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Check out our book choices for October/November! As always, be sure to visit local bookstore and USVLT business partner White Birch Books to get your copy!

• Birding to Change the World, by Trish O’Kane
  A genre-bending read that weaves together memoir, nature, science and ecology writing, conservation imperatives, and community activism, with the singular through-line of a love of birding. Immersive, funny & inspiring; author is a professor at the University of Vermont.

• Fieldwork: A Forager’s Memoir, by Iliana Regan
  A memoir of a family’s ties to the land, and a young woman’s navigation of adulthood, working to make a living and a life in harmony with nature as a chef in the boreal forest of Michigan. Long-listed for the National Book Award.

• Underland: A Deep Time Journey, by Robert McFarlane
  Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award, this book is an epic exploration of the mostly unseen spaces beneath our feet. Reveals the magic and power of geologic space and time.

• American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West, by Nate Blakeslee
  A riveting story about bringing the American Wolf back from virtual extinction and the collision of forces that resulted - conservation, politics, culture & agriculture - with a charismatic wolf matriarch at its center. Outside Magazine’s Best Adventure Book of 2017.

• The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural & Agricultural, by Wendell Berry
  A classic and timeless collection of Wendell Berry’s essays and reflections that make the case that the “gift” of good land demands responsible stewardship.