Dragonfly Library

Our National Parks

Title: Our National Parks Author: John Muir Publication: In the public domain. Originally: “In this book, made up of sketches first published in the Atlantic Monthly, I have done the best I could to show forth the beauty, grandeur, and all-embracing usefulness of our wild mountain forest reservations and parks, […]

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Saving the Places We Love

Author: © Ned Tillman Publication Date: 2014 Type: Nonfiction Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Amazon Author Page, Author Website, Facebook, LinkedIn Prologue to Saving the Places we Love First Loss The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.  — Edward Abbey   Good Endeavor Farm, 1962 — I woke […]

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Bad Atmosphere – A Collection of Poetry & Prose on the Climate Crisis

Author: © Don Ogden Publisher/Ordering: Levellers Press Publication Date: October 5, 2016 Type: Poetry and Prose Social Media: Blog – Website   Bad Atmosphere this is not what it was supposed to be how many fields ago, clear blue and clouds billowing and soft breeze, dancing leaves us wondering if […]

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Cave Walker

Author: © Donelle Dreese Publisher: Moon Willow Press Publication Date: April 22, 2017 Type: Novel Ordering: Contact for free review copy Social Media: Website – Twitter Back to the Dragonfly Library If people knew the truth about me, they would say a dark force found me and taught me how […]

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Flip the Bird

Author: © Kym Brunner Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for Young Readers Publication Date: November 2016 Type: Novel Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Website – Twitter – Facebook – Subscribe to Newsletter Back to the Dragonfly Library Chapter One Today was the day I’d been dreaming about practically my whole life. Too […]

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Dubito, Ergo Sum

Author: © P. Gordon Judge Publication Date: July 24, 2016 Type: Trilogy Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Facebook, Amazon Author Page Back to the Dragonfly Library “Boring is good” Leon and I were nervously awaiting a video-link with the Lowell group. He was fiddling with some of his favorite nerd-ish gaming […]

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Moby Dick

Author: Herman Melville (public domain copyright) Publication Date: October 18, 1851 Excerpt from Chapter 70, The Sphynx It should not have been omitted that previous to completely stripping the body of the leviathan, he was beheaded. Now, the beheading of the Sperm Whale is a scientific anatomical feat, upon which […]

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The Willows, Algernon Blackwood

Author: Algernon Blackwood (public domain copyright) Publication Date: 1907 as part of The Listener and Other Stories Back to the Dragonfly Library Note: the following excerpt takes place midway into the short novella and may contain spoilers. They first became properly visible, these huge figures, just within the tops of […]

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Beef, Mat Blackwell

Author: © Mat Blackwell Publication Date: May 23, 2016 Type: Novel Ordering: Amazon Kindle, Paperback Antisocial Media: Author Website Back to the Dragonfly Library Beef (excerpt) Despite Luka’s wonderful advice, the party had been exactly the awkward ordeal Royston had been expecting, for the one hour and ten minutes he’d […]

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Wild Things, “The Man Who Jumped”

Author: Jaimee Wriston Colbert Publisher: BkMk Press (University of Missouri-Kansas City) Publication Date: October 15, 2016 Type: Short Story Collection Ordering: SPD Books in Berkeley, Amazon Social Media: Poets and Writers, Author Website Excerpt from the Wild Things collection, from the short story “The Man Who Jumped” (First published in […]

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Left Behind

Author: © Mehek Naresh Type: Short Story Social Media: Twitter, Author Blog Congratulations to Mehek Naresh for winning the Eco-fiction 2016 Solarpunk Short Story Contest! This short story is published whole. Judges were Claudie Arseneault, author of Viral Airwaves and editor of Wings of Renewal: A Solarpunk Dragon Anthology, and […]

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The Audit

Author: © Rachel May Publisher: Moon Willow Press Publication Date: October 16, 2015 Type: Short Story from the Winds of Change anthology Author Link: Syracuse University Download Link Bill turned the mower off at the top of his sloping lawn and surveyed his handiwork. Alternating segments of taller and shorter […]

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How Close to Savage the Soul

Author: © John Atcheson Publisher: Moon Willow Press Publication Date: October 16, 2015 Type: Short Story from the Winds of Change anthology Author Links: Common Dreams, Author Website, Twitter Download Link Back to the Dragonfly Library The aromas hit him like a fist, poised there over five decades, waiting until […]

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Jesus 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 […]

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The 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 […]

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