I’m happy to share the latest assortment of environmental and animal books that have come our way… please check them out!
Birds Beasts and Bedlam
By Derek Gow
Author of Bringing Back the Beaver and Hunt for the Shadow Wolf, Derek shares his personal, courageous, and highly entertaining tales in Birds, Beasts and Bedlam, including how he raised a sofa-loving wild boar piglet, transported a raging bison bull across the UK, got bitten by a Scottish wildcat, and, together with Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell, restored the ancient white stork to the pioneering Knepp Estate.
After a Shetland ewe captured his heart as a boy, Derek grew up to become a farmer with a passion for ancient breeds. When he realized how many of our species were close to extinction–even on his own land–Derek tore down fences literally and metaphorically, transforming his traditional Devon farm into a 300-acre rewilding haven for beavers, water voles, lynx, wildcats, harvest mice, wild boar, and more. A project that is still ongoing today.
Tizzy and Me: Fifteen Ways to Love a Mink
By N.M.L. Hazard; Illustrations by Alice Priestly
Red Deer’s first Early Chapter Book, TIZZY AND ME: FIFTEEN WAYS TO LOVE A MINK is a funny, endearing, and page—turning story of friendship and learning how to stand up for what you believe in.
On the first snowy day of school, seven—year—old Georgia is upset to discover that her best friend Winona is wearing a coat made with real fur. What comes next is a battle to help her friend understand and Georgia – with the comforting presence of her dog, Tizzy – must find a way to make things right. As the two girls learn more about animals that live in fur farms, they realize they must stand up for them – but how can they help the minks and make a difference?
Big Lake Troubles
By Jeffrey D. Boldt
Though former judge Jason Erickson believes coal is killing the planet, he is reluctant to get involved in a case involving a massive coal shipper on Lake Superior. But his girlfriend, Grace Clarkson, represents the opponents and committing to the case means different things to each of them. Their relationship might be at stake.
Hotshot Chicago attorney Courtney Sharpe represents the coal shipping company and if she can only get former mentor and lover Earl Franks—recently out of prison—to help her, she might have a chance to win. But can she get to him before the other side does?
As this drama unfolds, alliances shift, and these respected attorneys become convinced they must engage in shady ethical practices involving small boats and large dogs to catch the coal facility in bad faith. But when someone’s life is in danger, can they still consider themselves the good guys?
A Hunger With No Name
By Lauren C. Teffeau
Thurava of Astrava is intended to become a herder, a most honored position for her dwindling community that clings to life on the banks of the Najimov, the river that’s the lifeblood of the high desert. But the Glass City on the horizon threatens the delicate balance the Astravans have managed to hold on to for centuries, polluting the air and water as the city grows bigger and bigger. The Glass City’s clockwork liaisons offer to bring the Astravans into the Glass City’s walls, but they will have to give up their ways and their precious herds to do so. Thurava must decide who she is without her animals, using the stars as her guide, putting herself on a collision course with the secrets the Glass City holds dear.
Best Climate Change Stories
Edited by Ron Sauder
Here is a mind-expanding collection of thirty-four original short stories on the human impact of climate change. We all know the science of global climate change, or at least have read about it. But how is climate change affecting the human condition as it is experienced by individuals and communities?
These stories were selected for publication in an international contest sponsored by the Book Bin, an independent bookstore in Onley, Virginia, and Secant Publishing, an independent publisher in Salisbury, Maryland. The authors represent nine countries and ten states within the U.S.
Guardians of Water
By Amy Wachspress
What happens in a future that runs out of gas?
Six diverse women friends meet for the weekend at a beach house to celebrate the year in which they all turn forty. Two weeks later, a petroleum-eating bacteria unleashed in the Gulf of Mexico to contain a spill goes rogue and devours all the raw petroleum products in the world. After the Systems Collapse, each of these women follows her own path to try to survive in a previously unimaginable altered life. From a Washington, D.C. suburb to a survivalist community in Kentucky, from Manhattan to a working class neighborhood in a town in upstate New York, from Oakland to a Native Rancheria in rural northern California, these women, their families, and their communities summon extraordinary ingenuity, resilience, and vision in the hopes of forging a viable future. A genre-bending work of speculative fiction, Guardians of Water is combination eco-fiction, humanistic sci-fi, and disaster fiction told from women’s perspectives.
John is co-author, with Midge Raymond, of the Tasmanian mystery Devils Island. He is also author of the novels The Tourist Trail and Where Oceans Hide Their Dead. Co-founder of Ashland Creek Press and editor of Writing for Animals (also now a writing program).
