Great Library E-Books for Wildlife Lovers

Here in Hillsborough County, Florida, we're fortunate to have a terrific library system. MOSI Outside's staff are insatiable readers, and the world of Kindle e-readers and e-books have opened up a whole new world for us in recent years. One of our favorite things is the ability to check out library e-books from home, without ever leaving the couch or having to change out of our pajama pants. It's helpful at work, too, where we can check out reference e-books and read them right in our browser to get information we need to take care of our butterflies and plants.

Here are some of our recommendations for e-books on butterflies, gardening, and nature available from the Hillsborough County Public Library via Overdrive. If you live in Hillsborough County, you just need a valid library card to check out any of these and thousands more, any time day or night! Need help using Overdrive? Click here, or visit your local branch for help getting started. (Don't live in Hillsborough County? Check with your own local library to find out if e-lending is available in your area.)

Click here to see the entire list on the library's website.

Reference

• Butterfly Gardening with Native Plants, Christopher Kline
• All New Square Foot Gardening, Mel Bartholomew
• The Savage Garden, Peter D'Amato
• Bringing Nature Home, Rick Darke
• The Big Bad Book of Botany, Michael Largo
• Birds of Florida, Todd Telander
• Florida Gardener's Handbook, Tom MacCubbin
• Attracting Native Pollinators, Maria Spivak
• Backyard Birding, Randy Minetor
• Botany for Gardeners, Brian Capon
• Florida Fruit & Vegetable Gardening, Robert Bowden
• Florida Getting Started Gardening Guide, Tom MacCubbin
• Florida Month-by-Month Gardening Guide, Tom MacCubbin
• Gardening with Native Plants of the South, Sally Wasowski
• The Life Cycles of Butterflies, Judy Burns
• Native Florida Plants, Robert G. Haehle

Non-Fiction

• The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan
• Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life, Marta McDowell
• Virgins, Weeders, and Queens, Twigs Way
• Wicked Plants, Amy Stewart
• Wicked Bugs, Amy Stewart
• Butterfly People, William R. Leach
• An Obsession with Butterflies, Sharman Apt Russell
• Mariposa Road, Robert Michael Pyle
• Winged Obsession, Jessica Speart
• Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis, Kim Todd
• A Garden of Marvels, Ruth Kassinger
• Bird Sense, Tim Birkhead
• Founding Gardeners, Andrea Wulf

Fiction

• The Butterfly's Daughter, Mary Alice Monroe
• The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, Jacqueline Kelly
• The Curious World of Calpurnia Tate, Jacqueline Kelly
• Flight Behavior, Barbara Kingsolver
• Lady of the Butterflies, Fiona Mountain