San Antonio College Library

The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of--and paean to--the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers's twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world...

When a heavy snow falls, Emily and Harry must postpone taking a Christmas tree to their grandparents' house for Christmas Eve, but their parents know how to celebrate in the meantime.

Twelve-year-old Billy's quest to save a historic tree draws him closer to his grandfather, one of the surveyors who used the five-hundred-year-old Witness Tree as the reference from which all points in Arlington, Texas, were measured.

A shy girl celebrates winter's end by writing a poem to a tree and is surprised when the tree writes back.

A pioneer father transports his beloved fruit trees and his family to Oregon in the mid-nineteenth century. Based loosely on the life of Henderson Luelling.