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Non-Fiction

"A Call to Farms"

By Jennifer Grayson

The rising movement of regenerative agriculture holds great promise for transforming our food system while reclaiming planetary and human health. Yet a little-known fact could amplify the call for change: Within a decade, nearly half of all farmland in America will change hands as the older generation of farmers steps aside. Meanwhile, the groundswell of new growers eager to steward that land are up against seemingly every obstacle: rising land costs, insufficient income, a Goliath industrial food system and the billionaires and corporations grabbing farmland at a staggering pace. So, how could we mobilize a new “greatest generation” of sustainable, small farmers at this crucial tipping point? How could resilient local agriculture transform our country, heal the earth and ensure healthy, fresh food is accessible to all? To answer those questions, award-winning journalist Jennifer Grayson embedded herself in a groundbreaking beginning farmer training program, then embarked on "A Call to Farms" — an investigative travelogue about the new, diverse farmers, graziers and activists working toward a stirring vision of the future. Countryman Press/W.W. Norton, 2024. ISBN: 978-1682688465. More information.

"Clamor: How Noise Took Over the World and How We Can Take It Back"

By Chris Berdik

Drawing on extensive research and original reporting, Berdik shows how a narrow understanding of noise pollution, focused on loud sounds and decibel counts, has undermined a century of noise-control efforts and obscured the true toll noise extracts on us and the environment. Chronic exposure to noise that falls below decibel-based thresholds — sometimes even below our conscious awareness — is linked to spikes in the risk of heart disease and other serious ailments that contribute to premature death. Noisy classrooms hinder developing minds and delay cognitive milestones. In forests and the depths of the ocean, a cacophony of man-made sound disrupts the natural soundscape, threatening animals' capacity to communicate, hunt and flee predators. Yet in the battle against noise pollution, sound doesn't have to be our enemy: "Clamor" introduces us to the researchers, rockstars, architects and many others who are finding surprising ways to make our world sound not only less bad, but better. Rising above the ever-increasing racket, "Clamor" is an urgent call to take noise seriously and harness sound's great potential. W.W. Norton, May 2025. ISBN: 978-1-324-00699-2. More information.

"Gaslight: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Fight for America's Energy Future"

By Jonathan Mingle

Journalist Jonathan Mingle tells the story of an epic, six-year battle between one of the country’s most powerful energy companies and the ordinary citizens who stood in the way of its massive fossil gas pipeline. On one side stood Dominion Energy, an archetypal Goliath: a corporation that commands billions of dollars and unparalleled influence over state politicians and federal government agencies alike. On the other, a diverse band of Davids: lawyers and farmers, conservationists and conservatives, innkeepers and lobbyists, scientists and nurses. Communities fought Dominion and compliant regulators in a struggle that went all the way to the Supreme Court. The company insisted the pipeline was in the public interest because it would carry natural gas, long framed by the industry as a “bridge fuel” to a clean energy future – despite mounting evidence of the climate risks posed by leaking methane and carbon emissions from new gas infrastructure. Mingle weaves that larger story of the industry’s decades-long public relations campaign to sell a fossil fuel as a “climate solution” together with the gripping, on-the-ground narrative of grassroots resistance in Virginia’s hills. Publisher’s Weekly called it “a riveting report” that “transforms ‘regulatory wrangling’ into a propulsive story.” Island Press, 2024. ISBN: 9781642832488. More information.

"The Heat and the Fury: On the Frontlines of Climate Violence"

By Peter Schwartzstein

British-American environmental journalist Peter Schwartzstein tells the story of the largely overlooked ways in which climate stress is fueling everything from urban crime to old school piracy and terror group recruitment. From the ravaged villages of Iraq, where ISIS has used drought as a recruiting tool and weapon of terror, to the pirate-ridden waters of Bangladesh — and drawing on more than a decade of reporting from dozens of countries — Schwartzstein writes about the unexpected ways in which climate change is feeding global unrest and conflict. Through the stories of the soldiers, farmers, spies and others affected around the world, he makes sense of a form of conflict that remains poorly understood, even as it devastates the lives of so many millions of people. In "The Heat and the Fury," we learn how much of a threat this chaos also presents closer to home: from exploding military arsenals to intensifying violence against women during periods of extreme heat, Western countries are not immune. Above all, this is a hands-on investigation of climate's increasingly violent frontlines, providing a further glimpse into the ways in which global warming is affecting our planet and its inhabitants. But, as Schwartzstein's unparalleled reporting shows, there's nothing inevitable about climate violence. In fact, as he sets out, the same stresses that are pitching people against one another can even help bring them back together. Island Press, 2024. ISBN: 978-1-64283-301-0. More information.

"Power Metal: The Race for the Resources That Will Shape the Future"

By Vince Beiser

The powerful ways the metals we need to fuel technology and energy are spawning environmental havoc, political upheaval, and rising violence — and how we can do better. An Australian millionaire’s plan to mine the ocean floor. Nigerian garbage pickers risking their lives to salvage e-waste. A Bill Gates-backed entrepreneur harnessing AI to find metals in the Arctic. These people and millions more are part of the intensifying competition to find and extract the minerals essential for two crucial technologies: the internet and renewable energy. In "Power Metal," Vince Beiser explores the Achilles’ heel of “green power” and digital technology — that manufacturing computers, cell phones, electric cars and other technologies demand skyrocketing amounts of lithium, copper, cobalt and other materials. Around the world, businesses and governments are scrambling for new places and new ways to get those metals, at enormous cost to people and the planet. Beiser crisscrossed the world to talk to the people involved and report on the damage this race is inflicting, the ways it could get worse and how we can minimize the damage. "Power Metal" is a compelling glimpse into this disturbing yet potentially promising new world. Riverhead Books, November 19, 2024. ISBN: 9780593541708. More information.

Fiction

"Attack of the Food Zombies"

By Dennis Meredith

Rogue scientist Edwin Kane invents the chemical gustatene that renders any food addictively delicious! Kane is pursued for his formula by corrupt food industrialists, cutthroat drug lords and Veganite terrorists battling Big Meat. And, horror of horrors, if released into the environment, gustatene is a forever chemical that would spawn a global horde of food zombies! Also after Kane are a by-the-book FBI agent, an eccentric FDA investigator and a world-renowned chef. Can the heroes stop Kane and thwart the villains? Can they cure food zombies and prevent gustatene's spread? "Attack of the Food Zombies" is not only a "sci-fry thriller," but a revelatory novel about the ubiquity and dangers of the massive industry of food additives and addictive manufactured foods. Glyphus, LLC, 2024. ISBN: 978-1-939118-26-4. More information.