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• Yours for the Taking

  a Novel

  Korn, Gabrielle, 1989-

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  In this book coming in December 2023, Earth is becoming uninhabitable due to severe climate change by 2050. Jaqueline Millender is an eccentric billionaire and is in charge of creating one a self sustaining "Inside" community where Manhattan used to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blue Skies

  a Novel

  Boyle, T. Coraghessan

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  This story follows Ottilie and her family as she and her husband Frank as they face a blast furnace of heat and fire in the formerly cool and moist Central Coast of California. Their son, Cooper, is a an entomologist who is seeing the doom of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Afterglow

  Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors

  Various Authors

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  These hopeful and forward-looking futuristic short stories explore how the power of storytelling can help create the world we need.

• The Great Transition

  a Novel

  Fuller Googins, Nick,

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  Earth has reached Net Zero after much devastation. The Great Transition was accomplished with the hard labor and sacrifice of volunteer workers like Emi’s parents. Dad, a reality star hero, fights fires, and Mom, who was separated from her family as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Last Beekeeper

  Dalton, Julie Carrick,

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  Honey bees have been extinct for about the last 10 years and food has become scarce. Sasha’s father who is known as “the last beekeeper” was arrested eleven years ago for keeping bees, which had become illegal, because the government has confiscated…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Light Pirate

  Brooks-Dalton, Lily, 1987-

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  Born during a powerful hurricane, Wanda is an unusual woman who was born in a hurricane in a rapidly changing world. She loses family, gains community and ultimately seeks adventure, love and purpose in a place abandoned by civilization and remade…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The High House

  a Novel

  Greengrass, Jessie,

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  Trying to make a home in the midst of an environmental disaster, Caro, her younger half-brother, and High House’s caretaker and his daughter fight to stay alive as the rising waters threaten to engulf the whole town.

• Fellowship Point

  a Novel

  Dark, Alice Elliott

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  A retiring children's book author looking to secure her legacy tries to get the beautiful Maine coast where her novels are set donated to a trust in order to protect it, but first she has to convince the shareholders, one of which is her best friend.

• The 86th Village

  Gopal, Sena Desai,

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  Throughout Southern India, eighty-six villages are set to completely submerge due to a government-sanctioned dam across the Krishna river. One such village, Nilgi, has so far avoided the illegal iron-ore mining and floods that have ravaged the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Deluge

  Markley, Stephen

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  In the early 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 California in 2013, Tony…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How High We Go in the Dark

  a Novel

  Nagamatsu, Sequoia,

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  Beginning in 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased daughter at the Batagaika crater, where researchers are studying long-buried secrets now revealed in melting permafrost, including…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bewilderment

  a Novel

  Powers, Richard, 1957-

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  Theo Byrne, an astrobiologist, searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Island of Missing Trees

  Shafak, Elif, 1971-

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  In this ode to a fig tree, transplanted from Cyprus to England, a couple is forced to leave because of the raging political divide on Cyprus between the Greeks and the Turks in the ‘70’s. The chapters run parallel with the fig tree’s life, a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Damnation Spring

  a Novel

  Davidson, Ash

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  A mother and midwife inadvertently threatens the fortunes and livelihoods of her family and their neighbors after noticing an increase in local miscarriages and believes it's caused by the pesticides used by the Sanderson Timber Company, her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Seed Keeper

  a Novel

  Wilson, Diane, 1954-

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  Rosalie Iron Wing has lived nearly thirty years away from the Dakota reservation. Now her dreams and memories of childhood with her father, before the foster homes, have sparked a yearning to know about her history, her people, and the mother she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Four Winds

  Hannah, Kristin

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  1930’s Texas was difficult because of the combination of the "dust bowl" and the stock market crash and for the farmers across The Great Plains, came Burning winds destroyed everything in their path along with a drought so fierce that wheat fields…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Snake Falls to Earth

  Little Badger, Darcie, 1987-

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  This is a story told from two mirroring points of view that are united through a folktale that Nina’s Great-Great Grand­mother once told. Nina, like her great-great grandmother, likes to tell her own stories, but she doesn’t tell them stories around…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Songbirds

  a Novel

  Lefteri, Christy, 1980-

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  Nisha is a Sri Lankan nanny and housekeeper living in Cyprus who disappears. Her husband is a poacher who traps songbirds and sells them on the black market, works with her employer to unravel the truth. The story takes him to the darker side of a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Psalm for the Wild-built

  Chambers, Becky

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  this felt like a love letter to communication, to finding comfort, and ultimately to just not feeling alone. it touches on how healing nature can be, and how we are all truly connected through it. yet, we have so much we still can learn from one…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Termination Shock

  a Novel

  Stephenson, Neal

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  This cli-fi is set in the near future with intertwining stories from vastly different global socioeconomic viewpoints that keep it flowing. Global climate politics are not just policy wonky discussions here, but plot twists with an elaborate network…Read moreRead more of this annotation