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Weird Weather: Tales of Astronomical and Atmospheric Anomalies
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Weird Weather: Tales of Astronomical and Atmospheric Anomalies

Have you ever heard the story of the tornado that lifted a man’s wallet right from his pants pocket? What about the myth of the Min-Min light in Australia?  Do you have a story about seeing the “Green Flash” or want an explanation of the mysterious Sun Dogs?

Weird Weather: Tales of Astronomical and Atmospheric Anomalies is about the strange, unusual, and inexplicable events that take place in the air and sky. These include meteors that appear inside a darkened house, ghost lights that follow lone travelers, lightning emerging from patches of fog, and much more.
 
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Tags: about, Weird, Weather, Atmospheric, Anomalies
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and EvilMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a non-fiction work by John Berendt. Published in 1994, the book was Berendt's first, and became a The New York Times bestseller for 216 weeks following its debut.[1]
The book was subsequently made into a 1997 movie, directed by Clint Eastwood and based loosely on Berendt's story.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is atmospheric and Southern Gothic in tone, depicting a wide range of eccentric Savannah personalities.


 
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Giant Planets of Our Solar System: An Introduction
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Giant Planets of Our Solar System: An IntroductionGiant Planets of Our Solar System: An Introduction

This book reviews the current state of knowledge of the atmospheres of the giant gaseous planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The current theories of their formation are reviewed and their recently observed temperature, composition and cloud structures are contrasted and compared with simple thermodynamic, radiative transfer and dynamical models. The instruments and techniques that have been used to remotely measure their atmospheric properties are also reviewed, and the likely development of outer planet observations over the next two decades is outlined.
 
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Tags: their, reviewed, current, atmospheric, properties, Giant, Planets
A Quiver Full of Arrows by Jeffrey Archer
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A Quiver Full of Arrows by Jeffrey ArcherA Quiver Full of Arrows by Jeffrey Archer

Two friends fall under the spell of a New York beauty - with quite unexpected results. An offhand remark is taken seriously by a Chinese sculptor, and a British diplomat becomes the owner of a priceless work of art. An insurance claims advisor has a most surprising encounter on the train home to Sevenoaks. The openings to three of this marvellous collection of stories that ends with a hauntingly-written, atmospheric account of two undergraduates at Oxford in the thirties, a tale of bitter rivalry that ends in a memorable love story.
 
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Tags: hauntingly, written, atmospheric, account, stories, Quiver, Jaffrey, Archer, Arrows, marvellous
Atmospheric Disturbances
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Atmospheric DisturbancesCommunication with the dead, theories of infinite universes, The Royal Academy of Meteorology, and one Tzvi Gal-Chen are all part of the novel's ingeniously constructed plot. In spite of these wild ingredients, it's a calm, inward work, held together by the even-tempered and relentless intellection of the protagonist. As the book review cliche runs, this is a "remarkably assured debut." More than that, Atmospheric Disturbances is a fiercely inventive meditation on love, a serious page-turner, and a filebin of weird and beautiful sentences.
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Special thanks for Pumukl for the pdf version!
 
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Tags: Atmospheric, Disturbances, meditation, serious, pageturner