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Botany Book Club

What is better than books and botany? Each month January through June, read a book with The Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden! Check out the monthly selections below & remember to read local, shop local, & support local! REGISTER HEREP.s. you can still find last year's selections too!

January - Brave the Wild River - 29 Jan

February - Soil - 19 Feb

March - The Seed Keeper - 25 March

April - The Botany of Desire - 29 April

May - Purple Hibiscus - 20 May

June - Gardening Can Be Murder - 24 June

  • Brave the Wild River

    Sevigny, Melissa L.
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    The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off to r...

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  • Soil

    Dungy, Camille T.
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    The Story of a Black Mother's Garden A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Book Critics C...

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  • The Seed Keeper

    Wilson, Diane
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    A haunting novel spanning several generations, The Seed Keeper follows a Dakota family's struggle to preserve their way of life, and their sacrific...

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  • The Botany of Desire

    Pollan, Michael
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    A Plant's-Eye View of the World The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind, Cooked ...

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  • Purple Hibiscus

    Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
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    From the bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life...

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  • Gardening Can Be Murder

    McDowell, Marta
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    How Poisonous Poppies, Sinister Shovels, and Grim Gardens Have Inspired Mystery Writers This fun, engrossing book takes a look at the surprising in...

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  • Braiding Sweetgrass

    Kimmerer, Robin Wall
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    Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature ...

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  • Orchid Fever

    Hansen, Eric
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    A Horticultural Tale of Love, Lust, and Lunacy The acclaimed author of Motoring with Mohammed brings us a compelling adventure into the remarkable ...

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  • Lessons from Plants

    Montgomery, Beronda L
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    An exploration of how plant behavior and adaptation offer valuable insights for human thriving. We know that plants are important. They maintain th...

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  • Bringing Nature Home

    Tallamy, Douglas W ; Darke, Rick
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    How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants "A fascinating study of the trees, shrubs, and vines that feed the insects, birds, and other animal...

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  • The Botanist's Daughter

    Nunn, Kayte
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    Discovery. Desire. Deception. A wondrously imagined tale of two female botanists, separated by more than a century, in a race to discover a life-sa...

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  • Ten Tomatoes That Changed the World

    Alexander, William
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    New York Times bestselling author William Alexander provides "an entertaining, broad-ranging history of the tomato" (Mark Pendergrast) in this fasc...

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