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… Philosophical Society and of the United States of America, died at Monti-cello on July 4,1826. For more than eighty-three years, he had lived a life of … and power, is the shape which, under the Adams magic, comes genie-like from the pages and hovers benignant and …

… counselor. Sometimes his all-purpose utterances were comforting and other times they made Kate want to kick him. … mother had improved markedly after Megan was born. She had died of a brain tumor in the summer following Megan’s high … an oddly bouncy ring, reminding her of television commercials for cleaning products that portrayed drudgery as …

… that for centuries had tempted and foiled even the hardiest captains and crews. Climate change has so dramatically … by fears of an icy death. Just a week after the uneventful completion of the Crystal Serenity cruise, news broke that … ships and sea ice, Europeans and indigenous people, animals and humans, expectations and realities. The Crystal …

… Stillbirth At minus two months, Pablo Casals heard his mother playing cello: strings droning on the … around the lurching crystal ball, her belly. Brother who died before the page was turned, how much of this did you …

… in wool. Back inside, the other actors were still in bed, comatose and saddle-sore, but Indian #9 had lain awake all … so he’d gone up to the deck to catch a glimpse of the animals instead. Pulleys lurched and squealed as the crates, … never managed to distinguish him among the gray swarm of bodies onscreen.) All night he’d flopped nervously on the …