Articles by: Mary Woodbury

Watership Down, Richard Adams

“It’s about bunnies,” Sawyer from LOST A phenomenal worldwide bestseller for over thirty years, Richard Adams’s Watership Down is a timeless classic and one of the most beloved novels of all time. Set in England’s Downs, a once idyllic rural landscape, this stirring tale of adventure, courage and survival follows […]

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Silent Spring, Rachel Carson

Though we normally do not catalog non-fiction (with the exception of some notable essays), we’re making an exception for a few books now and then that really impacted society. Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book […]

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Walden, Henry David Thoreau

Walden, or Life in the Woods, is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-reliance. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads

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Melt Zone, Si Rosser

In 1938, the German New Swabia Expedition left Hamburg for Antarctica aboard the MS Schwabenland. The secret expedition arrived at the Princess Martha Coast, in an area which had been claimed by Norway as Dronning Maud Land, and began charting the region. Nazi German marker darts were dropped along the […]

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The Immortality Trip: Forever Young 2, Claude Nougat

Forever Young, a serialized novel in 4 episodes, is set 200 years from now, as life on Earth is headed for extinction. The world is divided between the ultra-rich, the One Percent, who live in gated communities and the others who don’t and suffer the full onslaught of pollution and […]

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Beyond Sci-Fi, Arthur Herzog

“Beyond Sci-Fi” includes a collection of short stories and novella. “The Ark of Arrogance” is the story of refugees living on an ark as means of survival due to a massive flood on Long Island. Escaping on the ark doesn’t provide safety, but instead brings catastrophic results, including mayhem, martial […]

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Orca, Arthur Herzog

Orca–the killer whale–is one of the most intelligent creatures in the universe. He hunts in packs, like a wolf. Incredibly, he is the only animal other than man who kills for revenge. He has one mate, and if she is harmed by man, he will hunt down that person with […]

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Desert Blade, Ella Drake

In the post-apocalyptic Midwest, now a ravaged dust bowl, former guardsman Derek Covington must find help for a sick boy. With nothing but memories of all he lost, Derek crosses the desert alone in search of the doctor who saved his own life ten years ago. Drifter gangs who loot […]

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Seeds of Transition, Carolyn Holland

Seeds Of Transition: Book One – The Genesis Project is full of gripping adventure, psychological thrills, and emotional conflict from start to finish. As the world’s population approaches 10 billion people, and severe weather extremes impact crop and livestock production, the demand for and price of food is rising. Goodreads […]

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The Bees, Laline Paull

The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Hunger Games in this brilliantly imagined debut set in an ancient culture where only the queen may breed and deformity means death. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads

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Interview with Emmi Itäranta, Memory of Water

Updated announcement: This novel is being made into a movie. I want to thank Emmi for this wonderful interview. My first pleasure was reading her book, Memory of Water. The novel takes place in the future after climate change has ravished economies and ecologies, and made fresh water scarce. When […]

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California, Edan Lepucki

A gripping and provocative debut novel by a stunning new talent, California imagines a frighteningly realistic near future, in which clashes between mankind’s dark nature and irrepressible resilience force us to question how far we will go to protect the ones we love. Read the New York Times review. Goodreads […]

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