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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"From the author of the beloved national bestseller Migrations, a #1 IndieNext pick, a gorgeous and pulse-pounding new novel set in the wild Scottish Highlands. Inti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team of biologists tasked with reintroducing fourteen gray wolves into the remote Highlands. She hopes to heal not only the dying landscape, but Aggie, too, unmade by the terrible secrets that drove the sisters out of Alaska....
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An anthology of short stories about the North American wilderness"--
"A dazzling collection of short stories about North American outdoor life—both classic and contemporary—from James Fenimore Cooper and Jack London to Margaret Atwood and Anthony Doerr and many more. The North American landscape, in its rich and rugged variety, has inspired an equally wide and deep range of fiction over the past centuries. Diana Fuss has gathered a rich collection...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"A hopeful climate crisis novel exploring the possibilities of our near future and humanity's capacity for change, about one family trying to protect each other and the place we all call home"--
"For fans of Station Eleven and The Last Thing He Told Me, this richly imaginative, immersive, and “profound” (Alice Elliott Dark, author of Fellowship Point) novel is the electrifying story of a family in crisis that unfolds against the backdrop of our...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
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Description
"In the first decades of the 21st century, the world is convulsing, its governments mired in gridlock while a patient but unrelenting ecological crisis looms. America is in upheaval, battered by violent weather and extreme politics. In California in 2013, Tony Pietrus, a scientist studying deposits of undersea methane, receives a death threat. His fate will become bound to a stunning cast of characters—a broken drug addict, a star advertising strategist,...
Author
Language
English
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"The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. He's also about to be expelled from third grade for smashing his friend in the face. As his son grows more troubled, Theo hopes to keep him off psychoactive drugs. He learns of an experimental...
Author
Publisher
Graywolf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
Two auditors for the U.S. egg industry go rogue and conceive a plot to steal a million chickens in the middle of the night -- an entire egg farm's worth of animals. Janey and Cleveland -- a spirited former runaway and the officious head of audit -- assemble a precarious, quarrelsome team and descend on the farm on a dark spring evening. A series of catastrophes ensues.
Author
Publisher
Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Julie Carrick Dalton's The Last Beekeeper is a celebration of found family, an exploration of truth versus power, and the triumph of hope in the face of despair. "Fans of Delia Owens will swoon to find their new favorite author." (Hank Phillippi Ryan) It's been more than a decade since the world has come undone, and Sasha Severn has returned to her childhood home with one goal in mind-find the mythic research her father, the infamous Last Beekeeper,...
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
A collection of ten stories about global warming and its effects includes contributions by T.C. Boyle, Paolo Bacigulapi, and Margaret Atwood.
"The size and severity of the global climate crisis is such that even the most committed environmentalists can drift into a state of denial. The award-winning writers collected here have made it their task to shake off this nagging disbelief, bringing the incomprehensible within our grasp and shaping an emotional...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"East-coast novelist Patrick Hamlin has come to Hollywood with simple goals in mind: overseeing the production of a film adaptation of one of his books, preventing starlet Cassidy Carter's disruptive behavior from derailing said production, and turning this last-ditch effort at career resuscitation into the sort of success that will dazzle his wife and daughter back home. But California is not as he imagined: drought, wildfire, and corporate corruption...
11) The endless song
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Kindred Greyreach, at odds with a faction below the Sea, must use every power to forestall disaster, while, above, a boy named Flitch finds himself caught in a dangerous political crisis, and they must work together to save themselves, their loved ones, and the Forever Sea itself.
"Now in paperback, the second book in this environmental epic fantasy duology explores a world where ships kept afloat by magical hearthfires sail an endless grass sea....
12) Bird
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Join fisherman Finn and his dog, Skip, on their third adventure in this illustrated story book for young children, that teaches them about climate change and what they can do to help. It’s Skip’s birthday and Finn has planned an exciting surprise for him—a trip in a hot-air balloon. As they lift off the ground and rise above the clouds, they think that this birthday adventure couldn’t have gotten off to a better start. But when a bird snatches...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
A mother and midwife inadvertently threatens the fortunes and livelihoods of her family and their neighbors after noticing an increase in local miscarriages and believes it's caused by the pesticides used by the Sanderson Timber Company, her husband's employer.
14) The weed
Author
Publisher
Tate Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
The world was becoming hard and dry, old and tired and difficult to live in... After the Meadowsweet family suddenly and unexpectedly find themselves at the bottom of a giant crack in the earth, they must trust in their mynah bird, Octavia, and a special seed to help them get back up to the surface
Author
Publisher
Eagles Quest Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
An adventure of self-discovery, from small beginnings, through the challenges of life, to becoming something greater. Follow along this little pinecone's journey and experience the seasons of growth together!
16) Dark on light
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
As night falls, a trio of siblings stumble upon some of nature's hidden nighttime beauty, including timid fawns, blossoming lavender, silent owls, and many more wonders of the night.
Author
Series
Companions quartet volume 1
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Upon moving to her aunt's seaside home in the British Isles, Connie becomes part of a secret society that shelters mythical creatures, and must use her ability to communicate with these beings to protect them from evil and the incursions of humans.
19) Pelican in peril
Author
Series
Eco Rangers volume 1
Publisher
New Frontier Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When Ebony and Jay rescue a frightened-looking pelican covered in sludge, they know something terrible happened. Why is the sea full of oil waste? And where does it come from? As the Eco Rangers start investigating they end up getting into big trouble"--Jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Greta is a little girl who lives in a beautiful forest threatened by Giants. When the Giants first came to the forest, they chopped down trees to make houses. Then they chopped down more trees and made even bigger homes. The houses grew into towns and the towns grew into cities, until now there is hardly any forest left. Greta knows she has to help the animals who live in the forest, but how? Luckily, Greta has an idea A section at the back explains...
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