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Gardening and Summer Shorts

Looking for some great summer reading? Come in and check out these featured resources, currently on display in Andersen Library’s lobby:

How Does Your Garden Grow:

  • Flowering Plant Families of the World, by V. H. Heywood, R. K. Brummit, A. Culham, O. Seberg
  • Mushrooms and Other Fungi of the Midcontinental United States, by Donald M. Huffman, Lois H. Tiffany, George Knaphaus
  • Botanical Riches: Stories of Botanical Exploration, by Richard Aitken
  • Eve’s Green Garden: the Sound of Long E, by Cecilia Minden and Joanne Meier
  • The People Look Like Flowers at Last : New Poems, by Charles Bukowski
  • Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape our Lives and Landscapes, by Gregg Mitman
  • A Botanic Garden for the Nation: the United States Botanic Garden, by Anne-Catherine Fallen
  • Amazing Rare Things: the Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery, by David Attenborough, Susan Owens, Martin Clayton and Rea Alexandratos
  • Birdscaping in the Midwest : a guide to gardening with native plants to attract birds, by Mariette Nowak
  • Flower to Honey, by Julie Murray

Here are some more you might like: UW-Whitewater books and government documents on plants and gardening and even more.

Check Out These Summer Shorts!

  • The New Family, edited by Scott Walker
  • Other countries: Black Gay Voices
  • Representative American speeches 2006-2007, edited by Jennifer Curry, Paul McCaffrey, and Lynn M. Messina
  • The Collected Short Stories of Louis L’Amour, by Louis L’Amour
  • America’s Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders who Shaped a Nation, by Kenneth C. Davis
  • Stripped: Inside the Lives of Exotic Dancers, by Bernadette Barton
  • Beowulf & Other Stories: a New Introduction to Old English, Old Icelandic, and Anglo-Norman Literatures, edited by Richard North and Joe Allard
  • Nobel Lectures: From the Literature Laureates, 1986 to 2006
  • Armageddon in Retrospect : and Other New and Unpublished Writings on War and Peace, by Kurt Vonnegut
  • CHOICE: true stories of birth, contraception, infertility, adoption, single parenthood, & abortion
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Last Revised: MS - 5/30/2008