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This Is Your Mind on Plants (Paperback) By Michael Pollan $18.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants, Updated and Expanded (Paperback) By Douglas W. Tallamy, Rick Darke (Contributions by) $20.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution (Paperback) By Terence McKenna $20.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
The Secret Network of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things-- Stories from Science and Observation (Paperback) By Peter Wohlleben, Jane Billinghurst (Translator) $17.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	The Secret Teachings of Plants: The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature (Paperback) By Stephen Harrod Buhner $18.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Edible Wild Mushrooms of Illinois and Surrounding States: A Field-to-Kitchen Guide (Paperback) By Joe McFarland, Gregory M. Mueller $24.95 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
Reptiles and Amphibians: A Fully Illustrated, Authoritative and Easy-to-Use Guide (A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press) (Paperback) By Hobart M. Smith, Herbert S. Zim, James Gordon Irving (Illustrator) $8.99 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea, and Human Life (Paperback) By George Monbiot, George Monbiot (Preface by) $18.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now	The Ecology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (DK Big Ideas) (Hardcover) By DK, Tony Juniper (Foreword by) $25.00 Add to Wish List On Our Shelves Now
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness (Paperback) By Peter Godfrey-Smith $19.00 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days	The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us If We Let Them (Hardcover) By Peter Wohlleben, Jane Billinghurst (Editor), Jane Billinghurst (Translator) $28.95 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days	Chasing Shadows: My Life Tracking the Great White Shark (Hardcover) By Greg Skomal, Ret Talbot $29.99 Add to Wish List NOT IN STOCK - Ships from wholesaler in 7-10 days

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Science Friday Book Club

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November: The Alchemy of Us by Ainissa Ramirez

December: The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023 edited by Carl Zimmer and Jaime Green

January: An Immense World by Ed Yong