A.E.S. O’Neill’s Nothing Can Stop Love and Murder follows Alby and Ginger Rogers in Sedona, where a climate disaster, a housing project, and a string of violent attacks threaten both their community and their marriage. The novel combines a murder mystery with a story about what it takes to keep loving someone when grief, fear, and ordinary frustrations have begun to crowd out the pleasure of being together.
Over Brooklyn Hills is a story of people and climate. It’s the third book in David Guenette’s future-based The Steep Climes quartet. This installment centers around two different plot lines: the lives of some of the notable citizens of Great Barrington, a small town in the Berkshires; and the missions of an ecoterrorist. The overarching theme is the politics of climate change, and that theme receives detailed discussion. The weather is a character by itself, with a severe heat wave and a tornado driving some of the main action in Great Barrington.
Lady of the Waves: Love in the Time of Climate Change by Sharon D. Sheltzer is a beautifully written story about a girl named Aallotar, who loses her family in a devastating tsunami while on vacation in Thailand. Desperate to find her mom, she ends up as a beggar on the streets in order to stay with a local who takes her in. She meets a boy from San Francisco there who is on a missionary trip to help traumatized orphans, and he is immediately drawn to her. Years later, destiny brings them together again at a global climate summit, which they are both a big part of. Aallotar has grown into a strong, capable young woman and gradually opens up her heart, realizing that perhaps there’s still room for love after all.
