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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Lulu Miller\, Why Fish Don't Exist
DESCRIPTION:VIRTUAL EVENT: NPR science reporter Lulu Miller will discuss her fantastic nonfiction debut Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss. Love\, and the Hidden Order of Life (available in paperback on April 6th). Our staff is crazy about this riveting book\, which begins with an account of biologist David Starr Jordan\, then goes down a rabbit hole of history\, morality\, and scientific adventure. Mary Roach calls it\, “Perfect\, just perfect\,” and Sy Montgomery says\, “This book will capture your heart\, seize your imagination\, smash your preconceptions\, and rock your world.” \nRegistration for this free virtual event will begin soon. \nThis is a free event. The featured book may be purchased below. You can make a donation to help support Bookshop Santa Cruz here. Thank you! \nWhy Fish Don’t Exist tells the strange tale of 19th-century taxonomist David Starr Jordan\, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural world. In time\, he would be credited with discovering nearly a fifth of the fish known to humans in his day. But the more of the hidden blueprint of life he uncovered\, the harder the universe seemed to try to thwart him. His specimen collections were demolished by lightening\, by fire\, and eventually by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake—which sent over a thousand of his discoveries\, housed in fragile glass jars\, plummeting to the floor. In an instant\, his life’s work was shattered. \nMiller digs into this obscure moment in science history to take us on a remarkable journey that explores some of the biggest questions of our lives: the nature of persistence\, of life’s purpose\, and how we strive to make sense of a chaotic world. Like Susan Orlean peeled back layers in The Orchid Thief\, Miller takes us from the desecration of David Starr Jordan’s specimen collection to a possible murder\, and from a colony of victims of eugenics to her own love life—interweaving biography\, memoir\, and the latest science\, psychology\, and philosophy to investigate what it takes to live a life of resilience. \nWHY FISH DON’T EXIST is an astonishing and category-defying work\, by turns harrowing and life-affirming. Part biography\, part memoir\, part scientific adventure\, it’s a story for anyone who has ever found themselves lost amidst the chaos of life\, and reminds us how we—like David Starr Jordan—can find the courage to stand up again in the wreckage. \nLulu Miller is the co-founder of the NPR program Invisibilia\, a series about the unseen forces that control human behavior. Before creating Invisibilia\, she produced Radiolab for five years and was a reporter on the NPR Science Desk. She received a MFA from the University of Virginia on a Poe-Faulkner Fellowship. She is currently the co-host of NPR’s Radiolab.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Jeff VanderMeer
DESCRIPTION:JOIN US ON MONDAY\, APRIL 12 AT 6PM PT WHEN JEFF VANDERMEER JOINS US FOR THE RELEASE OF HIS LATEST NOVEL\, HUMMINGBIRD SALAMANDER!\nSTAY TUNED FOR DETAILS \nPraise for Hummingbird Salamander \n“Hummingbird Salamander is harrowing\, gripping\, and profound. It’s both a thriller and a requiem for a disappearing world. I expect this novel will haunt me for a long time.” —Emily St. John Mandel \n“VanderMeer moves from fantasy into noir territory with this version of an eco-thriller. . .Jane has a number of things in common with Stieg Larsson’s heroine: She can pound most dudes into tapioca\, and she’s pretty handy with a gun and a computer\, too. . .It wouldn’t be a VanderMeer story\, no matter what the genre\, without a post-apocalyptic turn\, and after all the assorted villains (one of them in particular very evil indeed) and oversized amphibians and mad-scientist taxidermists and exploding heads\, it’s sort of nice to get to a future that no one will survive—one that strongly resembles 2020\, for that matter. A daring change of genres\, and an entertaining whirlwind at that.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \n“Hummingbird Salamander is a profound and incendiary thriller hurtling backward from the end of the world. Jeff VanderMeer’s tale of ecological and personal obsession inhabits that strange\, surreal space where the natural world and human ambition collide – a space almost no other writer has chronicled with as much reverence and imaginative lucidity. The result is a detective story unlike any I’ve read before\, futuristic in bearing but deeply relevant to this present\, dangerous moment.” —Omar El Akkad\, award-winning journalist and author of American War\nAbout Hummingbird Salamander \nFrom the author of Annihilation\, a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy\, endangered species\, and the end of all things \nSoftware manager Jane Smith receives an envelope containing a list of animals along with a key to a storage unit that holds a taxidermied hummingbird and salamander. The list is signed “Love\, Silvina.” Jane does not know a Silvina\, and she wants nothing to do with the taxidermied animals. \nThe hummingbird and the salamander are\, it turns out\, two of the most endangered species in the world. Silvina Vilcapampa\, the woman who left the note\, is a reputed ecoterrorist and the daughter of a recently deceased Argentine industrialist. By removing the hummingbird and the salamander from the storage unit\, Jane has set in motion a series of events over which she has no control. \nInstantly\, Jane and her family are in danger\, and she finds herself alone and on the run from both Silvina’s family and her ecoterrorist accomplices—along with the wildlife traffickers responsible for the strange taxidermy. She seems fated to follow in Silvina’s footsteps as she desperately seeks answers about why Silvina contacted her\, why she is now at the center of this global conspiracy\, and what exactly Silvina was planning. Time is running out—for her and possibly for the world. \nHummingbird Salamander is the Annihilation author Jeff VanderMeer at his brilliant\, cinematic best\, wrapping profound questions about climate change\, identity\, and the world we live in into a tightly plotted thriller full of unexpected twists and elaborate conspiracy.
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