![]() ![]() ![]() “The Ministry for the Future, a climate fiction - or “cli-fi” - novel, is relevant to today’s landscape of record-breaking droughts and heat waves, record breaking precipitation and flooding, wildfires and powerful storms - clear reminders that climate challenges are real. Kelley Broome, corporate relations manager, Jones MBA Center, Scheller College of Businessīy Kim Stanley Robinson, Orbit Books, 2020 If you like this one, you’ll be pleased to know there are several more in the series and they just get better.” The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie is the first in a mystery series driven by Flavia’s unrelenting curiosity and resourcefulness. She is a 10-year-old MacGyver studying poisons in her crumbling English ancestral home in the 1950s, freely ranging around the countryside, stalking alleged murderers, and narrowly avoiding scrapes. “If you are a fan of precocious, nerdy children and British murder mysteries, you’ll love amateur chemist/detective Flavia de Luce. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie: A Flavia de Luce Mystery The books range from an anthology of poems with commentary by Edward Hirsch, a top poetry critic, to a climate fiction novel set in the near future. ![]() We asked several readers for recommendations. Memorial Day - the unofficial start of summer - is a good time to relax and dive into the books on your reading list or select a book you had not considered. ![]()
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