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Where the Crawdads Sing (2018) is a coming-of-age story that seamlessly blends into a murder mystery and an ode to nature. A reminder that we are forever shaped by our childhoods, it recounts the early life of a remarkable girl, Kya, and her transformation into an equally remarkable young woman.

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Delia Owens is a wildlife scientist and writer who has cowritten three internationally best-selling nonfiction books about her research in Africa. She studied zoology at the University of Georgia and holds a PhD in animal behavior from the University of California. She’s won the John Burroughs Award for Nature Writing and has been published in journals including Nature and International Wildlife. Where the Crawdads Sing is her first novel.

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Ed Yong is a British science writer at the Atlantic. He’s written for numerous publications, received a Pulitzer Prize, and published two books: I Contain Multitudes and An Immense World.

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Earth for All (2022) is more than a book – it’s a survival guide. After centuries of industrialization, population growth, and rising inequality, our planet is now at a tipping point. We are already learning to live with pandemics, war, wildfires, and more. This guide offers timely, practical solutions for the urgent problems facing humankind.

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The Earth4All collective brings together leading economists, scientists, and ecological advocates to secure a flourishing future for humanity. In Earth for All, authors Sandrine Dixson-Declève, Owen Gaffney, Jayati Ghosh, Jørgen Randers, Johan Rockström, and Per Espen Stoknes challenge us to rethink our relationship with capitalism and industry, with an objective of securing the sweeping systemic change necessary to save the planet.

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Our Wild Calling (2020) examines how humans and other animals can enjoy mutually beneficial relationships. It explores stories and philosophy from the ecological movement, and outlines how we can move toward a more hopeful future for all Earthlings.

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Richard Louv is an author and journalist, whose interests center around connecting families and communities to nature. He is also the cofounder of the nonprofit organization Children & Nature Network. Louv’s work has appeared in The New York Times, as well as other publications, and in 2008 he was awarded the Audubon Medal.

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Finding the Mother Tree (2021) is a vivid blend of science and memoir that describes the breathtaking personal and professional journey of renowned ecologist Suzanne Simard. It unearths the strange and surprising secrets buried deep in the forests of British Columbia –⁠ and, in the process, forever alters our understanding of the natural world.

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Suzanne Simard is a forest ecologist and professor at the University of British Columbia. She has made major contributions to research on the cooperative nature of forest ecosystems and the existence of “mother,” or hub, trees. Her discoveries and life story have served as the inspiration for numerous works of fiction, including Richard Powers’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Overstory, and James Cameron’s award-winning film Avatar.

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Vaclav Smil is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Manitoba, Canada. His interdisciplinary research encompasses many fields. He was once named one of Foreign Policy magazine’s Top 100 Global Thinkers. Smil is the author of more than 40 books.

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The Emerald Planet (2007) looks at the central role plants have played in shaping the planet and its environment. New research makes use of plants, both fossilized and living, to explain how the planet got where it is, and where it might go in the future. The Emerald Planet inspired a three-part BBC series called How to Grow a Planet.

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Losing Earth (2019) tells the story of climate change, both as a scientific fact and as a political conflict. This detailed piece of long-form reporting recounts the scientific community’s early push to raise the alarm about climate change and the coordinated effort the fossil fuel industry made to thwart those warnings.

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