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Our book for October is the 2019 Pulitzer Prize fiction winner, The Overstory by Richard Powers. It is an amazing read and will alter the way you look at our oldest neighbor - trees. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, this book unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth century timber wars. You learn that there is a world alongside ours - vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive and almost invisible to us. It is our great friend - trees.<br /><br />Barack Obama - &quot;It has changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it .....&quot;