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by Annette Gordon-Reed
Pulitzer Prize winner Annette Gordon-Reed renders a perfectly quilted work of history seen through the eyes of an African American family in Texas. It follows the seldom-shared stories of descendants of enslaved Black people from the 1820s to their emancipation in Galveston on June 19, 1865.
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by Suzanne Simard
Suzanne Simard is a leading forest ecologist and a pioneer in the field of plant communication. She writes that trees are complicated, interdependent social organisms connected to one another through underground networks. This book is not just about the science, but about a deeply personal quest to understand one of the most dominant classes of species on Earth.
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“The world’s favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May.” Edwin Way Teale
And so it is with May. There is a magic to the month performed by unseen sorcerers who mist the forests with green, then sit back and watch as it explodes to dress the landscape. Any time-lapse photography shooting a few frames per hour would surely capture this miracle.
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The preparations for the May festival are many and varied and many happen in April. For instance, my friend Erin would call usually in later April to inform me that the suckers would be in full spawn a few days later. She knew these things because her dad happened to be a wildlife technician who kept tabs on the water temperatures. When the lakes and streams warm to about 12 degrees Celsius, the suckers and other more popular game fish begin their trek up t