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Geoffrey Carter Author Of In Bad Faith

From Geoffrey's 3 favorite reads in 2025.

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Geoffrey's 3 favorite reads in 2025

Geoffrey Carter Why Geoffrey loves this book

This sweeping epic of the relationship between ourselves and the natural world is not only amazing, it is breathtaking in its breadth and ambition. Weaving together the story threads of nine character whose lives have been deeply affected by trees and forests, the non-linear narratives join the nine from their initial captivations with nature to their political empowerment as they eventually join forces as activists. The writing is in turns beautiful, suspensful, and fascinating, as when two of the characters live on a tree stand an ancient redwood to protect it from loggers. Those passages are nothing less than revelatory. A must read for anyone who has enjoyed a walk in the woods and who would like to do so agin.

By Richard Powers ,

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40 authors picked The Overstory as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

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The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of-and paean to-the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers's twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours-vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see…


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Aggressor by FX Holden,

It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.

The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…

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Heidi Wedd Author Of The Flower Codes

From Heidi's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

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Author Plant whisperer Flower lover Nature course facilitator Herbalist Homeopath

Heidi's 3 favorite reads in 2024

Heidi Wedd Why Heidi loves this book

A fascinating read that pushes the boundaries of our previous knowledge and invites us to explore further into the past.

By Richard Patterson ,

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1 author picked Australia's Stonehenge as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.


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