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Author : T Coraghessan Boyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780147716712
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Friend of the Earth Readers Guide written by T Coraghessan Boyle and published by . This book was released on 2001-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : T.C. Boyle
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110156797X
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Friend of the Earth written by T.C. Boyle and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of LitHub’s "365 Books to Start Your Climate Change Library" “Fiction about ecological disaster tends to be written in a tragic key. Boyle, by contrast, favors the darkly comic.” –Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction Originally published in 2000, T. C. Boyle’s prescient novel about global warming and ecological collapse It is the year 2025. Global warming is a reality. The biosphere has collapsed and most mammals—not to mention fish, birds, and frogs—are extinct. Tyrone Tierwater is eking out a bleak living in southern California, managing a pop star's private menagerie that "only a mother could love"—scruffy hyenas, jackals, warthogs, and three down-at-the-mouth lions. It wasn't always like this for Ty. Once he was a passionate environmentalist, so committed to saving the earth that he became an eco-terrorist and, ultimately, a convicted felon. as a member of the radical group Earth Forever!, he unwittingly endangered both his daughter Sierra and his wife Andrea. Now, just when he's trying to survive in a world torn by obdurate storms and winnowing drought, Andrea comes back into his life. T. C. Boyle's eighth novel blends idealism and satire in a story that addresses the ultimate questions of human love and the survival of the species.
Author : Christopher Scotton
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1455551937
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Secret Wisdom of the Earth written by Christopher Scotton and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A marvelous debut...has everything a big, thick novel should have, and I hated to put it down." - John Grisham "A page-turner." - New York Times Book Review For readers of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, this is a dramatic and deeply moving novel about an act of violence in a small Appalachian town and the repercussions that will forever change a young man's view of human cruelty and compassion. After seeing the death of his younger brother in a terrible home accident, fourteen-year-old Kevin and his grieving mother are sent for the summer to live with Kevin's grandfather. In this town of Medgar, Kentucky, a peeled-paint coal town deep in Appalachia, Kevin quickly falls in with a half-wild hollow kid named Buzzy Fink who schools him in the mysteries and magnificence of the woods. The town is beset by a massive mountaintop removal operation that is blowing up the hills and back filling the hollows. Kevin's grandfather and others in town attempt to rally the citizens against the "company" and its powerful owner to stop the plunder of their mountain heritage. But when Buzzy witnesses a brutal hate crime, a sequence is set in play that will test Buzzy and Kevin to their absolute limits in an epic struggle for survival in the Kentucky mountains. *Includes Reading Group Guide*
Author : Frank Cottrell Boyce
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062643649
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A one-of-a-kind story of heart, humor, and finding one’s place in the universe. Prez knows that the best way to keep track of things is to make a list. That's important when you have a grandfather who is constantly forgetting. And it's even more important when your grandfather can't care for you anymore and you have to go live with a foster family out in the country. Prez is still learning to fit in at his new home when he answers the door to meet Sputnik—a kid who is more than a little strange. First, he can hear what Prez is thinking. Second, he looks like a dog to everyone except Prez. Third, he can manipulate the laws of space and time. Sputnik, it turns out is an alien, and he's got a mission that requires Prez's help: the Earth has been marked for destruction, and the only way they can stop it is to come up with ten reasons why the planet should be saved. Thus begins one of the most fun and eventful summers of Prez's life, as he and Sputnik set out on a journey to compile the most important list Prez has ever made—and discover just what makes our world so remarkable.
Author : Harry Middleton
Publisher : Pruett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780871088741
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Earth is Enough written by Harry Middleton and published by Pruett Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this touching memoir of his boyhood on a farm in the Ozark foothills, Harry Middleton joins the front rank of nature writers alongside Edward Hoagland and Annie Dillard. It is the year 1965, a year rife with change in the world--and in the life of a boy whose tragic loss of innocence leads him to the healing landscape of the Ozarks. Haunted by indescribable longing, twelve-year-old Harry is turned over to two enigmatic guardians, men as old as the hills they farm and as elusive and beautiful as the trout they fish for--with religious devotion. Seeking strength and purpose from life, Harry learns from his uncle, grandfather, and their eccentric neighbor, Elias Wonder, that the pulse of life beats from within the deep constancy of the earth, and from one's devotion to it. Amidst the rhythm of an ancient cadence, Harry discovers his home: a farm, a mountain stream, and the eye of a trout rising.
Author : T. Coraghessan Boyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780965008518
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Friend of the Earth written by T. Coraghessan Boyle and published by . This book was released on 2001* with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel set in a grim near-future Southern California follows the adventures of an ecoterrorist whose efforts to save the planet unwittingly place his own family at risk.
Author : Demitria Lunetta
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1978595417
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)
Download or read book Our Broken Earth written by Demitria Lunetta and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the near future, the tides are rising, the weather is out of control, and the rain is poison. Mal lost his family in a storm and now lives with other young people, trying to survive the changing world. Faced with the threat of the rising water and his friend’s illness, Mal and his makeshift family must travel across the country to reach a safe place. But the road is dangerous and not all will find their way safely to their new home.
Author : T. Coraghessan Boyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Friend of the Earth written by T. Coraghessan Boyle and published by . This book was released on with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 2025, and 75-year-old environmentalist Ty Tierwater is eking out a bleak loving managing a pop star's private zoo. It is the last one in southern California and vital for the cloning of its captive species. Once, Ty was so serious about environmental causes that, as an eco-terrorist committed to Earth Forever!, he endangered the lives of both his daughter, Sierra, and his wife, Andrea. Now, when he's just trying to survive in a world cursed by storm and drought, Andrea returns to his life.
Author : Julia Phillips
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525520422
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)
Download or read book Disappearing Earth written by Julia Phillips and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year National Book Award Finalist Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize Finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award National Best Seller "Splendidly imagined . . . Thrilling" --Simon Winchester "A genuine masterpiece" --Gary Shteyngart Spellbinding, moving--evoking a fascinating region on the other side of the world--this suspenseful and haunting story announces the debut of a profoundly gifted writer. One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia, two girls--sisters, eight and eleven--go missing. In the ensuing weeks, then months, the police investigation turns up nothing. Echoes of the disappearance reverberate across a tightly woven community, with the fear and loss felt most deeply among its women. Taking us through a year in Kamchatka, Disappearing Earth enters with astonishing emotional acuity the worlds of a cast of richly drawn characters, all connected by the crime: a witness, a neighbor, a detective, a mother. We are transported to vistas of rugged beauty--densely wooded forests, open expanses of tundra, soaring volcanoes, and the glassy seas that border Japan and Alaska--and into a region as complex as it is alluring, where social and ethnic tensions have long simmered, and where outsiders are often the first to be accused. In a story as propulsive as it is emotionally engaging, and through a young writer's virtuosic feat of empathy and imagination, this powerful novel brings us to a new understanding of the intricate bonds of family and community, in a Russia unlike any we have seen before.
Author : Precious McKenzie
Publisher : Britannica Digital Learning
ISBN 13 : 1615358765
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cleaning Up the Earth written by Precious McKenzie and published by Britannica Digital Learning. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young readers explore various forms of pollution and how people are cleaning up the environment.
