Botany Book Club
What is better than books and botany? Each month, read a book with The Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden! Check out the monthly selections below & remember to read local, shop local, & support local! REGISTER HERE. P.s. you can still find previous year's selections too!
- January - The Serviceberry - 27 Jan
- February - This Poison Heart - 24 Feb
- March - The Overstory - 31 Mar
- April - Devotions - 28 Apr
- May - Dispersals - 19 May
- June - Flowers and Foul Play - 30 Jun
- July - The Garden of Evening Mists - 28 Jul
- August - Soil & Spirit - 25 Aug
- September - What We Sow - 29 Sep
- October - Weyward - 27 Oct
- November - Semoisis - 17 Nov
- December - You Are Here - 29 Dec
This Poison Heart
Bayron, KalynnDarkness blooms in bestselling author Kalynn Bayron's new contemporary fantasy about a girl with a unique and deadly power. Briseis has a gift: wit...
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Powers, RichardWinner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction - Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize - New York Times Bestseller - A New York Times Notable Book an...
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Flower, AmandaA Magic Garden Mystery, Book #1 Fiona Knox lost her fiancé and her flower shop - but when she flies to Scotland to inherit her godfather’s cottage...
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Eng, Tan TwanThis "elegant and haunting novel of war, art and memory" (The Independent) award-winning novel from the acclaimed author of The Gift of Rain follow...
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Hart, EmiliaINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A riveting debut that explores witchcraft and female intuitive powers, told over five centuries through three con...
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Burke, SueSemiosis, Book #1 Human survival hinges on an bizarre alliance in Semiosis, a character driven science fiction novel of first contact by debut auth...
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Wilson, DianeA haunting novel spanning several generations, The Seed Keeper follows a Dakota family's struggle to preserve their way of life, and their sacrific...
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Adichie, Chimamanda NgoziFrom the bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life...
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Nunn, KayteDiscovery. Desire. Deception. A wondrously imagined tale of two female botanists, separated by more than a century, in a race to discover a life-sa...
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