Fiction, Nature & the Environment
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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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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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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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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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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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The Oasis
A Tale of Hope by Chris Nicholson
The storm raged on throughout the night. Nora could not sleep but dozed on and off during the bleak hours. At times there were loud creaks and groans followed by a bang severe enough to shake the house as the ice proved too heavy for some tree...
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