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  • The Country of the Blind
    The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
    Andrew Leland
    Paperback: 07/23/2024
     
    A witty, winning, and revelatory personal narrative of the author's transition from sightedness to blindness ...
  • The Garden Against Time
    The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
    Olivia Laing
    Hardcover: 06/25/2024
     
    Inspired by the restoration of her own garden, "imaginative and empathetic critic" (NPR) Olivia Laing embarks ...
  • A Gentleman and a Thief
    A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue
    Dean Jobb
    Hardcover: 06/25/2024
     
    In this captivating Jazz Age true crime about "the greatest jewel thief who ever lived" (Life Magazine), ...
  • The Parrot and the Igloo
    The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial
    David Lipsky
    Paperback: 06/11/2024
     
    The New York Times best-selling author explores how "anti-science" became so virulent in American life—...
  • Red Memory
    Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution
    Tania Branigan
    Paperback: 06/11/2024
     
    An indelible exploration of the invisible scar that runs through the heart of Chinese society and the souls of...
  • Better Living Through Birding
    Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
    Christian Cooper
    Paperback: 06/11/2024
     
    Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video that shocked a nation and into a world of...
  • We Refuse
    We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
    Kellie Carter Jackson
    Hardcover: 06/04/2024
     
    A radical reframing of the past and present of Black resistance—both nonviolent and violent—to ...
  • Fatherland
    Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets
    Burkhard Bilger
    Paperback: 06/04/2024
     
    A New Yorker staff writer investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously ...
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