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Want to read more books about climate change? Here’s a list to get started
1 year, 4 months ago

Want to read more books about climate change? Here’s a list to get started

LA Times  

Want to So we figured it was time for me to share a list of books I’ve found helpful, for newbies and experts alike. “The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable” by Amitav Ghosh : Don’t be deterred by this book’s academic appearance. Through meticulously reported examples, she explains why letting go of a “free market” economy is critical …

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‘All the Light We Cannot See’ Reveals To Us How the World Survives - News18
1 year, 4 months ago

‘All the Light We Cannot See’ Reveals To Us How the World Survives - News18

News 18  

The future belongs to Gen Z and theirs are the voices that need to be heard. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr illuminates to us the morality that man still holds within, that might flicker occasionally, but is still very much there, ingrained in our cores, our truest selves. The protagonists are Marie-Laure, a blind French girl …

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Stanford gets $1B for climate change school from John Doerr
2 years, 7 months ago

Stanford gets $1B for climate change school from John Doerr

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Stanford University will launch a new school focusing on climate change thanks to a $1.1 billion gift from billionaire venture capitalist John Doerr and his wife, Ann, the university announced Tuesday. “We have designed a school for the future combining knowledge generation and impact, building on the strong foundation established through Stanford’s history of scholarship,” said Stanford …

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Review: Anthony Doerr asks us to save ourselves by looking beyond ourselves
3 years, 2 months ago

Review: Anthony Doerr asks us to save ourselves by looking beyond ourselves

LA Times  

On the Shelf Cloud Cuckoo Land By Anthony Doerr Scribner: 640 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. In the present day, a group of fifth-graders in Lakeport, Idaho, are rehearsing their version of Diogenes’ work, “Cloud Cuckoo Land,” at the local library. As …

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Anthony Doerr On The Spark That Inspired 'Cloud Cuckoo Land'
3 years, 3 months ago

Anthony Doerr On The Spark That Inspired 'Cloud Cuckoo Land'

NPR  

Anthony Doerr On The Spark That Inspired 'Cloud Cuckoo Land' SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Anthony Doerr, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2015 with his last novel "All The Light We Cannot See," has a new novel that ties together stories from medieval Constantinople, a contemporary small-town library held at gunpoint by a teenage environmentalist, and a spaceship in the next …

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Doerr, Powers on fiction longlist for National Book Awards
3 years, 3 months ago

Doerr, Powers on fiction longlist for National Book Awards

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Anthony Doerr, Richard Powers and Lauren Groff are among this years nominees on the National Book Awards’ fiction longlist, which also includes Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’ epic debut novel “The Love Songs of W. E. B. Doerr’s “Cloud Cuckoo Land” is his first novel since his Pulitzer Prize-winning “All the Light We Cannot See” and Powers’ “Bewilderment” is …

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