Book Bingo NW 2024: EnvironmentalLike this list

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• Afterglow

  Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors

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  Fiction. Hopeful and forward-looking futuristic short stories that explore how the power of storytelling can help create the world we need. (Publisher)

• I Want a Better Catastrophe

  Navigating the Climate Crisis With Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor : An Existential Manual for Tragic Optimists, Can-do Pessimists, and Compassionate Doomers

  Boyd, Andrew, 1962-

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  Nonfiction. A passionate call to climate action that bursts with wit, emotion, and action from a diverse range of expert voices on the front lines of climate change.

• Firebugs

  Bulling, Nino, 1986-

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  GN. A tender, probing exploration of queer identity in a world seemingly on the verge of collapse. (Library Journal)

• Parable of the Sower

  Butler, Octavia E.

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  Fiction. A young woman with empathic abilities joins a group of refugees in Northern California after the country is devastated by disasters. Can she survive the suffering of others she feels so vividly? 2024 Seattle Reads pick!

• A Darker Wilderness

  Black Nature Writing From Soil to Stars

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  Nonfiction. A constellation of luminary writers reflect on the significance of nature in their lived experience and on the role of nature in the lives of Black folks in the United States. (Publisher)

• Soil

  the Story of a Black Mother's Garden

  Dungy, Camille T., 1972-

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  Nonfiction: Poet and scholar Camille T. Dungy recounts the seven-year odyssey to diversify her garden...and why cultivating diverse and intersectional language in our national discourse about the environment is the best means of protecting…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Street Trees of Seattle

  An Illustrated Walking Guide

  Ebrahimi, Taha

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  Nonfiction: The Stranger called it "a charming book full of hand-drawn maps, detailed sketches of leaf and petal shapes and bark patterns, and tons of very nerdy, very fascinating history about how certain species of trees got to Seattle…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Crossings

  How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

  Goldfarb, Ben (Environmental journalist)

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  Nonfiction: An eye-opening and witty account of the global ecological transformations wrought by roads...Crossings also shows us how to create a better future for all living beings.

• Fresh Banana Leaves

  Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science

  Hernandez, Jessica, 1990-

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  Nonfiction. An environmental scientist exposes how capitalism and colonialism have ravaged native landscapes and cultures, and explores how Indigenous practices can help restore the natural world.

• World Running Down

  Hess, Al

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  Fiction. A trans man scavenging the climate-ravaged Utah desert dreams of a better life, but are his dreams based on fact or fantasy? Hess asks what it means to build community and be true to yourself in a hostile world.

• Open Throat

  Hoke, Henry, 1983-

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  Fiction. A queer and dangerously hungry mountain lion lives in the drought-devastated land under the Hollywood sign...Do they want to eat a person, or become one? (Publisher)

• The Old Woman and the River

  Ismāʻīl, Ismāʻīl Fahd

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  Fiction: In a land ravaged by war and deprived of its inhabitants, a returnee embarks upon regeneration of land, memory, and relationship ...with a gentle yet gripping introduction to a story that unfolds gracefully. (Inside Arabia)

• The End of Ice

  Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption

  Jamail, Dahr

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  Nonfiction. Journalist Jamail provides a sobering assessment of the current state of climate change (what he terms "climate disruption") in this well-researched and vividly detailed account of key sites under ecological stress.

• The Free People's Village

  Kern, Sim, 1986-

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  Fiction. When a new, high-tech highway is set to destroy a poor neighborhood in Huston, a scrappy bunch of rebels spark a national movement to fight ecofascist gentrification in a bid for their liberation.

• Gathering Moss

  a Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

  Kimmerer, Robin Wall

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  Nonfiction. A beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses. (Publisher)

• How Beautiful We Were

  a Novel

  Mbue, Imbolo

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  Fiction. Mbue writes a haunting story of a fictional African village being poisoned by nearby American industry, and its people's fight for justice amid false promises of a "green" but colonized future.

• Pod

  a Novel

  Paull, Laline

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  Fiction. A dark and provocative story of a young, deaf dolphin who navigates the treacherous waters of tradition, trauma, violence in a rapidly changing ocean.

• Lost Ark Dreaming

  Okungbowa, Suyi Davies

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  Fiction. A disastrous rise in sea levels force citizens of Lagos into high-rises once meant for the ultra-rich, where a hierarchical new society forms on old class prejudices.

• Snowglobe

  Park, Soyoung (Young adult author)

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  YA Ficttion. People exchange their privacy in order to live in in the last warm place on earth, broadcasting their comfortable lives, reality TV style, to those surviving in the frozen apocalypse.

• The Surviving Sky

  Rao, Kritika H.

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  Fiction. A married couple must navigate their contradicting values as they try to save their home: a city of sentient plants floating above a deadly planet.