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• The Body

  a Guide for Occupants

  Bryson, Bill,

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  Recommended by JCLCaitlinP: Bryson breaks down the innate complexities of the human body into parts - muscles, nervous system, digestive system, etc - and dives deep in this readable and extraordinary (and often very funny) thing we all…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Drunken Botanist

  the Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks

  Stewart, Amy

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  Recommended by JCLCaitlinP: a remarkably entertaining history of how humans came up with several popular alcoholic drinks and the science behind how they happened. Readers can read along sipping their own cocktail if desired.

• This Is Your Mind on Plants

  Pollan, Michael,

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  Recommended by JCLWendyG: Pollan dives into three substances derived from plants: opium, caffeine, and mescaline, and explores how they affect the human brain, and also those shifts in consciousness affected different cultures throughout…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• American Eden

  David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic

  Johnson, Victoria, 1969-

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  Recommended by JCLWendyG: a biography of David Hosack, who was a confidante founding fathers like Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, and his quest to create America's first educational botanical garden. Part science, part history, and part…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lost Family

  How DNA Testing Is Upending Who We Are

  Copeland, Libby,

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  Recommended by JCLCaitlinT: a book that deals with how the lives of ordinary Americans were upended by the first wave of at-home DNA testing kits like 23andMe. MANY shocking family secrets were revealed - and some surprising forensic…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Finding the Mother Tree

  Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

  Simard, S. (Suzanne),

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  Recommended by JCLCaitlinT: one of the world's leading ecologists, Simard, who shows that trees are not solitary things, competing for resources - they develop networks and are interdependent and sometimes even social creatures.

• The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

  Bailey, Elisabeth Tova

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  Recommended by JCLWendyG: while ill, Bailey notices a wild snail living on the flowers by her bedside, leading to an in-depth examination of the science of an easily-overlooked animal that borders on philosophical.

• Endless Forms

  the Secret World of Wasps

  Sumner, Seirian,

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  Recommended by JCLWendyG: the flying, stinging pests that invade summer picnics are far more interesting than they seem. Sumner examines the wasp and explores the complex role they play in nature (and talks about how they've been in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• What An Owl Knows

  the New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds

  Ackerman, Jennifer, 1959-

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  Recommended by JCLGreggW: out 6/13/23, Ackerman, who wrote the critically-acclaimed "The Genius of Birds," is back with an examination of the history, science, and cultural impact of the owl, still criminally understudied due to its…Read moreRead more of this annotation