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Bringing Home the Wild

by Kristen Rabe

Botanist Juliet C. Stromberg’s engaging, effervescent memoir covers the ecological restoration of an abandoned four-acre farm in south Phoenix. In a twenty-year effort, Stromberg and her partner Matt created a verdant oasis on what had... Read More

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Over the Seawall

by Kristen Rabe

Stephen Robert Miller issues an appeal for realistic, long-term responses to climate change in "Over the Seawall", a book that examines failed attempts to control nature. Often, the expensive, complicated engineering projects that are... Read More

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How to Build a Boat

by Eileen Gonzalez

A motherless, neurodivergent boy bonds with his childless teacher in Elaine Feeney’s novel "How to Build a Boat". Jamie’s first day of secondary school was a complete catastrophe. But he also met Tess, an English teacher who treats... Read More

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Generation Dread

by Kristine Morris

"Generation Dread" probes the psychological, emotional, and spiritual impacts of climate change with recommendations for turning ecoanxiety into action. With the planet appearing to be growing ever more hostile to life, ecoanxiety,... Read More

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Forgetting

by Eileen Gonzalez

In Frederika Amalia Finkelstein’s novel "Forgetting", an insomniac grapples with the past and the future of a world perhaps beyond saving. Alma’s grandfather did not die in a concentration camp, but sometimes she says he did. And... Read More

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Tali Girls

by Eileen Gonzalez

Afghani young adults face hazardous, uncertain futures in Siamak Herawi’s novel "Tali Girls". Kowsar was quite young when the government built a school in Tali, her village. Though she shows great academic promise, the Taliban ends her... Read More

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