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  The Death of Grass

  by John Christopher

  At first the virus wiping out grass and crops is of little concern to John Custance. It has decimated Asia, causing mass starvation and riots, but Europe is safe and a counter-virus is expected any day. Except, it turns out, the governments have been lying to their people. When the deadly disease hits Britain they are left alone, and society starts to descend into barbarism. As John and his family try to make it... (more)
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  Sick Puppy

  by Carl Hiaasen

  Carl Hiaasen's characters ride and flail on little verbal hurricanes, and his literary storm shows no signs of dying down. Sick Puppy shares Dave Barry's giddy gift for finding humor in South Florida horrors, and a bit of Elmore Leonard's genius for pitch-perfect dialogue spouted smartly by criminals who are dumb as stumps. The title of Hiaasen's eighth novel could apply to most of its characters, but it chiefly... (more)
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  Great Bear Lake

  by Erin Hunter

  Destiny has brought them together and a young black bear Lusa has left the comfort of the zoo, determined against all odds to make her way in the wild. It is there that she encounters grizzly cub Toklo and a mysterious changeling named Ujurak. Once united, the cubs find themselves on a journey toward a mystical place—if only they knew where. Meanwhile, separated from her family, polar bear cub Kallik trusts... (more)
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  Smoke Mountain

  by Erin Hunter

  There is a place where bears can live in peace, where there is sea-ice all year, where the forests are full of prey, where flat-faces never go. Polar bears Kallik and Taqqiq, black bear Lusa, grizzly Toklo, and the shape-shifting Ujurak believe that this fabled bear paradise must be the destination of their quest. But the path they follow is dangerous. The burning Smoke Mountains are more treacherous than... (more)
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  An Inconvenient Truth

  by Albert Gore

  An Inconvenient Truth —Gore’s groundbreaking, battle cry of a follow-up to the bestselling Earth in the Balance —is being published to tie in with a documentary film of the same name. Both the book and film were inspired by a series of multimedia presentations on global warming that Gore created and delivers to groups around the world. With this book, Gore, who is one of our environmental heroes—and a leading... (more)
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  Arbor Day Square

  by K/H PATHWAYS

  Katie and her papa are among a group of settlers building a town in the middle of the dusty, brown prairie. Every week the trains bring more people and more lumber to build houses, fences, and barns. New buildings are erected: a church with a steeple, a store with glass windows, even a schoolhouse with desks for seventeen children. But one thing is missing: trees. When the townspeople take up a collection to... (more)
• The Delta Project: Preserving the Environment and Securing Zeeland Against Flooding (NETHERLANDS)

  

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  The Delta Project: Preserving the Environment and Securing Zeeland Against Flooding (NETHERLANDS)

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  Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now

  by Suzanne H. Reuben

  Despite overall decreases in incidence and mortality, cancer continues to shatter and steal the lives of Americans. Approximately 41 percent of Americans will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives, and about 21 percent will die from cancer. The incidence of some cancers, including some most common among children, is increasing for unexplained reasons. Public and governmental awareness of... (more)
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  The Omnivore's Dilemma

  A Natural History of Four Meals

  by Michael Pollan

  The bestselling author of The Botany of Desire explores the ecology of eating to unveil why we consume what we consume in the twenty-first century "What should we have for dinner?" To one degree or another this simple question assails any creature faced with a wide choice of things to eat. Anthropologists call it the omnivore's dilemma. Choosing from among the countless potential foods nature offers,... (more)
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  Ishmael

  An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

  by Daniel Quinn

  A novel that uses a continuing conversation between a gorilla and his pupil to examine mythology, its effect on ethics, and how that relates to sustainability. A Socratic style is used through out the book. The novel deconstucts the myth that humans are the end of evolution and that human supremacy is a myth that ourcurrent culture is enacting.
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  Green Like God: Unlocking the Divine Plan for Our Planet

  by Jonathan Merritt

  In GREEN LIKE GOD, Jonathan Merritt gently and insightfully observes that the Creator has a lot to say about environmental problems like unclean water, mindless materialism, wastefulness, over consumption, and pollution. In fact, Jonathan writes that "in the book of Genesis, God went green and never looked back." Relying heavily on the Scriptures, Jonathan gives the case for green living, but not because it's... (more)
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  Paradise Graces A Simple Mind

  by Michael Levy

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  The Gorgeously Green Diet: How to Live Lean and Green

  by Sophie Uliano

  Perfect for Earth Day: The bestselling author of Gorgeously Green returns with a simple—and budget-conscious—plan for waist management. Green guru and ecolicious consultant Sophie Uliano has appeared on Oprah, Good Morning America, The View , and other national television shows; her first book, Gorgeously Green , is a New York Times bestseller. And now, with The Gorgeously Green Diet , Sophie shows how to... (more)
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  Plan B: Book 2

  Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble

  by Lester Russell Brown

  In this new edition, Lester Brown outlines a survival strategy for our early twenty-first civilization. The world faces numerous environmental trends of disruption and decline such as rising temperatures, falling water tables, shrinking forests, melting glaciers, collapsing fisheries, and rising sea levels. In Plan B , Lester R. Brown notes that in ignoring nature's deadlines for dealing with these... (more)
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  Star Trek: The Next Generation: Book 14

  Exiles

  by Howard Weinstein

  For three centuries the people of Alaj and the people of Etolos have been bitter enemies. However, when crippling disasters strike both worlds, each planet becomes the other's hope for survival. With time running out, Captain Picard and his crew are called to negotiate a peaceful settlement and begin rescue efforts. But some factions would rather see both planets perish and will stop at nothing to prevent peace.... (more)
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  Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

  A Year of Food Life

  by Barbara Kingsolver

  Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. "As the U.S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt, one carload of us paddled against the tide, heading for the Promised Land where water falls from the sky and green stuff grows all around. We were about to begin the... (more)
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  Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future

  by Bill McKibben

  "The bestselling author of The End of Nature issues an impassioned call to arms for an economy that creates community and ennobles our lives. In this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest challenge in a generation to the prevailing view of our economy. For the first time in human history, he observes, "more" is no longer synonymous with "better"--indeed, for many of us, they have... (more)
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  The Joys of Live Alchemy

  by Michael Levy

  From America's earliest moments, people have sought truth, honestly, virtue and grace that is inherent in all human beings, yet it seems to elude many most of the time. People grow frustrated that they wasted moments of happiness that other people seem to be living. However, the people that seem to be happy are also frustrated because they are not as successful as someone else they admire ... on and on... (more)
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  The Quest Begins

  by Erin Hunter

  Three bears . . . one destiny From the author of the nationally bestselling Warriors books comes a brand-new animal fantasy series. Three young bears from different species—black, polar, and grizzly—are separated from their families when they are just young cubs. They find themselves brought together on a perilous journey. Fate is about to change all these bears lives forever, setting their paws on a path... (more)