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Aliens Trump Vampires in "The Host" Author: Stephenie Meyer Very Cool Host Cover As much as I like YA fiction, I didn’t jump aboard the Twilight train.  I read the first book and didn’t hate it, but found it too angsty for my taste so didn’t continue the series.  I was a little dubious about wading into author Stephenie Meyer’s tome-like stand alone, The Host, but with a strong recommendation from both a YA and an actual A, I took the plunge.  I’m not sorry I did. The Host (now a major motion picture!) takes place on a [...]

Life and Death in Tornado Alley... Author:  Lee Sandlin Other places may be colder, hotter, wetter or drier, but only one place can claim to be Tornado Alley.  Providing an ideal stage for the mixing of cold air from the Arctic and warm wet air from the Gulf of Mexico, the central US experiences more monster tornadoes than any place on earth.  For this reason, when Europeans first began settling the area, they didn’t really know what they were up against.  On rare occasions, remarkably big bad storms would come raging through, destroy everything in their path and abruptly vanish.  [...]