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• The Overstory

  Powers, Richard, 1957-

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  The Overstory is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of - and paean to - the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Bees

  Paull, Laline

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  Born into the lowest class of her society, Flora 717 is a sanitation bee, only fit to clean her orchard hive. Living to accept, obey and serve, she is prepared to sacrifice everything for her beloved holy mother, the Queen. Yet Flora has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Greenwood

  a Novel

  Christie, Michael, 1976-

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  It's 2034 and Jake Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich vacationers in one of the world's last remaining forests. It's 2008 and Liam Greenwood is a carpenter, fallen from a ladder and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Salvage the Bones

  a Novel

  Ward, Jesmyn

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  A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. A hard drinker, largely absent, he doesn't show concern for much else. Esch and her three…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Appleseed

  a Novel

  Bell, Matt, 1980-

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  In eighteenth-century Ohio, two brothers travel into the wooded frontier, planting apple orchards from which they plan to profit in the years to come. As they remake the wilderness in their own image, planning for a future of settlement…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Odds Against Tomorrow

  [a Novel]

  Rich, Nathaniel, 1980-

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  New York City, the near future: Mitchell Zukor, a gifted young mathematician, is hired by a mysterious new financial consulting firm, FutureWorld. The business operates out of an empty office in the Empire State Building; Mitchell is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Deluge

  Markley, Stephen

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  In the first decades of the 21st century, the world is convulsing, its governments mired in gridlock while a patient but unrelenting ecological crisis looms. America is in upheaval, battered by violent weather and extreme politics. In…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Oryx and Crake

  Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

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  Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Wall

  a Novel

  Lanchester, John

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  Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall―an enormous concrete barrier around its entire coastline. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one task: to protect his section of the Wall from the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Harrow

  a Novel

  Williams, Joy, 1944-

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  Khristen is a teenager who, her mother believes, was marked by greatness as a baby when she died for a moment and then came back to life. After Khristen's failing boarding school for gifted teens closes its doors, and she finds that her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How Beautiful We Were

  Mbue, Imbolo

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  "We should have known the end was near." So begins Imbolo Mbue’s powerful second novel, How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• New York 2140

  Robinson, Kim Stanley

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  It is 2140. The waters rose, submerging New York City. But the residents adapted and it remained the bustling, vibrant metropolis it had always been. Though changed forever. Every street became a canal. Every skyscraper an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Word for World is Forest

  Le Guin, Ursula K.

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  When the inhabitants of a peaceful world are conquered by the bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitude, the Athsheans find themselves at the mercy of their brutal masters. Desperation causes the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

  Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001

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  It’s an ordinary Thursday morning for Arthur Dent . . . until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly after to make way for a new hyperspace express route, and Arthur’s best friend has just announced that he’s an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Who Fears Death

  Okorafor, Nnedi

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  In a far future, post-nuclear-holocaust Africa, genocide plagues one region. The aggressors, the Nuru, have decided to follow the Great Book and exterminate the Okeke. But when the only surviving member of a slain Okeke village is brutally…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The End We Start From

  Hunter, Megan, 1984-

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  In the midst of a mysterious environmental crisis, as London is submerged below flood waters, a woman gives birth to her first child, Z. Days later, the family is forced to leave their home in search of safety. As they move from place to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Water Knife

  Bacigalupi, Paolo

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  In a future hammered by climate change and drought, mountain snows have turned to rain, and rain evaporates before it hits the ground. In a fragmenting United States, the cities of Phoenix and Las Vegas skirmish for a dwindling share of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• American War

  El Akkad, Omar, 1982-

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  Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned drones fill the sky. When her father is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Waiting for the Night Song

  Dalton, Julie Carrick

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  Cadie Kessler has spent decades trying to cover up one truth. One moment. But deep down, didn't she always know her secret would surface? An urgent message from her long-estranged best friend Daniela Garcia brings Cadie, now a forestry…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Disaster Tourist

  a Novel

  Yun, Ko-ŭn, 1980-

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  An eco-thriller with a fierce feminist sensibility, The Disaster Tourist engages with the global dialog around climate activism, dark tourism, and the #MeToo movement. For ten years, Yona has been stuck behind a desk as a coordinator for…Read moreRead more of this annotation