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Non-Fiction Book Discussion Group

An Immense World by Ed Yong
2024-12-02 18:00:00 2024-12-02 19:00:00 America/Chicago Non-Fiction Book Discussion Group This month's book is An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong. Copies are available at the library for checkout. Effingham Public Library - Luttrell Room

Monday, December 02
6:00pm - 7:00pm

Add to Calendar 2024-12-02 18:00:00 2024-12-02 19:00:00 America/Chicago Non-Fiction Book Discussion Group This month's book is An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong. Copies are available at the library for checkout. Effingham Public Library - Luttrell Room

Effingham Public Library

Luttrell Room

This month's book is An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong. Copies are available at the library for checkout.

This month's book is An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong. Copies are available at the library for checkout.

This book welcomes us into a previously unfathomable dimension -- the world as it is truly perceived by other animals. We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires (and fireworks), songbirds that can see the Earth's magnetic fields, and brainless jellyfish that nonetheless have complex eyes. We meet people with unusual senses, from women who can make out extra colors to blind individuals who can navigate using reflected echoes like bats. Yong tells the stories of pivotal discoveries in the field, and also looks ahead at the many mysteries which lie unsolved.

A library card is not necessary to attend this program but a library card is required to check out a copy of the book.

AGE GROUP: | 61+ | 19-60 |

EVENT TYPE: | Book Discussion |

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Effingham Public Library
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The Suzette Brumleve Memorial Effingham Public Library is the public library of Effingham, Illinois. We have over 50,000 books, magazines, and audio-visual materials and an annual circulation of over 250,000 items. We also offer a wide variety of programs and services. 

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This month's book is An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong. Copies are available at the library for checkout.
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