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American war

American war

El Akkad, Omar, 1982- author
2017


Forty signs of rain

Forty signs of rain

Robinson, Kim Stanley.
2005


A friend of the earth

A friend of the earth

Boyle, T. Coraghessan
2000

A dark, funny novel about love and activism.

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Gold fame citrus

Gold fame citrus

Watkins, Claire Vaye, author
2015


How beautiful we were : a novel

How beautiful we were : a novel

Mbue, Imbolo, author
2021

'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean up and financial reparations to the villagers are made--and ignored. The country's government, led by a corrupt, brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interest. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight the American corporation. Doing so will come at a steep price. Told through multiple perspectives and centered around a fierce young girl named Thula who grows up to become a revolutionary, Joy of the Oppressed is a masterful exploration of what happens when the reckless drive for profit, coupled with the ghosts of colonialism, comes up against one village's quest for justice--and a young woman's willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of her people's freedom.

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Orange world and other stories

Orange world and other stories

Russell, Karen, 1981- author
2019


Orleans

Orleans

Smith, Sherri L., author
2013


Oryx and Crake

Oryx and Crake

Atwood, Margaret, 1939- author
2003

Atwood projects us into a conceivable future of our own world, an outlandish yet wholly believable place left devastated in the wake of ecological and scientific disaster and populated by characters who will continue to inhabit your dreams long after the book is closed.

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Parable of the sower

Parable of the sower

Butler, Octavia E., author.
2007

"In 2025 California, an eighteen-year-old African American woman, suffering from a hereditary trait that causes her to feel others' pain as well as her own, flees northward from her small community and its desperate savages." -- (Source of summary not specified).

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Vigil Harbor

Vigil Harbor

Glass, Julia, 1956-, author
2022

A decade from now, in the historic town of Vigil Harbor, there is a rash of divorces among the yacht-club set, a marine biologist despairs at the state of the world, a spurned wife is bent on revenge, and the renowned architect Austin Kepner pursues a passion for building homes designed to withstand the escalating fury of relentless storms. Then two visitors arrive whose hidden motives come together unexpectedly in an incident that endangers lives with dramatic repercussions for the entire town.

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War girls

War girls

Onyebuchi, Tochi, author
2019

In 2172, when much of the world is unlivable, sisters Onyii and Ify dream of escaping war-torn Nigeria and finding a better future together but are, instead, torn apart.

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The water knife

The water knife

Bacigalupi, Paolo, author
2015


Weather

Weather

Offill, Jenny, 1968- author
2020

Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practice her other calling: she is a fake shrink. For years, she has tended to her God-haunted mother and her recovering addict brother. Her old mentor, Sylvia Liller, has become famous for her prescient podcast, Hell and High Water, and wants to hire Lizzie to answer the mail she receives: from left-wingers worried about climate change and right wingers worried about the decline of western civilization. As Lizzie dives into this polarized world, she begins to wonder what it means to keep tending your own garden once you've seen the flames beyond its walls.

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