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The Kangaroo Chronicles by Marc-Uwe Kling
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsMarc-Uwe lives together with a kangaroo. The kangaroo is a communist and it is really into Nirvana... -
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Playground by Richard Powers
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFour lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world’s first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up on naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home...Categorized as:
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Die Känguru-Apokryphen by Marc-Uwe Kling
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSensation, Sensation: Archäologen haben in einem Geheimfach in Marc-Uwes Schreibtisch neue Geschichten vom Känguru und seinem Kleinkünstler gefunden! Dies ist nicht die Fortsetzung der Fortsetzung der Fortsetzung der Känguru-Chroniken. Triologie bleibt Triologie. Aber ein anständiger Kleinkünstler hat natürlich eine Zugabe vorbereitet... -
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Die Känguru-Offenbarung by Marc-Uwe Kling
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsEndlich: Es geht weiter! Nach dem Manifest folgt die Offenbarung! Hier kommt die fulminante Fortsetzung der Fortsetzung: der »Känguru-Chroniken« dritter Teil. Das Beuteltier und der Kleinkünstler auf der Jagd nach dem mysteriösen Pinguin... -
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Remember by Joy Harjo
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMichaela Goade, invites young readers to pause and reflect on the wonder of the world around them, and to remember the importance of their place in it.Remember the sky you were born under, Know each of the star's stories. Remember the moon, know who she is. Remember the sun's birth at dawn, That is the strongest point of time... -
![The Adventures of Geraldine Woolkins by Karin Kaufman]()
The Adventures of Geraldine Woolkins by Karin Kaufman
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYoung Geraldine longs to have adventures as thrilling as those in the Book of Tales, the book her papa reads to her and her brother Button at night. More than that, she wants to be brave--a seemingly impossible task in a world where ravens throw black shadows over the earth and wolves prowl barren lands in search of their prey. But Geraldine is a mouse. The weakest of ground things...Categorized as:
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![A Season on the Wind by Suzanne Woods Fisher]()
A Season on the Wind by Suzanne Woods Fisher
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBen Zook had only two loves in his life: books and birds. In a stroke of good fortune, he'd stumbled onto a way to cobble together those two loves into a career, writing books about rare birds. He was as free as a bird--until a chase for a rare White-winged Tern takes him to the one place on earth he planned to never return: his Amish home in Stoney Ridge... -
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A Plain Man by Mary Ellis
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBestselling author Mary Ellis offers an engaging new standalone Amish romance about a prodigal seeking to find his way home. Though Caleb Beachy lived in the Englisch world for some years, he is a Plain man at heart. When he decides to return to the Amish lifestyle, he moves back home and goes to work for his father. Soon these two strong-willed men find themselves at odds... -
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The Pelican Tide by Sharon J. Wishnow
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter disaster strikes, a Louisiana family and their community need to prove to each other and the world that their bond is thicker than the oil threatening their shores in Sharon J. Wishnow’s stunning debut novel.It’s taken Chef Josie Babineaux six months to reconcile the debts left from her husband Brian’s gambling along with her broken heart... -
![Fletcher and the Falling Leaves by Julia Rawlinson]()
Fletcher and the Falling Leaves by Julia Rawlinson
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCelebrate fall with the sweet and charming Fletcher the fox!As the leaves fall from his favorite tree, Fletcher worries that something is terribly wrong. But then winter comes, and with it a wonderful surprise. Do you know what it is? Join Fletcher and find out. . . .Fletcher the fox is concerned about nature and wants to understand the changing of the seasons... -
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Little Beaver and the Echo by Amy MacDonald
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLittle Beaver s search for a friend he thinks he hears across a pond is perfect for every child who's ever felt lonely."Children old enough to long for friends of their own will nestle right into this appealing story....Ideal for reading aloud at the beginning of the school year of during camp sessions, when there's a little bit of Little Beaver in every kid... -
![Agatha May and the Anglerfish by Nora Morrison, Jessie Ann Foley]()
Agatha May and the Anglerfish by Nora Morrison, Jessie Ann Foley
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA funny, fish-filled story about the joys of learning, and the rewards that come with staying true to who you areAgatha May just can’t understand why her classmates aren’t as crazy as she is about the hideous humpback anglerfish... -
![The Berenstain Bears and Too Much TV by Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain]()
The Berenstain Bears and Too Much TV by Stan Berenstain, Jan Berenstain
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWhen Mama Bear decides her family spends too much time in front of the TV, she bans it for a week. Then the Bear family finds other ways to have fun and keep busy, so they watch less when TV is allowed again--and they don't even miss it. From the Trade Paperback edition...Categorized as:
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![Pride of Eden by Taylor Brown]()
Pride of Eden by Taylor Brown
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe enthralling new novel from the acclaimed author of Fallen Land, The River of Kings, and Gods of Howl MountainVietnam veteran, retired racehorse jockey, and keeper of secrets, Anse Caulfield rescues exotic big cats, elephants, and other creatures for Little Eden, a wildlife sanctuary near the abandoned ruins of a failed development on the Georgia coast... -
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![Only a Little While Here: A Novel by María Ospina Pizano]()
Only a Little While Here: A Novel by María Ospina Pizano
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis prizewinning debut novel weaves together four meticulously observed animal odysseys in a poignant meditation on migration, displacement, and the inextricability of the human and the natural worlds.In Only a Little While Here, an award-winning author evokes a sensation birders and naturalists know well—the deep gratification that comes through close, compassionate observation of fauna... -
![The Last Animal by Abby Geni]()
The Last Animal by Abby Geni
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Last Animal by Abby Geni is that rare literary find — a remarkable series of stories unified around one theme: people who use the interface between the human and the natural world to contend with their modern challenges of love, loss, and family life. These are vibrant, weighty stories that herald the arrival of a young writer of surprising feeling and depth... -
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Miss Spider's ABC by David Kirk
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJumping junebugs, very vivid violets, entertaining earthworms, and other friends of Miss Spider gather to celebrate her birthday in this alphabet book... -
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Safe Harbor by Padma Venkatraman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn uplifting novel in verse about an immigrant girl adjusting to life in the US through her love of nature, music, and poetry, by the award-winning author of The Bridge HomeWhen Geetha and her mom move from India to Rhode Island after her parents’ divorce, they leave everything Geetha loves behind—her family, her friends, her dog, and all that’s familiar...Categorized as:
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![Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman]()
Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism from the Booker-listed author of The Teleportation Accident.The near future. Tens of thousands of species are going extinct every year. And a whole industry has sprung up around their extinctions, to help us preserve the remnants, or perhaps just assuage our guilt...Categorized as:
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The Wolf Border by Sarah Hall
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe award-winning author of The Electric Michelangelo returns with her first novel in nearly six years, a literary masterpiece about the reintroduction of wild wolves into the United Kingdom.She hears them howling along the buffer zone, a long harmonic.One leading, then many.At night there is no need to imagine, no need to dream.They reign outside the mind... -
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A Fire So Wild by Sarah Ruiz Grossman
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith the emotional echoes of Little Fires Everywhere and the lush atmosphere of Disappearing Earth , a riveting debut novel in which a wildfire creeps toward Berkeley, California, igniting tensions as characters from all walks of life confront the injustices lying beneath the city’s surface...Categorized as:
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Landscapes by Christine Lai
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA darkly absorbing, prismatic debut novel from Christine Lai, set in a near future that is fraught with ecological collapse and geopolitical upheaval, Landscapes explores memory, empathy, and art as an instrument for recollection and renewal...Categorized as:
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Who Wet My Pants? by Bob Shea
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn this hilarious tale of blame, compassion, and forgiveness, a very embarrassed bear is reminded that accidents can happen--but with the support of good friends, life goes on.Reuben the bear's got donuts for everyone in his scout troop, but his friends are all staring at something else: there's a wet spot on Reuben's pants, and it's in a specific area... -
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![Salt Lick by Lulu Allison]()
Salt Lick by Lulu Allison
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFood production has moved overseas. The countryside is empty and once again wild. The rural economy has collapsed and people have no choice but to move to the cities. The population drifts away, towns and villages are abandoned. It isn’t dystopian, but it is further down the wrong road.Jesse is eight...Categorized as:
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Heat & Light by Jennifer Haigh
Rated: 3.72 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAcclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh returns to the Pennsylvania town at the center of her iconic novel Baker Towers, in this ambitious, achingly human story of modern America and the conflicting forces at its heart—a bold, moving drama of hope and desperation, greed and power, big business and small-town families.Forty years ago, Bakerton coal fueled the country...Categorized as:
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![The Blood of Angels by Johanna Sinisalo, Lola Rogers]()
The Blood of Angels by Johanna Sinisalo, Lola Rogers
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAnother haunting novel of eco-speculation from Johanna Sinisalo, the award-winning author of Troll and a powerhouse of the Finnish SF/F sceneIt is claimed Albert Einstein said that if bees disappear from the earth, mankind has four years left. When bee-vanishings of unprecedented scale hit the United States, Orvo, a Finnish beekeeper, knows all too well where it will lead...Categorized as:
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Fauna by Alissa York
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn her highly anticipated new novel, Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated author Alissa York creates a contemporary human fable that taps into the great tenderness and drama at the heart of the animal world.The wide ravine that bisects the city is home to countless species of urban wildlife, including human waifs and strays...Categorized as:
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![The Lives of Animals by J.M. Coetzee, Peter Singer]()
The Lives of Animals by J.M. Coetzee, Peter Singer
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnitude taking place on farms and in slaughterhouses, factories, and laboratories across the world... -
![The Lamentations of Zeno by Ilija Trojanow]()
The Lamentations of Zeno by Ilija Trojanow
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA literary fiction about climate disaster and a scientist imploding on a journey to the AntarcticZeno Hintermeier is a scientist working as a travel guide on an Antarctic cruise ship, encouraging the wealthy to marvel at the least explored continent and to open their eyes to its rapid degradation. It is a troubling turn in the life of an idealistic glaciologist... -
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Ultimatum by Matthew Glass
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNovember 2032. Joe Benton has just been elected the forty-eighth president of the United States. Only days after winning, Benton learns from his predecessor that previous estimates regarding the effect of global warming on rising sea levels have been grossly underestimated... -
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Water Witches by Chris Bohjalian
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of Midwives and The Flight Attendant, a comic and life affirming novel of the clash between progress and tradition, science and magic: “one of the most elegantly philosophical, urgent—yet somehow timeless—novels of these perilous times” (Howard Norman, National Book Award finalist for The Bird Artist).Vermont is drying up... -
![Tasmania by Paolo Giordano, Antony Shugaar]()
Tasmania by Paolo Giordano, Antony Shugaar
Rated: 3.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAfter losing the future he imagined for himself with his wife, a journalist sets out in search of connection and purpose at a tipping point with climate change and global conflict, in this breathtaking novel from the Strega Prize–winning author of The Solitude of Prime Numbers...Categorized as:
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![Klifi by Adriaan van Dis]()
Klifi by Adriaan van Dis
Rated: 3.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDe aasgieren zweven boven de republiek Nederland. Na een verpletterend warme zomer wordt het land voor het eerst in zijn geschiedenis getroffen door een orkaan. De gepensioneerde bibliothecaris Jákob Hemmelbahn is getuige van een lokale ramp waarbij tientallen mensen omkomen. Jákob wil de verhalen van de overlevenden optekenen, maar wordt daarbij gehinderd door een dreigende censor...Categorized as:
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