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  • Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging
    Jessica J. Lee
    Paperback: 06/17/2025
     
    A prize-winning memoirist and nature writer turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human world to ...
  • Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
    Caroline Fraser
    Hardcover: 06/10/2025
     
    From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Prairie Fires comes a terrifying true-crime history of serial ...
  • The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex
    Melissa Febos
    Hardcover: 06/03/2025
     
    From the national bestselling author of Girlhood, an examination of the solitude, freedoms, and feminist ...
  • The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
    Hampton Sides
    Paperback: 05/27/2025
     
    From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age ...
  • Move Like Water: My Story of the Sea
    Hannah Stowe
    Paperback: 05/27/2025
     
    A book to sweep you away from the shore, into a wild world of water, whale, storm, and starlight— to ...
  • Veena Dinavahi
    Hardcover: 05/20/2025
     
    In this darkly humorous and wrenchingly sincere memoir, a young Indian American woman's dreams of being a well...
  • 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: 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 ...
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