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The beautiful piano sitting in the corner of Jill King’s apartment begs to be played. For over a year, it has sat untouched, ever since a terrible accident shattered Jill’s ambition of becoming a concert pianist. The ragged scar on her left hand is a cruel and constant reminder of the death of her dream.But another dream is about to come to life—an unexpected, horrifying dream that will present Jill with a responsibility she never wanted. And choices she never wanted to make. Hundreds of lives depend on Jill’s willingness to warn her small, oceanside town in Nova Scotia of a nameless, looming disaster. But doing so could cost Jill her reputation, jeopardize the political career of the man she loves, and ruin their plans for a future together.The fate of an entire community hangs in the balance as Jill wrestles with the cost of heeding one still, small voice.

Mention Robert Frost andpeople instantly think of snowy woods and less-traveled paths and ruralneighbors meeting to fix their stone fence. But what does Robert Frost have to do with science?  You might be surprised. Born in 1874, Frost livedthrough a remarkable period of scientific progress, including the developmentof quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity, the Big Bang theory, thediscovery of the structure of DNA and the beginnings of space travel.  Possessing a powerful intellect driven bykeen curiosity, Frost was highly knowledgeable about the science of his timeand infuses his poetry with imagery and language borrowed from science.    Frost not only uses the language of scienceto enrich his poetry in the same way he uses classical, historical, biblicaland literary allusions, but he also uses ordinary language to createsophisticated metaphors based on scientific concepts such as evolution andentropy.  A Scientific Companion to Robert Frost represents the firstsystematic attempt to catalogue and explain all of the references to scienceand natural history in Frost’s poetry.  Thebook, which is organized chronologically, uses language that is accessible tolaymen and is supplemented by numerous illustrations, and appendices thatshould make it a valuable resource for teachers and scholars.