TEMPLE BOOK CLUB PRESENTS: A Conversation with Sharon White, Vanished Gardens: Finding Nature in Philadelphia March 25, 1:00 p.m. Temple professor Sharon White discusses her melodic work of creative nonfiction at this book club author event. In Vanished Gardens: Finding Nature in Philadelphia, White gives a portrait of the resilience and richness of the natural world in Philadelphia and of the ways that gardening can connect nature to urban space.