2015 spring gonick 300x225Our Library

Visitors find that one of the most striking features of the Mesa Refuge is the library lining the north wall of the Gathering Room filled with hundreds of books written by Mesa Refuge authors.

Featured Books Written by Mesa Authors

Written by Mesa Authors

A Field Guide to Conservation Finance

Story Clark

Aldo Leopold

Curt Meine

Animals and Plants of the Ancient Maya

Victoria Schlesinger

Arctic Refuge

Carolyn Servid

Bad Mother

Ayelet Waldman

Beyond the Messy Truth

Van Jones

Boiling Point

Ross Gelbspan

Braiding Sweetgrass

Robin Kimmerer

Brand Name Bullies

David Bollier

Buddhist Economics: An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science

Clair Brown

Canaries on the Rim

Chip Ward

Carbon Shock

Mark Schapiro

Cartoon History of the Universe (vol. 3)

Larry Gonick

Choosing Simplicity

Linda Breen Pierce

Communities Without Borders

David Bacon

Cornered

Barry Lynn

Daring Democracy

Frances Moore Lappe

Dead Heat

Tom Athanasiou

Deep Design

Dave Wann

Deeply Rooted

Lisa Hamilton

Diet for a Dead Planet

Christopher Cook

Divorce Your Car!

Katie Alvord

Dreaming the Biosphere

Rebecca Reider

Earth Odyssey

Mark Hertsgaard

Emotional Currency

Kate Levinson

Farewell Promised Land

Grey Brechin

Fools Rush In

Bill Carter

Forward Drive

Jim Motavalli

Fugitive Faith

Benjamin Webb

Full Moon Feast

Jessica Prentice

Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape

Peggy Orenstein

Grand Obsession

Perri Knize

Hope in the Dark

Rebecca Solnit

Hope’s Edge

Frances Moore and Anna Lappé

How East New York Became a Ghetto

Walter Thabit

How to Change Your Mind

Michael Pollan

I Am Not I

Jacob Needleman

In Search of Human Nature

Mary Clark

Kitchen Literacy

Ann Vileisis

Knocking on Heaven’s Door

Katy Butler

Lake Effect

Nancy Nichols

Leap

Terry Tempest Williams

Living With The Genie

Chris Desser

Loyal to the Sky

Marina Handler

Meant to be Wild

Jan de Blieu

Money and Debt: The Solution

Thomas Greco

Money and Faith: The Search for Enough

Michael Schut

More: Population, Nature and What Women Want

Robert Engleman

Oil on the Brain

Lisa Margonelli

Omnivore’s Dilemma, Food Rules

Michael Pollan

On Good Land

Michael Abelman

One Degree West

Julene Bair

Our Common Wealth

Jonathan Rowe

Our Stolen Future

Dianne Dumanoski

Pilgrim’s Wilderness

Tom Kizzia

Pro-Voice: How to Keep Listening when the World Wants a Fight

Aspen Baker

Pulse

Robert Frenay

Raising Dough

Elizabeth U

Rectify

Lara Bazelon

Reinventing Electric Utilities

Peter Asmus

Rock, Water, Wild

Nancy Lord

Rogue Diamonds

Ellen Bielawski

Sacred Sea: A Journey to Lake Baikal

Peter Thomson

Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers

Daniel Ellsberg

Slow Money

Woody Tasch

Social Security: The Phony Crisis

Dean Baker

Ten Landscapes

Topher Delaney

Tending the Wild

Kat Anderson

The $800 Million Pill

Merrill Goozner

The Age of Dignity

Ai-Jen Poo

The American Way of Poverty

Sasha Abramsky

The Art of Dying Well

Katy Butler

The Black Women’s Health Book

Evelyn White

The Capitalism Papers

Jerry Mander

The Crusades of Cesar Chavez

Miriam Pawel

The Daddy Shift

Jeremy Adam Smith

The Divine Right of Capital

Marjorie Kelly

The Doomsday Machine

Daniel Ellsberg

The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of Race

Carl Anthony

The Edge of the Civilized World

Alison Hawthorne Deming

The Essential Crazy Wisdom

Wes Nisker

The Etiquette of Illness

Susan Halpern

The Evolution of U.S. Finance

Jane D'Arista

The Far Away Brothers

Lauren Markham

The Flickering Mind

Todd Oppenheimer

The Golden Shore

David Helvaarg

The Green Collar Economy

Van Jones

The Haida Gwaii Lesson

Mark Dowie

The Height and Depth of Everything

Katherine Haake

The Lemon Tree

Sandy Tolan

The Moral Measure of our Economy

Chuck Collins

The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative

Florence Williams

The Next Progressive Era

Ray Boshara

The Ownership Solution

Jeff Gates

The People’s Pension: The Struggle to Defend Social Security Since Reagan

Eric Laursen

The Ragged Edge of the World

Eugene Linden

The Return of the Wolf to Yellowstone

Thomas Mc Namee

The Size of the World

Jeff Greenwald

The Soul of Money

Lynne Twist

The Soul of Soil

Grace Gershuny

The Unconquered

Scott Wallace

Things Seen and Unseen

Nora Gallagher

This Is Getting Old

Susan Moon

This Organic Life

Joan Gussow

Tinkering With Eden

Kim Todd

Trace

Lauret

Trans Fats

Judith Shaw

Trespass

Amy Irvine

Uncertain Peril

Claire Cummings

Unreal City

Judith Nies

Upton Sinclair’s California

Lauren Coodley

Uranium

Tom Zoellner

Urban Economics and Land Use in America

Alan Rabinowitz

Vegan Soul Kitchen

Bryant Terry

Walking Nature Home

Susan Tweit

War Made Easy

Norman Soloman

Water Follies

Robert Glennon

Web of Water

Maya Khosla

Weighing In

Julie Guthman

What Is God?

Jacob Needleman

What Kids Really Want That Money Can’t Buy

Betsy Taylor

Wherever There’s a Fight

Elaine Elinson

Who Owns the Sky?

Peter Barnes

Whose Freedom?

George Lakoff

Why Is This Job Killing Me?

John Kachuba

Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature

Kathleen Dean Moore

Wild in the City

Mike Houck