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Alison, Jane Natives and Exotics. A multi-generational story follows the experiences of a nineteenth-century Scottish gardener and two of his descendants in an examination of the uneasy relationship between humankind and nature. |
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Atwood, Margaret Oryx and Crake A novel of the future explores a world that has been devastated by ecological and scientific disasters. |
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Donna Ball A Year on Ladybug Farm Determined to live their lives to the fullest, three friends leave their stagnant homes in the suburbs and establish a new residence in a rural valley, but home improvement disasters and garden thieves cause unexpected hardships and force the ladies to reconsider the decisions they have made. |
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Bass, Rick Fiber. A acclaimed nature writer offers a moving portrayal of the attempt to save the pristine Yaak Valley of Montana through a fictional overview of the personalities and steps necessary to build the concern and active support necessary for preservationist action. |
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Bernhardt, William Dark Justice. Suffering from courtroom burnout, Ben Kincaid hopes to leave trials and the tribulations of a lawyer's life behind in Tulsa as he sets out for some much-needed R and R in the picturesque Pacific Northwest. But Ben's blissful getaway becomes a busman's holiday in the small town of Magic Valley, where a pitched battle between the local logging industry and crusading conservationists has led to brutal murder. |
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Berry, Wendell Jayber Crow In a novel set in a small-town "Heaven," the rural Kentucky farmer-philosopher returns to his fictional Port William to explore themes of love, suffering, and joy. |
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Callenbach, Ernest Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston A novel portraying a future ecologically sustainable society located in what was formerly the states of Washington, Oregon, and northern California. Investigative reporter William Weston crosses the Sierra Nevada mountains and enters Ecotopia, the first American to do so since the Ecotopian secession from the U.S. in 1980. |
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Conover, Garrett Kristin's Wilderness: A Braided Trail The story of a young girl growing up among wildlife researchers in the northwoods. She finds her way into womanhood through the important relationships in her life, including the old Finnish ladies who share the sauna, two wolverines escaped from their observation pen, and the northern native people with whom she spends a winter. |
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Lopez, Barry Holstun Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren: Stories In these stories, we find men or women -- sometimes at odds with themselves, sometimes transcendently well grounded -- who have an experience that is profound, unsettling, and oddly liberating. |
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Rollins, James Amazonia The mysterious reappearance of the body of a missing CIA agent lost in Brazil four years earlier sparks a mission into the Amazon by a team of American scientists and military people. |
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White, Randy Wayne Everglades Meeting a former lover whose husband has disappeared and been pronounced dead, Doc Ford investigates the woman's suspicions of foul play and finds himself deep in the Everglades. |
Mysteries
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Andrews, Sarah Mother Nature : Em Hansen Mystery Against her better judgment, Em - broke, unemployed, and desperate for something to take her mind off her father's recent death - accepts this less-than-ideal job: A U.S. senator sends her to Santa Rosa, California, to investigate his daughter Janet's death. He thinks something Janet uncovered at her job as a geologist for an environmental consulting firm got her killed, and he wants Em to find out what it was. |
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Barr, Nevada Endangered Species Park ranger Anna Pigeon investigates the crash of a drug-interdiction plane on an isolated Georgia island. Was it an accident or sabotage that downed the plane, killing both the pilot and his passenger? |
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Barr, Nevada Ill Wind The ruins of Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park provide a place of solace for Anna Pigeon until their beauty is tainted by death. |
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Muller, Marcia Cape Perdido. When an outside corporation threatens the livelihoods of the citizens of Cape Perdido with its water harvesting plan, four people are swept up in efforts to save the town. |
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Speart, Jessica Restless Waters: A Rachel Porter Mystery While following the trail of illegal traffickers in exotic animals in Hawaii, Wildlife Service agent Rachel Porter stumbles upon a suspicious, shark-devoured human corpse, a discovery that puts her squarely in the path of ruthless and greedy criminals who will do anything to stop her. |