Celeste White Livres

On the evening of July 24, 2018, author Celeste White stepped outside her home to find a massive, boiling fire cloud blotting out the Western sky. Celeste and her husband fled three times in twenty-four hours to keep ahead of the Carr Fire, and they barely escaped the EF3 fire tornado that jumped the Sacramento River. Evacuated for two weeks, they waited anxiously to find out whether their home had survived the fire storm. "Summer of Fire" is a story of climate change and of home. It is the story of Redstone, a hand-built labor of love, and it also examines the effects of climate change as it threatens our planetary home. It is a story that was once unusual, but that is becoming more and more commonplace. It may become everyone's story one day.

A tender-hearted healer, a musician with an unusual gift, a young scientist pursuing a controversial path, a handsome, charming con artist ... their paths converge in Incident, California. Incident is a happy, festive kind of place, though it's rife with mystery. Located in the far north, it hosts the newest campus in the UC system, known for its departments that lie off the beaten track. The town itself is home to a wealth of outlandish lore.Suspense thriller, love story, cautionary tale, "Incident, CA" peeks into the shadows where secrets abound and predators lurk, even in a happy, festive place. Do we really know everything that's out there? And what if we're afraid of the wrong things?

The year is 1999 and a deadly influenza pandemic is sweeping the globe. Chillingly, bacteria across the spectrum have become resistant to antibiotics at the same time. Genetics professor Nan Schulte receives cryptic communications that send her on a desperate and unconventional search to discover what underlies the microbial kingdom's escalating virulence. As societies throughout the world begin shutting down, and travel becomes increasingly difficult, Nan races to gather enough information to come up with a solution. In a war between humans and microbes, who will win?Informed by both hard science and consciousness research, "The Resistance Factor" asks compelling questions as relevant today as they were when the book was written twenty years ago. Eerily prescient and meticulously researched, it examines the myriad faces of disease as it presents in humanity. Fast-paced, heart-wrenching, suspenseful, "The Resistance Factor" will surprise and challenge you.