Washoe County Library System

Marisa Rosso can’t understand why everyone else is getting on with their lives as she still struggles to get over the death of her beloved grandfather, back home in Italy. Everyone loses grandparents, right? Why is she taking it so badly? Retreating further and further from normal life, she moves to the end of the earth—the remote tidal island of Mount Polbearne, at the foot of Cornwall, hoping for peace and solitude, whilst carrying on her job...

"Trevor Benson no tuvo intenciones de volver a New Bern, Carolina del Norte. Pero una terrible explosion a las fueras del hospital en el que trabajaba como cirujano, le obliga a volver a casa desde Afganistan con graves heridas. La destartalada cabana que habia heredado de su abuelo parece el lugar ideal para recuperarse. Trevor, que cuida las amadas colmenas de abejas de su abuelo, no esta preparado para enamorarse de alguien del pueblo. Sin embargo,...

"It’s thirty years from now. We’re making progress, mitigating climate change, slowly but surely. But what about all the angry old people who can’t let go? For young Americans a generation from now, climate change isn't controversial. It's just an overwhelming fact of life. And so are the great efforts to contain and mitigate it. Entire cities are being moved inland from the rising seas. Vast clean-energy projects are springing...