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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Interview with Lorna Crozier, The Wild in You
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 […]
Read MoreInterview with Jeff VanderMeer, Southern Reach Trilogy
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 […]
Read MoreWhisper of the Woods
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 […]
Read MoreCry of the Sea
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 […]
Read MoreHope or High Water
Hope or High Water: The Voyage of a Lifetime and a Model for our Future Author: © Duncan Morrison Publication Date: March 28, 2016 Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Author’s Facebook, Our Blue Canoe Film Facebook, Pacific Voyager’s Facebook, Twitter, Author’s website Chapter Four – A Living Hell 13 July 11 […]
Read MoreGods of Little Earth
Author: © J. Zornado Series: 2050: A Future History, Volume I Publisher: Merry Blacksmith Press Publication Date: November 28, 2014 Ordering: See publisher above or Amazon Social Media: J. Zornado Click here for Volume II This volume I is part of the 2050: A Future History series, which is a […]
Read MoreThe Power at the Bottom of the World
Author: © J. Zornado Series: 2050: A Future History, Volume II Publisher: Merry Blacksmith Press Publication Date: May 28, 2015 Ordering: See publisher above or Amazon Social Media: J. Zornado Escape from Bellerephon The gods plan, Simon laughs. —The Book of M I The desperate cry of a small voice […]
Read MoreWhen Immortals Reign
Author: © J. Zornado Series: 2050: A Future History, Volume III Publisher: Merry Blacksmith Press Publication Date: June 15, 2015 Ordering: See publisher above or Amazon Social Media: J. Zornado The Keys to the Kingdom Simon upon damnable Simon! How tiresome it is to hear how he is worshipped! I […]
Read MoreClimate Change Novels Set in British Columbia
I have blogged before about Clara Hume’s book Back to the Garden, which Moon Willow Press published in late 2013. Clara Hume, an author local to British Columbia, begins the novel in the Selkirk Mountains of northern Idaho, just over the border from the Thompson-Okanagen-Similkameen-Kootenay regions of BC. In Back to […]
Read MoreMr. Green Jeans
Author: © Chris S. McGee Publisher: Harvard Square Editions Publication Date: April 22, 2016 (Earth Day!) Audio: Chapter Five A week later, Saturday morning 2:00 a.m. It was dark, midnight-blue dark. We had waited for the new moon. Armed with the tools of the trade, we made our way through […]
Read MoreThe Islands at the End of the World
Author: © Austin Aslan Publisher: Random House Publication Date: September 2014 Social Media: Twitter (@Laustinspace), author blog, Facebook, Kirkus Reviews, Eco-fiction interview Back to the Dragonfly Library C H A P T E R 1 SUNDAY, APRIL 26 They’ve been getting bigger all evening. This one might be too big, […]
Read MoreWarning From My Future Self
Authors: © Jean Tepperman, art by Alfred Twu Publisher: Sunflower Alliance Publication Date: January 29, 2016 More Info: For information on printed copies, please contact Jean Tepperman In this 30-page comic book for both youth and adults, 10-year-old Gabe Sanchez of East Oakland tells the story of how he and […]
Read MoreAugments of Change
Author: © Kelvin Christopher James Publisher: Harvard Square Editions Publication Date: June 2016 Social Media: Author site, Twitter (@KeloJames) Back to the Dragonfly Library Infection By the next day or two, all but one person in the caravan was infected; some with sniffles, some with sneezes, some feverish and flushed […]
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Author: © Ken Kroes Series: 1st book in the Percipience series Publication Date: March 15, 2015 Ordering: Amazon, Smashwords Back to the Dragonfly Library Chapter 1 – The Contract The assassin’s target stood near the rear entrance of the city bus. A week of observation revealed that the man’s behavior in […]
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