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The Booming Business of Global Warming
by McKenzie Funk
A fascinating investigation into how people around the globe are cashing in on a warming world.
"Starred Review. A well-written, useful global profile emphasizing concrete solutions rather than ideological abstractions." - Kirkus
"Funk's original, forthright take on this little-discussed profit-taking trend in the climate change sweepstakes is very unsettling." - Publishers Weekly
"Funk's take on global-warming profiteering is as entertaining as it is disturbing." - The New Yorker, Best Books of the Year
"Smart, daring, and darkly funny, Windfall offers a new take on perhaps the world's most intractable problem. McKenzie Funk is a gifted storyteller." - Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe
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McKenzie Funk is a journalist whose work has appeared in Harper's, National Geographic, Rolling Stone,GQ, Outside, and the New York Times. A National Magazine Award and Livingston Award finalist and the winner of the Oakes Prize for Environmental Journalism, he was a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, where he studied economics and systems thinking. He lives in Seattle with his wife and son.
Pony Confidential
by Christina Lynch
In this whimsical mystery, a grumpy pony must clear his beloved human's name from a murder accusation.
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