Warning 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 […]

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The Mercy Journals, Claudia Casper

I got a chance to meet Claudia at one of her book launches, and she is a warm, down-to-earth person who filled the room with hugs, laughter, and soul. We will be talking again soon when I interview her about The Mercy Journals. The novel offers a view into the […]

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Mercedes Wore Black, Andrea Brunais

Florida Politics. The only thing predictable is the unpredictability. When Janis is fired from her job at the newspaper, she focuses on the causes that matter to her. The environment and the economy. That embroils her in the 2014 election. When her good friend Mercedes encounters danger and is brutally […]

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All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders

A deeply magical, darkly funny examination of life, love, and the apocalypse. -Goodreads Tech culture’s strange relationship with nature takes centre stage in All the Birds in the Sky, a vivid, genre-blending novel from a writer who is clearly one to watch. Jumping skillfully from science fiction to fantasy and […]

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Augments 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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2022

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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Interview with Johanna Melchiore, “Off Grid and Free”

Part XII. Women Working in Nature and the Arts Johanna Melchiore is an amazing woman and the wife of Ron Melchiore, whose book Life Off Grid: My Path to the Wilderness explores their road less traveled. Ron and Johanna currently live in the total wilds of Saskatchewan in a remote […]

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Nature’s Confession

Author: JL Morin Publisher: Harvard Square Editions Press: Interview with Eco-fiction, Teenreads, Fjords Review Prison Class I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. —Ludwig Wittgenstein The stairs creaked underfoot, and the conversation in the kitchen abruptly stopped. […]

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Ready Player One, Ernest Cline

In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the virtual utopia known as the  OASIS. -Goodreads The novel … takes place in 2044, in a world devoid of resources due to climatic catastrophes. Wade Watts, […]

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Consequence

Author: Steve Masover Publisher: © Salted Rose Press Release Date: September 29, 2015 Press: Interview with Eco-fiction, Reviews Social Media: Author’s blog: One Finger Typing, Facebook Chapter Two October 2003 Chagall rolls up his ski mask, listening to the guard’s Jeep recede down the logging road. A crisp autumn breeze […]

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California Poems

Author: © Carolyn Welch Publication Date: July 2014 Publisher: Moon Willow Press Review: Tom Hibbard Rucksack Revolution In the lofty meadow path with yellow firs and ducks, creeks tempt us–naked bath among the aspen tucks? Our Morley pokes at the stream, and barefoot writes his prose; we hike on in […]

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Off Grid and Free

Author: © Ron Melchiore Publication Date: Forthcoming, February 2016 Publisher: Moon Willow Press Press: Life Off Grid, produced by Phillip Vannini and Jonathan Taggart Social Media: Facebook Chapter 1 – Which Way Do I Go? A fortuitous series of events brought us to this place, a remote lake, far out in […]

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Garapaima

Author: © Mark Spitzer Publication Date: August 15, 2015 Publisher: Moon Willow Press Press: Arkansas Times Chapter 2 When Jack pulled up to his dock, there was a short, squat Chipokee girl waiting there with a Royal Mounted Police officer. The kid was about twelve years old and her hair was […]

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The Sacred River …

Author: © Tom Hibbard Publication Date: August 12, 2011 Publisher: Moon Willow Press In Memory Of: Jack Kerouac Back to the Dragonfly Library THE GREEN UNIVERSE I. a misty tautology glimmers on the lake beyond understanding where the downtrodden hang by an anesthetized thread that parasitism devours with inappropriate guilt as […]

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The Apology

Author: © Paul Collins From the Anthology: Winds of Change: Short Stories about Our Climate Publication Date: October 16, 2015 Publisher: Moon Willow Press Press: Big Think Back to the Dragonfly Library “We do not know very much of the future Except that from generation to generation The same things […]

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