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A Mountain Spruce: book two in the electrifying new series Speakers of the EarthThe council of the Speakers has just ended, and Ray Holdman must now confront gifts and capabilities that are coming to him quickly and inexplicably, in ways both frightening and dangerous. No longer certain who-or even what-he is or is becoming, Ray quickly learns that without all the help his remarkable new friends have to offer, nothing but catastrophe will follow.The backcountry of Tahoma-also called Mount Rainier-teems with elemental energy that drives and vivifies the Earth. Used properly by those gifted with its secrets, this energy is a boundless source of healing, replenishment and growth. Used wrongly, or ignorantly, it becomes an agent of fearful destruction. Now Ray must stretch his body, heart, and mind beyond anything he has ever known or imagined, in order to wield properly the power he has been given, and that he was born with. Ray''s next choices, and how he carries them out, will decide whether his newfound friends, the land, and all who live in it will live or die.  Equal parts ecological fiction and contemporary mythology, Speakers of the Earth is a riveting, hair-raising adventure from a storyteller with deep human wisdom to share, and an impassioned ode to the beauty and more-than-human intelligence of the natural world, and the humans who strive to live in community with it.

Truly a Book For All SeasonsIn her new nonfiction work You Tell the Stories You Need To Believe, queer novelist Rebecca Brown turns her attention to life's biggest questions: time, love, and how we endure. Since 1984, and most known for a novel written and set during the AIDS crisis (The Gifts of the Body), Rebecca Brown has been on the forefront of the avant-garde of American letters. You Tell the Stories You Need to Believe is an exploration of the meaning of life-as told through the cycles of the year, and the art that has been produced about each of the seasons. As Brown fans know, her distinctive sentences are reason enough to read her. One of the gifts of this book is getting to read about the artists who inspire her-from Melville to Denise Levertov, from Stravinsky to the Monkees. Not to mention the cunning and imaginative ways mythology and religion enter the mix.

The narrator of this ancient story, a crow, learns of this creature called Noah just as the woods come crashing down around him, to becomebuilding materials for the ark. The stone ax of this gray-headed beastman blasts not only the trees of the "songscape," but also the very order of things to come.At a time when our own human landscape seems increasingly challenged, Song of the Crow asks us to linger in an ancient world of elemental wonders. Sensuous and cinematic, this retelling of the Flood Myth brings us to the intelligence of another creature, our relationship to the animalsand the natural world, and the impact of free will as we struggle. Lyric, deeply imagined, charged with wisdom and wit, Layne Maheu's story asks the big questions as we understand our journey on the rising tides between the heavens and earth.