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Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph

PROLOGUE Origins

I ELEMENTAL RAIN

ONE  Cloudy with a Chance of Civilization
TWO  Drought, Deluge, and Devilry
THREE  Praying for Rain

II CHANCE OF RAIN

FOUR  The Weather Watchers
FIVE  The Articles of Rain

III AMERICAN RAIN

SIX  Founding Forecaster
SEVEN  Rain Follows the Plow
EIGHT  The Rainmakers

IV CAPTURING THE RAIN

NINE  Writers on the Storm
TEN  The Scent of Rain
ELEVEN  City Rains

V MERCURIAL RAIN

TWELVE  Strange Rain
THIRTEEN  And the Forecast Calls for Change

EPILOGUE  Waiting for Rain

Acknowledgments
Notes
About the Author
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