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Celebrate Arbor Day with books all about trees!

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Trees of the Carolinas Field Guide By Stan Tekiela Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781647550714
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Published: Adventure Publications - November 17th, 2020

This updated field guide, organized by leaf type and attachment, features full-color photographs and information to help readers identify trees in the Carolinas.


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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants By Robin Wall Kimmerer Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9781571313560
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Published: Milkweed Editions - August 11th, 2015

A New York Times bestseller
A Washington Post bestseller
A Los Angeles Times bestseller
Named a "Best Essay Collection of the Decade" by Literary Hub
A Book Riot "Favorite Summer Read of 2020"


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Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest By Suzanne Simard Cover Image
$30.00
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ISBN: 9780525656098
Published: Knopf - May 4th, 2021

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest—a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery


Stories of Trees, Woods, and the Forest (Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series) By Fiona Stafford (Editor) Cover Image
By Fiona Stafford (Editor)
$24.00
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ISBN: 9780593320181
Published: Everyman's Library - September 7th, 2021

A beautiful hardcover anthology of stories by a brilliant and surprising mix of classic and contemporary writers who have been inspired by trees and forests.
 


Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit By Lyanda Lynn Haupt Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780316426480
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Published: Little, Brown Spark - May 4th, 2021

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Deepen your connection to the natural world with this inspiring meditation, "a path to the place where science and spirit meet" (Robin Wall Kimmerer).


In Rooted, cutting-edge science supports a truth that poets, artists, mystics, and earth-based cultures across the world have proclaimed over millennia: life on this pla


The Language of Flowers: A Fully Illustrated Compendium of Meaning, Literature, and Lore for the Modern Romantic By Odessa Begay Cover Image
$27.99
ISBN: 9780062873194
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Published: Harper - April 7th, 2020

With gorgeous full-color illustrations, ornate decorative elements, lettering in metallic ink, and engaging text, The Language of Flowers: A Fully Illustrated Compendium of Meaning, Literature, and Lore for the Modern Romantic is a treasure for flower lovers.


Live Oak, with Moss By Walt Whitman, Brian Selznick (Illustrator), Karen Karbiener (Afterword by) Cover Image
By Walt Whitman, Brian Selznick (Illustrator), Karen Karbiener (Afterword by)
$18.99
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ISBN: 9781419748158
Published: Abrams ComicArts - March 23rd, 2021

New York Times bestselling and Caldecott Medal–winning Brian Selznick illustrates Walt Whitman like never before—now in paperback

As he was turning 40, Walt Whitman wrote 12 poems in a small handmade book he entitled Live Oak, with Moss. The poems were intensely private reflections on his attraction and affection for other men.


The Heartbeat of Trees: Embracing Our Ancient Bond with Forests and Nature By Peter Wohlleben, Jane Billinghurst (Translator) Cover Image
$26.95
ISBN: 9781771646895
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Published: Greystone Books - June 1st, 2021

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES

A powerful return to the forest, where trees have heartbeats and roots are like brains that extend underground. Where the color green calms us, and the forest sharpens our senses.


The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate--Discoveries from a Secret World By Peter Wohlleben, Tim Flannery (Foreword by), Jane Billinghurst (Translator) Cover Image
By Peter Wohlleben, Tim Flannery (Foreword by), Jane Billinghurst (Translator)
$26.95
ISBN: 9781771642484
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Published: Greystone Books - September 13th, 2016

A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER - One of the most beloved books of our time: an illuminating account of the forest, and the science that shows us how trees communicate, feel, and live in social networks. After reading this book, a walk in the woods will never be the same again.


Guardians of the Trees: A Journey of Hope Through Healing the Planet: A Memoir By Kinari Webb Cover Image
$27.99
ISBN: 9781250751386
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Published: Flatiron Books - September 28th, 2021

"EMPOWERING...KINARI WEBB IS AN INSPIRATION." --BILL MCKIBBEN

"A WONDERFUL BOOK." --JANE GOODALL

A TIMELY, HOPEFUL MEMOIR ABOUT A WOMAN SPEARHEADING A GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO HEAL THE WORLD'S RAINFORESTS AND THE COMMUNITIES WHO DEPEND ON THEM


The Language of Flowers: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) By Jane Holloway (Editor) Cover Image
By Jane Holloway (Editor)
$18.00
ISBN: 9781101907955
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Published: Everyman's Library - October 3rd, 2017

A uniquely international anthology--in a beautiful pocket-sized hardcover--that explores the richly symbolic expressiveness of flowers through poems from around the world and through the ages. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET.


Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet By John W. Reid, Thomas E. Lovejoy Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9781324006039
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - March 29th, 2022

One of Kirkus Review's Best Nonfiction Books of 2022

Clear, provocative, and persuasive, Ever Green is an inspiring call to action to conserve Earth’s irreplaceable wild woods, counteract climate change, and save the planet.


Into the Forest: The Secret Language of Trees By Susan Tyler Hitchcock Cover Image
$35.00
ISBN: 9781426218903
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Published: National Geographic - April 5th, 2022