August Book Picks

Unconventional beach reads:

The Wave Watcher’s Companion: From Ocean Waves to Light Waves via Shock Waves, Stadium Waves, and All the Rest of Life’s Undulations (H) by Gavin Pretor-PinneyGet ready for a global journey like no other—a passionate enthusiast’s exploration of waves that begins with a quiet afternoon at the shore and ends with the world-class Hawaiian surf, making side trips to reveal the ups and downs of brain waves, radio waves, infrared waves, microwaves, shock waves, light waves, and much more.

Earthing: The most important health discovery ever? by Clinton Ober, Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.and Martin Zucker (H)Beneath your feet outdoors is not just a mere patch of grass, dirt, sand, or concrete. It is an omnipresent source of natural healing energy. After you read this book, you will never look at the ground the same way. We humans, as all other living beings, are electrical creatures on an electrical planet, and the ground beheath us is more than something we just , walk, play, and build on. It's summer--take your shoes off!

And now, for the traditional big, fat novel!

Land of the Painted Caves by Jean M. Auel (H)Drop into another world and stay there for 757 pages! Spellbinding drama, meticulous research, fascinating detail, and superb narrative skill combine to make The Land of the Painted Caves a captivating, utterly believable creation of a civilization that resonates long after you have turned the last page. This book brings the ice-age epic Earth’s Children series to an extraordinary conclusion.

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