<p><strong>*2023 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Death/Dying Grief & Loss (Small Press)</strong></p><p>News reports appear every day now on the ecological state of our planetary home and the news is not good. Ecological systems are in terrible peril, species are dying by the millions, and global warming is getting worse. Increasing numbers of people feel the impact of this, feel some form of what is being called climate grief, ecological loss, or sometimes even solastalgia. Our species is entering a time of difficult and deep mourning. As environmentalist Leslie Head has said, ¿Grief will be our companion on this journey¿it is not something we can deal with and move on.¿ It will be with us for a long time to come.</p><p>Stephen Harrod Buhner takes the reader on a journey into and through that grief to what is waiting on the other side, a place that Viktor Frankl, Jacques Cousteau, Vaclav Havel, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and so many others have found. It¿s where one becomes an en