Poetry "Kevin Clark's new volume of poetry, IN THE EVENING OF NO WARNING, wears the anxious velvet mantle of Time gone magical with sleights of hand. What vanishes is us. Yet, the very passing itself, musical with its children's hour, becomes the unthinkable and sublime refuge that all the local nostalgias gather about. Many of these poems are altogether sweet and perfect. This is a wonderful book" -Norman Dubie.
The destruction of an unarmed merchant vessel, with no warning, shocked everyone, and Vice Admiral Gale Harkness, is sent to investigate. What she finds is a single dust cloud that is all that remains of the EV Harmonica. Then two more ships, but this time of military origin, disappear in the same way, and Humanity, together with their Shi-az-ee allies, prepare for war. A deserted colony, a mysterious empty building, a strange ion trail, ships that leave no jump signature, and another unwanted promotion, are just some of the problems that Gale has to face before the mystery can be solved.
NO WARNING By J. N. Sadler The weather is one thing we cannot control. Until scientists become the controllers of our climate, we must all be subjects to the greater or lesser effects of the atmosphere. But, huge storms rise up and punish the town of Black Beach, without showing up on the radar screens. After the arrival of Iva, an evil fortuneteller, things get worse. She is on a mission to claim what is hers. Without warning, the town is devastated over and over again until the spirit world provides an answer to the question that has plagued the town for centuries.
When mysterious symptoms that defy diagnosis affect her performance, Amanda Mason, struggling to finish medical school, stumbles upon a medical murder mystery and calls upon her friends to help her solve it before she becomes the next victim. Original.
In 1955 the small town of Udall, Kansas, was home to oil field workers, homemakers, and teenagers looking ahead to their futures. But on the night of May 25, an F5 tornado struck their town without warning. In three minutes the tornado destroyed most of the buildings, including the new high school. It toppled the water tower. It lifted a pickup truck, stripped off its cab, and hung the frame in a tree. By the time the tornado moved on, it had killed 82 people and injured 270 others, more than half the town’s population of roughly 600 people. It remains the deadliest tornado in the history of Kansas. Jim Minick’s nonfiction account, Without Warning, tells the human story of this disaster, moment by moment, from the perspectives of those who survived. His spellbinding narrative connects this history to our world today. Minick demonstrates that even if we have never experienced a tornado, we are still a people shaped and defined by weather and the events that unfold in our changing climate. Through the tragedy and hope found in this story of destruction, Without Warning tells a larger story of community, survival, and how we might find our way through the challenges of the future.
