Waiting for Al Gore (is a fish-out-water drama that blends the urgencies of environmental activism with the folly of self-help bombast, featuring an ensemble cast worthy of a Wes Anderson film. See more at Flexible Press. Waiting For Al Gore is an object lesson about the importance of trying, no […]
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Blue Lake, Jeffrey D. Boldt
An impressive, wonderfully detailed legal thriller showing the best and worst of humanity…Boldt is a retired administrative law judge and passionate about justice and the environment, and this shows on every page of this remarkable novel. It’s no surprise that the courtroom scenes are so well handled. Jason is a […]
Read MoreIndie Corner – Premee Mohamed
I was happy to talk with Premee Mohamed about her sequel to The Annual Migration of Clouds—We Speak Through the Mountain (ECW Press, 2024). Traveling alone through the climate-crisis-ravaged wilds of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains, 19-year-old Reid Graham battles the elements and her lifelong chronic illness to reach the utopia of […]
Read MoreLost at Windy River, Trina Rathgeber
Colorist: Jillian Dolan; illustrator: Alina Pete In 1944, thirteen-year-old Ilse Schweder got lost in a snowstorm while checking her family’s trapline in northern Canada. This is the harrowing story of how a young Indigenous girl defies the odds and endures nine days alone in the unforgiving barrens. Ilse faces many […]
Read MoreLove is for the Birds, Diane Owens Prettyman
In the wake of the hurricane, Bird Isle residents fear the Aransas Wildlife Refuge will not be ready for the whooping cranes’ annual migration south. Seeing that Jack has important connections and a love for the island, they enlist him to help restore the habitat of the endangered cranes before […]
Read MoreThe Last Ranger, Peter Heller
The best-selling author of The River returns with a lush and vivid mystery set in Yellowstone National Park where a skirmish between a local hunter and a wolf biologist turns violent, and a park ranger, facing his own personal demons, sets out to determine what really happened. See more at […]
Read MoreArroyo Circle, JoeAnn Hart
Eco-novel Arroyo Circle masterfully illustrates the role of humanity and late-stage capitalism in the earth’s decay through a thrilling story set in Boulder, Colorado. With wildfires raging across the Front Range, floods decimating homes and lives along the creek, and the COVID-19 pandemic wreaking rampant catastrophe, author JoeAnn Hart illuminates the spiritual […]
Read MoreSpotlight – Oonya Kempadoo
About the Book & Project Naniki (meaning ‘active spirit’ in the Taino language) is a cross-platform story project authored by Oonya Kempadoo, published as a Caribbean-futurist novel, Naniki (Rare Machines, Dundurn Press, Toronto, Jan 2024); it’s produced as an immersive and live-performance experience; with preliminary concept development for VR and […]
Read MoreClimate and Ecological Films
Eco-fiction isn’t limited to just the written word. It can include films and even games. Check back often, as I will update this post when new movies come out. This is just a sample listing, so if you think something should be included, please contact me. Most of these films […]
Read MoreThe Midnight Moon
Author: © Clara Hume Publisher: Moon Willow Press (1st edition), Dragonfly Publishing (2nd edition) Type: Short Story from the Winds of Change anthology Publication Date: October 16, 2015 Ordering: Amazon Back to the Dragonfly Library Anthology Sample of “The Midnight Moon” (entire short story featured!) The rowan berries came out […]
Read MoreIndie Corner – Peter Brennan
Back to the Indie Corner series Note that all three books in the trilogy are published as of 2024. See the author’s site for more information. Welcome to the third post in our new Indie Corner series. Today we talk with Dr. Peter Brennan, whose first novel, Iceapelago, was inspired […]
Read MoreIndie Corner – The Owl Prowl Mystery, Diana Renn
I talked with Dianna Renn, the author of five middle grade and YA novels, including The Owl Prowl Mystery (Fitzroy Books / Regal House, coming 8/13/24) and Trouble at Turtle Pond, which was named a 2023 Green Earth Book Award Honor Book by the Nature Generation and a Massachusetts Book […]
Read MoreThe Southern Reach Series, Jeff VanderMeer
New Addition Out on October 22, 2024 is a surprise 4th volume, Absolution. Structured in three parts, each recounting a new expedition, Absolution is a brilliant, beautiful, and ever-terrifying plunge into unique and fertile literary territory. There are some long-awaited answers here, to be sure, but also more questions, and […]
Read MoreSpotlight – Renan Bernardo
About the Book Renan Bernardo’s Different Kinds of Defiance (Android Press, March 2024) is a collection for the rebels at heart—for those who find courage where hope seems lost and for whom every act of resistance is an act of sheer will. From the sunbaked docks of a Rio de […]
Read MoreUnder the Bakul Tree, Mrinal Kalita
“Under the Bakul Tree is one of the finest environmental commentaries of our times.”-Bijal Vachharajani Read more at Penguin Random House.
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