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conversations.value: What is a description for a book titled Everything All at Once about Lottie, UpHelen, Reaves with the genre: Teen & Young Adult, Literature & Fiction?
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conversations.value: Gr 7 UpHelen Reaves was the world-renowned author of the books about the immortal Hatter children. After the eccentric writer dies from cancer, her niece Lottie is saddened. However, before Helen passed, she created a scavenger hunt as a way to say goodbye to Lottie. As each envelope is opened, a secret about Helen's life is revealed and a task is put before the protagonist. The game slowly pulls Lottie out of her overly cautious lifestyle and challenges her to live a little. When the hunt leads Lottie to the mysterious Sam, her life is turned upside down, and she throws caution to the wind. Told from Lottie's point of view and through a series of letters written to Lottie from her aunt, this is a compelling novel and a wonderful story about loss, anxiety, love, and the importance of a life well lived. VERDICT The perfect beach read for any teen. Recommend to fans of Maureen Johnson's 13 Blue Envelopes, Natalie Babbitt's Tuck Everlasting, or Laura Ruby's Bone Gap.Ellen Fitzgerald, Naperville Public Library, IL
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conversations.value: Swap the first and the last sentence.
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conversations.value: Ellen Fitzgerald, Naperville Public Library, IL. After the eccentric writer dies from cancer, her niece Lottie is saddened. However, before Helen passed, she created a scavenger hunt as a way to say goodbye to Lottie. As each envelope is opened, a secret about Helen's life is revealed and a task is put before the protagonist. The game slowly pulls Lottie out of her overly cautious lifestyle and challenges her to live a little. When the hunt leads Lottie to the mysterious Sam, her life is turned upside down, and she throws caution to the wind. Told from Lottie's point of view and through a series of letters written to Lottie from her aunt, this is a compelling novel and a wonderful story about loss, anxiety, love, and the importance of a life well lived. VERDICT The perfect beach read for any teen. Recommend to fans of Maureen Johnson's 13 Blue Envelopes, Natalie Babbitt's Tuck Everlasting, or Laura Ruby's Bone Gap.Gr 7 UpHelen Reaves was the world-renowned author of the books about the immortal Hatter children.
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conversations.value: What is the first five paragraphs for this book?
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conversations.value: Everything All at Once
  To those who think we can't get renewable sources in place quickly enough, I give you this response. As I've often mentioned, both my parents were in World War II; their ashes are interred across the river from here (the Lincoln Memorial) in the Arlington National Cemetery. My father survived nearly 4 years as a prisoner of war captured from Wake Island. My mother was recruited by the US Navy to work deciphering the Nazi Enigma code. They were part of what came to be called the Greatest Generation, but they didn't set out to be great. They just played the hand they were dealt. In barely 5 years, their generation resolved a global conflict and started building a new, democratic, technologically advancing world. With an emphatic sense of purpose, they embraced progress.
  The current generation must employ critical thinking and our powers of reason just as they did. This time, the global challenge is climate change. We also must play the hand we have been dealt and get on with it. Together, we can change the world. Thank you.
  When I'm in a contemplative frame of mind, I often think about the number 30,000. That is the number of days in a generous human life span: 82 years and 7 weeks, 30,000 shadows circling around a sundial. You probably encounter bigger numbers than that every day. Picture a classic football stadium like the Rose Bowl. If you sat in a different seat every day, you'd only make it a third of the way around. That's what you've got to work with, if you're lucky. It's not a lot of time. When I compare it with the age of the cosmos, the modest span of a human lifetime makes me feel pretty insignificant. The number also reminds me, though, of how much can happen in 30,000 days. Think about how much information and experience you can accumulate, how many people you can learn from and influence, and especially how many actions you can take. When you look at it that way, you have a lot of opportunity to make a big mark on our small planet.
  My dad always said he wanted to impart two things to his family: Everyone is responsible for his or her own actions, and you've got to leave the world better than you found it. The first idea is fairly straightforward. No one else is going to take responsibility for what you do or what you fail to do. If you cheat, it's on you. If you help out, though, you own that, too. The second idea is more complicated. You have to do a lot of work merely to come up with a convincing answer of what "better" really means. You need to filter information, think critically, consider a lot of different viewpoints with honesty and generosity. You need to pay close attention to the design and execution of any projects you undertake. And even then, you cannot be sure about your legacy.
  Everything we do in trying to change the world is, ultimately, about managing energy and fighting against the tendency toward disorder. That tendency is entropy, and it seems to be a consequence of the nature of time. Or maybe, according to some theorists, the arrow of time is a consequence of entropy. As far as we can tell, the difference doesn't matter to us mortal Earthlings. The bottom line is that we call the direction of time "forward," because as appealing as it would be to be able to turn around, to go back in time and set things right, or set them better, we just cannot. If you feel as though you are constantly struggling against chaos, it's because you are. Entropy is part of what you have to take into account in order to make change happen.
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conversations.value: What is five more paragraphs?
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conversations.value: Your body's metabolism is a lifelong battle against entropy. Every cell in your body is doing the same thing you are, trying to influence the future. Your whole existence, everything you do, is a battle against entropy, to make order out of disorder, to make a person out of some chemical compounds. Entropy is not evil, any more than gravity is. The world would not work without entropy. Time would not move without it. We run our planes, trains, automobiles, and electrical grids by means of our understanding of entropy. The famous second law of thermodynamics describes mathematically how entropy works; it also tells us how energy will move through an engine, a chemical reaction, a collapsing magnetic field, or an insulated home. We understand this natural law so well that we are able to mass-produce plastics and effective drugs by means of exquisitely subtle, energy-manipulating chemistry. Through the scientific process, nerdy thinkers have figured out nature's rules and found ways to use them for our benefit.
  So entropy not only makes things slow to a stop. It makes us go; I mean it drives us. Consider what your life would be like if somehow you could defeat entropy, if you could reverse that tendency for energy to spread and dissipate. You'd be beating the laws of thermodynamics, and time itself. Ultimately, you could know the future. What would you do differently if someone told you the exact time and circumstances of your death? You couldn't do anything to change that death or else knowledge of the future would not be meaningful. Either you are stuck with a certain fate or the future is not knowable after all. Free will and rational action are unbreakably chained to the unknowable nature of the future. The open-ended possibility of our future days is what sets us free, as analytical nerds and simply as human beings. It's what enables us to be optimistic, to achieve things, to leave the world better than we found it.
  Back in the early 1980s, when I worked for a Seattle oil-slick-skimmer company in the oil fields of Texas and New Mexico, I remember the intense, penetrating smell—oil. The petroleum odor would be in your clothes pretty much forever. My coveralls, my socks, even my underwear smelled like oil. You wash 'em, but the smell stays there all the time. You end up with a set of work clothes that cannot be worn anywhere or anytime else. I still have my old coveralls and, all these years later, you can still smell that crude. It is the smell of one kind of future, a stay-the-course approach in which we keep draining Earth's limited fossil fuels and ratcheting up the amount of carbon dioxide in the air.
  Recently I returned to Midland, Texas, for a talk at Midland College, in the heart of the oil patch. There, towering above the iconic, nodding grasshopper oil pumps, were wind turbines, enormous freakin' propellers in the sky. People who think as I do decided to steer Texas (pun intended) toward a different future, one of renewable clean energy. Those turbines and many others like them are now producing 10 percent of the state's electricity. They are beautiful as they spin slowly and powerfully—and there's no smell. The turbines I saw that afternoon are just 20 miles from where I, as a young engineer, programmed oilfield valve controllers 3 decades earlier. In the next 3 decades, oil pumps may be dragged off for scrap steel, melted down, and rebuilt as turbine stanchions. I can't know for sure that's what the future will look like, but I (and you) can help make it, or something very much akin to it, happen.
  Everything-all-at-once thinking gives us the tools to identify problems and work out solutions in the most honest, effective way we can. But it lets us do more: Scientific knowledge allows us to make informed projections, so we can anticipate what becomes of those problems and our solutions. This is another way we can fight back against the unknowability of the future. We can come up with very good approximations that let us head off the arrow of time. It is a valuable result of centuries of data collection, critical thinking, and testing of hypotheses using the scientific method: We don't need to blunder all the way into a crisis to know that a crisis is coming.
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conversations.value: What is the last three paragraphs?
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conversations.value: With that in mind, we can turn back to the process. We draw on the data and on our personal successes and setbacks to inspire ideas for dealing with the global challenges. If one idea doesn't work out, we keep testing, adjusting, rethinking. We stay aware of those 30,000 days but hold on to our broader perspective of the earlier generations who got us here, and the later ones who are depending on us. We remember the smallness and fragility of our planet, and we relish the opportunity to nurture it. Because of the unforgiving nature of the second law of thermodynamics, we can't know exactly what the future will hold for our descendants. But, we can do our best today to make their future a bright one.
  I am at the age now when I know I have more days behind me than ahead. No, no, I'm okay. Strange to say, that doesn't bother me (much). The real gift is being alive here and now, armed with knowledge, free will, and a whole community of like minds. I'm glad you've read this far and come on this journey with me. We inhabit this same moment and have access to all the same tools. All of us, step by step, one by one, working together, can... dare I say it... change the world.
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conversations.value: Reverse the sentences.
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conversations.value: No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any other information storage and retrieval system, without the written permission of the publisher..
  All rights reserved. change the world... dare I say it... All of us, step by step, one by one, working together, can. We inhabit this same moment and have access to all the same tools. I'm glad you've read this far and come on this journey with me. The real gift is being alive here and now, armed with knowledge, free will, and a whole community of like minds. Strange to say, that doesn't bother me (much). No, no, I'm okay.
  I am at the age now when I know I have more days behind me than ahead. But, we can do our best today to make their future a bright one. Because of the unforgiving nature of the second law of thermodynamics, we can't know exactly what the future will hold for our descendants. We remember the smallness and fragility of our planet, and we relish the opportunity to nurture it. We stay aware of those 30,000 days but hold on to our broader perspective of the earlier generations who got us here, and the later ones who are depending on us. If one idea doesn't work out, we keep testing, adjusting, rethinking. We draw on the data and on our personal successes and setbacks to inspire ideas for dealing with the global challenges.With that in mind, we can turn back to the process