BTBL Book Buzz: June 2023

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JUNE 1, 2023

Book Buzz

 A Monthly Collection of Librarian-selected Books by Topic

Book Buzz Bee

June 2023: Some Sage Advice

How Does Your Garden Grow?
Gardening How-To

  • Grow More Food: A Vegetable Gardener's Guide to Getting the Biggest Harvest Possible from a Space of Any Size by Colin McCrate and Brad Halm (DB107752)

  • How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening by Ruth Stout (DB53896)

  • The Complete Shade Gardener by George Schenk (DB59186 / BR15677)

  • Growing Flowers: Everything You Need to Know About Planting, Tending, Harvesting and Arranging Beautiful Blooms by Niki Irving (DB109869)

  • Jim Wilson's Container Gardening by Jim Wilson (DB59191 / BR15635)

  • Accessible Gardening for People with Physical Disabilities: A Guide to Methods, Tools, and Plants by Janeen R. Adil (DB52241)

Find Your Inner Peas
An Introspective Garden

  • Mister Owita's Guide to Gardening: How I Learned the Unexpected Joy of a Green Thumb and An Open Heart by Carol Wall (DB111998)

  • Second Nature: A Gardener's Education by Michael Pollan (DB34371)

  • The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire, and the Birth of an Obsession by Andrea Wulf (DB106168)

  • Art of Setting Stones: And Other Writings from the Japanese Garden by Marc Peter Keane (DB57696)

  • Medicine Wheel Garden: Creating Sacred Space for Healing, Celebration, and Tranquility by E. Barrie Kavasch (DB57902)

The Garden Plot Thickens
Gardening Cozy Mystery Series

  • The Darling Dahlias and the Cucumber Tree: book 1, Darling Dahlias series by Susan Wittig Albert (DBC07221)

  • Mulch: book 1, Louise Eldridge series by Ann Ripley (DB67674)

  • The Grub-and-Stakers Move a Mountain: book 1, Grub-And-Stakers series by Alisa Craig (DB68316 / BR04920)

  • Roots of Murder: book 1, Bretta Solomon series by Janis Harrison (DBC06065)

  • The Blue Rose: book 1, English Garden series by Anthony Elgin (DB65281)

  • Three Dirty Women and the Garden of Death: book 1, Three Dirty Women series by Julie Wray Herman (DBC18750)

 


These books and more are available on digital cartridge (call the Library at 1-800-992-9012 to order) or for download from the National Library Service's (NLS) online Braille Audio Reading Download (BARD) database: https://nlsbard.loc.gov/

Is there a topic you would like to see featured in a future BTBL Book Buzz? Email your suggestions to the Michigan Braille and Talking Book Library at btbl@michigan.gov.


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