Coming April 14, 2015: Five days. Four hikers. Three survivors. From Lori Lansens, author of the national bestsellers Rush Home Road, The Girls and The Wife’s Tale comes a gripping tale of adventure, sacrifice and survival in the unforgiving wilderness of a legendary mountain. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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Clade, James Bradley
From the Sydney Morning Herald: A global deadly virus, the collapse of bee colonies, extreme weather events causing social unrest, eco-refugees, infertility, autism and new advances in technology – these are just some of the themes of James Bradley’s new novel, Clade. Its ambitious span stretches from some time in […]
Read MoreThe Waterkeeper’s Daughter, Joan Mauch
Twenty-one year old Annie Whitaker is over the moon: She and Nate, her college sweetheart, have just gotten engaged and she’s driving home to give her parents the news. Not only that, but she’s spending the summer as an intern with her dad, Lake Okeechobee’s waterkeeper. Life just doesn’t get […]
Read MoreThe Perilous Realm, Thomas Wharton
Thanks to Canadian author Thomas Wharton for letting us know about his trilogy The Perilous Realm, two of which novels are out now: The Shadow of Malabron and The Fathomless Fire. Thomas says that the trilogy has a strong ecofiction focus. Long ago, Malabron the Night King tried to turn […]
Read MoreEvery Blade of Grass, Thomas Wharton
Before email, Facebook, and Twitter, people wrote letters. Thomas Wharton’s new novel tells the story of James Wheeler and Martha Geddes, who meet at an environmental conference in Iceland and feel a mutual attraction. The catch is that they live on opposite sides of a continent and one of them […]
Read MorePainted Horses, Malcolm Brooks
In the mid-1950s, America was flush with prosperity and saw an unbroken line of progress clear to the horizon, while the West was still very much wild. In this ambitious, incandescent debut, Malcolm Brooks animates that time and untamed landscape, in a tale of the modern and the ancient, of […]
Read MoreCurrents of the Universal Being: Explorations in the Literature of Energy, Scott Slavic, et al.
Energy scholar Vaclav Smil wrote in 2003, “Tug at any human use of energy and you will find its effects cascading throughout society.” Too often public discussions of energy-related issues become gridlocked in debates concerning cost, environmental degradation, and the plausibility (or implausibility) of innovative technologies. But the topic of […]
Read MoreThe Last Harvest, John Burroughs
This volume contains material written by John Burroughs, the American naturalist, best remembered for his essays on nature, in the closing months of his life. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
Read MoreThe Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein
‘Once there was a tree…and she loved a little boy.’ So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
Read MoreHigh Clear Bell of Morning, Ann Eriksson
Elegantly told and affecting, High Clear Bell of Morning illustrates the strain on families facing mental illnesses, and draws attention to the inadequate system that is meant to help. At the same time, it celebrates the natural world and sends a cautionary warning of what we all have to lose. […]
Read MoreFalling from Grace, Ann Eriksson
Faye Pearson is a three-and-a-half-foot tall female scientist doing entomological research in the tallest trees on Vancouver Island, who is pit with a ragtag group of protesters against the might of a multinational logging corporation. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
Read MoreGreening the Maple, Ella Soper and Nicholas Bradley
See more at the University of Calgary Press. Ecocriticism can be described in very general terms as the investigation of the many ways in which culture and the environment are interrelated and conceptualized. Ecocriticism aspires to understand and often to celebrate the natural world, yet it does so indirectly by […]
Read MoreLa Loca de Gandoca, Anacristina Rossi
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Read MoreBirdbrain, Virginia Arthur
Only field biologists or people-of-the-field can truly understand what it is like to see a planet in decline so for birders, botanists, ecologists, field biologists, other ‘ologists, this is a must-read. For environmental activists, active or burned out, depressed, and/or holed-up somewhere with a fifth of whiskey, this is a […]
Read MoreLug, Dawn of the Ice Age, David Zeltse
Lug discovers the Ice Age is coming and he has to bring warring clans together to save them not only from the freeze but also from a particularly unpleasant migrating pride of saber-toothed tigers. It’s no help that the elders are cavemen who can’t seem to get the concept of […]
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