More Reading

Here's 2 more dates and titles for Arbor Readers:

July 14, 2010 -- Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams, 1991.
A keen-eyed naturalist embraces adversity in this account of her mother's battle with cancer and the Bear River Refuge's struggle against the rising waters of the Great Salt Lake. Williams writes, "There is no place on earth I would rather be."

August 11, 2010 -- Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime by Kenneth Helphand, 2006
"An incredible and deeply moving history of the ways in which soldiers and civilians, often in the most extreme circumstances, have created little pockets of hope with gardens... the chronicles of imaginative resistance are almost beyond belief. "Defiant Gardens" is a moving tale that history buff and gardening enthusiast alike will enjoy.