A Book About Nature of the Environment
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When I Sing, Mountains Dance
by Irene Solà

Struck and killed by lightening in a village high in the Pyrenees, Domenec is surrounded by the ghosts of 17th-century witches, and so begins this spellbinding novel about the human dramas that unfold against the uncontainable life force of the land itself.
The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
by Ben Rawlence

Combining reportage with the latest science, this journey is filled with the wonder and awe at the incredible creativity and resilience of trees and mysterious workings of the forest upon which we rely for the air we breathe. 
The Ministry for the Future
by Kim Stanley Robinson

Told entirely through fictional eye-witness accounts of living creatures both past and present, this brilliant novel is one of the most powerful and original books on climate change ever written. 

Overdrive has the ebook and audio versions of this title.
Open Season
by C. J Box

As Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett races against time to save an endangered species, he finds himself plunged into a deadly mystery that soon threatens his family and the life he loves.

Read the ebook version on Overdrive. You can also listen to the audiobook on Hoopla. 
Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape
by Cal Flyn

An investigative journalist looks at places where nature is flourishing in the absence of humans, such as the irradiated grounds of Chernobyl and a vast forest of extinct and endangered species in the DMZ between North and South Korea. Illustrations.
Greenwood
by Michael Christie

A metaphorical tale tracing multiple generations of a once-wealthy family finds its members navigating secrets and crimes linked to the trees that have made and broken their fortunes. By the award-winning author of If I Fall, If I Die.
Vesper Flights: New and Collected Essays
by Helen Macdonald

Presents a collection of essays about humanity's relationship with nature, exploring subjects ranging from captivity and immigration to ostrich farming and the migrations of songbirds from the Empire State Building

Listen to the audiobook or read the ebook on Overdrive. Hoopla also has the audio and the ebook of this title.
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