Orem Library

"From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined. Kim Stanley Robinson is one of contemporary science fiction's most acclaimed writers, and with this new novel, he once again turns his eye to themes of climate change, technology, politics, and the human behaviors that drive these forces. But his setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world - rather, he imagines a more hopeful...

Después de que un huracán pasa por Puerto Rico, una niña y su hermano, Antonio, descubren que se les ha volado el techo de la casa. Una lona azul lo remplaza temporalmente. Bajo su nuevo techo, Antonio cesa de hablar por completo. A pesar de esta dificultad, los hermanos se mantienen juntos, y la lona azul enciende su imaginacion ... Inspirada por experiencias de la autora en Puerto Rico, esta es una tierna historia de reconstrucción y resiliencia...

Cuando Dindim, un joven pingüino, se encuentra varado en una playa de Brasil, Joao lo rescata y lo cuida hasta que recupera la salud. Así comienza esta extraordinaria amistad que empuja a Dindim a nadar miles de kilómetros cada año para conocer a Joao y fortalecer el insólito vínculo entre un hombre y un pingüino. Inspirada en una historia real, esta es una celebración sincera del poder de la amistad, la belleza de la naturaleza y lo que realmente...

"It is in his hometown of Kolkata where Dr. Deen Datta meets, by chance, a distant relative who upends his world with the mention of a figure that has long haunted Deen's imagination--Bonduki Sadagar, the mysterious Gun Merchant of Bengali legend. A Brooklyn-based dealer in rare books, Deen, on the cusp of retirement, suddenly finds himself propelled into the depts of the snake-infested Sundarbans, in search of a shrine to the Merchant. Thus begins...

Thousands of years in the future, all the northern hemisphere is buried under the ice and snow of a new Ice Age. At the southern end of a large landmass called Ifrik, two children of the Mahondi people, seven-year old Mara and her younger brother, Dann, are abducted from their home in the middle of the night. Raised as outsiders in a poor rural village, Mara and Dann learn to survive the hardships and dangers of a life threatened as much by an unforgiving...

On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown pollutants in the Chesapeake Bay. She heads out to check what she expects to be a false alarm-and stumbles upon the first alien visitors to Earth. These aliens have crossed the galaxy to save humanity, convinced that the people of Earth must leave their ecologically-ravaged planet behind and join them among the stars. And if humanity doesn't agree, they may need to be...

Ayla lives on a beautiful tropical island surrounded by a coral reef. Her mom is a marine biologist, and every day, the two go exploring together. One day, Ayla notices that many of the fish have disappeared, and the once-vibrant corals have turned pale. She and her mom set out to save the corals--but is it too late?

Ruth, a woman of the desert people, knows about survival in the extreme conditions of the future, having learned from her Goshute, Mexican, and Mormon ancestors. Then a stranger comes to the Family cave, and she has the strong premonition that his knowledge and experience might be more valuable to the Family's survival than the water in his blood. After saving his life, she sets off with him into the desert, hoping to keep him alive long enough to...

Un pequeño pueblo ya no tiene suficiente suministro de agua, pero una niña y sus vecinos reciben la ayuda del aguador. Cuando él viene al pueblo, el agua fluye como la esperanza para toda la familia, y todos celebran su llegada.