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Book Reviews

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

Picture Book Review: A Garden to Save the Birds by Wendy McClure; illustrated by Beatriz Mayumi

March 30, 2021 by Lillie Gardner

Beautifully illustrated, the heartwarming story of A Garden to Save the Birds begins with the “BAP!” of a bird flying into a window. Young Callum and his sister Emmy run outside to …

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Categories Birds, Book Reviews, Children's 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

When a vegetarian crashes a hunting party: The Shooting Party by Isabel Colegate

March 22, 2021March 11, 2021 by John Yunker

I’m not sure how I heard about this novel, only that I had heard that there was an animal rights element to it. Yet in the early pages I struggled …

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Categories Book Reviews, Fiction, History, Hunting

Book Review: Earth’s Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World

February 11, 2021 by Jacki Skole

The natural world is in crisis. Rising sea levels. Burning forests. Species extinction. Climate change is leaving no one and no thing unaffected. At this precarious moment, what becomes the …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Counterpoint Press, Endangered Species, Essays, Nonfiction

Book Review: Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica (translated from the Spanish by Sarah Moses)

February 10, 2021 by Lillie Gardner

In Tender is the Flesh, Agustina Bazterrica expertly crafts a horrifying reality that feels too contemporary to be the future. A virus has decimated the world’s animal population. Societies around …

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Categories Book Reviews, Fiction, Simon & Schuster, Veganism

Review: The Yield by Tara June Winch

February 2, 2021 by John Yunker

I didn’t plan to read the nonfiction book Dark Emu shortly before reading the novel The Yield by Tara June Winch. But I couldn’t think of a better pairing. While …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Fiction, Harper Perennial, History, Sustainability, What we're reading

Book Review: The Reign of Wolf 21

January 29, 2021 by Olivia Radbill
reign of wolf 21 cover

The Druid Wolf Pack of Yellowstone National Park has garnered international notoriety over the last 20 years. Established in the mid-1990s, the Druid Wolf Pack was at one point the …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Book Reviews, Greystone Books, Nonfiction, Wolves

Animal Resistance: When animals fight back and when humans listen

August 9, 2025January 18, 2021 by John Yunker
Animal Resistance

In the first chapter of Animal Resistance in the Global Capitalist Era, Sarat Colling tells the story of Emily, possibly the most famous cow to have escaped a slaughterhouse. It …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Michigan State University Press, Nonfiction, Pets, Topics, Veganism, What we're reading

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
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