Join four intrepid kids as they discover the surprising variety of wildlife that lives in New York City’s premier park. The animals themselves are sometimes hard to find, but their poop is everywhere! Follow Tony, Lily, Emma, and Jackson as they explore Central Park, investigating poop (scat) and footprints (tracks) […]
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Though this is an older book, we have plenty of early literature to add to dragonfly.eco, and I was reminded of this novel when reading an article in the India Tribune. Surfacing is a work permeated with an aura of suspense, complex with layered meanings, and written in brilliant, diamond-sharp […]
Read MoreNote: This survey is no longer active. Thanks so much to Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Yale, for notifying me some time ago about a survey he has developed to find out who reads climate change fiction and to get some sense of what they take away […]
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These days we would say First Nations, but during anthropologist Diamond Jenness’s day–this book first published in 1955–the term Indian was widely used when referring to the natives of the Americas. Jenness had the best intentions and made genuine friendships when studying various First Nations in the 20th century, but […]
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Set in a future Great Britain scarred by fracking and ecological collapse, The Race is the first full-length novel from Nina Allan, winner of the 2014 BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction (Spin, TTA Press), and the prestigious Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire for Best Translated Work (Complications/The Silver Wind, Editions […]
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I. Blind Trust Horrific earthquakes are devastating the Front Range between Denver and Colorado Springs in an area long believed to be seismically quiescent. They are being generated by ruptures along cryptic, mysterious, deeply buried thrust faults (blind thrusts) that, unlike many faults, do not break the surface during large-scale […]
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Author: © Keith Rommel Publisher: Sunbury Press Type: Fiction Publication Date: July 26, 2016 Ordering: Amazon, Barnes & Noble Social Media: Author Website, Press Release, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, Instagram Excerpts 1 – SHAMAN Akutak knelt down on the hard, cold surface of a mountainous ice sheet that overlooked the […]
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Author: © Armand Chauvel Translator: Elisabeth Lyman Publisher: Ashland Creek Press Type: Fiction Publication Date: 2014 Ordering: Amazon Social Media: Goodreads, Facebook, Our Hen House Review Back to the Dragonfly Library Chapter 1 Léa scanned the menu desperately in search of an escape route. She’d come to Paris for the […]
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The Lamentations of Zeno is an extraordinary evocation of the fragile and majestic wonders to be found at a far corner of the globe, written by a novelist who is a renowned travel writer. Poignant and playful, the novel recalls the experimentation of high-modernist fiction without compromising a limpid sense […]
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Author: © Donna Mulvenna Type: Nonfiction Publication Date: July 11, 2016 Ordering: Amazon Author Links: YouTube, Goodreads, Pinterest, Facebook Starry Nights “And there at the camp, we had around us the elemental world of water and light, and earth and air. We felt the presences of the wild creatures, the […]
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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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Occasionally we post notable nonfiction books that are central creative works contributing to environmental injustice or natural history, or that contain narratives about the state of humanity’s connection with nature as depicted in works of fiction. This book is forthcoming in September 2016. Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist […]
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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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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 […]
Read MoreThe characters who inhabit Jean Ryan’s graceful, imaginative collection of stories are survivors of accidents and acts of nature, of injuries both physical and emotional. Ryan writes of beauty and aging, of love won and lost—with characters enveloped in the mysteries of the natural world and the animal kingdom. Goodreads […]
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