Essays explore the feminine qualities of life as they relate to both everday tasks and major social issues, discussing war, abortion, baths, lullabies, fundamentalism, fishing, and other topics

Nature and Other Mothers: Reflections on the Feminine in Everyday Life

Literature & Fiction

Peterson, Brenda

Essays & Correspondence

Harpercollins

A provocative and engaging portrait of sisterhood that will strike a chord with readers of such bestsellers as "Sisters" by Carol Saline and "Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood."Peterson explores the complicated bond between biological sisters and the "chosen sisters," we enjoy with friends, lovers, and co-workers. "Sister Stories" is a captivating portrayal of sisterhood as a lifelong source of strength and a lens reflecting and illuminating the wider world of women. It also features insights from psychology, mythology, history, and anthropology.

Sister Stories: Taking the Journey Together

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Penguin??Books

In Brenda Peterson's unusual memoir, fundamentalism meets deep ecology. The author's childhood in the high Sierra with her forest ranger father led her to embrace the entire natural world, while her Southern Baptist relatives prepared eagerly and busily to leave this world. Peterson survived fierce sword drill” competitions demanding total recall of the Scriptures and awkward dinner table questions (Will Rapture take the cat, too?”) only to find that environmentalists with prophecies of doom can also be Endtimers. Peterson paints such a hilarious, loving portrait of each world that the reader, too, may want to be Left Behind.

I Want to Be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here on Earth

Religion & Spirituality

Da Capo Press

In the tradition of Peter Matthiessen's Wildlife in America or Aldo Leopold, Brenda Peterson tells the 300-year history of wild wolves in America. It is also our own history, seen through our relationship with wolves. The earliest Americans revered them. Settlers zealously exterminated them. Now, scientists, writers, and ordinary citizens are fighting to bring them back to the wild. Peterson, an eloquent voice in the battle for twenty years, makes the powerful case that without wolves, not only will our whole ecology unravel, but we'll lose much of our national soul.

Wolf Nation: The Life, Death, and Return of Wild American Wolves (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

The author chronicles her life of experiences with animals, from being raised in the High Sierras on a national forest lookout station to her work preserving the wolves of the American West. 12,000 first printing.

Build Me an Ark: A Life With Animals

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

"Peterson writes of nature with an intimacy that tugs at the reader's deep memory." --Orion This is the story of a life and spirit guided by animals. Brenda Peterson was raised in the High Sierras on a national forest lookout station, and wildlife had a daily, defining influence on her life. Peterson explores her deep connection with animals, from watching grizzlies in Montana's Rockies, to keeping Siberian huskies as pets in New York City, to her work for the restoration of wild wolves. Her lively storytelling bridges the worlds of human and animal, as she fascinates us with intimate stories of her studies of wild dolphins, whales, and orcas. Peterson reveals how animal bonds have enriched her life and led her toward a wider epiphany: As a species we cannot live without other animals. "[A] wealth of fascinating anecdotes and insights. . . [an] engaging memoir." --Publishers Weekly

Build Me an Ark: A Life with Animals

W.W.Norton&Company

"Disarmingly moving...Rich and stirring...[Peterson] is a luminous prose craftsman." SEATTLE WEEKLY Like Annie Dillard's Tinker Creek or Henry Thoreau's Walden Pond, Brenda Peterson's Puget Sound transcends regional boundaries and offers storytelling as true ecology. LIVING BY WATER seeks a mystical and authentic healing of the treaty long broken betwen humans and animals and our natural homeland.

Living by Water: True Stories of Nature and Spirit

History

Americas

Fawcett Books

After the success of Living by Water, novelist and nature writer Brenda Peterson turns her eye on the nature in human nature. Her focus in mainly the feminine body -- of earth and women, of animals, human and nonhuman. Whether writing about whales or women's bathing rituals, salmon or friendship, rain forests or life-saving dreams, Peterson weaves a compelling story of the bond between nature and ourselves. This rich, expanded collection was first hailed by critics as "lyrical and life-enhancing...with large doses of wonder, humor, and warmth." The new essays include a moving appeal to seek compassion in healing our sexual lives during this time of AIDS. There are also chronicles of the birth, death, and afterlife of a baby beluga whale, and of the seagull's memory for human faces. Peterson's passionately observed subjects range from lullabies to abortion, dolphins to old-growth forests, fundamentalism to fishing. Combining her skills as a mesmerizing storyteller and nationally acclaimed nature writer, Peterson explores the healing, vital symbiosis between the sacred, sensual body of our earth and the feminine -- and intimacy which instructs and inspires, but most of all sustains us.

Nature and Other Mothers: Personal Stories of Women and the Body of Earth

Random House Publishing Group

Two different people from two very different worlds. Can a mermaid and a human boy find love? Can they survive in his world and hers? A regal and highly trained young mermaid, Marina, is on her first spy mission to Skyeworld in 2020. She comes ashore on Siesta Key, Florida where she meets feisty Lukas, a proud Cuban refugee. Marina will have to choose between the advanced civilization of Aquantis, where she has been chosen as a High Priestess, and her love for Lukas and his dangerously polluted SkyeWorld. The DROWNING WORLD is an inventive and mesmerizing saga set in a vivid future of rising seas, floating cities, and Flood Lands. Marina’s magic and skill save Lukas’ life. But can she save herself from a lifelong nemesis in her world?

The Drowning World: An Aquantis Novel

Literary

Delphinius Publishing

In this picaresque memoir—a dark and divine comedy of family and faith—acclaimed novelist and nature writer, Brenda Peterson, embraces this earthly life while her relatives prepare fervently to leave it. As a “wild, rather odd, and unknowingly subversive child,” she survives fierce “sword drill” competitions over total recall of the Scriptures and awkward dinner table questions—"Will Rapture take the cat, too?" Peterson paints such a hilarious and tender portrait that the reader, too, may want to be left behind. The memoir was selected by independent booksellers as a “Great Read” and an “Indie Next.” Chosen as a “Top Ten Best Non-fiction Book of the Year” by Christian Science Monitor, I Want to Be Left Behind celebrates what the Los Angeles Times calls her “rich and often lovely life—full of humor and Peterson’s own brand of faith.”

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Nature and Other Mothers: Reflections on the Feminine in Everyday Life

Sister Stories: Taking the Journey Together

I Want to Be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here on Earth

Wolf Nation: The Life, Death, and Return of Wild American Wolves (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)

Build Me an Ark: A Life With Animals

Build Me an Ark: A Life with Animals

Living by Water: True Stories of Nature and Spirit

Nature and Other Mothers: Personal Stories of Women and the Body of Earth

The Drowning World: An Aquantis Novel

I Want to Be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here on Earth