“[A] compelling indictment of one of the country’s biggest, most powerful, and most antiquated industries . . . well-written, timely, and powerful.” — New York Times “Big Coal should be read by anybody who owns a microwave, or an iPod, or a table lamp, which is to say everyone.” — Elizabeth Kolbert, author of [...]
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Wild Decembers by Edna O'Brien
• A National Bestseller & a Book Sense ’76 Title “A page-turning narrative . . . as wildly beautiful and windswept as the country of her fiction.” —Elle “O’Brien is a storyteller, an Irish storyteller, one of an ancient tradition of storytellers, people who tell the truth.” —Thomas Cahill, Los Angeles Times Book Review [...]
Wild Life by Molly Gloss
“Extraordinary . . . a majestic evocation of the Pacific Northwest, in which elements of feminism, tall tales, the nature of the creative process, and the bottomless magic of the American wilderness are expertly woven into one exquisite artifact, a glowing gift to the reader.” — Carolyn See Questions for Discussion We hope the [...]
The Jump-Off Creek by Molly Gloss
Downloadable Guide for Group Discussion and Classroom use “A rare treat to find characters we can care about this much.” —Philadelphia Inquirer This universally acclaimed novel trumpeted the arrival of a uniquely original voice in American fiction. The Jump-Off Creek unfurls a full-length portrait, with landscape, of an unforgettable pioneer woman who confronts and [...]
Extreme Scientists by Donna M. Jackson
Scientists in the Field . . . to the extreme! Extreme Scientists Exploring Nature’s Mysteries from Perilous Places By Donna M. Jackson When Paul Flaherty goes to work, he climbs into a four-engine WP-3D Orion turboprop plane and heads directly into the eye of a hurricane. Miles below, Hazel Barton’s job in microbiology takes her [...]
Groopman, Jerome — The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2008
THE BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE AND NATURE WRITING 2008 Jerome Groopman, M.D., Editor Tim Folger, Series Editor Since 2000, The Best American Science and Nature Writing has brought readers the very finest of the past year’s scientific writing, with sources ranging from Scientific American and Popular Science to National Geographic and The Atlantic. In his introduction, [...]
