VB Reads...Environmental Conservation Book Group

Join us the second Monday of each month from 5-6pm in the Readings Gallery for the Village Books/Whatcom Land Trust co-sponsored Environmental Conservation Book Club. We discuss insightful contemporary and classic writings on the issues, inspirations, and interconnectedness related to the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Beautiful and challenging non-fiction, fiction, poetry, and more. We are always reading something interesting! Authors DO NOT attend.

The Forest Lover (Paperback)

By Susan Vreeland

$16.00

ISBN-13: 9780143034308
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Penguin Books, 12/2004

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Monday, May 13, 5:00pm

From illegal potlatches in tribal communities to artists' studios in pre-World War I Paris, Vreeland tells her story with gusto and suspense, giving us a glorious novel that will appeal to lovers of art, native cultures, and lush historical fiction.

Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas (Paperback)

By Carl Safina

$18.99

ISBN-13: 9780805061222
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Holt Paperbacks, 6/1999

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Monday, June 10, 5:00pm

Part odyssey, part pilgrimage, this epic personal narrative follows the author's exploration of coasts, islands, reefs, and the sea's abyssal depths. Scientist and fisherman Carl Safina takes readers on a global journey of discovery, probing for truth about the world's changing seas, deftly weaving adventure, science, and political analysis.

Please note: There will be no Environmental Conservation Book Group meetings in July, August, or September.

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition (Paperback)

By Jared Diamond

$18.00

ISBN-13: 9780143117001
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Penguin Books, 1/2011

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Monday, October 21, 5:00pm

(Please note: meeting is delayed one week due to Columbus Day.)

Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of societies around the world, but some found solutions and persisted. Diamond traces the fundamental pattern of catastrophe, and weaves an all-encompassing global thesis through a series of fascinating historical-cultural narratives.

The Pine Island Paradox: Making Connections in a Disconnected World (Paperback)

By Kathleen Dean Moore

$16.00

ISBN-13: 9781571312815
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Milkweed Editions, 11/2005

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Monday, November 18, 5:00pm

(Please note: meeting is delayed one week due to Veterans Day.)

Can the love reserved for family and friends be extended to a place? In her latest book, acclaimed author Kathleen Dean Moore reflects on how deeply the environment is entrenched in the human spirit, despite the notion that nature and humans are somehow separate.