p>\n Macfarlane takes readers on three unforgettable journeys teeming with extraordinary people, stories, and places: to the miraculous cloud-forests and mountain streams of Ecuador, to the wounded creeks and lagoons of India, and to the spectacular wild rivers of Canada \u2014 imperiled respectively by mining, pollution and dams. Braiding these journeys is the life story of the fragile chalk stream a mile from Macfarlane\u2019s house, a stream who flows through his own years and days.<\/p>\n From Jeffery Payne, assistant retail manager: When I first saw the title of the book, I immediately thought to myself, \u201cOf course it is.\u201d Then stepping back a bit, I realized that I could possibly be in the minority, yet again, in my perception of the natural world, and how I experience it.<\/p>\n My fascination with running water and how it molds\/affects us comes from a small creek not far from my childhood farm. It was there that I witnessed the relationship that land, water and people\/animals have. My father, a man of very few words, would take me to the creek, we\u2019d sit down, and he\u2019d lean over and say quietly, \u201cJust watch.\u201d<\/p>\n I\u2019ve been watching ever since.<\/p>\n Macfarlane examines how rivers have shaped communities, reflecting on three unique rivers and their distinct characters. With a tender heart and a nod to possibilities, we are encouraged to rethink rivers, or any body of water for that matter, as living beings. There is spirit, a mind of its own, feelings (rage after a deluge of rain and calmness on a summer day) and an ever-changing body. \u201cIs A River Alive?\u201d shows us that nature, in all its forms, is more than deserving of our compassion and deference.<\/p>\n Battle Mountain<\/p>\n
W. W. H. Norton & Company
$31.99
May 2025
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