Nature, Place, and the Environment

Ackerman, Diane. The Zookeeper's Wife (reviewed by Allison Stadd) History/Current Events; Nature/Place/Environment Albanese, Mary. Midnight Sun, Arctic Moon: Mapping the Wild Heart of Alaska (reviewed by Khadijah A.) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Albert, Susan Wittig, Susan Hanson, Jan Epton Seale, Paula Stallings Yost, editors. What Wildness is This: Women Write About the Southwest (reviewed by Linda Wisniewski) Anthologies/Collections; Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Albert, Susan Wittig, Susan Hanson, Jan Epton Seale, Paula Stallings Yost, editors. What Wildness is This: Women Write About the Southwest (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Anthologies/Collections; Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Ashcraft, Tami Oldham with Susea McGearhart. Red Sky in Mourning: A True Story of Love, Loss and Survival at Sea (reviewed by Linda Wisniewski) Memoir; Travel/Adventure; Nature/Place/Environment Askins, Renee. Shadow Mountain (reviewed by Gloria Cordova) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Active Life Astyk, Sharon. Depletion and Abundance: Life on the New Home Front (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Life Lessons; Nature/Place/Environment Astyk, Sharon. Making Home: Adapting Our Homes and Our Lives to Settle in Place (reviewed by Khadijah A.) History/Current Events; Life Lessons; Nature/Place/Environment Auker, Amy Hale. Rightful Place (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Cultural/Gender Focus Austin, People of. Writing Austin's Lives: A Community Portrait (reviewed by Christine Gilbert) Anthologies/Collections; Nature/Place/Environment Bash, Barbara. True Nature: An Illustrated Journal of Four Seasons in Solitude (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Nature/Place/Environment Bash, Barbara. True Nature: An Illustrated Journal of Four Seasons in Solitude (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Nature/Place/Environment Beath, Mary. Hiking Alone: Trails Out, Trails Home (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Cultural/Gender Focus Brunke, Dawn Baumann. Shapeshifting with Our Animal Companions (reviewed by Penny Leisch) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Nature/Place/Environment; Animal Companions Buyer, Laurie Wagner. Spring's Edge: A Ranch Wife's Chronicles (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Buyer, Laurie Wagner. When I Came West (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Cadwaladr, Margaret. In Veronica's Garden (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Biography; Nature/Place/Environment Caswell, Kurt, Susan Leigh Tomlinson, and Diane Hueter Warner, editors. To Everything on Earth: New Writing on Fate, Community, and Nature (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Collier, Gaydell. Just Beyond Harmony (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Costa, Temra. Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat (reviewed by Barbara L. Heller) Active Life; Nature/Place/Environment; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Costa, Temra. Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat (reviewed by Judy King) Active Life; Nature/Place/Environment; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Creasy, Rosalind. Edible Landscaping (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Creative Life; Nature/Place/Environment; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Day, Sonia. Middle-Aged Spread: Moving to the Country at 50 (reviewed by Linda Hoye) Memoir; Life Lessons; Nature/Place/Environment Deppe, Carol. The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Nature/Place/Environment; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Doherty, Janice Hoetker. A Calendar Year of Horticultural Therapy (reviewed by Sharon Wildwind) Nature/Place/Environment; Elders; Arts/Crafts Drake, Barbara. Peace at Heart: An Oregon Country Life (reviewed by Lina Tanner) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Dreisbach, Verna, editor. Why We Ride: Women Writers on the Horses in Their Lives (reviewed by Martha Meacham) Life Lessons; Nature/Place/Environment; Animal Companions Drummond, Ree. The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels (reviewed by Trilla Pando) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Durack, Katherine. Urban Dwellings: A Cincinnati Love Song (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) History/Current Events; Nature/Place/Environment Eder, Michele Longo. Salt in Our Blood (reviewed by Janet Caplan) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Edgar, David and Robin A. Edgar. Fantastic Recycled Plastic: 30 Clever Creations to Spark Your Imagination (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Creative Life; Nature/Place/Environment; Arts/Crafts Ehman, Amy Jo. Prairie Feast: A Writer's Journey Home For Dinner (reviewed by Becky Lane) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Ehrlich, Gretel. A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck by Lightning (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Flatau, Susie Kelly. Counter Culture Texas (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Food/Cooking/Kitchen; Nature/Place/Environment Flathouse, Pat. Growing Up in the Texas Panhandle (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Relationships Gates, Barbara. Already Home: A Topography of Spirit and Place (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Nature/Place/Environment Gladstar, Rosemary. Rosemary Gladstar's Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner's Guide: 33 Healing Herbs to Know, Grow, and Use (reviewed by Khadijah A.) Life Lessons; Nature/Place/Environment; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Green, Valerie. Above Stairs: Social Life in Upper-Class Victoria 1843-1918 (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) History/Current Events; Nature/Place/Environment Greenlaw, Linda. Seaworthy: A Swordboat Captain Returns to the Sea (reviewed by Martha Meacham) Memoir; Active Life; Nature/Place/Environment Gussow, Joan Dye. Growing, Older: A Chronicle of Death, Life, and Vegetables (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Elders; Life Lessons; Nature/Place/Environment Hadady, Letha, D.Ac. Naturally Pain Free (reviewed by Penny Leisch) Active Life; Nature/Place/Environment; Science Hamilton, Alissa. Squeezed: What You Don't Know About Orange Juice (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) History/Current Events; Nature/Place/Environment; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Harrington, Sheila and Judy Stevenson, editors. Islands in the Salish Sea: A Community Atlas (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Hasselstrom, Linda M. Between Grass and Sky: Where I Live and Work (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Anthologies/Collections; Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Hasselstrom, Linda M. No Place Like Home: Notes from a Western Life (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Hasselstrom, Linda M., Gaydell Collier, and Nancy Curtis. Leaning Into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Anthologies/Collections; Nature/Place/Environment Haupt, Lyanda Lynn. Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Nature/Place/Environment; Memoir Hayes, Shannon. Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity From a Consumer Culture (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; History/Current Events; Nature/Place/Environment Hayes, Shannon. Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity From a Consumer Culture (reviewed by Bobbi Chukran) Memoir; History/Current Events; Nature/Place/Environment Hess, Anna. The Weekend Homesteader: A Twelve-Month Guide to Self-Sufficiency (reviewed by Laura Strathman Hulka) Nature/Place/Environment; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Heyhoe, Kate. Cooking Green: Reducing Your Carbon Footprint in the Kitchen (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Nature/Place/Environment; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Hopper, Kippra D. and Laurie J. Churchill. Art of West Texas Women: A Celebration (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Creative Life; Nature/Place/Environment; Arts/Crafts Ingerman, Sandra & Hank Wesselman. Awakening to the Spirit World: The Shamanic Path of Direct Revelation (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Nature/Place/Environment Irish, Mary. A Place All Our Own: Lives Entwined in a Desert Garden (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Jaeschke, S. Jazz. Significance: Life Drawn From a Naturalized Poet (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Poetry; Nature/Place/Environment; Cultural/Gender Focus Jenkins, Amy Lou. Every Natural Fact: Five Seasons of Open-Air Parenting (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Relationships Keith, Lierre. The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Kenyon, Jane. Constance (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Poetry; Nature/Place/Environment; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration Kimmel, Haven. A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana (reviewed by Marti Weisbrich) Memoir; Relationships; Nature/Place/Environment Kingsolver, Barbara. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (reviewed by Trilla Pando) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Food/Cooking/Kitchen LaConte, Ellen. Life Rules: Why so much is going wrong everywhere at once and how Life teaches us to fix it (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Lappé, Anna. Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Nature/Place/Environment; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Leaming, Linda. Married to Bhutan (reviewed by Penny Appleby) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Travel/Adventure Lear, Linda. Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Biography; Nature/Place/Environment Legler, Gretchen. On the Ice: An Intimate Portrait of Life at McMurdo Station, Antarctica (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Linnea, Ann. Deep Water Passage: A Spiritual Journey at Midlife (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Travel/Adventure Linnea, Ann. Keepers of the Trees: A Guide to Re-Greening North America (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Active Life; Nature/Place/Environment Lopez, Rhonda Lashley. Don't Make Me Go to Town: Ranchwomen of the Texas Hill Country (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Active Life; Nature/Place/Environment Lovejoy, Sharon. Toad Cottages & Shooting Stars: Grandma's Bag of Tricks (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Creative Life; Nature/Place/Environment; Elders MacLeod, Sharon Paice. Celtic Myth and Religion: A Study of Traditional Belief, with Newly Translated Prayers, Poems and Songs (reviewed by Mary Jo Doig) Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Nature/Place/Environment; Cultural/Gender Focus Mankiller, Wilma. Every Day is a Good Day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women (reviewed by Khadijah A.) Life Lessons; Nature/Place/Environment; Cultural/Gender Focus; Anthologies/Collections Marsh, Sonia. Freeways to Flip-Flops: A Family's Year of Gutsy Living on a Tropical Island (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Relationships McCauley, Lucy, Amy G. Carlson & Jennifer Leo, editors. A Woman's Path (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Anthologies/Collections; Travel/Adventure; Nature/Place/Environment Merrill, C.S. Weekends with O'Keeffe (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Elders Miller, Cathleen. The Birdhouse Chronicles: Surviving the Joys of Country Life (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Moore, Kathleen Dean. Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Nature/Place/Environment Morin, Karen M. Frontiers of Femininity: A New Historical Geography of the Nineteenth-Century American West (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) History/Current Events; Nature/Place/Environment; Cultural/Gender Focus Murphy, A. Mary. Pierce: Six Prairie Lives (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Biography; Nature/Place/Environment; Relationships Niemann, Deborah. Homegrown & Handmade: A Practical Guide to More Self-Reliant Living (reviewed by Laura Strathman Hulka) Life Lessons; Creative Life; Nature/Place/Environment Norris, Gunilla. Journeying in Place: Reflections from a Country Garden (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Nature/Place/Environment Norton, Lisa Dale. Hawk Flies Above: Journey to the Heart of the Sandhills (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Norton, Lisa Dale. Hawk Flies Above: Journey to the Heart of the Sandhills (reviewed by Edith O'Nuallain) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment O'Connell, Caitlin. The Elephant's Secret Sense: The Hidden Life of the Wild Herds of Africa (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Nature/Place/Environment; Memoir; Travel/Adventure Oliver, Mary. Long Life: Essays and Other Writings (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Elders; Nature/Place/Environment; Poetry Prince-Hughes, Dawn. Songs of the Gorilla Nation (reviewed by Judith Helburn) Memoir; Body Language; Nature/Place/Environment Rabkin, Sarah Juniper. What I Learned at Bug Camp: Essays on Finding Home in the World (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Ray, Janisse. The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Nature/Place/Environment; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Rayne, Aryana. Labyrinths of British Columbia: A Guide for Your Journey (reviewed by Mary Ann Moore) Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Nature/Place/Environment Riddles, Libby and Tim Jones. Race Across Alaska (reviewed by Lina Tanner) Rogers, Susan Fox, editor. Solo: On Her Own Adventure (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Memoir; Life Lessons; Nature/Place/Environment Russell, Sharman Apt. Standing in the Light: My Life as a Pantheist (reviewed by Susan Hanson) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Nature/Place/Environment Ryder, Tracey and Carole Topalian. Edible: A Celebration of Local Foods (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Biography; Nature/Place/Environment; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Schenck, Deborah, text by Lauri Berkenkamp. Fern House: A Year in an Artist's Garden (reviewed by Lee Ambrose) Scot, Barbara J. Prairie Reunion (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Relationships Scott, Robyn. Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood (reviewed by Janet Grace Riehl) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Travel/Adventure Seeley, Tracy. My Ruby Slippers: The Road Back to Kansas (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Shell, Ellen Ruppel. Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) History/Current Events; Nature/Place/Environment; Cultural/Gender Focus Shetterly, Susan Hand. Settled in the Wild: Notes from the Edge of Town (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Shulman, Alix Kates. Drinking the Rain (reviewed by Duffie Bart) Memoir; Relationships; Nature/Place/Environment Spikes, Nellie Witt, ed. Geoff Cunfer. As a Farm Woman Thinks: Life and Land on the Llano Estacado, 1890-1960 (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; History/Current Events Stange, Mary Zeiss. Hard Grass: Life on the Crazy Woman Bison Ranch (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Steingraber, Sandra. Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Sternberg, Esther M., M.D. Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Nature/Place/Environment; Body Language Stonich, Sarah. Shelter (reviewed by Diana Nolan) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Stuckey, Priscilla. Kissed by a Fox (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Memoir; Faith/Spirituality/Inspiration; Nature/Place/Environment Stuever, Mary. The Forester's Log: Musings From the Woods (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Tate, Linda. Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative (reviewed by Sharon Lippincott) Memoir; History/Current Events; Nature/Place/Environment Terrell, Cieridwen. Part Wild: One Woman's Journey with a Creature Caught Between the Worlds of Wolves and Dog (reviewed by Martha Meacham) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Tomlinson, Susan Leigh. How to Keep a Naturalist's Notebook (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Creative Life; Nature/Place/Environment; Arts/Crafts Trethewey, Natasha. Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (reviewed by Susan Schoch) Memoir; History/Current Events; Nature/Place/Environment Tweit, Susan J. Barren, Wild, and Worthless: Living in the Chihuahuan Desert (reviewed by Dawn Wink) Nature/Place/Environment; Memoir Tweit, Susan J. Pieces of Light (reviewed by Donna B. Russell) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Tweit, Susan J. Walking Nature Home: A Life's Journey (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Relationships Valby, Karen. Welcome to Utopia: Notes from a Small Town (reviewed by Khadijah A.) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment; Relationships Van Gelder, Leslie. Weaving a Way Home: A Personal Journey Exploring Place and Story (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Memoir; Nature/Place/Environment Vernon, Susan. Rainshadow World: A Naturalist's Year in the San Juan Islands (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Vileisis, Ann. Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes From and Why We Need to Get it Back (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) History/Current Events; Nature/Place/Environment; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Warren, Spring. The Quarter-Acre Farm: How I Kept the Patio, Lost the Lawn, and Fed My Family for a Year (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Creative Life; Nature/Place/Environment; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Waters, Alice. In the Green Kitchen: Techniques to Learn by Heart (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Nature/Place/Environment; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Waterston, Ellen. Where the Crooked River Rises: A High Desert Home (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Memoir; History/Current Events; Nature/Place/Environment Weston, Julie Whitesel. The Good Times Are All Gone Now (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Memoir; History/Current Events; Nature/Place/Environment Wheeler, Robin. Food Security for the Faint of Heart: Keeping Your Larder Full in Lean Times (reviewed by Susan Wittig Albert) Nature/Place/Environment; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Wickenden, Dorothy. Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West (reviewed by Martha Meacham) Biography; History/Current Events; Nature/Place/Environment Wilkinson, Renee. Modern Homestead: Grow, Raise, Create (reviewed by Laura Strathman Hulka) Creative Life; Nature/Place/Environment; Food/Cooking/Kitchen Williams, Lorraine O'Donnell. Memories of the Beach: Reflections on a Toronto Childhood (reviewed by Susan M. Andrus) Memoir; Active Life; Nature/Place/Environment Williams, Terry Tempest. Finding Beauty in a Broken World (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Memoir; History/Current Events; Nature/Place/Environment Woginrich, Jenna. Barnheart: The Incurable Longing for a Farm of One's Own (reviewed by Khadijah A.) Memoir; Life Lessons; Nature/Place/Environment Yoest, Helen. Gardening with Confidence: 50 Ways to Add Style for Personal Creativity (reviewed by Laura Strathman Hulka) Creative Life; Active Life; Nature/Place/Environment Zickafoose, Julie. The Bluebird Effect: Uncommon Bonds with Common Birds (reviewed by Susan J. Tweit) Memoir; Creative Life; Nature/Place/Environment