Here are 2 books that Bomber County fans have personally recommended if you like
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It's a gripping memoir and a history of the building in Berlin to which Kirsty Bell had fled after a divorce. It's an emotional ride of the undercurrents of all our lives that in the way of unercurrents keep shifting shape. It's fascinating both as an intensely personal and deep historical story.
Humane, thought provoking, and moving, this hybrid literary portrait of a place makes the case for radical close readings: of ourselves, our cities, and our histories.
The Undercurrents is a dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism told from a precise vantage point: a stately nineteenth-century house on Berlin’s Landwehr Canal, a site at the center of great historical changes, but also smaller domestic ones. The view from this house offers a ringside seat onto the city’s theater of action. The building has stood on the banks of the canal since 1869, its feet in the West but looking…
The dragons of Yuro have been hunted to extinction.
On a small, isolated island, in a reclusive forest, lives bandit leader Marani and her brother Jacks. With their outlaw band they rob from the rich to feed themselves, raiding carriages and dodging the occasional vindictive…
The book introduced me to a new world of plants, their intelligence and preferences. They, too, are thinking and feeling beings! For example, when a bee settles on a flower, the plant decides whether to give it lots or little honey depending on that particula bee. I am sure the book will also change your attitude to all the plant life around us.
"teeming with fascinating and enlightening insights" Observer
A narrative investigation into the new science of plant intelligence and sentience, from National Association of Science Writers Award winner and Livingston Award finalist Zoe Schlanger.
Look at the green organism across the room or through the window: the potted plant, or the grass or a tree. Think how a life spent constantly growing yet rooted in a single spot comes with tremendous challenges. To meet them, plants have come up with some of the most creative methods for surviving of any living thing - us included. Many are so ingenious that they…
