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Asserting Native Resilience
Paperback: June 2012

Indigenous nations are on the frontline of the current climate crisis. With cultures and economies among the most vulnerable to climate-related catastrophes...

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Aurora, Daughter of the Dawn
Paperback: November 2012

“Papa says my arrival in this mortal world was a new beginning. Papa says that every day is a new beginning and every day is heralded by the dawn. Thus he...

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Ava Helen Pauling
By Mina Carson
Paperback: June 2013

The story of Ava Helen Pauling—her rich career as an activist first for civil rights and liberties, then against nuclear testing, and finally for peace,...

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Breaking Chains
Paperback: May 2013

When they were brought to Oregon in 1844, Missouri slaves Robin and Polly Holmes and their children were promised freedom in exchange for helping develop...

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California Condors in the Pacific Northwest
Paperback: June 2013

Despite frequent depiction as a bird of California and the desert southwest, North America’s largest avian scavenger once graced the skies of the Pacific...

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Comrades of the Quest
By John Sheehy
Hardcover: April 2012

Visionary. Iconoclast. Rebel. William Trufant Foster set out in 1911 to launch the “ideal college,” and succeeded in building an intellectual liberal arts...

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Ellie's Log
By Judith L. Li
Paperback: April 2013

After a huge tree crashes to the ground during a winter storm, ten-year-old Ellie and her new friend, Ricky, explore the forest where Ellie lives. Together...

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Escaping Into Nature
Paperback: April 2013

Escaping into Nature is the story of an angler and hunter who found a cause and a calling and combined them for his life’s work. 

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Holdfast
Paperback: May 2013

Winner of the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award

Naturalist and philosopher Kathleen Dean Moore meditates on connection and separation in these...

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Hunting, Fishing, and Environmental Virtue
Paperback: June 2013

Do hunting and fishing lead to the development of environmental virtues? This question is at the heart of philosopher Charles List’s engaging study, which...

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