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The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes—And Why
by: Ripley, Amanda
155.935 RIP

Ripley, a senior writer for Time magazine, wanted to know why “people in shipwrecks, plane crashes, and floodwaters all seemed to undergo a mysterious metamorphosis."... » MORE

- recommended by Cheryl Holtsclaw, West Indianapolis Branch

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The First of Autumn, by Malcolm Dalglish and Grey Larsen

The First of Autumn was first issued as an LP in 1978 — 30 years ago! (The library recently purchased copies of the cd, which came out in 2003.) About ten years or so ago, someone introduced me to “Shake These Bones,” and it’s been one of my favorite a cappella songs ever since. The [...]
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the Impossible Shapes: the Impossible Shapes

Venerable Bloomington-ites the Impossible Shapes returned loudly this year with their self-titled new album on (also Bloomington-based) Secretly Canadian–a continuation of their efforts to place noise-rock on a collision course with New Weird America. Tum, their last outing, was mostly an organic-sounding click-and-whir-filled singular statement, it takes less than a minute of the new record [...]
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