We’re happy to welcome Samuel Marquis to our interview series. He is a bestselling, award-winning suspense author. An expert witness in groundwater contaminant hydrology, Samuel works by day as a VP-Hydrogeologist with an environmental firm in Boulder, CO, and by night as a spinner of suspense yarns. His first two […]
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Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior, Review by Nina Munteanu
In a world that’s quickly heating up and drying up, you can’t go home again—even if you never leave—Clive Thompson Barbara Kingsolver’s 2012 novel Flight Behavior was, according to The Globe and Mail, the first novel that dealt “specifically, determinedly and overtly with climate change. [And] only Kingsolver could pull […]
Read MoreJesus and Magdalene
Author: © João Cerqueira Publisher: Lion Publications Publication Date: July 6, 2016 Type: Novel Author Links: Amazon, Facebook, Website, Twitter Back to the Dragonfly Library For the love of nature When Magdalene and Jesus left the environmental camp, she revealed to him her ruminations. “Did you know that nature and […]
Read MoreThe Silence Spreading across the Natural World
Author: © Donna Mulvenna Type: Prose Author Links: YouTube, Goodreads, Pinterest, Facebook “The earth has music for those who listen.” – George Santayana I see a lot of trees from my office window. Although, I don’t actually have a window. I don’t have walls either. Or a roof. I have […]
Read MoreThe Little Big Town
Author: © Mary Woodbury Publisher: Moon Willow Press Type: Fiction (Children’s Novella) Publication Date: 1st published January 2010 Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Facebook Excerpt from Part IV. Holidays On Sunday, the whole family piled into the Blazer and drove to the outskirts of Tarkin where the Harvest Festival was being […]
Read MoreEco-fiction at Word Vancouver
Thanks to everyone who attended! The readings went great, and we had some thoughtful Q&A from the audience afterward. Please see our Facebook for photos from the event. FREE EVENT – No tickets required! Community Garden “Eco-fiction, memoir, and a variety of non-fiction presentations” To celebrate 100,000 Poets (Authors and […]
Read MoreIce Canyon Monster
Author: © Keith Rommel Publisher: Sunbury Press Type: Fiction Publication Date: July 26, 2016 Ordering: Amazon, Barnes & Noble Social Media: Author Website, Press Release, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Instagram Excerpts 1 – SHAMAN Akutak knelt down on the hard, cold surface of a mountainous ice sheet that overlooked the […]
Read MoreThe Green and the Red
Author: © Armand Chauvel Translator: Elisabeth Lyman Publisher: Ashland Creek Press Type: Fiction Publication Date: 2014 Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Goodreads, Facebook, Our Hen House Review Back to the Dragonfly Library Chapter 1 Léa scanned the menu desperately in search of an escape route. She’d come to Paris for the […]
Read MoreWild Roots – Coming Alive in the French Amazon
Author: © Donna Mulvenna Type: Nonfiction Publication Date: July 11, 2016 Ordering: Amazon Author Links: YouTube, Goodreads, Pinterest, Facebook Starry Nights “And there at the camp, we had around us the elemental world of water and light, and earth and air. We felt the presences of the wild creatures, the […]
Read MoreBalance of Fragile Things
Author: © Olivia Chadha Type: Fiction Novel Publisher: Ashland Creek Press Ordering: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Indie Bound, Apple Books Publication Date: October 11, 2012 Author Links: Website, Twitter Back to the Dragonfly Library “In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.” -Samuel Beckett “The past is never […]
Read MoreThe Tourist Trail
Author: © John Yunker Type: Fiction Novel Publisher/Ordering: Ashland Creek Press Publication Date: 2010 Author Links: Website, Book, Twitter When the land has nothing left for men who ravage everything, they scour the sea. — Tacitus PART I: In Absentia Angela In darkness, Angela ascended the winding gravel road. She […]
Read MoreSurvival Skills
Author: © Jean Ryan Type: Short Story Collection Publisher: Ashland Creek Press Publication Date: April 1, 2013 Ordering: Amazon Author Links: Website, Facebook, Twitter Excerpt from Survival Skills – “Migration” Eating her toast at the breakfast bar, Erica watched the geese browse. She pictured their broad, rubbery feet breaking through […]
Read MoreMy Last Continent: A Novel
Author: © Midge Raymond Type: Fiction novel Publisher: Scribner Publication Date: June 21, 2016 Ordering: http://www.midgeraymond.com/books/mylastcontinent.html Author Links: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Goodreads Excerpted from My Last Continent By Midge Raymond Published in June 2016 by Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Copyright © 2016 by Midge Raymond […]
Read MoreInterview with Ron Melchiore, Off Grid and Free
Off Grid and Free: My Path to the Wilderness is the story of the journey Ron Melchiore undertook as a young man from the city, first to homesteading in northern Maine and then to living in the bush of northern Saskatchewan. He has lived off grid since approximately 1980 and […]
Read MoreAquarius Rising Part 2: Blood Tide
Author: © Brian Burt Type: Series (Aquarius Rising) Publisher: Double Dragon Publishing Publication Date: August 7, 2015 Ordering: Amazon Author Links: Website, Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads Back to the Dragonfly Library Chapter 1: Tombstone Tower Megalops floated in the twilit waters of Juno Reef, in the shadow of the Tombstone Tower, […]
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