Kate’s 2¢: “The Patient” by Teri Terry

“The Patient” by Teri Terry

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   Libby McKnight did an excellent job of narrating this Psychological, Suspense Fiction story.

   I rarely read the library  summary before I read a story, so when I started listening  to this book, I thought it would be a ‘therapy piece’. It became so much more and I enjoyed it.

A few take-aways:

–I couldn’t take it.I’d rather die sooner at home.

–Someone else’s heart beating in my chest…a heart that might keep me alive longer than the original model, or not.

–Infections are more likely to kill me.

–Did any of us really know her?

–Was Flora’s heart having an influence on me?

—

From the WEB:

Teri Terry has been a scientist, a lawyer, and an optometrist. She has managed businesses and worked in secondary schools and libraries. In 2004 “the stories took over,” and she now writes full time. Her Slated trilogy is a bestseller in the UK.

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The patient DB129178

Author: Terry, Teri

Reading Time: 8 hours, 45 minutes

Production: National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress

Read by: Libby McKnight

Subjects: Psychological Fiction, Suspense Fiction

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“I feel the steady thump of my new heart beating inside me. The surgeon said everything went well. But I can’t stop thinking about my the girl who was killed. Her death saved my life. But now whoever took hers is coming for mine… I can’t believe it when I learn my donor’s identity. The attack on Flora was all over the news. From my hospital bed I read every article, obsess over every word and soon I feel like I know the beautiful girl with flame-coloured hair, adored by everyone around her. Why would anyone hurt someone so perfect? When Flora’s family reach out to me, I’m unsure. My hands are shaking as I arrive at their grand mansion with its golden stone and sprawling gardens, but they’re warm and welcoming, tears shining in her mother’s eyes as she smiles at me. She even tells me to take anything I want from Flora’s things, as she can’t bear to go through them herself. I run my fingers over the racks of beautiful designer items, carefully choosing outfits in Flora’s signature yellow, the bright colour complementing the new flush in my cheeks. I think of the years I’ve wasted being ill, and the crushing loneliness I thought would never end. I deserve this. But then there’s a violent attack on another patient who received one of Flora’s organs. My heart – Flora’s heart – races dangerously fast. Is it a coincidence? Maybe I’ve made a mistake by stepping into Flora’s life. Has this second chance really saved me? Or has it cost me everything?” — Goodreads. Violence, strong language and some descriptions of sex.

London : Bookouture, an imprint of Storyfire, Ltd., 2024

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Kate’s 2¢: “I’m still here: a dog’s purpose forever” by Cathryn Michon

“I’m still here: a dog’s purpose forever” by Cathryn Michon

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   Cathryn Michon did a nice job of reading this book that she’s published. I agree it is tough to lose a pet, but try trusting your life to your guide dog, then losing her. Extremely tough, but you live on to trust again.

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Cathryn Michon is an American filmmaker, stand-up comic, actor, and writer who has written for the TV shows Designing Women (1986), China Beach (1988), Sisters (1991), Diagnosis Murder (1993), and South Park (1997). In 2007, she co-wrote, co-produced, and starred in the movie Cook Off.

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I’m still here: a dog’s purpose forever DB130509

Author: Michon, Cathryn

Reading Time: 0 hours, 41 minutes

Production: National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress

Read by: Cathryn Michon

Subject: Animals and Wildlife

“Losing one’s dog is one of the most difficult experiences we go through and it’s hard to find solace. However, the profound, four-legged narrator of I’m Still Here has nothing but good news for humans. The free verse is equally rhapsodic about the eternal nature of our souls and the amazing sound of crinkly wrappers that means cheese is about to be sliced. This very good dog proclaims that love never dies, that we will meet again, and that if you ever doubted that humans are magnificent creatures, look no further than the humble ball. There is nothing to fear, because it is this dog’s purpose to pull you (like a bad dog who doesn’t know how to do “leash”) toward joy, and to remind you to relish all the naps and treats life has to offer.” — From publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.

New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, 2025.

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Kate’s 2¢: “The Sound of Broken Glass: A Novel” by Deborah Crombie

“The Sound of Broken Glass: A Novel” by Deborah Crombie

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   I think Martha Harmon Pardee out-did herself narrating this book in her many dialects and accents. I suspect it wasn’t easy to do.

   I enjoyed the story and am usually amazed how the author can tie all theloose ends to come up with the surprise murderer and leave enough untied for the next book in the series.

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Biography – Deborah Crombie | New York Times Bestselling …

Deborah Crombie was born in Dallas and grew up in Richardson, Texas, a suburb north of Dallas, the second child of Charlie and Mary Darden. Her maternal grandmother, Lillian Dozier, a retired teacher, taught her to read at the tender age of four.

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Deborah Crombie (née Darden) is an American author of the Duncan Kincaid / Gemma James mystery series set in the United Kingdom.[1] Crombie was raised in Richardson, Texas, and has lived in the United Kingdom.[2] She now lives in McKinney, Texas.

Crombie studied biology at Austin College[3] and was a writing student of Warren Norwood at Tarrant County College.

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The sound of broken glass DB76312

Series: Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James series

Order in Series: 15

Author: Crombie, Deborah

Reading Time: 12 hours, 0 minutes

Production: National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress

Read by: Martha Harmon Pardee

Subject: Mystery and Detective Stories

Detective inspector Gemma James and detective Melody Talbot investigate two linked cases of barristers found naked, bound, and strangled. Melody is drawn to a potential witness–musician Andy Monahan. Meanwhile, Gemma’s husband, detective superintendent Duncan Kincaid, ends the leave of absence he has taken to care for their foster child. 2013.

New York : William Morrow, 2013.

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Kate’s 2¢: “Armageddon 2419 A.D.“ by Philip Francis Nowlan

“Armageddon 2419 A.D.“ by Philip Francis Nowlan

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   Alan Winterrowd did a good job of narrating this futuristic story. It showed how last century strategies could be very effective with new world weapons. I enjoyed this book, but why can’t humans learn that war is a lose/lose situation?

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Nowlan was born on November 13, 1888, died February 1, 1940. While attending the University of Pennsylvania, Nowlan was a member of The Mask and Wig Club, holding significant roles in the annual productions between 1907 and 1909. After attending the University of Pennsylvania he worked as a newspaper columnist. Nowlan was married to Theresa Junker, and they had ten children.[2]

He moved to the Philadelphia suburb of Bala Cynwyd and created and wrote the Buck Rogers comic strip, illustrated by Dick Calkins. He remained a writer on the strip until 1939. The comic strip ran from 1929-1967. Spin-offs included a radio-serial series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (sporadically aired from 1932-1947), a 1939 movie serial Buck Rogers, a brief 1950-51 television series, and a 1979-1981 television series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.[2]

Nowlan also wrote several other novellas for the science fiction magazines as well as the posthumously published mystery, The Girl from Nowhere. He died from a stroke at his home in Bala in 1940.[1]

Works[edit]

• Armageddon 2419 A.D. (1928)

• The Girl from Nowhere (1928, ISBN 0-8095-0038-8 (Neuauflage von 2005)

• The Airlords of Han (1929)

• The Onslaught from Venus (1929)

• The Time Jumpers (1934)

• The Prince of Mars Returns (1940)

• Space Guards (1940)

• Wings Over Tomorrow: The Collected Science Fiction of Philip Francis Nowlan (2005, ISBN 0-8095-1095-2)[3]

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

Armageddon 2419 A.D. DB129698

Author: Nowlan, Philip Francis

Reading Time: 2 hours, 41 minutes

Production: National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress

Read by: Alan Winterrowd

Subject: Science Fiction

“Anthony Rogers awakes after a 492 year-long sleep after an accident in a mine to find the United States he remembers to be very changed indeed. At first he believes he’d only been asleep a short time, but cannot recognise the woods of Pennsylvania or other surroundings. After meeting a wounded boy, and encountered Wilma Deering who is on patrol, he learns the dreadful truth: that the United States is but a wild backwater in a global empire run to the technologically advanced Han.”– From publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.

Auckland : Booktrack, 2018.

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Kate’s 2¢: “Whispering winds of Appalachia” by John Ellington

“Whispering winds of Appalachia” by John Ellington

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   Stephen Van Doren did an excellent job of narrating this intriguing story. I liked the descriptions of the mountain flora and fauna.

A few take-aways:

–There is a quiet peace and feeling of safety in the mountains.

–Alone in the woods with my friends, time stands still.

–Sometimes the people most concerned with money, have the least amount of it.

–Mountain folk kind of live and work at their own pace.

–Nature was spiritual for us both, but we experienced it differently.—To stop breathing is to give up, to die.

–We all flew together with the up-draft  of the mountain, toward an unknown end.

–The mistery of the whispering winds is that they are voices of loved ones that have moved on.

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About the author

As a practicing veterinarian with a background in biology, John is not your prototypical author. He has no formal training in literature or publishing. His career subjects him to calculating drug doses and peering through the lenses of microscopes.

John Ellington is an avid fly fisherman with a hopelessly romantic and adventurous soul. His rich spiritual connection with nature inspires him to share his …

Winner of the 2024 Gold Medal Southern Fiction IPPY Book Award Finalist for the 2024 Next Generation Indie Book

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Whispering winds of Appalachia DB126861

Author: Ellington, John

Reading Time: 6 hours, 13 minutes

Production: National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress

Read by: Stephen Van Doren

Subjects: Friendship Fiction, General Fiction, Human Relations, Historical Fiction

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“Nestled between the smoky, rolling peaks of Southern Appalachia lies the town of Brevard, North Carolina. When Chris Avery’s family moves to Brevard in the early 1970s, Chris quickly becomes immersed in a world untouched by the mire of life outside the mountains. As a young boy, Chris meets the son of the struggling dairy farmer next door, Walker Davis, and Walker’s best friend, Brook Palmer. The three of them become inseparable, bonded to each other as they are to the vibrant world in which their lives unfold. They spend the formative years of their childhood wandering in the woods chasing waterfalls and brook trout. However, they soon find out that life isn’t always so simple. What once seemed like heaven is hopelessly ripped apart at the seams when one of the characters commits an irrevocable mistake that challenges friendship, love, and Chris’s understanding of even himself. Grasping at straws of a fractured past, Chris is forced to pit his conscience against the people he loves, all while listening to the subtle, haunting voices laced in the wind.”– Goodreads. Strong language and some violence.

United States : John Ellington, 2023.

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Kate’s 2¢: “The Hounds of Winter” by James Magnuson  

“The Hounds of Winter” by James Magnuson  

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   Ruth Borinstein narrated this Psychological Fiction, Suspense thriller.

   The author wielded his craft well and as he introduced each character and his motive, the reader agrees, Yes, Yes, this is the perpetrator.  Only to have the next character be the murderer, until the surprise ending.

A few take-aways:

–When you’ve got a secret, it changes you in ways you’re not even aware of.

–As long as there’s a will and heart and ingenuity, it’s never over.

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James Magnuson was born in 1941 and grew up in a series of small towns in Wisconsin and North Dakota. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin, he made a living as a playwright in New York City, directing street theater in Harlem and producing his own plays in some of the most obscure theaters in the city.

James Magnuson – Penguin Random House

Penguin Random House

Jan 18, 2026 — James L. Magnuson, writer, family man, teacher, and friend, died peacefully at home in Austin on January 18, 2026. He was 84.

He was 84. He wrote nine well-reviewed novels as well as works for movies, television and the stage. He directed the Michener Center.

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The hounds of winter: a novel DBC18046

Author: Magnuson, James

Reading Time: 10 hours, 53 minutes

Production: Texas State Library and Archives Commission, Talking Book Program

Read by: Ruth Borinstein

Subjects: Psychological Fiction, Suspense Fiction

In this psychological thriller, David Neisen comes seeking reconciliation; what he finds is a father’s worst nightmare. Arriving on Christmas Eve to spend the holidays with his daughter Maya, he discovers her murdered on the floor of their cabin in the Wisconsin woods. He sees a ski-masked figure lurching through the snowdrifts behind the house and sets out in pursuit — only to transform himself into the prime suspect in his daughter’s death. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2005.

Austin : University of Texas Press, c2005.

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Kate’s 2¢: “The Horse Dancer” by Jo Jo Moyes

“The Horse Dancer” by Jo Jo Moyes

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   Fiona Hardingham did a great job of narrating this wonderful story.

   I almost stopped reading this tale, due to too much French in the prologue. I’m glad I kept listening to this outstanding, well crafted tale that is so much more than a teen who loves her horse. I liked how each chapter began with a horse training quote that could also be applied to human relationships.

   Being a romance, you know basically how it is going to end, but Der Gussie! Getting there was awesome.

A few take-aways:

–Money didn’t buy you happiness, but it certainly provides you places to feel miserable.

–Her generation was simply deficient in being able to maintain love on such an epic scale.—With each miscarriage, her confidence in her own femineity had shrunk.

–When you think you’re losing something, you don’t always behave in the smartest way.

–How could she not have guessed that the chaos of these children’s lives was, in fact, infectious.

The beauty of young people was that hope could still be restored…If only the same were true of adults.

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www.jojomoyes.com

Pauline Sara Jo Moyes (born 4 August 1969), known professionally as Jojo Moyes, is an English journalist and, since 2002, an award-winning romance novelist,[1] number-one New York Times best selling author[2] and screenwriter.[3][4] She is one of only a few authors to have twice won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists’ Association and her works have been translated into twenty-eight languages[5] and have sold more than 40 million copies worldwide.[6]

Life and early career[edit]

Pauline Sara-Jo Moyes was born on 4 August 1969,[7] in Maidstone,[8] England.[9]

Before attending university, Moyes held several jobs: she was a typist at NatWest typing statements in braille for blind people, a brochure writer for Club 18-30, and a minicab controller for a brief time. While an undergraduate at Royal Holloway, University of London, Moyes worked for the Egham and Staines News.[10]

She earned a journalism degree from City University[11] as well as a degree at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, London University.[12]

Moyes won a bursary financed by The Independent newspaper, which allowed her to attend the postgraduate newspaper journalism course at City University in 1992.[13] She subsequently worked for The Independent for the next 10 years (except for one year, when she worked in Hong Kong for the South China Morning Post) in various roles, becoming Assistant News Editor in 1998.[13] In 2002 she became the newspaper’s Arts and Media Correspondent.[14]

Writing career[edit]

Early in her writing career,[15] Moyes wrote three manuscripts that were all initially rejected. With one child, another baby on the way, and a career as a journalist, Moyes committed to herself that if her fourth book was rejected, she would stop her efforts. After submitting the first three chapters of her fourth book to various publishers, six of them began a bidding war for the rights.[citation needed]

Moyes became a full-time novelist in 2002, when her first book Sheltering Rain was published. She continues to write articles for The Daily Telegraph.[16]

Moyes’ publisher, Hodder & Stoughton, did not take up the 2012 novel Me Before You and Moyes sold it to Penguin. It sold six million copies, went to number one in nine countries, and reinvigorated her back catalogue resulting in three of her novels being on the New York Times bestseller list at the same time.[17][18] Moyes would later write two sequels to Me Before You: After You in 2015 and Still Me in 2018.[19]

In 2013, it was announced that Michael H. Weber and Scott Neustadter had been hired to write an adaptation of Me Before You.[20] In 2016 the film adaptation Me Before You was released and the screenplay was written by Moyes.[21]

In 2018, Moyes invested £120,000 in the Quick Reads Initiative, an adult literacy project. Her investment gave the program three additional years of funding.[22] Her book Paris for One and Other Stories is part of the 2015 Quick Reads collection[23] and she contributed a short story to A Fresh Start, from the 2020 Quick Reads collection.[24]

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The horse dancer: a novel DB87713

Author: Moyes, Jojo

Reading Time: 16 hours, 6 minutes

Production: National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress

Read by: Fiona Hardingham

Subject: Psychological Fiction

Lawyer Natasha is facing trouble at work while also forced to share a house with her ex-husband, Mac. In her work with troubled teens, Natasha meets Sarah. Taking Sarah under her wing means taking on Boo as well, a horse Sarah’s grandfather gave her. Some strong language. Commercial audiobook. 2009.

New York : Penguin Audio, 2017.

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Kate’s 2¢: “ Air-borne: the hidden history of the life we breathe” by Carl Zimmer

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Air-borne: the hidden history of the life we breathe” by Carl Zimmer

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describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢
shares her thoughts about what she’s read. In her opinion…

   Joe Ochman did a good job narrating this
story  about how we can get sick by
air-borne germs, bacteria, and viruses, not just the droplets one sneezes or
leaves on door knobs.   The choral group
in Washington State brought the modern focus about air-borne illnesses. I
thought it might be boring, but I found it to be engaging and informative  to learn about the men and women who studied
the air-borne raging in the skies above, as well as, the scientists who came
before them establishing what can cause illnesses.

From
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carlzimmer.com

Carl
Zimmer (born 1966) is an American popular science writer, blogger, columnist,
and journalist who specializes in the topics of evolution, parasites, and
heredity. The author of many books, he contributes science essays to
publications such as The New York Times, Discover, and National Geographic. He
is a fellow at Yale University’s Morse College and adjunct professor of
molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale University. Zimmer also gives
frequent lectures and has appeared on many radio shows, including National
Public Radio’s Radiolab, Fresh Air, and This American Life.[1] He authored
Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea, a companion piece to the PBS series
Evolution.

Zimmer
describes his journalistic beat as “life” or “what it means to
be alive”.[2] He is the only science writer to have a species of tapeworm
named after him (Acanthobothrium zimmeri).[3] Zimmer’s father is Dick Zimmer, a
Republican politician from New Jersey, who was a member of U.S. House of
Representatives from 1991 to 1997.

Early life
and education[edit]

Born to an
Ashkenazi Jewish father and a mother of Irish and German descent, after his
childhood in Connecticut, Zimmer received a B.A. in English from Yale
University in 1987.[4][5]

Career[edit]

In 1989,
Zimmer began his career at Discover magazine, first as a copy editor and fact
checker, eventually serving as a senior editor from 1994 to 1998.[1][6][7]
Zimmer left Discover after ten years to focus on books and other projects. In
2004, he started a blog called “The Loom”, in which he wrote about
topics related to his books, but later expanded it into what he terms “a
place where I could write about things I might not be turning into an article
for a magazine, but were really interesting’.[6] The Loom has been hosted by
Discover and National Geographic for many years, and has been invited to be
part of Scienceblogs. It was transferred to Zimmer’s personal website in
2018.[8] Zimmer writes a weekly column called “Matter” in The New
York Times.[9] Zimmer and the STAT team have put out “Game of
Genomes”, a 13-part series that enlisted two dozen scientists, with the
goal of exploring Zimmer’s own genome.[10]

He has
given lectures at universities, medical schools, and museums.[7] In 2009,
Zimmer was the keynote speaker at Northeast Conference on Science and
Skepticism (NECSS). He also presented at NECSS 2011 and CSICon 2018.[11] Zimmer
has twice been a spotlight speaker at the Aspen Ideas Festival, in 2017 and
2018.[12] In 2009 and 2010 he was host of the periodic audio podcast “Meet
the Scientist”[13] of the American Society for Microbiology. Zimmer’s 2004
article “Whose Life Would You Save?”[14] was included in the 2005 The
Best American Science and Nature Writing series.[7][15]

Zimmer has
received a number of awards, including the 2007 National Academies
Communication Award, a prize for science communication[16] from the United
States National Academy of Sciences, for his wide-ranging coverage of biology
and evolution in newspapers, magazines, and his blog. In 2016 Yale University
appointed Zimmer Adjunct Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry,
stating that he is “a world-renowned science journalist and teacher, and
his ability to make science, particularly biology, accessible to the general
public is without peer”. Zimmer has taught a science communication course
at Yale since 2017 and participates in other molecular biophysics and
biochemistry courses.[17][18]

From
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Air-borne:
the hidden history of the life we breathe DB127614

Author:
Zimmer, Carl

Reading
Time: 15 hours, 55 minutes

Production:
National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, Library of Congress

Read by:
Ochman, Joe

Subjects:
Science and Technology, Health and Medicine

“The
fascinating, untold story of the air we breathe; what lives in it and can make
us sick; and the men and women who devoted their lives to showing us
how.”– Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.

New York :
Penguin Random House Audio, 2025.

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Kate’s 2¢: “The Christmas carriage and other writings of the holiday season” by Alice Jane-Marie Massa

“The Christmas carriage and other writings of the holiday season” by Alice Jane-Marie Massa

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   Dave Raasch did a nice job of reading this book for us.

   Alice and I are colleagues in Behind Our Eyes, Org, an organization of writers with disabilities.

   Write on, friend.

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Alice Jane-Marie Massa is a

retired college instructor and author who primarily writes memoirs, short stories, and poetry, often drawing on her personal life and family history. She has published at least one book and contributes to various anthologies and a personal blog. View related links

Background and Career

Before focusing on her writing career, Massa taught writing at Milwaukee Area Technical College. In retirement, she dedicated more time to writing, initiating a weekly blog called  in 2013 where she posts a poem, memoir, essay, or short story every Wednesday. She has written extensively about her childhood in Indiana, family history, and life experiences.

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Dec 11, 2018 — After decades of hoping and wishing, after months of pondering the idea, my book dream actually started to take shape in late Augu…

   Alice has a blog: WordWalk, WordPress.com

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The Christmas carriage and other writings of the holiday season DBC08305

Author: Massa, Alice Jane-Marie

Reading Time: 2 hours, 29 minutes

Production: Wisconsin Talking Book and Braille Library

Read by: Dave Raasch

Subjects: Holidays, Inspirational

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Holiday memoirs, short stories, and poetry of a Wisconsin author. This collection includes remembrances of holidays in Indiana and Wisconsin, sure to put you in the holiday spirit.

Denver, CO : DLD Books, [2016]

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Kate’s 2¢: “An immense world: how animal senses reveal the hidden realms around us “ by Ed Jung

“An immense world: how animal senses reveal the hidden realms around us “ by Ed Jung

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  Ed Yong read this book. I’m astounded by the ‘secrets’ shared in this book about our humanity and the specialness of so many other species. Did you know that the jumping spider checks out his space by seeing, just as we view our space by seeing? The spider’s retina moves within its head, while our eyes lenses move.

   This was truly a fascinating book. We have so much to learn.

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Edmund Soon-Weng Yong[a] (born 17 December 1981) is a British-American science journalist and author. In 2021, he received a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for a series on the COVID-19 pandemic.

He is the author of two books: I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (2016); and An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (2022).

Education[edit]

Edmund Soon-Weng Yong was born on 17 December 1981, in Malaysia.[1][2][3] At the age of 13, Yong immigrated to the UK in 1994. He became a British citizen in 2005.[4]

Yong was awarded a Bachelor of Arts (promoted per tradition to a Master of Arts) in natural sciences (zoology) from Pembroke College, Cambridge[5] in 2002.[6] He completed postgraduate study at University College London (UCL), where he was awarded a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree in 2005 in biochemistry.[1]

Career[edit]

Yong’s approach to popular science writing has been described as “the future of science news”,[7] and he has received numerous awards for his work. Earlier in his career, Yong created and wrote the now-defunct blog Not Exactly Rocket Science, which was published as part of the National Geographic Phenomena blog network. Yong received the National Academies Communication Award from the National Academy of Sciences in 2010 in recognition of his online journalism; in the same year, he received three awards from ResearchBlogging.org, which supports online science journalism focused on covering research that has already been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals that can be adapted for a wider public audience.[8] In 2012 he received the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) Stephen White Award.[9] His blog received the first Best Science Blog award from the Association of British Science Writers in 2014.[10] Yong’s interactions with other science bloggers and engagement with those who have commented on his blog have served as case studies for academic work in media studies.[11]

His work also has been published by Nature,[12] Scientific American,[13] the BBC,[14] Slate,[15] Aeon,[16] The Guardian,[17] The Times,[6] New Scientist,[18] Wired,[19] The New York Times, and The New Yorker.[6][20]

In September 2015, Yong joined The Atlantic as a science reporter.[21] In August 2020, he received the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing’s Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting, citing his reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic and his commitment to including marginalized and underrepresented voices in his writing.[22] In June 2021, he received a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for a series on the COVID-19 pandemic.[23] Yong left The Atlantic in 2023.[24] In 2024, he criticized the publication for its hiring of Jonathan Chait, as well as its coverage of transgender rights.[25]

In 2016, Yong released the book, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life which recounts the ubiquitousness of microbes and the relationships microbes have with animals.[26] In 2022, Yong released his second book, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us, which explores animal perception.[27] The book received the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, was featured as Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4 in June 2022,[28] named by Publishers Weekly as one of the top ten books of 2022, regardless of genre,[29] and awarded the 2023 Royal Society Trivedi Science Book Prize.

Personal life[edit]

Yong is married to Liz Neeley, a science communicator.[30][31] They occasionally collaborate on speaking engagements.[32][30]

Yong lived in Washington, D.C. until May 2023, when he and Neeley moved to Oakland, California, where they currently reside.[2][33][34]

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“The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every kind of animal, including humans, is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of our immense world. In An Immense World, author and Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses, allowing us to perceive the skeins of scent, waves of electromagnetism, and pulses of pressure that surround us. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires, turtles that can track the Earth’s magnetic fields, fish that fill rivers with electrical messages, and even humans who wield sonar like bats. We discover that a crocodile’s scaly face is as sensitive as a lover’s fingertips, that the eyes of a giant squid evolved to see sparkling whales, that plants thrum with the inaudible songs of courting bugs, and that even simple scallops have complex vision. We learn what bees see in flowers, what songbirds hear in their tunes, and what dogs smell on the street. We listen to stories of pivotal discoveries in the field, while looking ahead at the many mysteries that remain unsolved. Funny, rigorous, and suffused with the joy of discovery, An Immense World takes us on what Marcel Proust called “the only true voyage . . . not to visit strange lands, but to possess other eyes.”” — Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2022.

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