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Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
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Dan Koeppel
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, January 30, 2009
Is there an entire book within the skin of the simple banana? There is--and this is it. Readers of Koeppel's well-researched and well-written history will never look at a banana--or the famous companies that market them--in the same way again. From a mysterious disease that wiped out the banana our grandparents ate (the last were marketed the year before I was born, 1965) to the involvement of banana companies in coups, assassinations and the Bay of Pigs, to the desperate scramble by scientists to save not only the sweet and profitable favorite of American markets, but also the fundamental staple of many equatorial countries, this book is a fascinating illustration of the fact that nothing is as simple as it seems, and an amazing look at the past and possible future (or lack thereof) of the world's most popular fruit.
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Storm Thief
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Chris Wooding
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, January 19, 2009
Imagine living in a place where a storm could do more than blow down a tree or flood a neighborhood. In Orokos, probability storms are unpredictable in both their approach and their effects. A touch of this storm, and buildings change locations; a child's lungs may vanish; a left-handed person become right-handed. But the probability storms aren't the worst thing about Orokos; they are just a small part of a terrifying puzzle, a puzzle that has the outcasts Rail and Moa in its grip. Are they thieves or heroes? Is the powerful government of Orokos good or evil? And is there really a source for the probability storms--a source that can be destroyed?
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