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Book Review: Threatened by Eliot Schrefer

September 29, 2019July 31, 2014 by Mindy Mejia

Eliot Schrefer’s Threatened reads like a thematic sequel to his 2012 National Book Award finalist Endangered. Both books tell the story of a teenager who leaves human society in Africa for …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Children's Books, Endangered Species, Scholastic Press

Pity the predators. A review of Beasts by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

July 7, 2014 by John Yunker

What happens when a predator becomes prey? Today, the animals we have long viewed as predators – lions and tigers, bears and sharks – are in some cases on the verge of extinction. And, thanks to …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Oceans, Veganism

Book Review: The Awareness by Gene Stone and Jon Doyle

June 17, 2014 by Shel Graves
The Awareness

The Awareness (March 2014) is told in the shifting point of view of a wild bear, a circus elephant, a factory farmed pig and a rescued pet dog — all …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Fiction

Book Review – The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them by Wayne Pacelle

September 29, 2019June 11, 2014 by Midge Raymond

Wayne Pacelle’s The Bond is much more than its gentle title suggests. Rather than present a quaint book about the human-animal bond, Pacelle (president and CEO of the Humane Society of …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Endangered Species, Nonfiction, William Morrow

Book Review: Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver

September 29, 2019June 3, 2014 by Midge Raymond

Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior does all that a great work of eco-fiction should, addressing the issues (climate change) without sacrificing the story (a woman whose small-town world is broken wide …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Fiction, Harper Perennial

Book Review: Exodus 2022 by Kenneth G. Bennett

June 10, 2014May 27, 2014 by Shel Graves
Exodus 2022 by Kenneth G. Bennett

Exodus 2022 by Kenneth G. Bennett (author of the young adult novels, The Gaia Wars and Battle for Cascadia), succeeds nicely as an eco-lit foray into the thriller category set …

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Categories Book Reviews, Endangered Species, Fiction, Oceans

Fill ‘er up: A review of Living Oil by Stephanie LeMenager

May 6, 2014 by John Yunker

Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century by Stephanie LeMenager  is an academic book and priced accordingly. In other words, this is not the sort of book you’d find in an airport …

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Categories Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Oceans, Oil, Pollution

Book Review: The Green and the Red by Armand Chauvel

September 29, 2019April 29, 2014 by Shel Graves
The Green and the Red

The world needs more romantic comedies and more books with vegetarian protagonists and The Green and the Red (May 2014) responds delightfully. Add this to your summer reading list for …

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Categories Animal Rights, Ashland Creek Press, Book Reviews, Fiction, Veganism

Cli-fi

April 3, 2014 by John Yunker

I enjoyed this recent New York Times article on universities using fiction (or “cli-fi”) to teach climate change. I particularly enjoyed seeing our own University of Oregon represented. Go Ducks! …

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Categories Climate Change, Education, For Writers

Karen Joy Fowler wins 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award

April 2, 2014 by Midge Raymond

We are thrilled to hear the news that Karen Joy Fowler (our judge for this year’s Siskiyou Prize) is the winner of the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for her amazing novel …

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Categories Animal Rights, Fiction, For Writers, Writing Opportunities

Story Review: Fox 8 by George Saunders

September 29, 2019April 1, 2014 by Shel Graves

As children, we read short fairytales and fables in which animals joined humans on quests or spoke and explored together. As adults, we may have turned to a reading life …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Fiction, Random House
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