Leaphorn & Chee is a series started by Tony Hillerman. When he died, his daughter, author Anne Hillerman, took over the series. A moderator at our Google newsgroup, Charlene D’Avanzo, calls this an environmental mystery series. According to Charlene: I call them environmental mysteries – novels in which the natural […]
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The Marshlanders Series, Annis Pratt
The Marshlanders is about the conflict between self-sustaining communities and their enemies, who are determined to drain their wetlands for agricultural development. Clare and William are adopted by marsh dwellers and coastal farmers after William’s father, a pharmacist, has been murdered and Clare has barely escaped with her life from […]
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The World Without Us, Mireille Juchau
The World Without Us is a beautifully told story of secrets and survival, family and community, loss and renewal. -Goodreads Part of Juchau’s success emerges from the delicacy of her evocations of the natural world. Another part arises from her wry observations of the way people behave and interact. But […]
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Mengele Zoo, Gert Nygårdshaug
Fattiggutten Mino er født i regnskogen. Han er sommerfuglfanger og elsker jungelens mangfold av liv. Samtidig som Mino samler sommerfugler, ser han at jungelen ødelegges av multinasjonale selskaper. En dag rammer katastrofen også hans landsby, og Mino er plutselig i sentrum av de store regnskogenes tragedie. Etter dette forvandles Mino […]
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City of the Beasts, Isabel Allende
Fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold is about to join his fearless grandmother on the trip of a lifetime. An International Geographic expedition is headed to the dangerous, remote wilds of South America, on a mission to document the legendary Yeti of the Amazon known as the Beast. But there are many secrets […]
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The Shark Rider, Ellen Prager
After thwarting the dastardly plans of JP Rickerton, Tristan Hunt is having trouble keeping his newfound talents a secret. And if undercover spies and a mysterious illness threatening to expose the secrets of camp weren’t enough, reports of dying fish and disappearing sponge in the Caribbean call Tristan and his […]
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Stormteller, David Thorpe
This bewitching drama for young adults set in the very near future entwines Celtic myth and climate-changed destinies to answer the fundamental question: can we escape our apparent fate? If our lives are governed by forces outside our control, where can we find hope? Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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Floodland, Marcus Sedgwick
Visit Amazon for ordering. Ten-year-old Zoe is desperate. In a not-too-distant future where the polar ice caps have melted and most of the planet’s land is underwater, she is alone with one precious possession–a rowboat. With it, she can navigate the few bits of land still visible in search of […]
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