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  Sick Puppy

  by Carl Hiaasen

  Carl Hiaasen's characters ride and flail on little verbalhurricanes, and his literary storm shows no signs of dying down. Sick Puppyshares 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 bycriminals who are dumb as stumps. The title of Hiaasen's eighth novel could apply to mostof its characters, but it chiefly... (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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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)