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JoeAnn Hart

JoeAnn Hart writes about the pervasive and widespread effects of the climate crisis on the natural world and the human psyche. Her most recent book, Arroyo Circle, a story of reclamation in a time of loss, was released by Green Writers Press in 2024. Her other books include the prize-winning environmental and animal fiction collection Highwire Act & Other Tales of Survival, the crime memoir Stamford ’76: A True Story of Murder, Corruption, Race, and Feminism in the 1970s, as well as Float, a dark comedy about plastics in the ocean published by Ashland Creek Press, and Addled, a social satire. She is a regular reviewer of climate and animal fiction at EcoLit Books.

Fuzz, When Nature Breaks the Law

November 13, 2022 by JoeAnn Hart

By Mary Roach W. W. Norton & Co, 2021 Review by JoeAnn Hart “Like a deer in the headlights,” we say about someone who freezes in the face of impending …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Birds, Book Reviews, Conservation, Nonfiction, Trees, W. W. Norton & Company, Wolves

DEFENSIBLE SPACES, stories by Alison Turner

October 7, 2022October 5, 2022 by JoeAnn Hart

DEFENSIBLE SPACES, stories by Alison Turner Torrey House Press February 2023 Fire! It’s everywhere in Alison Turner’s tightly knit collection of stories, from fireworks to a flaming ham, “a pink …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Ecology, Fiction, History, Trees

Life Between the Tides, by Adam Nicolson

February 11, 2022February 11, 2022 by JoeAnn Hart

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, February 2022 (Published in the UK as The Sea is Not Made of Water) Life Between the Tides is my kind of book. British author, Adam …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, History, Insects, Nonfiction, Oceans, Plants, Pollution, Sustainability

One Long River of Song

December 31, 2021December 31, 2021 by JoeAnn Hart

Notes on Wonder By Brian Doyle Little, Brown and Co, 2019 During that small window of time this year when it seemed safe enough to travel abroad, this book was …

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Categories Birds, Book Reviews, Ecology, Nonfiction, PNW, What we're reading

Nature’s Best Hope

June 4, 2025December 9, 2021 by JoeAnn Hart

A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard By Douglas W. Tallamy Timber Press, 2019 As a gardener and garden writer, I thought I knew all about native …

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Categories Book Reviews, Nonfiction

Beyond The Human Realm

August 11, 2021 by JoeAnn Hart

Beyond the Human Realm, A Novel by Gene Helfman (Luminare Press, July, 2021 Review by JoeAnn Hart             It’s not an easy feat to write in an animal POV without …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, Fiction, Oceans, Pets, Sustainability

Orcapedia, A guide to the victims of the International Orca Slave Trade

April 1, 2021 by JoeAnn Hart

By Captain Paul Watson & Tiffany Humphrey GroundSwell Books, 2020 Reviewed by JoeAnn Hart             This book should be handed out at every visitor center in Florida, because Orcapedia, A …

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Categories Book Reviews, Nonfiction

Book Review: Dark Side of the Ocean

October 14, 2020August 17, 2020 by JoeAnn Hart

If you are one of those for whom solid scientific information is a balm for environmental anxiety, Dark Side of the Ocean is the book for you. Albert Bates, the author …

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Categories Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Nonfiction, Oceans, Pollution

OINK

October 4, 2019 by JoeAnn Hart

OINK Book Review by JoeAnn Hart Exisle Publishing, November 2019 By Renée Hollis There is a saying in the book reviewer world, that if you review a book with a …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Pets

Allowed to Grow Old, Portraits of Elderly Animals From Farm Sanctuaries

August 21, 2019 by JoeAnn Hart

By Isa Leshko Foreword by Sy Montgomery Essays by Gene Baur and Anne Wilkes Tucker University of Chicago Press, 2019 First, a disclaimer. While I wouldn’t call it a sanctuary, …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Conservation, Essays, Nonfiction, Veganism

Book Review: Kinship Of Clover

November 21, 2017 by JoeAnn Hart

Kinship Of Clover, a novel by Ellen Meeropol Red Hen Press, 2017 Ellen Meeropol’s third novel, Kinship of Clover, spreads out over generations and from multiple points of views, with …

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