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You Are Here
Written by Thomas M. Kostigen
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“A passionate and heartfelt call to care.”
—Bruce Feiler, New York Times bestselling author of Walking the Bible and America’s Prophet
In You Are Here, Thomas Kostigen, the New York Times bestselling co-author of The Green Book, takes us to the most extreme environmental areas on the planet to show how what we do from the comfort of our own home affects people, places, and things everywhere. A timely, much-needed alarm that recalls Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth combined with a compelling travel narrative reminiscent of Anthony Bourdain with straight ahead Anderson Cooper-like reporting, You Are Here is “an intriguing and insightful account that deserves to be read by everyone” (Mark Plotkin, Time Magazine Hero for the Planet).
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Thomas M. Kostigen
Thomas M. Kostigen is coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Green Book. He writes the Ethics Monitor column for Dow Jones MarketWatch and the Better Planet column and blog for Discover magazine. He lives in Santa Monica, California.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Oh I wish I had the kind of imagination these girls have. Share this with your little one and see if you can spark a creative sense of adventure!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book is a great account of two young girls using their imagination to make time fly by with their babysitter. Their imagination leads them to high depths on a random treasure hunt through the forest searching for their way back to their plane. Excellent pictures.