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Working together to save a rare bird species on a Mauritius island, two naturalists, one mourning the mysterious death of her lover, the other struggling to come to terms with the disappearance of his Bosnian girlfriend, endure strange local threats and slowly learn to trust again when they unexpectedly fall in love.

A novel of the future explores a world that has been devastated by ecological and scientific disasters.

A novel set in a grim near-future Southern California follows the adventures of an eco-terrorist whose efforts to save the planet unwittingly place his own family at risk.

Having accidentally killed her mother’s birds throughout her childhood, Ava Sing Lo volunteers to help rescue poisoned birds, while Helen, Ava’s mother, remembers the time she was forced into prostitution on a segregated American army base.

More than thirty years after the closing of a nearby uranium mine, the arrival of Becky Atcitty, the daughter of a former Navajo mill worker and a woman involved in a group seeking damages for exposure to radioactive dust, sparks conflict in the life of Ryland Mahoney and his family, in the story of two families — one Navajo, one Anglo.

Working to acquire a home with just the right combination of accoutrements, New Jersey suburban housewife Heather finds her efforts challenged by dishonest real estate developers, a band of soccer moms, animal rights activists, and rattlesnakes.

Honey Santana, the bipolar, self-proclaimed “queen of lost causes,” has plans to give Boyd Shreave and his mistress a lesson in civility, unaware that she is being followed by her obsessed ex-employer and her one-time drug runner ex-husband.

A white boy transplanted from Chicago to the Arctic tundra of Alaska finds himself struggling to adapt to his new home, where he must learn to hunt, fish, and live off the land, separated from the constant call of consumer culture.

Newly single and without a college degree, Cassie is in desperate need of a paycheck and lies on her resume to get a job with Conner, a professor of animal behavior at an elite college, but her new life is about to unravel after she discovers a rare bird on a nature preserve.

Wildlife biologist Deanna is caught off guard by an intrusive young hunter, while bookish city wife Lusa finds herself facing a difficult identity choice, and elderly neighbors find attraction at the height of a long-standing feud.

College student Julie falls in love with radical student Neil, who seduces her into abandoning her life of privilege to help him tree-sit in endangered forests, a shared effort that is challenged by Neil’s increasingly militant acts.

Returning home to the Idaho potato farm she fled twenty-five years earlier, Yumi struggles with her father’s terminal illness, her mother’s Alzheimer’s, her former best friend, and a former lover who once offended the town.

A novel accompanied by a reader’s guide explores the strange things that happen in the love lives of two women — one a Japanese-American filmmaker from New York, the other a Japanese housewife — who are linked by a Japanese television show sponsored by an American meat exporter.

Domestic conflicts involving a town’s endangerment by mining plans threaten to tear apart a family when matriarch Lace contemplates fighting the mine owners and her daughter, Bant, becomes involved with a miner.

Neve Halloran and her teenage daughter, Mickey, struggle to build a new life together amid the harsh beauty of a wildlife sanctuary in Rhode Island’s South County.

In the first installment of a trilogy of eco-thrillers set in Washington, D.C., environmental aide Charlie Quibler is frustrated in his attempts to prove to a distracted government that global warming has reached cataclysmic levels, a situation that is complicated when a promising technology is exploited for private interests.

Anchorage private detective Kate Shugak and Alaska state trooper Jim Chopin pursue Louis Deem, a man arrested for and acquitted of the murder of his wife, after a witness to the shooting of a woman and her son places Deem at the scene of the crime.