Big Library Read

Looking for your next great nonfiction title? Check out this month’s Big Library Read, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America by Dan Flores. Through May 23, this e-book is available to Stanley Community Library cardholders in your Libby app at no cost without any wait lists or holds. See discussion questions and share your thoughts with readers around the world at the digital discussion board.

Wild New World is a deep-time history of animals and humans in North America, by the best-selling and award-winning author of Coyote America. In thrilling narrative style, informed by genomic science, evolutionary biology, and environmental history, Flores celebrates the astonishing bestiary that arose on our continent and introduces the complex human cultures and individuals who hastened its eradication, studied America’s animals, and moved heaven and earth to rescue them. Wild New World won the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award and the 2023 National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature, and is a Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2022.

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