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Midge Raymond

Midge Raymond is a co-founder of Ashland Creek Press. She is the author of the novels Floreana and My Last Continent, the award-winning short story collection Forgetting English, and, with John Yunker, the suspense novel Devils Island.

Book Review: We Love You, Charlie Freeman by Kaitlyn Greenidge

August 25, 2021 by Midge Raymond

Kaitlyn Greenidge’s stunning and unique novel, We Love You, Charlie Freeman, begins as the story of a family that moves into the The Toneybee Institute for Ape Research to teach …

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Categories Algonquin Books, Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Fiction

Interview with author Charlotte McConaghy

December 30, 2024August 3, 2021 by Midge Raymond

Charlotte McConaghy, an Australian writer living in Sydney, is the author of Migrations and Once There Were Wolves. Here, she chats with EcoLit Books about her new novel about the …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Conservation, For Writers, Q&A, Rewilding, Wolves

Book Review: Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy

August 3, 2021 by Midge Raymond

Charlotte McConaghy’s Once There Were Wolves shares much in common with her previous novel, Migrations — the journey of a troubled young woman hoping to save the animals she loves, …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Conservation, Endangered Species, Fiction, Wolves

Book Review: IN THE COMPANY OF MEN

May 5, 2021 by Midge Raymond

Véronique Tadjo’s slender, haunting novel In the Company of Men offers myriad points of view—human and nonhuman—in its story of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa in 2014. Published in …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Ecology, Fiction, Trees

Book Review: The Shark Club

April 9, 2021 by Midge Raymond

Ann Kidd Taylor’s novel, The Shark Club, is not only a delightful read as we head into spring and summer “beach reading” time, but it is a much-needed antidote to Peter …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, Fiction, Penguin Books

Book Review: Irreplaceable by Julian Hoffman

March 29, 2021 by Midge Raymond

In Irreplaceable: The Fight to Save Our Wild Places, Julian Hoffman shows us endangered habitats and the creatures who inhabit them—as well as the humans who are fighting to save …

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Categories Anthropocene, Birds, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Endangered Species, Essays, History, Nonfiction, Oceans, Plants, Sustainability, Trees, University of Georgia Press

Book Review: MIGRATIONS by Charlotte McConaghy

September 16, 2024January 11, 2021 by Midge Raymond

Migrations is a stunningly beautiful novel about a woman who has always been running—from her childhood, her mistakes, her memories—and this time, she’s traveling from Greenland to Antarctica, following the …

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Categories Anthropocene, Birds, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Eco-mystery, Endangered Species, Fiction, Oceans

Book Review: The VegNews Guide to Being a Fabulous Vegan

January 1, 2021 by Midge Raymond

There’s nothing like a new year to inspire lifestyle changes, and there is no better time than now to pick up The VegNews Guide to Being a Fabulous Vegan by Jasmin Singer …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Education, Hachette Book Group, Nonfiction, Sustainability, Veganism

Book Review: The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals by Becky Mandelbaum

October 14, 2020September 29, 2020 by Midge Raymond

While the title of Becky Mandelbaum’s The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals may indicate this is a novel about animals, it is very much more a human novel. Set primarily …

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Categories Book Reviews, Fiction, Simon & Schuster

Book Review: Phoenix Zones by Hope Ferdowsian

June 30, 2020 by Midge Raymond

Phoenix Zones: Where Strength Is Born and Resilience Lives by Hope Ferdowsian, MD, is among the many compassionate, powerful, inspiring books the world needs now. This slender book about trauma …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Education, History, Nonfiction, University of Chicago Press, Veganism, Wolves

Book review: PROTEST KITCHEN by Carol J. Adams and Virginia Messina

May 27, 2020 by Midge Raymond

Carol J. Adams, best known for her groundbreaking book The Sexual Politics of Meat, has teamed up with dietician Virginia Messina to create Protest Kitchen: Fight Injustice, Save the Planet, …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Education, Nonfiction, Veganism
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