New Books of Interest:
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Weather: A Novel, https://www.amazon.com/...[artid|10051.g.29954140[src|[ch|[lt|sale
From the beloved author of the nationwide best seller Dept. of Speculation—one of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year—a “darkly funny and urgent” (NPR) tour de force about a family, and a nation, in crisis.
The Resisters: A Novel, https://www.amazon.com/...[artid|10051.g.29954140[src|[ch|[lt|sale
The Resisters is palpably loving, smart, funny, and desperately unsettling. The novel should be required reading for the country both as a cautionary tale and because it is a stone-cold masterpiece. This is Gish Jen's moment. She has pitched a perfect game.
Tales of Two Planets: Stories of climate change and inequality in a divided world, https://www.amazon.com/...=[artid|10051.g.29954140[src|[ch|[lt|
Building from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together a group of our greatest writers from around the world to help us see how the environmental crisis is hitting some of the most vulnerable communities where they live.
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In the course of this work, one major theme came up repeatedly: Climate change is making already dire inequalities much worse, devastating further the already devastated.
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This is a literary all-points bulletin of fiction, essays, poems, and reportage about the most important crisis of our times.
Top 10 books about the night
From Shakespeare and Brontë to ‘nightwalking’ guides, nature writer Tiffany Francis-Baker sheds some light on her favourite books about the dark
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Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field
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Falling in love again
Depression cut the naturalist Richard Mabey off from the natural world.
He charts his slow process of recovery in "Nature Cure"
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I AM A CAT BY SOSEKI NETSUKE
I Am Cat is a Japanese satire classic that follows the adventures of a stray kitten, whose humorous observations of the people around him elucidate the human condition
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This is a great book for all ages:
"The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse" by Charlie Mackesy - who also did all the illustrations. A simple story, but with a message of accepting others who are different, learning to be a true and loving friend, and depending on each other to work together toward a common goal.
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The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World
(The Mysteries of Nature Series #1)
In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains the amazing processes of life, death, and regeneration he has observed in the woodland and the amazing scientific processes behind the wonders of which we are blissfully unaware. Much like human families, tree parents live together with their children, communicate with them, ...more
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