these anti-sentimental poems nevertheless celebrate the passionate and empathetic subjective life
the residents who infect others with their optimism
moving novel about a trailblazing mathematician whose research unearths her own extraordinary family story and its roots in World War II
offering a simple framework and powerful tools to help us take on life’s blizzard of offhand comments
a would-be suitor discovers that a sunlit street can become a killing ground in the blink of an eye
Witness Tree: Seasons of Change with a Century-Old Oak TC_Bestseller these anti-sentimental poems nevertheless celebrateSeasonal changes in nature are among the most readily observable clues to the biological effects of climate change. It came to me, writes acclaimed environment reporter Lynda Mapes, You could tell the story of climate changeand morethrough a single, beloved, living thing: a tree. Mapes chronicles her yearlong quest to understand a wizened witness to our world: a red oak, over one hundred years old, in the Harvard Forest. A tree that has seen it all,