'The fact that these two words show up so often in our stories tells us something important about our global condition. 'We've all lived through these unimaginable and unthinkable events together,' she said. 'I'm going to teach you how to time travel so that you can go somewhere better than today and spend some time in a world that feels good, a future world where we've changed some things that need to change.'Īccording to her research, since the beginning of 2020, there have been more than 2.5 million headlines and news stories with the word unimaginable in them and over three million news stories with the word unthinkable.

Not in a machine, but in your own mind,' said McGonigal, a future forecaster, designer of alternate reality games and bestselling author whose most recent book is Imaginable: How to See the Future Coming and Feel Ready for Anything-Even Things that Seem Impossible Today (Spiegel & Grau, March 22). 'Today I'm going to teach you to time travel. And we're particularly excited about the conversations we plan on having about the future,' American Booksellers Association CEO Allison Hill said yesterday before introducing Jane McGonigal, who presented ABA Snow Days opening keynote, ' How to Imagine the Future of Bookselling.'

'We are so excited for the programming we have for you. The Shipping Rate will AUTOMATICALLY adjust at checkout.Įnjoy your visit. Click the 'Buy Now' button and click on 'Continue Shopping'. Narrator: Becky Ann Baker, Tom Wopat, David Chandler, Jonathan DavisĬOMBINING MULTIPLE ITEMS is easy. But when a wounded soldier named Zachariah Cashwell arrives at her house, he awakens feelings she had thought long dead - and inspires a passion as powerful and unforgettable as the war that consumes a nation. Four generals lie dead on her back porch the pile of amputated limbs rises as tall as the smokehouse. While the fierce fighting rages on Carrie's land, her plantation turns into a Confederate army hospital. Today he asks if the cemetery has room for one more.īased on an extraordinary true story, this brilliant, meticulously researched novel flashes back to 1864 and the afternoon of the Civil War. As she walks among the dead, an elderly man appears - the same soldier she met that fateful day long ago.

Carnton Plantation, 1894: Carrie McGavock is an old woman who tends the graves of the almost 1,500 soldiers buried there.

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