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Love the Earth, Love Some Eco-Fiction
Love the Earth, Love Some Eco-Fiction
The Dog Stars
by
Peter Heller
Surviving a pandemic disease that has killed everyone he knows, a pilot establishes a shelter in an abandoned airport hangar before hearing a random radio transmission that compels him to risk his life to seek out other survivors.
Station Eleven
by
Emily St. John Mandel
The sudden death of a Hollywood actor during a production of
King Lear
marks the beginning of the world's dissolution, in a story told at various past and future times from the perspectives of the actor and four of his associates.
Painted Horses
by
Malcolm Brooks
A young archeologist surveying a Western canyon in the 1950s ahead of the planned construction of a major dam meets a former mounted cavalryman who shows her the beauty in the stark landscape around her.
Mermaids in Paradise
by
Lydia Millet
A satirical tale by the Pulitzer Prize-finalist author of
Love in Infant Monkeys
follows the experiences of a honeymooning couple whose happiness is interrupted by mermaids, kidnappers and mercenaries.
Gray Mountain
by
John Grisham
Losing her job at New York City's largest law firm in the weeks after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Samantha becomes an unpaid intern in a small Appalachian community where she stumbles upon dangerous secrets.
California
by
Edan Lepucki
After escaping the crumbling ruins of Los Angeles for a shack in the wilderness, Cal and Frida realize they are pregnant and seek refuge in the nearest settlement—a guarded, dark and paranoid community that poses a whole new set of dangers.
The Bees
by
Laline Paull
A member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive, Flora 717, due to her courage and strength, finds her way into the Queen's inner sanctum where she discovers secrets about the hive that cause her to challenge authority and perform unthinkable acts.
Flight Behavior
by
Barbara Kingsolver
Tired of living on a failing farm and suffering oppressive poverty, bored housewife Dellarobia Turnbow, on the way to meet a potential lover, is detoured by a miraculous event on the Appalachian mountainside that ignites a media and religious firestorm that changes her life forever.
All Over Creation
by
Ruth L. Ozeki
Returning home to the Idaho potato farm she fled twenty-five years earlier, Japanese-American Yumi struggles with her father's terminal illness, her mother's Alzheimer's, her former best friend, and a former lover who once offended the town.
A Friend of the Earth
by
T. Coraghessan Boyle
Set in a grim near-future 2025 A.D. southern California, this novel follows the adventures of an ecoterrorist whose efforts to save the planet unwittingly place his own family at risk. By the author of
The Tortilla Curtain
.
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