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04.02: Peter Rock

2013-03-15 00:36:40| Powells Books Events Calendar

Peter Rock brings our strangest beliefs to vivid and sympathetic life in his haunting new novel inspired by true events. The Shelter Cycle (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) tells the story of two children, Francine and Colville, who grew up in the Church Universal and Triumphant, a religion that predicted the world could end in the late 1980s. While their parents built underground shelters to withstand the impending Soviet missile strike, Francine and Colville played in the Montana wilderness, where invisible spirits watched over them. When the prophesized apocalypse did not occur, the sect's members resurfaced and the children were forced to grow up in a world they believed might no longer exist. Twenty years later, Francine and Colville are reunited while searching for an abducted girl. Haunted by memories and inculcated beliefs, they must confront the Church's teachings. If all the things they were raised to believe were misguided, why then do they suddenly feel so true?

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Twitter May Rock the Music Scene

2013-03-14 23:22:00| TechNewsWorld

Those who eagerly await the latest tweets from Lady Gaga, Kanye West and Justin Bieber may soon have one more reason to tie their musical interests to Twitter: The social network will reportedly use a recent acquisition to set up a Twitter Music app. Technology from the music discovery company We Are Hunted, which Twitter bought last year, will reportedly serve as the app's foundation.

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