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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.

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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.

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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. ;)

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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

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

By Ben Goldfarb

$24.95

ISBN: 9781603587396

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

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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.

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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

The Brilliant Deep: Rebuilding the World's Coral Reefs: The Story of Ken Nedimyer and the Coral Restoration Foundation (Hardcover)

By Kate Messner, Matthew Forsythe (Illustrator)

$17.99

ISBN: 9781452133508

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Published: Chronicle Books - May 8th, 2018

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This is a fantastic nonfiction picture book about one of the champions of coral reef restoration. Beautiful illustrations and an inspiring true-life story.

Rebecca

Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore (Hardcover)

By Elizabeth Rush

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ISBN: 9781571313676

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Published: Milkweed Editions - June 12th, 2018

 

Never mind what you’ve heard about the coming effects of climate change.  As Elizabeth Rush disturbingly documents, we are already seeing widespread effects of sea level rise. With great empathy and a lyrical voice she closely examines the response of various American coastal communities to the dramatic changes they struggle to face.

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Juniper: The Happiest Fox (Hardcover)

By Jessika Coker

$16.95

ISBN: 9781452167602

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Published: Chronicle Books - March 27th, 2018

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After you spend the 20 minutes it will take you to read this charming and heart-warming story, you won’t be able to resist spending hours at Juniper’s website watching adorably cute videos and learning about foxes (and why you would never want one as a pet). An added bonus of your purchase is that proceeds will help fund an animal sanctuary the author hopes to develop.

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