![]() ![]() Hillslope failures triggered by shaking can affect homes and infrastructure and dam rivers and cause flooding, sometimes in catastrophic outbursts ( 1– 4). Landslides are one of the greatest secondary hazards of large earthquakes. Our results agree with findings about other recent subduction zone earthquakes where relatively few deep-seated landslides were mapped and suggest that despite proximity to the megathrust, most deep-seated landslides in the Oregon Coast Range were triggered by rainfall. We find landslide frequency increases with mean annual precipitation but not with modeled peak ground acceleration or proximity to the megathrust. Here, we map 9938 deep-seated bedrock landslides in the Oregon Coast Range and use surface roughness dating to estimate that past earthquakes triggered fewer than half of the landslides in the past 1000 years. Little is known about the number of landslides triggered by these earthquakes because the last magnitude 9 rupture occurred in 1700 CE. Historic landslides have primarily been triggered by rainfall, but the region is also prone to large earthquakes on the 1100-km-long Cascadia Subduction Zone megathrust. The coastal Pacific Northwest USA hosts thousands of deep-seated landslides. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One example of such critical negotiation takes place in Adam Bede, in which Eliot challenges the Victorian confines of the female by utilizing the “fallen woman” archetype. Through her journalistic persona, George Eliot experimented with narratives and negotiated relationships with her editor and audience. By doing so, they were able to widen their scope beyond the traditional “domain of feminine writing” (Cambridge) into areas such as politics, social issues, gender roles, economics, and other conventionally masculine topics. To establish themselves “without assuming feminine identities” (Cambridge) and the accompanying stereotypes, many female writers of the time published under pseudonyms. During the early to mid-Victorian era, the parameters of the feminine literary tradition were narrow and restrictive, literature by women often being dismissed as sentimental, frivolous, and domestic. Mary Ann Evans, born in Warwickshire in 1819, adopted the pseudonym George Eliot for publication of her work, including her first novel, Adame Bede in 1859. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this stunning book, David Almond revisits Mina before she has met Michael, before she has met Skellig, in what is a thought provoking and extraordinary prequel to his best selling debut novel, Skellig winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children’s Book Award. Why should a book tell a tale in a dull straight line? And so Mina writes and writes in her notebook, and here is her journal, Mina’s life in Mina’s own words: her stories and dreams, experiences and thoughts, her scribblings and nonsense, poems and songs. I’ll let my journal grow just like the mind does, just like a tree or a beast does, just like life does. Then what shall I write? I can’t just write that this happened then this happened then this happened to boring infinitum. ![]() I open the book and write the very first words: My Name is Mina and I love the night. I keep on saying that I’ll write a journal. There’s an empty notebook lying on the table in the moonlight. ![]() ![]() ![]() With A Summer Affair, published in 2008, she moved to Little, Brown and Company. She moved to Nantucket in July 1993, took a job as "the classified ads girl" at a local paper, and later started writing. She spent the next summer working, doing piecework in a factory that made Halloween costumes she promised herself that the goal for the rest of her life would be to always have a real summer. She spent her summers on Cape Cod, "playing touch football at low tide, collecting sea glass, digging pools for hermit crabs, swimming out to the wooden raft off shore," until her father died in a plane crash when she was sixteen. Hilderbrand was born and raised in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, and was previously a teaching/writing fellow at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. In 2019, New York Magazine called Hilderbrand "the queen of beach reads". ![]() ![]() Her novels are typically set on and around Nantucket Island, where she resides. Elin Hilderbrand is an American writer, mostly of romance novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() What sites your reviews are posted on (B&N, Amazon, etc.) and whether you send digital (eBook, PDF, Word, etc.) or hard copies of your books to each other for review is up to you. ![]() Simply put, you agree to provide an honest review an author's book in exchange for the author doing the same for you. This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Book Review Exchange Program, which is open to all authors and is completely free. To begin, click the purple email icon to send this author a private email. You and the author will discuss what sites you will post your review to and what kind of copy of the book you would like to receive (eBook, PDF, Word, paperback, etc.). The author will provide you with a free copy of their book in exchange for an honest review. This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Free Book Program, which is open to all readers and is completely free. ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s absolutely no way Molly could fall for him. He’s a chubby Tolkien superfan with a season’s pass to the Ren Faire. There’s only one problem: Molly’s coworker, Reid. If Molly can win him over, she’ll get her first kiss and she’ll get her twin back. Luckily, Cassie’s new girlfriend comes with a hipster-boy sidekick. Then a cute new girl enters Cassie’s orbit and Molly’s cynical twin is a lovesick mess. ![]() No matter how many times her twin sister, Cassie, tells her to woman up, Molly can’t stomach the idea of rejection. Seventeen-year-old Molly Peskin-Suso knows all about unrequited love. Here’s what they have been up to since 2016.īecky Albertalli, Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda Like a good Auntie following my siblings’ children, I have followed the career paths of the five 2016 Morris finalists. Sort of the way I feel about my nieces and nephews - proud, but not because I had any real part in their creation. I feel a special connection to the five debut authors whose work I spent a lot of time with. There is something special about the Morris Award because it is given to a debut novel. I celebrated at the Morris/Nonfiction Award Ceremony and flew home that night, exhausted. I was teary-eyed as our winner was announced and the audience cheered. We laughed and argued over the merits of each of our five finalists before reaching a decision. Three years ago, I sat in a locked room and deliberated with my Morris Award Committee colleagues. ![]() ![]() ![]() “She was sixteen now, shapely and graceful, and of a beauty so extraordinary that I might allow myself any extravagance of language in describing it and yet have no fear of going beyond the truth.There was in her face a sweetness and serenity and purity that justly reflected her spiritual nature.” It’s hard to imagine Twain loving any of his characters more than he loved Joan of Arc. But what makes this book his favorite is his love for its subject. ![]() The reasons are obvious: the maturity and detail born of more than a decade’s research show the expert hand of a master of his craft. It was the last novel published in his lifetime and he considered it his best. While reading this book more than a century later, it’s hard not to share his enthusiasm. When Mark Twain wrote Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc in 1896 he was 61 years old and madly in love with his teenage heroine. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Like a promise you won’t fight some monster just to impress one of the solitary fey who, as far as I can tell, you don’t even like.” “Now that I agreed to travel your way,” he shouts over the wind, “you ought to give me something I want. He can’t believe his good fortune, can’t trace the path that got him here. They are two people who ought to have, by all rights, remained enemies forever. He cuts his gaze toward his unpredictable, mortal High Queen, whose wild brown hair is blowing around her face, whose amber eyes are alight when she looks at him. It’s not as though he doesn’t enjoy a little danger, just that he doesn’t gorge himself on it, unlike some people. “I suppose I would have plummeted out of the air,” Jude tells him with troubling equanimity, her expression saying, Horrible risks are entirely normal to me.Ĭardan has to admit that the ragwort steeds are swift and that there is something thrilling about tangling his hand in a leafy mane and racing across the sky. “This is how you traveled? What if the enchantment ended while Vivi wasn’t with you?” This?” he demands, looking down at the waves far beneath them. ![]() ![]() The Club had previously ceased publication in 1938. This exceedingly special and beautiful edition of an all-time favorite Texas book was one of the Book Club's first publications after they were re-established in 1988. Beautiful folding map by Barbara Whitehead, initial letters at the head of each chapter by Penny Moran, hand-marbled papers by Peggy Skycraft in Estacada, Oregon, and bound by Craig Jensen at BookLab in Austin. Thomas Taylor, with the photographs & illustrations made by the author during his journey courtesy of William Wittliff and printed as duo tones by David Holman at The Wind River Press. ![]() ![]() Two-tone quarter spine and marbled paper over boards, with titles in black in a paper spine label,, 237 pp., preface, illustrated, map, bibliography. Limited to 550 copies and signed by the author at the end of the Preface. ![]() ![]() ![]() Until he had to plan a wedding.After taking down an old adversary, Agent Cooper Dayton of the Bureau of Special Investigations has earned a break. Show bookĪgent Cooper Dayton never thought anything could be harder than solving murders. ![]() ![]() ![]() Like everything that goes through the mail centre, only time will tell if Malachi has found his intended destination or if he’ll find himself returned to sender. He also needs to solve the mystery of the pile of old letters that sits in Julian’s office and maybe get to the bottom of what makes Julian tick. To keep his father happy, Malachi needs to keep this job. Where Julian is calm and ordered, Malachi is chaos personified, but despite their outward differences, there’s an immediate chemistry between them that sends Malachi’s head-and heart-into a spin. Malachi’s intrigued by Julian at first, and he soon learns there’s more to the man than his boring clothes of beige, tan, and brown a far cry from Malachi’s hot pink, lilac, and electric blue. Malachi expects tedious and boring but instead discovers a warehouse with a quirky bunch of misfit co-workers, including a stoic and nerdy boss, Julian Pollard. Malachi Keogh finds himself in a job he neither wanted nor asked for when his father, boss of Sydney’s postal service, sends him to the end of the business line, aka The Dead Letter Office. ![]() |