"A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize-winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet through the eyes of six astronauts circling the earth in twenty-four hours. A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots a day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through space--not toward the moon or the vast unknown, but around our planet. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its...

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...

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...

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...

Killbear Park, the Wild Side is the story of a small area that is part of one of the largest wilderness regions in the world where the land is natural, water is clean and visitors can receive a tonic of rest and healing from the spirit of the wild. From the rugged, rocky shoreline mixed with numerous sand beaches, the views of windswept pines on rocky islands, canoeing, and Georgian Bay sunsets, Jake Hayes has time to look at his life, his ever-increasing...

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...

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...

Award—winning novelist William Deverell is back with a new Arthur Beauchamp legal thriller. Lawyer Arthur Beauchamp is facing the most explosive trial of his career: the defence of seven boisterous environmentalists accused of sabotaging an Ontario plant that pumps out a pesticide that has led to the mass death of honeybees. The story zigzags between Toronto, where the trial takes place, and Arthur's West Coast island home, where he finds himself...

The Fool's Progress, the "fat masterpiece" as Edward Abbey labeled it, is his most important piece of writing: it reveals the complete Ed Abbey, from the green grass of his memory as a child in Appalachia to his approaching death in Tuscon at age sixty two. When his third wife abandons him in Tucson, boozing, misanthropic anarchist Henry Holyoak Lightcap shoots his refrigerator and sets off in a battered pick-up truck for his ancestral home in West...

Nobody wanted Corentin. Not his father, who flees as soon he can, nor the women in the village, only preoccupied with gossip, nor especially his mother, who dreams of getting rid of him. Dragged from home to home, his childhood feels like a sad, aimless pilgrimage. Until the day his mother abandons him with an old woman, Augustine. That's when life begins again for him, deep into the Valley of the Forests, the remote region, where the woman who becomes...