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Library Spotlight - “Edible Flowers: From Garden to Palate”

September 15, 2010

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Edible Flowers cover

Want to get double duty out of your garden?  Look no further than this book, Edible Flowers by Cathy Wilkinson Barash, to find out about plants that both look and taste good.  Filled with information and recipes about a variety of plants with edible flowers, this book will expand your palate and add a special touch to your food.  Imagine how impressed your guests will be when you serve them Pansy Ravioli or Daylily Blueberry Pancakes!

To find this book in the Arboretum Library look here.

Reading the Western Landscape - Current Books

September 15, 2010

News from the Library

The Reading the Western Landscape Book Group explores the portrayal of western North American landscape in fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. The group meets the 1st Wednesday of the month at 7:00 p.m. at the Arboretum Library. The group uses the Shared Inquiry™ method developed by the Great Books Foundation. The chosen book of the month must be read in order to participate. New members welcome.

Please RSVP to the librarian, Susan Eubank via phone at 626-821-3213 or via email if you plan on attending the book group discussion.

Books that the group has previously discussed can be found here.

Current Book

Wednesday, March 7, 2012, 7:00 p.m.

Cover of Refuge

Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams; New York : Pantheon Books. 1991. 

“As Utah-born naturalist Terry Tempest Williams records the simultaneous tragedies of her mother's death of cancer & the flooding of the Bear River Migratory Bird Sanctuary, she creates a document of renewal and spiritual grace destined to become a classic in the literature of nature, women, & grieving.” from Goodreads.com . 

Future books

Saturday, April 14, 2012, 7:00 p.m.

Cover of The Log From the Sea of Cortez

The Log from the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck; New York : Viking Press. 1951. 

[…]”But Steinbeck took the world on its own terms then, as he would do if he were alive and writing today. […]And it is this clear-eyed view of the world in both its fecundity and its ongoing destruction that makes Steinbeck’s work such an absorbing account of a time long past. In an age when ocean-dwelling, and for that matter, land-dwelling, creatures are being depleted at an ever-increasing rate, Log […] remains an enriching and indelible document.” from Michael Antman, Bookslut.com . 

Wednesday, May 2, 2012, 7:00 p.m.

Cover of The Book of Dead Birds

The Book of Dead Birds by Gayle Brandeis ; New York : Harper Collins, 2003. 

"Winner of Barbara Kingsolver’s Bellwether Prize, an award in support of a literature of social responsibility, The Book of Dead Birds is an intimate portrait of a young woman at a defining moment in her life, who stands at the intersection of two cultures and races. […]having just finished her graduate work, Ava leaves her native San Diego for the Salton Sea, where she volunteers to help environmental activists save thousands of birds poisoned by agricultural run-off.” — GayleBrandeis.com 

Wednesday, June 6, 2012, 7:00 p.m.

Cover of Wisdom Sits in Places

Wisdom sits in Places by Keith H. Basso; Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996. 

For more than thirty years, Keith Basso has been doing fieldwork among the Western Apache, and now he shares with us what he has learned of Apache place-names -- where they come from and what they mean to Apaches. "This is indeed a brilliant exposition of landscape and language in the world of the Western Apache. But it is more than that. Keith Basso gives us to understand something about the sacred and indivisible nature of words and place. And this is a universal equation, a balance in the universe. Place may be the first of all concepts; it may be the oldest of all words."-N. Scott Momaday, Publisher’s website.

For more information about the Reading the Western Landscape Book Group, please contact the Arboretum Librarian, Susan Eubank, at 626-821-3213 or via email.

 

 

 

 

 

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