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The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson (Adult NF#551.46 CAR)
The story of the earth's ocean from its gray beginnings to today with emphasis on ocean life past and present.
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Hot, flat, and crowded: why we need a green revolution--and how it can renew America by Thomas Friedman (Adult NF#363.7 FRI)
Examines America's loss of focus and national purpose since 9/11, and the global environmental crisis, and shows how the solutions to these two problems are linked. |
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The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth by Tim F. Flannery (Adult NF#363.738 FLA)
A history of climate change, how it will unfold over the next century, and what can be done to prevent a cataclysmic future includes specific suggestions for both lawmakers and individuals.
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Wild Iris by Louise Gluck (Adult NF#811.54 GLU)
Poems examine the relationship between humans and nature and consider mortality, consciousness, identity, and love.
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Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy by Jay Inslee & Bracken Hendricks (Adult NF# 333.7 INS)
Inslee, a US Congressional Representative and advocate for renewable energy, and Hendricks, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and director of the Apollo Alliance, make the case for renewable energy and renewable energy policy.
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The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems by Van Jones; with Ariane Conrad (Adult NF#363.7 JON)
Presents a plan for alleviating environmental degradation and boosting the economy by moving away from the use of fossil fuels and toward a path of invention and investment intended to provide cheap, clean energy and generate new jobs. |
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
(Adult NF#641.0973 KIN)
Follows the author's family's efforts to live on locally- and home-grown foods, an endeavor through which they learned lighthearted truths about food production and the connection between health and diet.
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The Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic and Survival in Gloucester, America's Oldest Fishing Port and Most Original Town by Mark Kurlansky
(Adult NF#
639.2 KUR)
A colorful story of a way of life that for hundreds of years has defined much of America's coastlines but is slowly disappearing.
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Ways We Make Things by William McDonough & Michael Braungart (Adult NF#745.2 MCD)
Challenges the concept that industry must inevitably damage the natural environment as it argues that products should be designed so that after their useful life they provide nourishment for something else--as biological nutrients that safely reenter the environment or as technical nutrients that circulate within closed-loop industrial circles.
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American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau Edited by Bill McKibben; Forward by Al Gore (Adult NF#306.3 AME)
A provocative anthology of top-selected American environmental writings from the past two centuries considers their influence on the ways in which people view the natural world. |
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New and Selected Poems by Mary Oliver
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811.54 OLI)
A collection of poems covering such topics as nature, writing, and art. |
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Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
(Adult NF#394.1 POL)
Pollan follows each of the food chains--industrial food, organic or alternative food, and food we forage ourselves--from the source to the final meal, always emphasizing our co evolutionary relationship with the handful of plant and animal species we depend on. The surprising answers Pollan offers have profound political, economic, psychological, and even moral implications for all of us.
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Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston
(Adult NF#585 PRE)
Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the tallest organisms the world has ever sustained--the coast redwood trees. 96% of the ancient redwood forests have been logged, but the fragments that remain are among the great wonders of nature. Until recently, the canopy at the tops of these majestic trees was undiscovered. Writer Preston unfolds the story of the daring botanists and amateur naturalists that found a lost world above California, dangerous, hauntingly beautiful, and unexplored. |
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Coyote: Seeking the Hunter in Our Midst by Catherine Reid
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599.77 REID)
Traces the ever-increasing presence of the coyote in suburbs east of the Mississippi, describing the characteristics and behavior of this highly adaptable, intelligent predator and the differences between it and its western cousin.
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Silence of the Songbirds: How We Are Losing the World's Songbirds and What We Can Do to Save Them by Bridget Stutchbury
(Adult NF#598.8 STU)
Links the disappearance of migratory songbirds to the environmental problems that threaten them and examines the long-term repercussions of the loss of songbird species and what can be done to preserve the birds and the ecosystem.
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Water Witches by Chris
Bohjalian (Adult FIC#
BOHJALIAN)
As Vermont faces its worst drought in memory, a cynical lawyer representing a ski resort that wants to draw water from a local river is challenged by a female shaman who can find water beneath the earth. |
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State of Fear by Michael Crichton (Adult FIC# CRICHTON)
An eco-thriller takes readers to such far-flung locales as Paris, Iceland, Antarctica, and the Solomon Islands. |
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Looking for Peyton Place by Barbara Delinsky (Adult FIC# DELINSKY)
The death of her mother brings writer Annie Barnes back to the New Hampshire mill town of her youth to investigate the pollution caused by the local paper mill, a contamination that may have been the cause of her mother's fatal illness. |
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (Adult FIC# DILLARD)
Collection of essays on the natural world during a year spent in the Blue Ridge Mountains reflects the author's interactions with her wilderness surroundings.
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Nature Girl by Carl Hiaasen (Adult FIC# HIAASEN)
Honey Santana, the bipolar, self-proclaimed "queen of lost causes," has plans to give Boyd Shreave and his mistress a lesson in civility, unaware that she is being followed by her obsessed ex-employer and her one-time drug runner ex-husband.
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All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki (Adult FIC# OZEKI)
Returning home to the Idaho potato farm she fled twenty-five years earlier, Yumi struggles with her father's terminal illness, her mother's Alzheimer's, her former best friend, and a former lover who once offended the town.
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Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson (Adult FIC# ROBINSON)
In the first installment of a trilogy of eco-thrillers set in Washington, D.C., environmental aide Charlie Quibler is frustrated in his attempts to prove to a distracted government that global warming has reached cataclysmic levels, a situation that is complicated when a promising technology is exploited for private interests.
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Sweetwater by Roxanna Robinson (Adult FIC# ROBINSON)
Remarrying several years after the death of her first husband, Isabel Green finds her new marriage a difficult one, and she struggles to make it succeed while coping with her growing commitment to her job as an environmental advocate.
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