Back to the series From Barbara Kingsolver’s official site: “Barbara Kingsolver was born in 1955, and grew up in rural Kentucky. She earned degrees in biology from DePauw University and the University of Arizona, and has worked as a freelance writer and author since 1985. At various times in her […]
Read MoreInterview with Nancy Lord
Part XV. Women Working in Nature and the Arts Nancy Lord, who lives in Homer, Alaska, is passionate about place, history, and the natural environment. From her many years of commercial salmon fishing and, later, work as a naturalist and historian on adventure cruise ships, she’s explored in both fiction […]
Read MoreSalvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward
“Salvage the Bones” expands our understanding of Katrina’s devastation, beyond the pictures of choked rooftops in New Orleans and toward the washed-out, feral landscapes elsewhere along the coast. Ward’s regionalism, grounded in rurality and in poverty, gives us the images—often beautiful, always barely hiding danger—that recur throughout her books: shushing […]
Read MoreThe Salt Line, Holly Goddard Jones
The Salt Line begins with these small monsters, also known as disease-carrying ticks, that are running rampant outside a scorched ring of earth on United States soil. Most civilians live inside the ring, keeping themselves secure, but there are a few that desert the safety and roam outside. –The Carolinian […]
Read MoreInterview with James Bradley, Author of Clade and The Silent Invasion
I’m happy to welcome James Bradley, Australian novelist and critic. James Bradley is an Australian novelist and critic. His books include the novels Wrack, The Deep Field , The Resurrectionistand Clade, a book of poetry, Paper Nautilus, and The Penguin Book of the Ocean, as well as The Change Trilogy for young adults, the first […]
Read MoreThe Galaxy Series
Author: © Aithal Publication Date: Part I. November 25, 2015. Part II. January 20, 2017 Type: Fiction – Series Ordering: Author site Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, Amazon, YouTube Back to the Dragonfly Library Note, there are two excerpts below from the first two books in the series. Part I. […]
Read MoreThe Galaxy Series, Aithal
Part I. Beyond the Milky Way Three astronauts go to space in search of a planet that probably has water—one of the basic elements for humanity to survive. Do they find it? What else do they find? They encounter something—something strange—beyond their wildest imaginations, and their mission-to-explore becomes a mission-to-survive. […]
Read MoreMy Absolute Darling, Gabriel Tallent
Booksellers have chosen Gabriel Tallent’s harrowing debut novel, My Absolute Darling (Riverhead Books), as the number-one September Indie Next List pick…This is a Great American Novel. Exquisitely lush language of the natural world; startlingly vivid characters; a global understanding of social context, in a particular place; and, in this case, […]
Read MoreThe End of the Beginning
Author: © Zachary Eichholz Publication Date: July 2017 Type: Fiction Ordering: Author site Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram CHAPTER 22: Cooperation Not Annihilation The Pentagon, Virginia Monday, April 5, 2027 “Madam. Secretary,” said Colonel Mapfeka, “thank you for allowing us the opportunity to brief you today. It is […]
Read MoreWhipbird, Robert Drewe
In Whipbird, Robert Drewe pulls no punches. Nothing is sacred as he takes on the mining boom and conservationists; everyone from investment bankers and real-estate agents to sea-changers and tree-changers, vegans and paleo practitioners, First World smugness, global warming, retirement, divorce, death, sudoko and artisan brewers. And the nonchalant disrespect […]
Read MoreTales from the Warming, Lorin R. Robinson
Riveting, prophetic, impressively well written. -Midwest Book Review Each story in this…collection concerns a different climate-related challenge in a different place on Earth. Robinson never preaches. -St. Paul Pioneer Press The stories—powerful, prophetic and poignant—are thought exercises that blend fact and fiction to examine the human impact of the crisis. […]
Read MoreSunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation, Phoebe Wagner et al.
Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation is the first anthology to broadly collect solarpunk short stories, artwork, and poetry. A new genre for the 21st Century, solarpunk is a revolution against despair. Focusing on solutions to environmental disasters, solarpunk envisions a future of green, sustainable energy used by societies that […]
Read MoreThe Marrow Thieves, Cherie Dimaline
In the latest YA novel by Métis writer and editor Cherie Dimaline, the world has been ravaged by global warming. Cities have crumbled from the coastlines, “breaking off like crust,” and hurricanes, earthquakes, and tsunamis have wiped out entire communities. Millions of people have lost their lives, and those who […]
Read MoreThe Erenwine Agenda, Maia Kumari Bree Chowdhury
Amalia Erenwine—an environmental activist working in New York City as an architectural intern—takes on the natural gas industry in this visionary eco-fiction book by Maia Kumari Gilman. Amalia rails against the underwriting of her employer’s work by a natural gas company involved with fracking. She clashes with the gas company’s […]
Read MoreSouth Pole Station, Ashley Shelby
Ashley Shelby’s debut novel, South Pole Station, takes readers to the bottom of the earth for a wry, multi-layered story that tightly packs art, science, polar history, climate change, politics, humor, and human relationships into a vivid tale of courage and redemption. -Jacki Skole, EcoLit Books A winning comedy of […]
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