We’re happy to announce the five finalists for the 2010 Orion Book Award:

• Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing: Living in the Future, by Charles Bowden (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

• The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World, by Wade Davis (House of Anansi Press)

• Rewilding the West: Restoration in a Prairie Landscape, by Richard Manning (University of California Press)

• Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing: Stories, by Lydia Peelle (Harper Perennial)

• The Barbaric Heart: Faith, Money, and the Crisis of Nature, by Curtis White (PoliPointPress)

For more information about the books and the Award, go to orionmagazine.org/oba.