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 HERE. P.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
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Brave the Wild River
Sevigny, Melissa L.Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price$30.00$30.00 - $30.00Current price $30.00| /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.Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /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, DianeOriginal price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price$18.00$18.00 - $18.00Current price $18.00| /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, MichaelOriginal price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price$18.00$18.00 - $18.00Current price $18.00| /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 NgoziOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /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, MartaOriginal price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price$29.00$29.00 - $29.00Current price $29.00| /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 WallOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $35.00Original price$17.99 - $35.00$17.99 - $35.00Current price $17.99| /5.0 / 5.0
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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, EricOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price$16.00$16.00 - $16.00Current price $16.00| /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 LOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price$22.95$22.95 - $22.95Current price $22.95| /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, RickOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price$19.95$19.95 - $19.95Current price $19.95| /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, KayteOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /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, WilliamOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $27.00Original price$18.99$18.99 - $27.00Current price $18.99| /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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