April 22nd is Earth Day, but I have a question: shouldn’t every day be Earth Day? Our beautiful blue marble is special and unique, and as tenants of this one-of-a-kind planet, we should be tender caretakers. If we don’t do our job, the landlord might force us to relocate to another space in the universe. That’s a move I really do not want to make.
Earth Day started in April 1970 as a way to show support for environmental protection. According to the website, earthday.org, the theme for 2024 is “Planet vs. Plastics,” and the Earth Day Organization is looking for a 60% reduction in the production of all plastics by 2040.
Searching the term “earth sciences” in the library’s catalog provides an intriguing list of titles. It makes sense that there are a lot of books about the earth because, hello, the earth is really BIG, and there’s a lot to write about. So, go do some good things for our planet – plant trees, reuse and recycle, conserve energy – and add some good earth-friendly reads to your TBR pile.
- Back to Earth: What Life in Space Taught Me About Our Home Planet—and Our Mission to Protect It by Nicole Stott
- A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters by Andrew H. Knoll
- Earth in Human Hands: Shaping Our Planet’s Future by David Harry Grinspoon
- Rescuing the Planet: Protecting Half the Land to Heal the Earth by Tony Hiss
- View from Above: An Astronaut Photographs the World by Terry Virts
New at the Library
Fiction
- The Inmate by Freida McFadden
- The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill
- Sharpe’s Command by Bernard Cornwell
Nonfiction
- The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic by Daniel De Vise
- The Fragrant Flower Garden: Growing, Arranging & Preserving Natural Scents by Stefani Bittner
- The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City by Kevin Baker
Children
- The Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II by Candace Fleming
- Summer at Squee by Andrea Wang
- A Unicorn, a Dinosaur, and a Shark Were Riding a Bicycle written and illustrated by Jonathan Fenske
This is just a small sampling of the many new titles added each week to the Fort Vancouver Regional Library District collection. Visit the district’s 15 locations, our website at www.fvrl.org, or call (360) 906-5000 to reserve titles or find additional listings.
You can email Jan at readingforfun@fvrl.org.
