LibraryAware October 2025

Calling All Patrons. . .

Do you have a book you would love to recommend to other patrons? We would like to hear from you! Please click on the link below and fill out the form. (Your title should be part of the Avon Lake Library collection.) The review may be posted in the library for patrons who are looking for book suggestions.

http://alpl.org/patron-picks/

Recent Releases

The age of melt : what glaciers, ice mummies, and ancient artifacts teach us about climate, culture, and a future without ice
by Lisa Baril

Explores the deep-rooted cultural connection between humans and ice through time while examining the artifacts being found in melting ice and what these artifacts reveal about culture, wilderness and what we gain when we rethink our relationship to the world of ice. 10,000 first printing. Illustrations.

Intraterrestrials: Discovering the Strangest Life on Earth
by Karen G. Lloyd

Microbial biogeochemist Karen G. Lloyd introduces us to a mind-bending branch of science in her debut. It turns out that most life on Earth is composed of microbes living beneath the Earth’s crust or the ocean floors, derives energy from chemicals rather than light, and might have the ability to survive for eons. Science readers will be enthralled by these ideas that “defy assumptions about the laws of nature” (Publishers Weekly).

How To Save the Amazon: A Journalist's Fatal Quest for Answers
by Dom Phillips with contributors

In 2022, before finishing this book, British journalist Dom Phillips was murdered in Brazil’s Javari Valley by people acting on behalf of the illegal fishing industry. His work movingly brings to light the difficulty of reconciling concerns of ecology, economics, social class, and environmental justice. More stories about the dangerous cost of environmental protection can be found in Masters of the Lost Land by Heriberto Araujo and Tree Thieves by Lyndsie Bourgon.

Contact your librarian for more great books!