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Nov. 20, 2025
Rectangular photo of Brad Fox’s office bookshelf showing works on the Amazon, folk healing, plants, and indigenous cultures. Photo credit: Brad Fox.

Brad Fox—Another Bone-Swapping Event

On March 9, 2020, Brad Fox flew from New York to Peru to spend 10 days with a traditional curandero, or healer, learning about plant medicines in a remote jungle four hours’ walk from the nearest dirt road. After WHO declared the COVID pandemic two days later, Peru shut down international and domestic travel. In Another Bone-Swapping Event, Fox shares experiences from his 14 months there.

Rectangular photo of Ryan Goldberg’s office bookshelf showing books on urban ornithology, birds in America, birds in New York State, and specific species of birds. Photo credit: Ryan Goldberg

Ryan Goldberg—Bird City: Adventures in New York's Urban Wilds

Contrary to common belief, cities offer superb birding ops, Ryan Goldberg reports in Bird City: Adventures in New York's Urban Wilds. Goldberg takes readers around New York and around the year, to urban canyons, parks, rivers, & marshes, examining the impact of air quality, bright lights, window strikes, & more on 100s of bird species. Thankfully, few women today wear hats adorned with birds.

Rectangular photo of Ainissa Ramirez’s office bookshelf showing works on Black and White male and female scientists and their discoveries. Photo credit: Ainissa Ramirez.

Ainissa Ramirez—Spark: Jim West's Electrifying Adventures in Creating the Microphone

Growing up on a farm in Virginia in the 1930s, Jim West loved taking radios and other devices apart and putting them back together to figure out how they worked. In Spark: Jim West's Electrifying Adventures in Creating the Microphone, Ainissa Ramirez introduces readers aged 5-9 to West’s role in developing the ubiquitous microphone. It’s the 1st book in her children’s series on Black inventors.

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