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Directly links the lack of nature in the lives of today's children to some disturbing childhood trends, such as rises in obesity, Attention Deficit Disorder, and depression, arguing that children's obsession with the latest technology have led them to underappreciate nature.
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"In an era of cell phone addiction and ever-expanding cities, many of us fear we've lost our connection to nature--but Peter Wohlleben is convinced that age-old ties linking humans to the forest remain alive and intact. Whether we observe it or not, our blood pressure stabilizes near trees, the color green calms us, and the forest sharpens our senses. Drawing on new scientific discoveries, The Heartbeat of Trees reveals the profound interactions humans...
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A riveting financial thriller about temptation, choices, and the ruthless pursuit of profit and power in the City of London and the oil and gas fields of America.
In 2014, environmentalists want to ban fracking, which has powered America to become the top oil producer in the world. Saudi Arabia is worried that too much supply will depress oil prices. One man has a plan that will make him billions.
Into this world, twenty-four-year-old Sebastian...
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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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Everyone in Timber Falls knows that his family is trash, and sometimes Harry White thinks he'll always be trash. But he can't help getting angry. After all, what had he and his sister, Helen, ever done to anybody? When he discovers the local carpet factory is polluting the river, he comes up with a bold expos├® that, if he is successful, will make people sit up and show him respect. He wants to do it alone even though he knows he's asking for trouble....
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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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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.
9) 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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
14) 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,...
15) 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...
16) 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...
17) Desert Baths
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IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Watch the vulture bask in the morning sun, the
roadrunner kicks up a cloud of dust, the javelina
wallow, and the bobcat give her cub a licking with a
rough tongue in Desert Baths. As the sun and moon
travel across the sky, learn how twelve different desert
animals face the difficulties of staying clean in a dry
and parched land. Explore the desert habitat through
its animals and their habits of hygiene. Told in lyrical
prose, this story is a celebration...
18) The Elementals
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Morgan Llywelyn, internationally acclaimed author of 1916 and Lion of Ireland, returns with a powerful fantasy saga that sweeps from the dawn of history to our own near future. It is the story of Earth and her elements, and of the men and women whose fate lies in her hands. . . .
Water. The ice caps melt, the seas rise, and Kesair, a woman of Atlantis, leads a handful of survivors on a desperate search for land – and a new beginning.
Fire. All...
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The Rooftop Garden is a novel about Nabila, a researcher who studies seaweed in warming oceans, and her childhood friend Matthew. Now both in their twenties, Matthew has disappeared from his Toronto home, and Nabila travels to Berlin to find him and try to bring him back.
The story is interspersed with scenes from their childhood, when Nabila, obsessed with how the climate crisis will cause oceans to rise, created an elaborate imaginary world where...
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The Happy Tree is a mischievous, lovable little creature who is an outcast from his forest home because he accidentally started a fire with a "magic glass on a stick" (magnifying glass). In the process of trying to save the youngest Joy Baby, Angie, the Happy Tree uses the leaves on his top knot to smother the fire. But something terrible happens! His leaves change from green to purple! When this happens, he becomes a social outcast with the tree...
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