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 […]
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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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Author: © Brian Burt Type: Series (Aquarius Rising) Publisher: Double Dragon Publishing Publication Date: April 2013 Ordering: Amazon Author Links: Website, Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads Back to the Dragonfly Library Chapter 1: Birth Day (excerpt) Ocypode dove through the turquoise waters of Tillamook Reef toward the fringes of the celebration. Revelers […]
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Kelvin Christopher James is the critically acclaimed author of six novels: People and Peppers, a romance (Harvard Square Editions), Secrets (Villard & Vintage & KDP Indie), Fling with a Demon Lover (HarperCollins & KDP Indie), The Sorcerer’s Drum, Web of Freedom, Mooch, the Meek (KDP Indie), and short story collections […]
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Author: © Jessica Groenendijk Publication Date: November 21, 2015 Publication: Words from the Wild Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, Google+ Back to the Dragonfly Library In late 2007, my husband and I and our two kids left our home in North Luangwa National Park, Zambia, and set off on a six-month […]
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Author: © Anthony Wright Publication Date: January 23, 2016 Ordering Information: Smashwords Social Media: Facebook Description: Coming from one of my favorite authors, Anthony Wright, who I’ve worked with for more than a decade, this book looks surreal and fascinating! -Mary Woodbury, Eco-fiction.com: This surreal and mordantly humorous narrative unfolds […]
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Claudia Casper is the author of the novels The Reconstruction and The Continuation of Love by Other Means, which was short-listed for the Ethel Wilson BC Book Prize, and most recently, The Mercy Journals. Her writing has appeared in the Globe and Mail, the Vancouver Sun, Geist, Event, Best Canadian […]
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Author: © Charlene D’Avanzo Publisher: Torrey House Press Publication Date: June 2016 Ordering Information: IndieBound Social Media: Author blog, Facebook, Contact, Goodreads Back to the Dragonfly Library Sleuths will have to figure out who done it, but the real crime is the backdrop here: the endless heating of a fragile […]
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Author: © Anthony Mays Publication Date: May 29, 2015 Ordering: Amazon Links: Author site Every day, somewhere in this world, a child goes to work just like you do. Only their workplace is filled with dangerous chemicals that can have long-term health effects on the body. Stockpiles of e-waste sites […]
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“From Earth Day to Arbor Day” is a blog tour with author D. G. Driver as she celebrates her two environmental themed YA fantasy novels Cry of the Sea & Whisper of the Woods. These novels are about Juniper Sawfeather, teen environmental activist, who discovers mythical creatures during her efforts to protect the natural […]
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Author: © James Kraus Publication Date: June 2013 Ordering: Amazon Back to the Dragonfly Library James Kraus knows the woods from every perspective – as a source of Wonder, a source of Timber, and a source of Conflict. -Bill McKibben Excerpt 1 (from a dream) Sara and I were walking […]
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Part XIII. Women Working in Nature and the Arts An Officer of the Order of Canada, Lorna Crozier has been acknowledged for her contributions to Canadian literature, her teaching and her mentoring with five honourary doctorates, most recently from McGill and Simon Fraser Universities. Her books have received numerous national […]
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Jeff VanderMeer has been named the 2016-2017 Trias Writer-in-Residence for Hobart-William Smith College. His most recent fiction is the NYT-bestselling Southern Reach trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance) from FSG, which won the Shirley Jackson Award. The trilogy also prompted the New Yorker to call the author “the weird Thoreau” and has […]
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Author: © D.G. Driver Publication Date: February 2014 Series: Juniper Sawfeather Series Publisher: Fire and Ice Young Adult Books Ordering: Lulu, Kindle, Smashwords Social Media: Author’s Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Author’s website Back to the Dragonfly Library Excerpt from Chapter Seven The sun had risen and cast a beautiful golden glow […]
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Author: © D.G. Driver Publication Date: February 2014 Series: Juniper Sawfeather Series Awards: 2nd place in the YA category of the 2015 Green Book Festival for environmental themed books Publisher: Fire and Ice Young Adult Books Ordering: Lulu, Kindle, Smashwords Social Media: Author’s Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Author’s website Back to […]
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