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And at the library people really don't care what you're checking out, they just guess it's for someone you're picking stuff up for!

Read, Renew, & Repeat!

Check out these books about conservation in light of our Summer Reading Program theme: Read, Renew, Repeat!

Good News, Planet Earth! by Sam Bentley

This guide explores and delves into amazing sustainable developments that are happening worldwide to combat global warming, pollution, deforestation, the use of wasteful products, and threats to our diverse wildlife. This book also includes 100 actionable steps you can take to fight climate change and live more sustainably.

Return of the Bison by Roger Di Silvestro

n this book, author and naturalist Roger Di Silvestro explores the complex history of the bison’s decimation and how a rising awareness of their possible extinction formed the roots of many modern wildlife conservation approaches. Weaving in natural history and fascinating historical context, Di Silvestro traces the decades it took to begin to save the bison, often with little hope and plagued by discouraging setbacks. Di Silvestro also explores the key role in the story of America’s Indigenous people, whose fate was intertwined with the bison’s.

The Bald Eagle by Jack E. Davis

For centuries, Americans have celebrated the Bald Eagle as “majestic” and “noble,” yet savaged the living bird behind their national symbol as a malicious predator of livestock and a snatcher of babies. Taking us from before the nation’s founding through inconceivable resurgences of this enduring all-American species, Jack E. Davis contrasts the age when native peoples lived beside it peacefully with that when others, whether through hunting or DDT pesticides, twice pushed this species to the brink of extinction.

We Are the Middle of Forever edited by Dahr Jamail