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• The Overstory

  a Novel

  Powers, Richard, 1957-

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  A novel of activism and natural-world power presents interlocking fables about nine remarkable strangers who are summoned in different ways by trees for an ultimate, brutal stand to save the continent's few remaining acres of virgin forest.

• In the Woods

  French, Tana

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  Detective Rob Ryan is investigating a murder case in a small Irish town, a case he was directly involved in twenty years earlier, but about which he remembers nothing.

• Birnam Wood

  Catton, Eleanor, 1985-

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  Follows members of the guerilla gardening collective Birnam Wood as they undertake a new project on abandoned farmland, funded by a charismatic tech billionaire.

• North Woods

  a Novel

  Mason, Daniel (Daniel Philippe),

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  A novel about a yellow house in the woods located in Western Massachusetts and its various inhabitants throughout four centuries, beginning with a Puritan couple from the 1760s and ending some time in the future.

• The Island of Missing Trees

  Shafak, Elif, 1971-

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  Set in Cypress, a love story story spanning 40 years that begins with Defne and Costas meeting in high school, parting, then meeting again as adults as they search for people lost from the civil war.

• Greenwood

  a Novel

  Christie, Michael, 1976-

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  A story told in generational layers beginning in 2038 and moving back in forth in time, highlighting the pivotal time periods of the tree-loving Greenwood family.

• Harry's Trees

  Cohen, Jon,

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  Harry, an analyst for the US Forest Service, retreats to the remote woods of northeastern Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains to lose himself and be alone after his wife dies suddenly. He encounters a mother and her daughter who are also struggling…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 Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

  King, Stephen, 1947-

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  A young girl lost in the woods listens to a Boston Red Sox game for comfort while a multitude of thoughts concerning her parents' newly divorced status runs through her mind. There may be something threatening in the woods, then again, there may not…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Road

  McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023

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  A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what awaits them there. They have a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Barkskins

  a Novel

  Proulx, Annie

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  Rene Sel, an illiterate woodsman bound to a seigneur for three years in exchange for land, suffers hardship and violence, and is in awe of the forest he is charged with clearing. This epic novel spans generations and recounts the various trials and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

  Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962-

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  Janina has a reputation as a crank and a recluse among residents in the remote Polish village where she lives. A neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead, and soon other bodies are discovered. Suspicions mount, and Janina believes she knows who did it, but…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Butcher of the Forest

  Mohamed, Premee,

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  At the northern edge of a land ruled by a merciless foreign tyrant lies a wild, forbidden forest ruled by powerful magic. Veris Thorn--the only one to ever enter the forest and survive--is forced to go back inside to retrieve the tyrant's missing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• History of Wolves

  a Novel

  Fridlund, Emily,

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  14 year-old Linda is an outsider at school and lives with her parents deep in the woods in northern Minnesota. A young family moves into a house across the lake, and Linda begins babysitting 4 year-old Paul. Things do not go as planned, and the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Where the Forest Meets the Stars

  Vanderah, Glendy,

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  Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. When a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin in the woods, Joanna enlists the help of her…Read moreRead more of this annotation