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Award—winning novelist William Deverell is back with a new Arthur Beauchamp legal thriller.
Lawyer Arthur Beauchamp is facing the most explosive trial of his career: the defence of seven boisterous environmentalists accused of sabotaging an Ontario plant that pumps out a pesticide that has led to the mass death of honeybees. The story zigzags between Toronto, where the trial takes place, and Arthur's West Coast island home, where he finds himself...
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For readers of John Grisham and William Deverell comes a political thriller ripped from today's headlines. Lawyer and environmental activist David R. Boyd writes a riveting thriller about the psychological toll of a humanitarian crisis. Filled with tension and courtroom drama, Thirst for Justice will have you questioning what you believe about right versus wrong.
Michael MacDougall is a talented trauma surgeon whose life in Seattle is slowly unraveling....
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The Hungry Tide is a very contemporary story of adventure and unlikely love, identity, and history, set in one of the most fascinating regions on the earth. Off the easternmost coast of India, in the Bay of Bengal, lies the immense labyrinth of tiny islands known as the Sundarbans. For settlers here, life is extremely precarious. Attacks by deadly tigers are common. Unrest and eviction are constant threats. Without warning, at any time, tidal floods...
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How can modest living, art and respect for nature address global threats like habitat loss and climate change?
In the last woodland on the city fringe, Ellin is dying. She remembers the Red, when trees stretched across the land - a time before the wildfire, before the Blue and its uncertain inheritance. Ellin weaves these reflections into a letter for her newborn daughter. Could she be the one to lead a transformation?
Red Reflection is a contemporary...
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Are you an aspiring gardener seeking to unlock the secrets of cultivating superior plants? Or perhaps you're a seasoned horticulturist aiming to push the boundaries of agricultural innovation? Look no further than "Plant Breeding Guide: Cultivate a Green Revolution," the ultimate resource to transform your plant cultivation skills and revolutionize your harvest.In this comprehensive and accessible guide, botany enthusiasts of all levels will embark...
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There once was a city by the sea, where the streets hummed with power, yet no one was free...
Told through an ensemble of interconnected perspectives, Tyler Heggans' When Our Haven Burned blends poetry, sign language, folklore, and science to bring readers along an unforgettable journey of passion, loyalty, and humanity.
From the top of his gold encrusted tower, Aldrix Sterling looks down upon a city lit by his power but darkened by his greed. Amidst...
7) Quest
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YOU CAN'T SAVE ANYTHING UNTIL YOU SAVE YOURSELF.Allan Quinn Fitzpatrick is no hero. A failed writer and middle-aged bachelor, he can't seem to find love or happiness. When he encounters a fantastical creature in New York City's Central Park, he's convinced he's lost his mind. But when he loses his job and finds a mysterious one-way ticket to Ireland he grudgingly embarks on an extraordinary adventure-one that leads him deep into the unseen, mystical...
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In a world where silence reigns, "what if nature finally speaks?"What if Nature Speaks is more than just a story it's a call to listen, to understand, and to reconnect with the world around us. As humans continue to drift further from nature, this novel serves as a powerful reminder of the delicate balance we've taken for granted. Through the voices of rivers, trees, and mountains, the narrative challenges us to consider the consequences of our actions...
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The life of a female black-throated blue warbler over the course of a single breeding season, from migration to migration. An exploration of the natural environment and a celebration of the tenacity of life. An exploration of where the natural sciences meet the natural world and the impact we have on the places we work to protect.
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Clinton, founder and head of a firm of international engineers, arrives in India to build a dam, bringing with him his young wife,
Helen, and a strong team of aides and skilled men. They are, faced with a formidable challenge, which involves working in daunting mountain and jungle terrain, within a time schedule dictated by the extreme tropical weather. Setbacks occur which bring into focus fundamental differences in the attitudes to life and death...
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Ten-year-old Sandy's childhood ends when his mother sells him to a farmer who half-starves and beats him. So he runs away for good, away from the farm and from home.Alone on the road, penniless, Sandy is lucky to find friends: Spot and Patch, two drover's dogs, who are making their way home all by themselves.With no idea where they are going, Sandy joins them, following them across Scotland, through a wild landscape of loch and mountain, to the Hebridean...
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A tribal old man, after the demise of his beloved wife considered an age old giant mango tree as his lone friend in the world. Most of the local labourers declined to cut off the tree as asked for by the new owner of the land on which the tree stood as the tree was considered divine but local people. Unfortunately, to get a job for his unemployed son on whose income his family depended, he had to fell this vast tree. The story describes the pain and...
13) Natures Glory
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Poems and Flash Fiction about Nature in whatever shape she takes either in scenery or the animal world.
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Book for all ages, 13 to 21+, because we all need to know! Civilized animal friends, at Rodney, the rock n' roll Rabbit's party, play: "Way Out Yonder", from Perky the powerful partying Panther's bag of games. Win, making smart choices to stop environmental disasters from affecting OUR Planet... They stop fictional play, to face; protect real-life happenings; including culprits' (such as Republicans &; their polluting allies) denying Global Warming...
15) Aguas robadas
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El histórico saqueo del agua de dos ríos interprovinciales devastó los suelos y toda la biodiversidad del oeste de la provincia de La Pampa. Pese a viejos reclamos, en la práctica estos continúan sin solución. En medio de la destrucción ambiental causada, surge Manuel, un joven agrónomo con un empeño ferviente por la ecología. Decidido a cambiar el destino de la región, Manuel se embarca en la audaz empresa de construir una granja ecológica...
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Anna Bolavá entführt die Leser*innen ihres Romandebüts „In die Dunkelheit" in eine südböhmische Kleinstadt mitten in der Natur, in der es unter der Oberfläche des Alltags unheilvoll brodelt. Es ist Sommer, warm und alles wächst und gedeiht: Linden, Ringelblumen, Königskerzen. Inmitten der Natur und Pflanzen ist Anna zu Hause und in ihrem Element. Denn ihre große Passion gilt den Heilkräutern, deren Sammeln, Trocknen und Verarbeiten fast...
17) Luz at Midnight
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Winner of the 2021 Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction by the Texas Institute of Letters
Deeply embedded in the landscapes of South Texas, Luz at Midnight tells the story of an ill-timed love that unfolds in the time of climate change. Booksmart but naïve, Citlali Sanchez-O'Connor has just been hired to organize a San Antonio campaign against "gleaning," a controversial new mining practice that promises a rapid transition away...
18) News of the Air
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Allie Krane is heavily pregnant when she and her husband flee urban life after a rash of eco-terrorism breaks out in their city. They reinvent themselves as the proprietors of a northwoods fishing resort, where they live in relative peace for nearly two decades. That is, until two strange children arrive by canoe. Like the small ecological disasters lapping yearly at their shore, have the problems of the modern world finally found Allie, her husband,...
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It's Fall now and the Cayuga Island Kids are busy with homework, projects, and after school activities. But there's still plenty of time for mystery and adventure! In the third book in the Cayuga Island Kids chapter book series, Julian is exploring food science as he experiments with recipes on his quest for the perfect chocolate chip cookie. Being a cookie sampler takes Mac's mind off his troubles with fractions. Yoko is practicing gestures and facial...
20) Lark Ascending
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A riveting story of survival and hope, set in the not-too-distant future, about a young man forced to flee the United States and seek refuge across the Atlantic.
As fires devastate most of the United States, Lark and his family secure a place on a refugee boat headed to Ireland, the last country not yet overrun by extremists and rumored to be accepting American refugees. But Lark is the only one to survive the trip, and once ashore, he doesn't find...
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