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  • The Light Eaters
    The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
    Zoë Schlanger
    Paperback: 05/13/2025
     
    Award-winning Atlantic staff writer Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popular science that ...
  • The Afterlife of Malcolm X
    The Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon's Enduring Impact on America
    Mark Whitaker
    Hardcover: 05/13/2025
     
    Published to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of his birth, the first major study of Malcolm X's ...
  • Another Word for Love
    Carvell Wallace
    Paperback: 05/13/2025
     
    A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for healing.
  • This Is Your Mother
    Erika J. Simpson
    Hardcover: 05/06/2025
     
    From "a writer who's absolutely going places" (Roxane Gay), a remarkable, inventive debut memoir about a ...
  • The Garden Against Time
    The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
    Olivia Laing
    Paperback: 05/06/2025
     
    Inspired by the restoration of her own garden, "imaginative and empathetic critic" (NPR) Olivia Laing embarks ...
  • Women of War
    Women of War: The Italian Assassins, Spies, and Couriers Who Fought the Nazis
    Suzanne Cope
    Hardcover: 04/29/2025
     
    The gripping, true, and untold history of the Italian anti-fascist resistance during World War II, told ...
  • Girl on Girl
    Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
    Sophie Gilbert
    Hardcover: 04/29/2025
     
    From Atlantic critic and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sophie Gilbert, a blazing critique of early aughts pop ...
  • Death in the Jungle
    Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown
    Candace Fleming
    Hardcover: 04/29/2025
     
    How did Jim Jones, the leader of Peoples Temple, convince more than 900 of his followers to commit "...
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