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• Engaging the Senses Summer Adventure at AC Library

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  Make your summer sensational! Join us for our 2024 Summer Adventure from 6/1 to 8/1. Complete engaging activities to receive a book gift and prize drawing entries. Pick up an Adventure Guide at any library location starting 6/1 or download…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Coming to My Senses

  a Story of Perfume, Pleasure, and An Unlikely Bride

  Harad, Alyssa

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  In Harad's memoir a sudden love affair with fragrance leads to sensual awakening, self-transformation, and an unexpected homecoming.

• The Scent Keeper

  Bauermeister, Erica,

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  Bauermeister has written a moving and evocative coming-of-age novel about childhood stories, families lost and found, and how a fragrance conjures memories capable of shaping the course of our lives.

• Revelations in Air

  a Guidebook to Smell

  Stewart, Jude,

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  Smell can collapse space and time, unlocking memories and transporting us to worlds both new and familiar. Yet as clearly as each of us can recognize different smells, few of us understand how and why we smell. In this book, Stewart takes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nose Dive

  a Field Guide to the World's Smells

  McGee, Harold,

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  McGee takes us on a sensory adventure, from the sulfurous nascent earth more than four billion years ago, to the fruit-filled Tian Shan mountain range north of the Himalayas, to the keyboard of your laptop, where trace notes of phenol and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Emperor of Scent

  a Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Senses

  Burr, Chandler, 1963-

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  Chandler tells the story of Luca Turin, a biologist who proposed a radical new theory for how olfaction works--that the smell of substances is based upon the frequencies of vibration of their molecules. This book explains Turin's theory…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Being a Dog

  Following the Dog Into a World of Smell

  Horowitz, Alexandra,

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  To a dog, every breath of air is loaded with information; the world comes mostly through their noses. Horowitz, a research scientist in the field of dog cognition, unpacks the mystery of a dog’s worldview

• The Perfumist of Paris

  Joshi, Alka

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  When Radha is offered a job at a perfumery, she quickly discovered she had a talent—she could find the perfect fragrance for any customer who walked in the door. Now, ten years later, she’s working for a master perfumer, helping to design…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Truffle Hound

  on the Trail of the World's Most Seductive Scent, With Dreamers, Schemers, and Some Extraordinary Dogs

  Jacobsen, Rowan,

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  The scent of one freshly unearthed white truffle in Barolo was all it took to lead Jacobsen down a rabbit hole into a world of secretive hunts, misty woods, black-market deals, obsessive chefs, quixotic scientists, muddy dogs, maddening…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Container and Fragrant Gardens

  How to Enliven Spaces With Containers and Make the Most of Scented Plants

  Loewer, H. Peter,

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  A quick-reference guide that shows gardeners with little experience and time how to enliven spaces with containers and how to make the most of scented flowers and leaves.