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Balance 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 […]

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The 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 […]

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Survival 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 […]

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My 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   […]

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Interview 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 […]

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Aquarius 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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Aquarius Rising Part I: In the Tears of God

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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Interview with Kelvin Christopher James, Augments of Change

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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Something Special

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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Pimp the Cosmos

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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Interview with Claudia Casper, The Mercy Journals

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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Cold Blood, Hot Sea

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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Halfway to the Truth

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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Earth Day to Arbor Day Blog Tour, D.G. Driver

“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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The Forester

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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