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October 2022: Turtles and Tortoises

For October 2022, our Nature Book Club members explored books themed around turtles and tortoises! The following is the book list presented during the October club:

• Mossy. By Jan Brett.
• The Year of the Turtle: A Natural History. By David M. Carroll.
• Lonesome George: The Life and Loves of a Conservation Icon. By Henry Nicholls
• At Home with the Gopher Tortoise: The Story of a Keystone Species. By Madeleine Dunphy (Author) and Michael Rothman (Illustrator).
• Dreaming in Turtle: A Journey Through the Passion, Profit, and Peril of Our Most Coveted Prehistoric Creatures. By Peter Laufer.
• Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival. By Bernd Heinrich.

Other books and resources that were mentioned during book club this month:

• On the Backs of Tortoises: Darwin, the Galapagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden. By Elizabeth Hennessy.
  
• Turtles of the World: A Guide to Every Family. By Jeffrey E. Lovich, J Whitfield Gibbons.
  
• The Naturalist's Notebook: An Observation Guide and 5-Year Calendar-Journal for Tracking Changes in the Natural World around You. By Nathaniel T. Wheelwright, Bernd Heinrich.
• The Name of the Tree: A Bantu Folktale. By Celia Barker Lottridge.
  
• The Ways-Of-Knowing Guide: Earth's Teachings. By Toronto Zoo.
• The Elder Tree. In The Quiet in Me. Poems by Patrick Lane, Lorna Crozier (Editor).
  

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