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Published Apr 2022
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by Charlotte McConaghy
Published Jul 2021
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by Claire Boyles
Published Jun 2021
Read ReviewsSet in the western sagebrush steppe, Site Fidelity is a vivid, intimate, and deeply human exploration of life on the shifting terrain of our changing planet.
by Alastair Gee, Dani Anguiano
Published Apr 2021
Read ReviewsThe harrowing story of the most destructive American wildfire in a century.
by Mesha Maren
Published Oct 2019
Read ReviewsSet within the charged insularity of rural West Virginia, Sugar Run is a searing and gritty debut about making a run for another life.
by Richard Powers
Published Apr 2019
Read Reviews"The best novel ever written about trees, and really just one of the best novels, period."
—Ann Patchett
by Arlie Russell Hochschild
Published Feb 2018
Read Reviews2016 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction
A 2016 New York Times Notable Book
New York Times Bestseller
by Annie Proulx
Published Apr 2017
Read ReviewsFrom Annie Proulx - the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award - winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain, comes her masterwork: an epic, dazzling, violent, magnificently dramatic novel about the taking down of the world's forests.
by John Vaillant
Published Jan 2016
Read ReviewsAn unforgettable, page-turning survival story recounted by Hector, a man trappedperhaps fatallyinside a tanker truck during an illegal border crossing.
by Edan Lepucki
Published Jul 2015
Read ReviewsA gripping and provocative debut novel by a stunning new talent, California imagines a frighteningly realistic near future, in which clashes between mankind's dark nature and deep-seated resilience force us to question how far we will go to protect the ones we love.
by Dan Fagin
Published Apr 2015
Read ReviewsThe riveting true story of sixty years in the life of a small town ravaged by industrial pollution, Toms River melds hard-hitting investigative reporting, a fascinating scientific detective story, and an unforgettable cast of characters into a sweeping narrative.
by Jonathan Miles
Published May 2014
Read ReviewsA compulsively readable, deeply human novel that examines our most basic and unquenchable emotion: want. With a satirist's eye and a romantic's heart, Miles captures the morass and comedy of contemporary life in all its excess.
by Hanya Yanagihara
Published May 2014
Read ReviewsReaders of exciting, challenging and visionary literary fiction will be drawn to this astonishingly gripping and accomplished anthropological adventure story that combines the visceral allure of a thriller with a profound and tragic vision of what happens when cultures collide.
by Mary Roach
Published Apr 2014
Read ReviewsThe irresistible, ever-curious, and always best-selling Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside.
by Megan Mayhew Bergman
Published Nov 2012
Read ReviewsA heartwarming and hugely appealing debut collection that explores the way our choices and relationships are shaped by the menace and beauty of the natural world.
by Edward O. Wilson
Published Apr 2011
Read ReviewsInspirational and magical, the story of boy who grows up determined to save the world from its most savage ecological predator: Man himself.
by Ian McEwan
Published Mar 2011
Read ReviewsMichael Beard is a Nobel prizewinning physicist whose best work is behind him, and whose fifth marriage is crumbling. However, an invitation to travel to New Mexico offers him a chance for him to extricate himself from his marital problems, reinvigorate his career, and save the world from environmental disaster. Can a man who has made a mess ...
by Stephan Faris
Published Sep 2009
Read ReviewsA vivid and illuminating portrayal of the surprising ways that climate change will affect the world in the near futurepolitically, economically, and culturally
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