Guardians of the Trees: A Journey of Hope through Healing the Planet by Kinari Webb
biography, climate change, health care, Memoir, Nature, nature writing, nonfiction, social justice, travel Lin Salisbury biography, climate change, health care, Memoir, Nature, nature writing, nonfiction, social justice, travel Lin Salisbury

Guardians of the Trees: A Journey of Hope through Healing the Planet by Kinari Webb

The summer after graduating from college, Kinari Webb traveled to Indonesia Borneo to study orangutans but after witnessing the devastating effects of deforestation in the region, and realizing that it was negatively effecting the health of the community, she enrolled at Yale School of Medicine to become a doctor. Guardians of the Trees: A Journey of Hope Through Healing the Planet, is Webb's memoir about her efforts to mitigate climate change and provide affordable health care to the people of Indonesia Borneo.

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Jordermoder: Poems of a Midwife by Ingrid Andersson
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Jordermoder: Poems of a Midwife by Ingrid Andersson

Andersson understands that life turns on passion, as much as breath. It is this capability, this lesson learned at her mother’s elbow and reinforced at the dovetail of delivery, that makes Andersson’s tender poems linger.

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The Guide by Peter Heller
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The Guide by Peter Heller

Peter Heller, best-selling author of THE RIVER is back with a gripping eco-action adventure, THE GUIDE, featuring protagonist Jack from his previous novel. Jack comes to Kingfisher Lodge as a fishing guide to recover from a recent loss. The lodge is nestled in a canyon on a pristine river and serves an elite clientele. Jack is assigned to guide Alison, a famous singer who knows how to cast a line. But soon after his arrival, he realizes that there is more going on at the lodge than fishing.

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Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
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Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Kimmerer writes lyrically, with the heart and eye of a poet, and the mind of a botanist. BRAIDING SWEETGRASS should be required reading. How do we get back the connections we have lost? Whatever it takes, I feel as though Robin Wall Kimmerer’s BRAIDING SWEETGRASS will be an element in that confluence, that coming together again, for me. The problem and the solution both laid out before us in this beautiful collection.

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