Fiction - Nature & the Environment

"A lush, beautifully written novel about trying to be a person in our strange world . . . Pick this one up for its exquisite characterization, decaying settings and a dash of Southern gothic horror." --Kiersten White, The New York Times Book Review A...

A viral video of a girl swept away by floodwaters shocks the world -- and galvanizes three university students into action. Armed with idealism and a bold plan, they journey to the tropics of Demba to help implement carbon-funded climate solutions.What begins as a...

Stephen King's Under the Dome meets The Last of Us in this harrowing dystopian novel about the downward spiral of a seaside town that becomes infected by a mysterious ocean-borne contagion. If you want to stay, you have to die. In a small fishing...

The latest novella by Nebula finalist Jordan Kurella is a moving allegorical tale. As mankind continues to hurt the planet, leaving us with scarred lands, stories like The Death of Mountains are more meaningful than ever. When the Death of Mountains came for us,...

The residents of a New England town become obsessed with finding the cure for a mysterious ailment spreading through their community in this kaleidoscopic novel about love's capacities in a changing world. "Gorgeous and compelling."--Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love Eve is...

The perfect choice for your next book club: Julie Carrick Dalton's The Forest Becomes Her is a timely, unforgettable novel about three women from different generations navigating the complexities of family, grief, the impacts of our choices, and our deep connections to the natural...

The Future of Another Timeline meets The Bone Clocks in this dazzling piece of time-travel climate fiction. Recruited by the mysterious Project Kairos to change history and save the future from ecological disaster, Echo and Hazel are transported through time to opposite worlds. Echo...

This classic, award-winning novel and the basis for the animated Disney movie is "a masterpiece, it is tops in the field of animal books" (Omaha World-Herald). Winner of the Dutton Animal Book Award Winner of the Athenaeum Literary Award Reader's Digest Book Club Two...

USA TODAY BESTSELLER -- NOW IN PAPERBACK! From environmental journalist and founder of the #TransRightsReadathon Sim Kern, comes the eat-the-rich climate fiction you won't want to put down: In an alternate 2020 timeline, Al Gore won the 2000 election and declared a War on...

April brings spring surging with it, giving rise, among many in the village, to a comforting illusion that all is somehow still right with the world, and that nothing will ever change.In the ancient Welm Valley, something is shifting: the river is behaving oddly,...

In a near-future Paris reshaped by climate urgency, environmental engineer Diane Griffith draws on innovations in vertical agriculture to help design an ambitious model of green urban life meant to heal both city and planet. As the project transforms Paris's historic core, unanswered questions...

"A sprawling, stormy, magnificent novel of India untamed." --O: The Oprah Magazine"A certifiable page-turner."--Boston GlobeFrom Amitav Ghosh, award-winning and international bestselling author of the Ibis Trilogy, comes a contemporary story of adventure and unlikely love, identity, and history, set in one of the most...

An intense friendship between 2 young girls turns tragic when one gets lost in a frozen waterfall's ice chambers in this dreamlike Norwegian masterpiece Features a new introduction by Karl Ove Knausgaard In rural Norway, 11-year-old Siss, socially at ease and popular among her...

A SOARING, PROPULSIVE, AND UNFORGETTABLE novel about two zookeepers at the last zoo in the world "An important, engaging read, FILLED WITH THE HOPE for what could be." --San Francisco Chronicle"Sometimes a new author will sidle up and whisper in your ear, and sometimes...

A SOARING, PROPULSIVE, AND UNFORGETTABLE novel about two zookeepers at the last zoo in the world "An important, engaging read, filled with the hope for what could be." --San Francisco Chronicle"Sometimes a new author will sidle up and whisper in your ear, and sometimes...

In the heart of East Tennessee's rugged Iron Mountain lives the legend of Nick Grindstaff, a man who turned his back on a cruel world and carved out a life of fierce independence and raw survival. The Isolate is the unforgettable true story of...

Who stabbed Frank Slaughter?Thorne Swift is the biggest piece of undeveloped lakefront real estate in Harbor Springs-seventeen acres of pristine woods, ponds, creeks, and swamps with over a thousand feet of shoreline on Lake Michigan. It's a nature preserve, but a real estate developer...

From the award-winning author of Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line comes a stunning historical novel set in nineteenth-century Tibet that follows two outsiders--an Indian schoolteacher spying for the British Empire and an English "lady" explorer--as they venture into a forbidden kingdom. "A riveting...

From award-winning French writer Sibylle Grimbert comesThe Last of Its Kind, a moving story of friendship, trust, respect, and the desire to endure and survive.In 1835, Gus, a young zoologist, is sent to Iceland by the Natural History Museum of Lille to study North...

In this sweeping epic, full of love and loss, a woman from one of the last remote reindeer-herding tribes of northeastern China tells the story of her family and the last century of her country's history."A long-time confidante of the rain and snow, I...