Joseph O’Neill is winner of the PEN/Faulkner award for his post-9/11 novel Netherland. The author’s fourth book was a bestseller last year, and had been in the running for the Booker Prize and the National Book Award. Finalists for the PEN/Faulkner were Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum for Ms. Hempel Chronicles, Susan Choi for A Person of [...]
Monday, February 23, 2009
My India: Where Every Village is Home: Guided Talk and Slide Presentation with Etan Doronne On February 7th, 2007, Etan Doronne began a year long solitary backpack journey through rural India. Some of the Villages he visited had never had a foreign visitor let alone an opportunity to build a friendship with one. Etan’s [...]
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Descendants of Apache warrior Geronimo are suing Yale University and the members of the Order of Skull & Bones, a student club, in order to retrieve the remains of the 19th Indian leader. The lawsuit claims that in 1918 or 1919, Skull & Bones members opened Geronimo’s tomb at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, and took parts [...]
Monday, February 9, 2009
Charles Darwin held back publishing On the Origin of Species for fear of offending his deeply religious wife. An official with London’s Natural History Museum said Darwin also wanted to buttress his explanation of evolution with as many observations and facts as possible. Thursday marks the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth, and in Britain alone, [...]
Thursday, February 5, 2009
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Monday, February 2, 2009
The Palos Verdes Library District will co-sponsor an author talk and book signing. Marina Endicott, award-winning author, will discuss her book, “Good to a Fault” at 1:00pm, Sunday, March 1 at the Rolling Hills United Methodist Church. Rolling Hills Methodist Church is located at 26438 Crenshaw Boulevard in Rolling Hills Estates. Guests attend free; no [...]
Monday, February 2, 2009
Scant rainfall and meager snow-packs are leading water experts in California to predict that the state may face its worst drought ever. The situation is further complicated by population growth and the desire to protect endangered species. Because farmers in the Central Valley can expect a fraction of needed water for irrigation, fields are being [...]
Thursday, February 26, 2009
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