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Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"Clay Stevens desperately wants to reclaim his grandfather's land, using the latest techniques to bring water to the arid landscape. The last thing he needs is wild wolves on his ranch--even if they are brought there by feisty and determined conservation officer Lacey Montgomery. Lacey is convinced the ranchers and the lobos can co-exist, until Clay's nephew and his friends cause a landslide that injures some rare Mexican wolf pups and Lacey gets...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"From best-selling novelist T. C. Boyle, a satirical yet ultimately moving take on contemporary American life in the glare of climate change"--
Denied a dog, a baby, and even a faithful fiancé, Cat suddenly craves a snake: a glistening, writhing creature that can be worn like "jewelry, living jewelry" to match her black jeans. But when the budding social media star promptly loses the young "Burmie" she buys from a local pet store, she inadvertently...
43) Barn 8: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Two auditors for the U.S. egg industry go rogue and conceive a plot to steal a million chickens in the middle of the night - an entire egg farm's worth of animals. Janey and Cleveland-- a spirited former runaway and the officious head of audit-- assemble a precarious, quarrelsome team and descend on the farm on a dark spring evening. A series of catastrophes ensues."--Publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
vii, 273 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Susan B. Ellingson (SB to those who know her) publishes a struggling newspaper with the help of a retired librarian. Near the mining town of Iron, Minnesota, waters split three ways along the Laurentian Divide, carrying minerals and contaminants to Hudson's Bay, the Great Lakes, and the Gulf of Mexico. When a corporation seeks a permit to dig for copper and nickel and store potentially harmful mining waste nearby, locals divide into pro-mining and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"East-coast novelist Patrick Hamlin has come to Hollywood with simple goals in mind: overseeing the production of a film adaptation of one of his books, preventing starlet Cassidy Carter's disruptive behavior from derailing said production, and turning this last-ditch effort at career resuscitation into the sort of success that will dazzle his wife and daughter back home. But California is not as he imagined: drought, wildfire, and corporate corruption...
46) Toby alone
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
384 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Toby Lolness may be just one and a half millimeters tall, but he's the most wanted person in his world, the world of the great oak Tree. Toby's father has made a groundbreaking discovery: the Tree itself is alive, lowing with vital energy, and there may even be a world beyond it. Greedy developers itch to exploit this forbidden knowledge, risking permanent damage to their natural world. But Toby's father has refused to reveal his findings, causing...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a hurricane exposes Soleida's family's secret sculpture garden, the Cuban government arrests her artist parents, forcing her to escape alone to Central America where she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy, and together they work to protect the environment and bring attention to the imprisoned artists in Cuba.
Author
Series
Hope Jones saves the world volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 audio discs (2 hr., 32 min.) : digital, stereo ; 12 cm ; in container.
Language
English
Description
Hi, my name is Hope Jones and I'm giving up plastic to save our oceans! Giving up plastic is really hard. There's so much everywhere! In the supermarket, my classroom, our bathroom. And grown-ups don't seem to care. Luckily I have my friend Harry to help me. Together, we're going to save the world!
Author
Series
Saving H'non volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
128 pages : color illustrations ; 20 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Young conservationist Chang overcomes the odds to save and return an elephant to its natural habitat.
51) Flooded
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
"Flooded is the funny and beautifully illustrated tale of animals who live in a city that is ever so slowly flooding. The flood comes gradually at first. A business lion reads about it in the paper over his breakfast and absent-mindedly says 'hmm!', but does nothing about it. All the animals ignore the obvious and go about their busy lives, disjointed from one another and preoccupied by their own problems. Eventually, the flood water reaches a height...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Stuck at home alone under lockdown, a woman recounts her 1990s childhood in rural Yorkshire. She watches a kestrel hunting, helps a farmer with a renegade bull, and plays out with her best friend, Clare. Around her in the village her neighbours are arguing, keeping secrets, caring for one another, trying to hold down jobs. In the woods and quarry there are foxcubs fighting, plants competing for space, ageing machines, and a three-legged deer who likes...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
266 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the Booker Prize-winning The Narrow Road to the Deep North comes a wrenching novel of family, climate change, and the resilience of the human spirit-- an elegy to our disappearing world. In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna's aged mother is dying-- if her three children would just allow it. Condemned by their pity to living, subjected to increasingly desperate medical interventions, she instead turns her focus...
54) My nana's garden
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
A little girl visits her grandmother in different seasons, and together they explore the wonders of her garden. Until, one day, Nana isn't there anymore. But as winter gives way to spring, the girl learns that life goes on, and so does the memory of those we love. --
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
38 unnumbered pages : illustrations (colour) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Mellons have decided to build a new house. Masha the architect designs a home that meets all their needs and also respects the environment. It is an eco-house! From foundations to completion and from heat pump to solar panels, follow the Mellons step-by-step a they plan and build a house that is lean, clean and green!"--
56) No more plastic
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"When she sees a beached whale that has starved to death after ingesting plastic, a young girl named Isley is inspired to adopt a plastic-free lifestyle, encouraging her family to join her. When people start falling back into old habits, Isley builds a plastic sculpture of a whale that inspires lasting change."--
57) Microbat mayhem
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
100 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Eco Rangers, Ebony and Jay, are having so much fun at the local adventure park. But when they find two abandoned baby bats, they rescue them right away. Then they discover more microbats inside an old rollercoaster ride. Can the Eco Rangers save the animals in time before the ride is destroyed?"--Provided by publisher.
58) The endless song
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kindred Greyreach, at odds with a faction below the Sea, must use every power to forestall disaster, while, above, a boy named Flitch finds himself caught in a dangerous political crisis, and they must work together to save themselves, their loved ones, and the Forever Sea itself.
59) Fault lines
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
379 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In rural West Virginia, anti-fracking teen Viv discovers an ability to sense forests' energy, a power that becomes heightened the more she interacts with Dex, the new boy in town.
60) Global warning
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
266 pages : maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Five seventh-graders concerned about climate change work with a retired lawyer and an activist grandmother to build an international movement to amend the United States Constitution, protecting humanity's right to live on a planet free of pollution and warming."--Reverse title page.
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