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1. Books or videos may be borrowed for two weeks.
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3. Lost book/lost video charge: Current cost of book/video replacement, plus $10.00.
4. Books/videos may be requested by mail and will be shipped UPS at a charge of $4.00 for the first book/video, plus an additional $1.00 for a second book/video shipped at the same time.

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All of our books have been entered into the Library Thing which provides much better searching and display as well as the ability to buy your own copy of a book (and the TC gets about 5% of the purchase price).

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Bibliography

Association for the Study of Literature & Environment

Nature 101 Classics

• A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold, 1949
• Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams, 1991
• Land of Little Rain by Mary Hunter Austin, 1903
• Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey, 1968
• Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko, 1977
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau, 1854
• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard, 1974
• Woman and Nature by Susan Griffin, 1978
• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, 1962
• Practice of the Wild by Gary Snyder, 1990
• Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez, 1986
• The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich, 1985

Bluegrass Chapter of Sierra Club

• Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey (5)
• A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold (4)
• The Song of the Dodo by David Quammen(4)
• Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner (4)
• Wilderness and the American Mind by Roderick Nash (3)
• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (3)
• Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere With Migratory Birds by Scott Weidensaul (3)
• Cry of the Kalahari by Mark and Delia Owens (3)

Readers Recommend

• Abbey's Road by Edward Abbey
• Aldo Leopold: A Fierce Green Fire by Marybeth Lorbiecki
• An Almanac for Moderns by Donald Culross Peattie
• An Amateur's Guide to the Planet by Jeannette Belliveau
• Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
• Annals of the Former World by John McPhee
• Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape by Barry Lopez
• At Home in the Woods by Vena and Bradford Angier
• Bad Land: An American Romance by Jonathan Raban
• Beyond the Aspen Grove by Ann Zwinger
• Beyond the Wall by Edward Abbey
• The Bible
• Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux by John Neihardt and Nicholas Black Elk
• The Book of Yaak by Rick Bass
• Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden: Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians as told to Gilbert L. Wilson
• Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner
• California Blue by David Klass (for middle-school age)
• California Coast Trails: A Horseback Ride From Mexico to Oregon by J. Smeaton Chase
• Canadian Spring by Florence Page Jaques and Francis Lee Jaques
• Canyon Interludes: Between White Water and Red Rock by Paul W. Rea
• The Cartoon Guide to the Environment by Larry Gonick and Alice Outwater
• Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile by John Hanson Mitchell
• A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
• Control of Nature by John McPhee
• Cosmos by Carl Sagan
• The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady by Edith Holden
• The Course of Empire by Bernard DeVoto
• Cross Creek by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
• Crossing Open Ground by Barry Lopez
• Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
• Cry of the Kalahari by Mark and Delia Owens
• A Cup of Sky by Donald Culross Peattie
• Deadly Deceit: Low-Level Radiation, High-Level Cover-Up by Jay M. Gould and Benjamin A. Goldman
• Dear Children of the Earth: A Letter From Home by Schim Schimmel
• Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness by Edward Abbey
• The Desert Smells Like Rain: A Naturalist in Papago Indian Country by Gary Paul Nabhan
• The Desert Year by Joseph Wood Krutch
• Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth by William Bryant Logan
• Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappé
• The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson
• Dream of the Earth by Thomas Berry
• Dreamers and Defenders: American Conservationists by Douglas Hillman Conse Strong (photographer)
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• Dying From Dioxin: A Citizen's Guide to Reclaiming Our Health and Rebuilding Democracy by Lois Marie Gibbs
• Earth Follies: Coming to Feminist Terms With the Global Environmental Crisis by Joni Seager
• Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit by Al Gore
• Ecofeminism and the Sacred by Carol J. Adams, ed.
• Eco-Fiction by John Stadler, ed.
• Ecological Identity: Becoming a Reflective Environmentalist by Mitchell Thomashow
• Ecologies of the Heart: Emotion, Belief, and the Environment by Eugene N. Anderson
• The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability by Paul Hawken
• Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray
• Encounters With the Archdruid by John McPhee
• The End of Nature by Bill McKibben
• Entropy: Into the Greenhouse World by Jeremy Rifkin
• Environmental Decision Making in Rural Locales: The Pine Barrens by Joan Goldstein
• The Exchange Student by Kate Gilmore (middle-school age)
• Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty by W. L. Rusho
• The Everglades: River of Grass by Marjory Stoneman Douglas
• The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk
• Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World by Alan Weisman
• The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape by James Howard Kunstler
• The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural by Wendell Berry
• The Good Rain by Timothy Egan
• The Granite Pail: The Selected Poems by Lorine Niedecker
• The Late, Great Lakes: An Environmental History by William Ashworth
• The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest by Lynne Cherry (a picture book)
• Great Possessions: An Amish Farmer's Journal by David Kline
• A Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations by Clive Ponting
• The Grizzly Bear by Thomas McNamee
• The Grizzly Bear by William H. Wright
• Haa Aani, Our Land: Tlingit and Haida Land Rights and Use by Walter R. Goldschmidt and Theodore H. Haas
• The Habit of Rivers: Reflections on Trout Streams and Fly Fishing by Ted Leeson
• Heart of Thoreau's Journals by Henry David Thoreau
• High Tide in Tucson: Essays From Now or Never by Barbara Kingsolver
• How Many People Can the Earth Support? by Joel E. Cohen
• If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Heal the Earth by Helen Caldicott, M.D.
• The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature by Loren Eiseley
• In the Rainforest: Report From a Strange, Beautiful, Imperiled World by Catherine Caufield
• Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals by Linda Hogan, Deena Metzger, and Brenda Peterson, eds.Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
• The Iron Woman by Ted Hughes (middle-school age)
• The Island Within by Richard Nelson
• Journey Inward by Jean Craighead George
• Just a Dream by Chris Van Allsburg (a picture book)
• Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine
• The Legacy of Luna by Julia Butterfly Hill
• Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run by David Brower with Steve Chapple
• Letters From Yellowstone by Diane Smith
• Listening Point by Sigurd F. Olson
• Listening to Nature: How to Deepen Your Awareness of Nature by Joseph Cornell
• Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Living Downstream by Sandra Steingraber
• Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere With Migratory Birds by Scott Weidensaul
• Logan's Run by William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson
• The Long Way by Bernard MoitessierThe Lost Gospel of the Earth by Tom Hayden
• Love Me, Love My Broccoli by Julie Ann Peters (middle-school age)
• The Lost Grizzlies: A Search for Survivors in the Wilderness of Colorado by Rick Bass
• The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
• The Maine Woods by Henry David Thoreau
• Make Prayers to Raven by Richard K. Nelson
• The Man Who Killed the Deer by Frank Waters
• The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono
• The Man Who Walked Through Time by Colin Fletcher
• The Measure of a Mountain: Beauty and Terror on Mt. Rainier by Bruce Barcott
• Meeting the Tree of Life: A Teacher's Path by John Tallmadge
• The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
• Mountain in the Clouds: A Search for Wild Salmon by Bruce Brown
• Mutant Message Down Under by Marlo Morgan
• My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir
• My Wilderness by William O. Douglas
• A Naturalist's Cabin: Constructing a Dream by Cathy Johnson
• A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman
• The Natural Way of Farming: The Theory and Practice of Green Philosophy by Masanobu Fukuoka
• Nature's End: The Consequences of the Twentieth Century by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka
• Nature's Web: Rethinking Our Place on Earth by Peter Marshall
• Necessity of Empty Places by Paul Gruchow
• Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
• An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections by Jimmy Carter
• Of Wolves and Men by Barry Lopez
• Old Turtle by Douglas Woods
• One Day on Beetle Rock by Sally Carrighar
• The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
• Our Natural History: The Lessons of Lewis and Clark by Daniel B. Botkin
• Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story by Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers
• The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod by Henry Beston
• Owning It All by William Kittredge
• Parrots' Wood by Erma Fisk
• The Peacocks of Baboquivari by Erma Fisk
• The People Who Hugged the Trees: An Environmental Folk Tale adapted by Deborah Lee Rose
• The Peregrine Falcon by Robert Murphy
• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
• The Pine Barrens by John McPhee
• Places Worth Keeping: Conservationists, Politics, and the Law by Tim Bonyhady
• PrairyErth: A Deep Map by William Least Heat Moon
• The Population Bomb by Paul Ehrlich
• Preparing for the Twenty-First Century by Paul Kennedy
• The Pure State of Nature: Sacred Cows, Destructive Myths, and the Environment by David Horton
• Purple Flat Top: In Pursuit of Place by Jack Nisbet
• Quantum Politics: Greening Legislatures for the New Millennium by William R. Bryant Jr.
• Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World by Carolyn Merchant
• The Range of Light by John Muir
• A Reasonable Life: Toward a Simpler, Secure, More Humane Existence by Ferenc Maté
• The Recurring Silent Spring by H. Patricia Hynes
• Reflections in a Tarnished Mirror: The Use and Abuse of the Great Lakes by Tom Kuchenberg and Jim Legault
• Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams
• The Riverkeepers by John Cronin with Robert F. Kennedy
• The River Why by David James Duncan
• Road to Survival by William Vogt
• The Rolling Stone Environmental Reader by Jann Wenner and William Greider, eds.
• Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage by William Rathje and Cullen Murphy
• Runes of the North by Sigurd F. Olson
• A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
• The Sea Around Us by Rachel Carson
• Second Nature: A Gardener's Education by Michael Pollan
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Secrets and Lies by Nicky Hager and Bob Burton
• The Sense of Wonder by Rachel Carson
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
• The Singing Wilderness by Sigurd F. Olson
• The Sixth Extinction: Patterns of Life and the Future of Humankind by Richard Leakey
• Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered by E. F. Schumacher
• The Sneetches and Other Stories by Dr. Seuss
• The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
• Soil and Civilization by Edward Hyams
• The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions by David Quammen
• The Sound of Mountain Water by Wallace Stegner
• South of Yosemite: Selected Writings of John Muir by John Muir, edited by Frederic Gunsky
• The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abrams
• Spring in Washington by Louis J. Halle
• State of the World by Lester Brown
• The Story of My Boyhood and Youth by John Muir
• Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things by John Ryan and Alan Thein Durning
• Taking Population Seriously by Frances Moore Lappe and Rachel Schurman
• Tale of the Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
• The Talking Earth by Jean Craighead George (middle-school age)
• Talking With Nature by Michael J. Roads
• Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard
• Teewinot: A Year in the Grand Tetons by Jack Turner
• A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf by John Muir
• Tongass: Pulp Politics and the Fight for the Alaska Rain Forest by Kathie Durbin
• Topsoil and Civilization by Vernon Gill Carter
• Totem Salmon: Life Lessons From Another Species by Freeman House
• The Travels of William Bartram by William Bartram Travels in Alaska by John Muir
• Trilateralism by Holly Sklar
• Two in the Far North by Margaret E. Murie
• Under the Sea Wind by Rachel Carson
• An Unnatural Order by Jim Mason
• Unsafe at Any Speed by Ralph Nader
• The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture by Wendell Berry
• Up and Down California in 1860-64: The Journals of William Brewer by William Brewer
• Vital Signs: The Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Future by Lester Brown
• The Voice of the Desert by Joseph Wood Krutch
• Voice of the Earth: An Exploration of Ecopsychology by Theodore Roszak
• Wake Robin by John Burroughs
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau
• Wandering Through Winter: A Naturalist's Record of a 20,000-Mile Journey Through the North American Winter by Edwin Way Teale
• The Watch by Rick Bass
• When the Legends Die by Hal Borland
• Where the Blue Bird Sings to the Lemonade Springs by Wallace Stegner
• Wilderness and the American Mind by Roderick Nash
• A Wilderness Within: The Life of Sigurd F. Olson by David Backes
• Wild Goose, Brother Goose by Mel Ellis
• Wilson's World by Edith Thacher Hurd and Clement Hurd (picture book)
• Wind in the Rock: The Canyonlands of Southeastern Utah by Ann Zwinger
• Winter: Notes From Montana by Rick Bass
• Wintergreen: Rambles in a Ravaged Land by Robert Michael Pyle
• Wintering by Diana Kappel-Smith
• Wisdom of the Elders: Sacred Native Stories of Nature by David Suzuki
• Woodswoman by Anne LaBastille
• The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
• The Yosemite by John Muir