Category: Book Review

The best climate fiction books

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Ben Fox over at Shepherd.com (a great place to discover your next read) asked me what my favorite climate fiction books were. It was tough to whittle them down to […]

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Book Review: Dark Side of the Ocean

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Book Review: Dark Side of the Ocean

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Stamford ’76, Hippocampus Review

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Review: Stamford ’76 by JoeAnn Hart  

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Oink, A Review

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OINK Exisle Publishing, November 2019 By Renée Hollis     There is a saying in the book reviewer world, that if you review a book with a pig on the […]

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Allowed to Grow Old

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  Allowed to Grow Old Portraits of Elderly Animals From Farm Sanctuaries  By Isa Leshko Foreword by Sy Montgomery Essays by Gene Baur and Anne Wilkes Tucker University of Chicago […]

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The Narrow Edge

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  The Narrow Edge By Deborah Cramer Yale University Press, 2015.  The “narrow edge” in the title of this engaging book by Deborah Cramer evokes the image of comedian Harold […]

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Zoologies

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Zoologies, On Animals and the Human Spirit (Milkweed Editions)By Alison Hawthorne DemingEvery day, as I walk from house to barn, or go up the driveway to get the mail, I […]

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The Best American Science and Nature Writing, 2014

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Once a year, courtesy of Houghton Mifflin, we get to be wowed, disgusted, depressed, amazed, revolted, terrified, and sometimes even amused with the publication of The Best American Science and Nature […]

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Trash Animals

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How we live with nature’s filthy, feral, invasive, and unwanted species Kelsi Nagy and Phillip David Johnson II, editors University of Minnesota Press, 2013 In this collected cross-section of stories […]

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Home Ground, A Guide to the American Landscape

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Edited by Barry Lopez and Debra Gwartney (Trinity University Press, field edition 2013)   “What draws our attention?” Barry Lopez asks in his introduction of Home Ground, a surprisingly entertaining guide […]

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