Books

Hummingbird Salamander, Jeff VanderMeer

From the author of Annihilation, a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endangered species, and the possible end of all things. Security consultant “Jane Smith” receives an envelope with a key to a storage unit that holds a taxidermied hummingbird and clues leading her to a taxidermied salamander. Silvina, the […]

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The Overstory, Richard Powers

A hearing-and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These and five other strangers, each summoned in different ways by trees, are brought together in a last and violent stand to save the continent’s few remaining acres of virgin forest. There is a world alongside ours—vast, slow, […]

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The Great Alone, Kristin Hannah

Like a curved, upturned palm, Alaska beckons with her beauty, her majesty, and her prolific grandeur…The awe-inspiring allure gestures first until the ruggedness of her backbone sets in. -Goodreads Goodreads Review Back to GoodReads

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Circe, Madeline Miller

Threatened, Zeus banishes her [Circe] to a deserted island, where she hones her occult craft, tames wild beasts and crosses paths with many of the most famous figures in all of mythology, including the Minotaur, Daedalus and his doomed son Icarus, the murderous Medea, and, of course, wily Odysseus. Goodreads […]

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The Merry Spinster, Mallory Ortberg

Unfalteringly faithful to its beloved source material, The Merry Spinster also illuminates the unsuspected, and frequently, alarming emotional complexities at play in the stories we tell ourselves, and each other, as we tuck ourselves in for the night. Goodreads Review Back to GoodReads

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Happiness, Aminatta Forna

In this delicate yet powerful novel of loves lost and new, of past griefs and of the hidden side of a multicultural metropolis, Aminatta Forna asks us to consider the values of the society we live in, our co-existence with one another and all living creatures – and the true […]

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The Tiger and the Acrobat, Susanna Tamaro

This captivating story of a brave young tiger who refuses to give up on her dreams is a celebration of the power of nature and the beauty of innocence, and is a testament to the courage it takes to be true to ourselves. –Amazon.ca Goodreads Review Back to GoodReads

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Tarry this Night, Kristyn Dunnion

This vividly imagined dystopian novel, set in the near future, unfolds over the course of a few days. –The Star In this unsettling modern Lilith tale, spirited women resist their violent, racist culture and, in so doing, become outlaws. Goodreads Review Back to GoodReads

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Muir Woods or Bust, Ian Woollen

Muir Woods deftly threads modern environmental anxieties and gaming sensibilities into a story inspired by nature advocate John Muir, and binds them together with humor, playfulness, and a great, great deal of heart. –BooksPersonally.com As the 21st century lurches forward, weather weirdness abounds, begetting the rise of a new psychiatric […]

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Heart Spring Mountain, Robin MacArthur

This week the author is reaping praise upon the release of “Heart Spring Mountain,” which tackles global warming — as well as heroin addiction and women’s struggles — at the most local level. “The resulting narrative is nuanced, poetic, and evocative,” Publishers Weekly said in a starred review. “MacArthur empathetically […]

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The Genius Plague, David Walton

Sure, some say fungi will save the world, but how about a story where they hijack our brains instead? In this highly original eco-thriller, an escaped Amazonian fungus starts doing exactly that. –Earther.com What if the pandemic you thought would kill you made you more intelligent instead? In the Amazon […]

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Swarga, Ambikasutan Mangad

Translated from the Malayalam, this novel transforms an environmental movement against Endosulfan, a pesticide used in north Kerala, into a fable of great power. Man and Woman, in retreat from the world, live in an almost magical forest, looking after a sick child till they find a whole population poisoned […]

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Weatherfronts – For the Greater Good

Author: © David Thorpe Published: May 14, 2017 Publisher: Cambria Books Ordering: Amazon Type: Fiction – Anthology Social Media: Goodreads Weatherfronts Climate change and the stories we tell: A collection of poems and stories  by writers responding personally and creatively  to the scientific and emotional realities of climate change. Featuring […]

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Ice, Anna Kavan

Anna Kavan’s novel “Ice,” a fantasia about predatory male sexual behavior that takes place during an apocalyptic climate catastrophe, was first published fifty years ago. (An anniversary edition has just been released by Penguin Classics.) It was the last novel that Kavan published before she died in 1968—there have since […]

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Weatherfronts, Sarah Butler et al.

As Peter Gingold, Director, Tipping Point, says: “This most grandiose and abstract subject is experienced at a very personal level, making its demands on the way we live with partners – or with friends, neighbours and communities. This must be fruitful.” The pieces in this collection were commissioned by TippingPoint, […]

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