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09.30: Peyton Marshall

2014-08-18 22:38:51| Powells Books Events Calendar

With soaring literary prose and the tense pacing of a thriller, debut novelist Peyton Marshall imagines a grim and startling future in Goodhouse (Farrar Straus Giroux). A bighearted dystopian novel about the corrosive effects of fear and the redemptive power of love — partly based on the true story of the 19th century Preston School of Industry and the boys who lived and died in its halls — Goodhouse explores questions of identity and free will, and what it means to test the limits of human endurance.

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The just-drinks Interview - Bacardi's global marketing manager, whisky - Stephen Marshall

2014-08-18 15:05:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com

Bacardi is embarking on an ambitious mission to launch an array of new single malt Scotch whiskies from its five Speyside distilleries. Here, just-drinks' deputy editor, James Wilmore, talks to Stephen Marshall, the man behind the project.

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Marshall Islands: 2015 climate agreement matter of life or death

2014-07-20 09:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Blue and Green: Small Pacific countries at increasing risk of sea levels rise caused by climate change have their survival depending on rich nations commitment to reach a global climate agreement in 2015 in Paris, the Marshall Islands minister of foreign affairs Tony de Brum has said. Writing on the Guardian, Brum said that the most polluting countries China and the US in particular have no choice but to reach a final and strong agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions in 2015, otherwise Pacific nations,...

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