Perspective is handled deftly by the author. As Arnott moves from fisherman Karl and his dome-headed seal, to the gin-swilling private detective, to the police sergeant being ruthlessly divorced by his wife, we are confronted by characters that are in equal measure, tough and beautiful. And importantly, Jack McAllister becomes […]
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Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance, Bill McKibben
This is surprisingly new territory for McKibben, the environmental journalist who raised the alarm about global warming with “The End of Nature” way back in 1989. But three decades later, we’ve got 15 percent more CO2 in the atmosphere and a fossil-fuel toady dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency, so maybe […]
Read MoreWhipbird, Robert Drewe
In Whipbird, Robert Drewe pulls no punches. Nothing is sacred as he takes on the mining boom and conservationists; everyone from investment bankers and real-estate agents to sea-changers and tree-changers, vegans and paleo practitioners, First World smugness, global warming, retirement, divorce, death, sudoko and artisan brewers. And the nonchalant disrespect […]
Read MoreSouth Pole Station, Ashley Shelby
Ashley Shelby’s debut novel, South Pole Station, takes readers to the bottom of the earth for a wry, multi-layered story that tightly packs art, science, polar history, climate change, politics, humor, and human relationships into a vivid tale of courage and redemption. -Jacki Skole, EcoLit Books A winning comedy of […]
Read MoreWalkaway, Cory Doctorow
Coming April 25, 2017 from Tor Books: It’s been almost a decade since we’ve had a new adult novel from Cory Doctorow. In the future, anyone can print up anything that they need to survive. A communist named Hubert, Etc falls in love with a rich heiress named Natalie, and […]
Read MoreFlip the Bird, Kym Brunner
Gr 7 Up—Scoot over, Don Calame—Brunner is about to join you on your perch. This is not a book for the squeamish. It’s about falconry at its finest, but it is also about much more than that. On his way to capture his first hawk, Mercer Buddie meets the girl […]
Read MoreAngel Catbird, Margaret Atwood and Johnnie Christmas
Peter Marra wants to make something perfectly clear: he likes cats. The head of the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center in Washington loves wildlife and animals in general, including felines. And he agrees with those, including his 15-year-old vegetarian daughter, who insist the disasters befalling the natural world during what’s becoming […]
Read MoreThe Portable Veblen, Elizabeth Mckenzie
An exuberant, one-of-a-kind novel about love and family, war and nature, new money and old values by a brilliant New Yorker contributor Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
Read MoreKaboom!, Brian Adams
We are pleased to showcase Brian Adams’ newest book KABOOM!, a YA eco-novel. We interviewed Brian after the publication of his recent novel Love in the Time of Climate Change, which won the Forward Review IndieFab 2014 gold medal in the humor category. Congrats to Brian on his newest endeavor. […]
Read MoreMarly, Peter Gould
From Green Writers Press: So, this dude comes up from the city to take an eco-writing workshop at a little college in way-northern Vermont, where I happen to teach watershed analysis, wildlife habitat, advanced chain saw, and self-defense for women. He’s not my type–actually, no man has been my type for a […]
Read MoreGarapaima: A Monster Fish Novel, Mark Spitzer
A twenty-foot-long, mutated monster-fish is loose in Phantom Loon Lake, Ontario, thanks to a top secret government conspiracy to design a Freak Species of Mass Destruction! Crabby old angler Jack Nadler is thrown together with a whacko cast of cartoony characters, including the most grizzly professor to ever wrestle alligators, […]
Read MoreThe Subprimes, Karl Taro Greenfeld
In The Subprimes, Karl Taro Greenfeld turns his keen and unflinching eye to our country today—and where we may be headed. The result is a novel for the 99 percent: a darkly funny comedy about paradise lost and found, the value of credit, economic policy, and the meaning of family. […]
Read MoreHome to Woefield, Susan Juby
Prudence Burns, a failed writer living in Brooklyn (her young adult novel was poorly received because it was filled with earnest young people talking about global warming) inherits a ramshackle farm in Canada from an uncle she’s never met. -Goodreads review This wonderful book brings us to a farm on […]
Read MoreAdventures of the Sizzling Six: Monarch Mysteries, Claire Datnow
Thanks to Claire Datnow for writing to tell us about her YA series, The Adventures of the Sizzling Six: Monarch Mysteries. There are now eight volumes out in this series. Media Mint Publishing describes the series: In Monarch Mysteries, the cast of plucky teenage girls pit themselves against foolish neighbors […]
Read MoreSaving the Planet & Stuff, Gail Gauthier
Michael Racine lives in a world of highly successful and accomplished teenagers. Unfortunately, he isn’t one of them. He knows it, and he’s afraid everyone else does too. So when he gets the chance to intern at a magazine run by friends of his grandparents, he jumps at it. The […]
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