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Dr. Barbara Boustead is a meteorologist, climatologist, and author of Wilder Weather: What Laura Ingalls Wilder Teaches Us About Weather, Climate, and Protecting What We Cherish. She has published articles in the Washington Post, Weatherwise magazine, and the Fine Lines literary journal, and her essay "Pain's Imposter Syndrome" is included in the award-winning anthology Awakenings: Stories of Body & Consciousness. Barbara lives near Omaha, Nebraska, with her husband and son. ...more

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Wilder Weather: What Laura Ingalls Wilder Teaches Us About the Weather, Climate, and Protecting What We Cherish

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All the Water in the World

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The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

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Torn on this - some elements are more like 2 stars, but the emotion conveyed in the book is real and compelling and conveys his authentic experience. Splitting the difference, I guess? I have utter empathy for the trauma the author survived. The writ ...more
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Let's go 3.5 rounded down. I didn't realize until after finishing the book that the author is primarily a poet, and that makes a lot of sense. The sentence structures were overdrawn with hyphenated and comma clauses. Because it was about tornadoes, I ...more
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