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Animals

Habitat, by Case Q. Kerns

September 2, 2025September 2, 2025 by JoeAnn Hart

Black Lawrence Press, August 2025 In Habitat, a delectably creepy novel-in-stories, set slightly in the future, Case Q. Kerns imagines how late-stage capitalism plays itself out in the worst possible …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animals, Anthropocene, Black Lawrence Press, Book Reviews, Ecology, Fiction, Pets, Short Stories

Book Review Flashback: How Animals Grieve by Barbara J. King

August 28, 2025 by John Yunker

It’s hard to believe that it’s been nearly 12 years since I reviewed How Animals Grieve by Barbara King. It’s a powerful book and I still recommend it today. Animals …

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Categories Animal behavior, Animal Rights, Animals, Flashback

New and forthcoming environmental books (May 2025)

May 6, 2025 by John Yunker

Imagine a lion who decides one day that he will no longer survive off eating animals. This is the premise of Erasmus Joseph Lion by Marvin Rollick, one of a …

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Categories Anthropocene, Birds, Conservation, Gardening, New & Forthcoming Books, Organic Farming, Veganism, What we're reading

Book Review: My Dog Always Eats First by Leslie Irvine

April 29, 2025April 29, 2025 by Midge Raymond

Even before beginning the research for her book My Dog Always Eats First: Homeless People & Their Animals, Leslie Irvine had been thinking about what it means for a human to …

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Categories Animals, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Pets

Book Review: The Universe in Verse

March 20, 2025March 20, 2025 by JoeAnn Hart

The Universe in Verse: 15 Portals to Wonder Through Science and Poetry By Maria Popova Illustrations by Ofra Amit Storey Publishing, 2024 If books are medicine, The Universe in Verse …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animals, Art, Birds, Book Reviews, Earth Architecture, Ecology, Gardening, Hachette Book Group, Insects, Nonfiction, Oceans, Plants, Poetry, Trees

Book Review: The Wild Horse Effect by Chad Hanson

March 10, 2025 by Midge Raymond

Chad Hanson’s gorgeous book The Wild Horse Effect: Awe, Well-Being, and the Transformative Power of Nature combines beautiful imagery of the West and wild horses with reflections on mindfulness, nature, …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animals, Art, Book Reviews, Chronicle Books, Conservation, Nonfiction, Sustainability

Book Review: Pony Confidential by Christina Lynch

February 24, 2025 by Midge Raymond

Christina Lynch’s Pony Confidential is a light, highly readable mystery co-narrated by murder suspect Penny and her childhood pet, Pony, who comes to her rescue despite his lingering resentment that Penny sold …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animals, Berkley, Book Reviews, Fiction, Penguin Random House, Pets

Animals in World History: The long-overlooked protagonists of our planet

January 26, 2025 by John Yunker

If history is written by the victors, then this book is a much-needed step forward in our awareness and understanding of the non-human animals who have suffered at the hands …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Conservation, History, Nonfiction, Pets, Routledge, What we're reading, Zoos

Book Review: The Inhuman Empire: Wildlife, Colonialism, Culture

November 25, 2024 by John Yunker

When the British colonized India throughout the 18th century they imported their narrative about the relationships between human and non-human animals. A narrative of violence and cruelty, in which wild …

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Categories Animal Rights, Birds, Book Reviews, Conservation, History, Hunting, Nonfiction, Routledge, Sustainability, Topics, What we're reading

New and forthcoming environmental books (October 2024)

October 18, 2024 by John Yunker

As we enter fall we (in the Northern Hemisphere) can be grateful for reasons to stay inside — and read. Which leads me to this list of new(ish) and upcoming …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Book Reviews, Children's Books, Climate Change, Conservation, Fiction, New & Forthcoming Books, Nonfiction

North Woods, a novel by Daniel Mason

September 16, 2024August 9, 2024 by JoeAnn Hart

Random House, 2023 “Shivers of lust passed through his elytra as he found her scent grow stronger,” and there we are, in the head of an Elm Bark beetle, one …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Fiction, History, Insects, Plants, Random House, Trees
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