A powerful literary thriller about a frighteningly near future where myth and adventure intersect. Dry weaves its fable around the lethal conflict between two families. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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The Veil Weavers, Maureen Bush
Veil of Magic series, part III: a children’s fantasy with environmental themes. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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The Nexis Ring, Maureen Bush
Maureen Bush has written four books, including the first two in the Veil of Magic series, The Nexus Ring and Crow Boy. Her books have been short listed for numerous awards including the Silver Birch and the Saskatchewan Diamond Willow. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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Crow Boy, Maureen Bush
Josh, Maddy and Aleena go on adventure to retrieve a magic ring and return it to Keeper. The crows flock to Josh, recognizing the deep magic he’s learned from the natural world. He has become Crow Boy, “the magic boy.” Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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Michael Rothenberg’s Punk Rockwell, Review by Mary Woodbury
Punk Rockwell, by Michael Rothenberg. Review by Mary Woodbury. According to Punk Rockwell‘s narrator Jeffrey Dagovich, poetry takes more than a lifetime to write. Dagovich is a poet (he announces at the beginning of the book), not a novelist. So why is he writing a novel? Slowly, it’s revealed that […]
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The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and […]
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The Sword of Demelza, J.E. Rogers
The Sword of Demelza is a middle grade fantasy where endangered animal heroes roam the pages, and the Australian landscape comes alive! A glossary at the end of the book provides information about the unusual flora and fauna found within the story, and only on the continent of Australia. Wonderful […]
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The Call of the Wild, Jack London
First published in 1903, “The Call of the Wild” is regarded as Jack London’s masterpiece. Based on London’s experiences as a gold prospector in the Canadian wilderness and his ideas about nature and the struggle for existence, “The Call of the Wild” is a tale about unbreakable spirit and the […]
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Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of the Birds of America, William Soulder
This book is published by Milkweed Editions. From Amazon: John James Audubon is renowned for his masterpiece of natural history and art, The Birds of America, the first nearly comprehensive survey of the continent’s birdlife. And yet few people understand, and many assume incorrectly, what sort of man he was. […]
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Leaf & the Long Ice (Twig Stories, Vol. 3), Jo Marshall
A tiny stick creature named Leaf lives in an old forest at the foot of an ancient volcano, which is capped by a massive glacier called the Long Ice. Leaf often entertains his younger, twin brothers with stories about the rare snow beasts that still survive on the Long Ice […]
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Leaf and the Sky of Fire (Twig Stories, Vol. 2), Jo Marshall
In a dying forest – infested with bark beetles – impish, stick creatures called Twigs are forced to hide in a cave, or be devoured by ravenous barkbiters! A young Twig named Leaf attempts a foolhardy rescue, but instead he leads them all into greater danger. Now they are pursued […]
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Leaf & the Rushing Waters (Twig Stories, Vol. 1), Jo Marshal
When a glacier melts, a dam of ice fractures, and a river called the Rushing Waters is set loose on an old growth forest. The flood surrounds an ancient tree, where impish, stick creatures, the Old Seeder Twigs, are stranded. Their fate is tied to an enormous and sinister beaver […]
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Body Parts, Arthur Herzog
From imagination to materialism, the provocative stories in “Body Parts” cover the bases. Can brains survive without bodies? From Arthur Herzog’s widow Leslie: Every time Arthur’s books were in galleys, he would write a short story and then throw it in a box, which I found in the attic. I made […]
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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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