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Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The Actual Star takes readers on a journey over two millennia and six continents ?telling three powerful tales a thousand years apart, all of them converging in the same cave in the Belizean jungle. Braided together are the stories of a pair of teenage twins who ascend the throne of a Maya kingdom; a young American woman on a trip of self-discovery in Belize; and two dangerous charismatics vying for the leadership of a new religion and racing toward...
Author
Series
The Water City trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Year 2150: Eight years after the murder of Akira Kimura, Water City's renowned scientist and anointed "God", the nameless antihero who once risked everything to find Akira's killer is no longer a detective, but a stay-at-home dad. While his wife climbs the corporate ladder of the Water City Police Department, he raises his now nine-year-old daughter and occasionally takes the odd job as a bounty hunter. Water City's domestic bliss is threatened when...
43) The lost cause
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"America, a generation from now. Brooks Palazzo is part of "the first generation not to fear the future." When his parents died in a recent epidemic, he moved in with his grandfather in Burbank, California, City of Progress. For Brooks and his generation, climate change isn't controversial. It's just an overwhelming fact of life. And so are the great national and international efforts to mitigate it. Entire cities are being moved inland from the rising...
49) Snow summer
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Massive climate change has caused a winter that will not thaw, and it seems that the forces of nature have turned on humanity itself. In the sleepy British village of Pateley, Wyn, an orphan, has always known that she is different. Unable to feel the biting cold of wind and snow, she does what she can to blend in. When mysterious figures start to appear in the village, insisting that she may have the power to restore order to the natural world, Wyn...
51) At winter's end
Author
Series
New springtime volume 1
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
After seven hundred thousand years underground, one tribe emerges to explore the new world The time of falling death stars ushered in the Long Winter--eons of cold that caused plants and animals to vanish from Earth and drove people to take refuge in underground cocoons. Human ingenuity had never faced a greater challenge. For seven hundred thousand years, generation after generation was born and died below the Earth's surface. But now, one small...
52) A winter grave
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When the body of missing investigative reporter George Younger is discovered on a mountain-top near the Highland village of Kinlochleven, veteran Glasgow detective Cameron Brodie volunteers to investigate the murder, but has more than the case on his agenda.
53) Fauna
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First English-language edition.
Language
English
Description
"In a near-future world ravaged by climate change, who will win in the struggle between humanity and nature? A thick fog rolls in over Shivering Heights. The river overflows, the sky is streaked with toxic green, parasites proliferate in torrential rains and once safely classified species - humans included - are evolving and behaving in unprecedented ways. Against this poetically hostile backdrop, a biologist, Laura, fights to understand the nature...
54) Denial
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
In 2052, when climate change has devastated much of the world and former fossil fuel executives have been tried for crimes against the environment, a Pacific Northwest journalist makes contact with a CEO fugitive and strikes up an unlikely friendship.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
In the rural town in Pakistan where Baadal grows up, children are named like talismans to sustain life and ward off unhappiness. At seventeen, Baadal has come to understand why his parents gave him that name, with hopes that their Big River will one day flow wide again, and their thirst will be quenched after years of drought. But in the final year of his schooling, abundance seems impossibly far away. As his parents' marriage-full of rage, despair,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the Booker Prize-winning The Narrow Road to the Deep North comes a wrenching novel of family, climate change, and the resilience of the human spirit--an elegy to our disappearing world. In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna's aged mother is dying--if her three children would just allow it. Condemned by their pity to living, subjected to increasingly desperate medical interventions, she instead turns her focus...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A literary descendent of Ursula K. Le Guin, Ruthanna Emrys crafts a novel of extraterrestrial diplomacy and urgent climate repair bursting with quiet, tenuous hope and an underlying warmth. A Half-Built Garden depicts a world worth building towards, a humanity worth saving from itself, and an alien community worth entering with open arms. It's not the easiest future to build, but it's one that just might be in reach. On a warm March night in 2083,...
58) Frostlands
Author
Series
Splinterlands volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Arcadia's defense corps is mobilized to defend against what first appears to be a routine assault, one of the many that the community must repulse from para- military forces every year. But as sensors report a breach in the perimeter wall, even 80-year-old Rachel Leopold shoulders a weapon and reports for duty. The at- tack, it turns out, has been orchestrated by one of the world's largest corporations, CR ISPR International, and it is interested...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First US edition, Reinforced trade edition.
Language
English
Description
"When she learns about the climate crisis at school, Sona decides to take it upon herself to convince her whole suburban Indian neighborhood to take action, making plans for big changes that not everyone is on board with--at first"--
60) El día del agua
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
Español
Description
A girl and her community celebrate the arrival of the water man when he comes on his weekly visit to distribute water to a Cuban village. Includes author's note.
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