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SUMMARY:Let's Talk About It
DESCRIPTION:The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonde
 r of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery\n\nA book discussion series moderated 
 by Annaliese Jakimides. This year's series focuses on select National Book
  Award winners. To obtain a copy please contact the library desk. This pro
 gram is free and all are welcome.\n\nAnother New York Times bestseller fro
 m the author of The Good Good Pig\, this “fascinating…touching…infor
 mative…entertaining” (Daily Beast) book explores the emotional and phy
 sical world of the octopus—a surprisingly complex\, intelligent\, and sp
 irited creature—and the remarkable connections it makes with humans.\n\n
 In pursuit of the wild\, solitary\, predatory octopus\, popular naturalist
  Sy Montgomery has practiced true immersion journalism. From New England a
 quarium tanks to the reefs of French Polynesia and the Gulf of Mexico\, sh
 e has befriended octopuses with strikingly different personalities—gentl
 e Athena\, assertive Octavia\, curious Kali\, and joyful Karma. Each creat
 ure shows her cleverness in myriad ways: escaping enclosures like an orang
 utan\; jetting water to bounce balls\; and endlessly tricking companions w
 ith multiple “sleights of hand” to get food.\n\nScientists have only r
 ecently accepted the intelligence of dogs\, birds\, and chimpanzees but no
 w are watching octopuses solve problems and are trying to decipher the mea
 ning of the animal’s color-changing techniques. With her “joyful passi
 on for these intelligent and fascinating creatures” (Library Journal Edi
 tors’ Spring Pick)\, Montgomery chronicles the growing appreciation of t
 his mollusk as she tells a unique love story. By turns funny\, entertainin
 g\, touching\, and profound\, The Soul of an Octopus reveals what octopuse
 s can teach us about the meeting of two very different minds. (Goodreads)\
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