Fiction, Nature & the Environment
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That Summer in Jasper Park
A Novel of Romance and Adventure High in the Canadian Rockies by Wayne Sherrard
"In no time, I was soaked and so scared I was shaking. I couldn’t believe I was in the middle of the thunder cloud. It grew very dark, almost like nighttime. Clouds swirled all around me with high winds. I hugged the boulder to keep the winds...
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The Newfoundland Lunch Party
A Sisters of the Soil Novel With Recipes by Sonia Day
The Sisters of the Soil meet up again for fun times and good food – this time in Newfoundland – where Hannah, from the U.K., makes an extraordinary find outside Rhodo’s saltbox house by the sea. She insists it’s worth a fortune. But is she right?...
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All We Don't Know
by Tara Marshall King
Against the backdrop of Newfoundland’s craggy rocks and turbulent seas, marine biologist Finleigh Farraway finds the buried journal of World War II veteran Liam Crowley. The journal’s shocking content turns Finleigh’s world upside down and...
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Muunokhoi's Awakening
by Gilbert Arthur
Muunokhoi’s eyes open just a crack; he stretches his limbs as he awakens from his slumber. The tarbagan marmot peers around the hibernaculum and sees his family sleeping peacefully, but something doesn’t feel quite right. He is surprisingly very...
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Domesteaders
Cloud 8.5 by Curtis Palmer
In a world facing the dystopian challenges of climate change, beaver ethologist Beavan Broderick is doing everything he can to protect the future, one pond at a time. When he meets an eccentric family secretly working on a miraculously strong,...
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Rise of the Jellies
by Brian Wilford
When flying jellyfish rise out of the ocean and maraud through Qualicum Beach, Canada’s “oldest” town, they set off a media circus that makes the sleepy retirement community an unlikely darling of every news organization and disaster fan on the...
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Ridley Beach
A Tawdry Tale of Bad Decisions, Possible Extinction, and True Love by John Noel Akins
This is a story about a hot-shot chef who chases fame, drugs, and women, only to lose everything that he had truly loved. It's about a young female videographer who trusts the wrong men and ends up a stone-cold killer. Then there is the retired...
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Adventures among the Galaxies
and the Evolution of AI by e. b. bonenfant
Mara, a woman with a mysterious past and a connection to the Maya civilization, realizes a truth that many others seem to be able to ignore: We must cherish and protect what we have before is too late. Driven to prevent global warming and the...
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Garbage Day
by Domenic Pappas
Eugenio Violante wears two fedoras—one as the Don of La Cosa Nostra, the other as the owner of Wastefellas Garbage Co. His business operates in a community with a newfound sense of environmental values due to recent media backlash from local news...
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