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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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Theo of Golden

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F5: The Devastating Tornado Outbreak of 1974

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

by Priya Parker

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Going with 3.5 stars, rounded up. The genre of historical weather events with big impacts is definitely my favorite genre :). The story of the lobster boats caught in an underforecasted storm, and the Coast Guard efforts at rescues, is compelling. Th ...more
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I could listen to Tom Hanks read an instruction manual and be captivated, but separating his voice from the novel itself, it still rates somewhere around 4.5 stars for me. The characters are flawed and human, making human decisions as they go through ...more
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OK, so in full disclosure, I'm a meteorologist and colleague of the author, and I cannot be unbiased. The novel is a bit outside of my usual genres, though I do enjoy magical realism, mysticism, and witchiness if done well. Mercutio does it well. The ...more
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Barbara Boustead made a comment on Haly Hoards Books’s review of The Harvesting Angel of the Plains (Southwest Gothic, #1) " They/them pronouns are not hard to learn. Keep trying, and maybe you'll learn to understand them! ...more "
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