The Devil’s Dictionary, Steven Kotler
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Wind, Ellen Dee Davidson
Wind Book Review Reviewed by Mary Woodbury Book information Author: Ellen Dee Davidson Publication date: February 1, 2022 Wind, by Ellen Dee Davidson, is a … Read more
A Wolf Called Wander
A Wolf Called Wander Middle Grade Fiction By Roseanne Parry Reviewed by Kimberly Christensen Wolf pup Swift, one of five pups born to his mother … Read more
The Impossible Resurrection of Grief, Octavia Cade
A chilling novella about extinction, grief, and what we hold onto when the world falls apart. With the collapse of ecosystems and the extinction of … Read more
Mad Honey, Katie Welch
Katie Welch reminds us that we are a very small part of a massive and complex non-human world and that, where we heed the lessons … Read more
The House of Drought, Dennis Mombauer
I’m eagerly awaiting The House of Drought, which comes this summer of 2022 from one of my favorite publishing houses, Stelliform Press: The House of … Read more
A House Between Earth and the Moon, Rebecca Scherm
A novel born out of speculation about climate change, this tale has the richest billionaire’s going to live on the moon while the rest suffer … Read more
Scattered All Over the Earth, Yoko Tawada
Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now remembered as “the land of sushi.” Hiruko, its former … Read more
Hovering, Rhett Davis
The Guardian calls Hovering a climate-collapse novel. A spectacular debut novel from one of Australia’s most exciting new writers. Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Unpublished … Read more
Pure Colour, Sheila Heti
Pure Colour is a galaxy of a novel: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. It is a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling, … Read more
Grey Bees, Andrey Kurkov
Little Starhorodivka, a village of three streets, lies in Ukraine’s Grey Zone, the no-man’s-land between loyalist and separatist forces. Thanks to the lukewarm war of … Read more
The Doloriad, Missouri Williams
In the wake of a mysterious environmental cataclysm that has wiped out the rest of humankind, the Matriarch, her brother, and the family descended from … Read more
Eleutheria, Allegra Hyde
“Allegra Hyde’s seductive first novel tackles the big stuff of climate change and the more intimate matter of heartbreak with grace. Indeed, Eleutheria bravely braids … Read more
After the Dragons, Cynthia Zhang
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Santa Soaked, Carl Lindemann
Thanks to author Carl Lindemann for reaching out to me about his illustrated children’s book Santa Soaked: A Story for All Ages. From Carl: This … Read more