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Wild and Distant Seas: A Novel
by Tara Karr Roberts
Hardcover: Jan 2024
Paperback: Jan 2025
A gorgeous debut, laced through with magic, following four generations of women as they seek to chart their own futures.
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Around the World in Eighty Games: From Tarot to Tic-Tac-Toe, Catan to Chutes and Ladders, a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World's Greatest Games
by Marcus du Sautoy
Hardcover: Nov 2023
Paperback: Nov 2024
An award-winning mathematician explores the math behind the games we love and why we love to play them.
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On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
by Caroline Dodds Pennock
Hardcover: Jan 2023
Paperback: Oct 2024
A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Age of Discovery by telling the story of the Indigenous Americans who journeyed across the Atlantic to Europe after 1492
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The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
by Helen Czerski
Hardcover: Oct 2023
Paperback: Sep 2024
A scientist's exploration of the "ocean engine"—the physics behind the ocean's systems—and why it matters.
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We Solve Murders: A Novel
by Richard Osman
Hardcover: Sep 2024
Solving murders. It's a family business.
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Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
by Ben Goldfarb
Hardcover: Sep 2023
Paperback: Sep 2024
An eye-opening account of the global ecological transformations wrought by roads, from the award-winning author of Eager.
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There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven: Stories
by Ruben Reyes
Hardcover: Aug 2024
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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Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life
by Ferris Jabr
Hardcover: Jun 2024
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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The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
by Olivia Laing
Hardcover: Jun 2024
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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The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial
by David Lipsky
Hardcover: Jul 2023
Paperback: Jun 2024
The New York Times best-selling author explores how "anti-science" became so virulent in American life—through a history of climate denial and its consequences.
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We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
by Kellie Carter Jackson
Hardcover: Jun 2024
A radical reframing of the past and present of Black resistance—both nonviolent and violent—to white supremacy.
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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
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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