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There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven: Stories
by Ruben Reyes
Hardcover: Aug 2024
Paperback: Jul 2025
An electrifying debut story collection about Central American identity that spans past, present, and future worlds to reveal what happens when your life is no longer your own.
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Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging
by Jessica J. Lee
Hardcover: Mar 2024
Paperback: Jun 2025
A prize-winning memoirist and nature writer turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human world to explore belonging, displacement, identity, and the truths of our shared future
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We Solve Murders: A Novel
by Richard Osman
Hardcover: Sep 2024
Paperback: May 2025
Solving murders. It's a family business.
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The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
by Zoë Schlanger
Hardcover: May 2024
Paperback: May 2025
Award-winning Atlantic staff writer Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popular science that probes the hidden world of the plant kingdom and reveals the astonishing capabilities of the green life all around us.
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The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
by Olivia Laing
Hardcover: Jun 2024
Paperback: May 2025
Inspired by the restoration of her own garden, "imaginative and empathetic critic" (NPR) Olivia Laing embarks on an exhilarating investigation of paradise.
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So Very Small: How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs--and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease
by Thomas Levenson
Hardcover: Apr 2025
The centuries-long quest to discover the critical role of germs in disease reveals as much about human reasoning—and the pitfalls of ego—as it does about microbes.
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Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
by Sophie Gilbert
Hardcover: Apr 2025
From Atlantic critic and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sophie Gilbert, a blazing critique of early aughts pop culture.
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Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life
by Ferris Jabr
Hardcover: Jun 2024
Paperback: Apr 2025
A vivid account of a major shift in how we understand Earth, from an exceptionally talented new voice. Earth is not simply an inanimate planet on which life evolved, but rather a planet that came to life.
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A Short Walk Through a Wide World: A Novel
by Douglas Westerbeke
Hardcover: Apr 2024
Paperback: Apr 2025
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets Life of Pi in this dazzlingly epic debut that charts the incredible, adventurous life of one woman as she journeys the globe trying to outrun a mysterious curse that will destroy her if she stops moving.
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Waiting for the Monsoon
by Rod Nordland
Hardcover: Mar 2024
Paperback: Mar 2025
A legendary New York Times war correspondent delivers his unforgettable final dispatch: a deeply moving meditation on life inspired by his sudden battle with terminal brain cancer.
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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
by Cat Bohannon
Hardcover: Oct 2023
Paperback: Feb 2025
The real origin of our species: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved, offering a paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is, how it came to be, and how this evolution still shapes all our lives today
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Ilium: A Novel
by Lea Carpenter
Hardcover: Jan 2024
Paperback: Feb 2025
Set in the dark world of international espionage, from London to Mallorca, Croatia, Paris, and Cap Ferret: the gripping and suspenseful story of a young woman who unwittingly becomes a perfect asset in the long overdue finale of a covert special op
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