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Virga & Bone: Essays from Dry Places (Paperback)

By Craig Childs

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ISBN: 9781948814188

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Published: Torrey House Press - October 1st, 2019

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Few books capture the spirit of the desert southwest--my homeland!--quite like this collection of essays from Craig Childs. His prose finds both the stillness & the shimmer of heat rising over stone. If you're cold, restless, or longing for summer days under the sun & stars, pick this one up. It'll stick in your soul long after you read it, like the red dust of the canyonlands.

Kate

Salt on Your Tongue: Women and the Sea (Hardcover)

By Charlotte Runcie

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ISBN: 9781786891198

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Published: Canongate Books - March 5th, 2019

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Charlotte Runcie’s SALT ON YOUR TONGUE is an artfully woven tapestry of history, mythology, personal essay, and reflection that dives into the historical and literary ties between women and the sea. The book is framed by Runcie’s pregnancy with her first child and her own obsession with the ocean. As her child grows, Runcie visits the weathered seascapes and portside ruins of Scotland, while revisiting the importance of sirens, and fishwives, ancient saints, and seabirds. This book is a calm in the storm of womanhood, a peaceful place to contemplate all that that means. 

Meaghan

In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond: In Search of the Sasquatch (Hardcover)

By John Zada

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ISBN: 9780802129352

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Published: Atlantic Monthly Press - July 2nd, 2019

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Part travel narrative, part nature writing, part good old-fashioned unexplained mystery, as a Sasquatch skeptic goes into the woods with an open mind.

Sarah

Horizon (Hardcover)

By Barry Lopez

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ISBN: 9780394585826

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Published: Knopf - March 19th, 2019

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This book is not for everyone though it is my kind of Summer reading. Its length and rich prose requires close and patient attention. In a sense it’s a summation of Lopez’s lifetime of travels to the distant corners of our planet documenting the interactions of myriad human cultures and the natural world. Terry Tempest Williams recently called it “a masterpiece”. Indeed.

Dale

The Farmer's Son: Calving Season on a Family Farm (Hardcover)

By John Connell

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ISBN: 9781328577993

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Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - May 7th, 2019

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The Farmer’s Son is an unflinching yet tender memoir about small livestock farming way of life in rural Ireland that almost disappeared if not in Ireland than certainly in our own country. While there’s nothing romantic about such a hardscrabble life Connell’s account of his careful and humane husbandry is profoundly moving.

Dale

Seasons: Desert Sketches (Paperback)

By Ellen Meloy, Annie Proulx (Foreword by)

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ISBN: 9781948814010

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Published: Torrey House Press - April 16th, 2019

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Short, sweet, and bitingly funny, this collection--originally recorded as audio essays for NPR--will have you raring get outside and enjoy the spring weather! This is some of the best work I've read about the red rock deserts of Utah (my home country!), besieged by oil & mineral leases and left with diminished protections under the current Department of Interior. It might inspire a trip to Bears Ears or Canyonlands as well. ;)

Kate

Unnatural Selection (Hardcover)

By Katrina Van Grouw

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ISBN: 9780691157061

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Published: Princeton University Press - July 31st, 2018

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This book is mesmerizing. Unnatural Selection is about the ways humans have affected evolution in bizarrely short periods of time through selective breeding. Beautifully illustrated and fascinating in content, you won't be able to look away.

Matthew

How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals (Hardcover)

By Sy Montgomery, Rebecca Green (Illustrator)

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ISBN: 9780544938328

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Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - September 25th, 2018

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Sy Montgomery, in her utterly charming new memoir, attempts to answer the question “What have animals taught me about life”. Her life’s work and passion has brought her into contact with creatures as varied as tarantulas and hyenas, emus and octopus, each in their own way a marvel and each with something to teach about how to make one’s way in this wondrous world

Dale

Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter (Hardcover)

By Ben Goldfarb

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ISBN: 9781603587396

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Published: Chelsea Green Publishing Company - July 5th, 2018

 

The near eradication of the beaver in Europe and North America has had profound implications for the environment that are finally being recognized. Goldfarb reports on the alliance of scientists, environmentalists, ranchers, and concerned citizens organizing to restoring beaver populations in an effort to solve a host of environmental problems their absence exasperated. Read this book and you will look at our contemporary landscapes in an entirely new way and you may become a Beaver Believer too.

Dale

Seaweed Chronicles: A World at the Water’s Edge (Hardcover)

By Susan Hand Shetterly

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ISBN: 9781616205744

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Published: Algonquin Books - August 7th, 2018

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Don't be fooled - this book is about seaweed but it's really about the whole Gulf of Maine ecosystem - the plants and animals that make it up and the people and corporations who farm, protect, fish, conserve and love this extraordinary and increasingly threatened habitat. And a special bonus - the author will be speaking at PSB on October 9.

 

David