Annual Book Sale 2026: My Husband's Books

Every year in September we attend the Planned Parenthood book sale, which lasts ten days. This time we visited five times. My husband's special interests at the sale are architecture and books about history; also fiction, including mysteries and science fiction.Below are six of the books Glen purchased at the 2026 Planned Parenthood Book Sale.The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise (2024) by Olivia LaingThis book has a lovely cover. Since I enjoy gardening and especially the results of gardening, I think I would like to read it also.From the dust jacket:In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth-century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live in paradise, and how can we share it while there is still time? Moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton’s Paradise Lost to John Clare’s enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque…