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Brontosaurus Is Back!: A Dinosaur's Name and Return to Fame
This entertaining, enlightening picture book teaches about the power--and fallibility--of scientific processes through the discovery, nullification, and rediscovery of Brontosaurus.
Read MoreMother Tongue: Immersions and Other True Stories
Fabio Morábito's delightfully enlightening Mother Tongue combines personal, linguistic, and literary musings into an intriguing collection of 84 short pieces.
Read MoreEvery Story Is a Love Story
In Imbolo Mbue's profound exploration of how different people move through grief, she affirms that there is indeed life after loss.
Read MoreAnimals Taught Me Everything
Intrepid outdoorswoman Pam Houston's adventures and kinship with animals tie together these warm yet frank essays about life, travel, and species encounters.
Read MoreMusic Against the Night
Music Against the Night tells the story of the formative years of two musicians who will one day marry: John Field, the celebrated Irish composer, and Adelaide Percheron, a French pianist.
Read MoreThe New Dark Ages: The Death of Reading and the Dawn of the Post-Literate Society
What a difference a few centuries can make. According to James Marriott, a journalist for the London Times and the author of the lively but heartbreaking jeremiad The New Dark Ages, "reading is dying." It wasn't always so. Johannes…
Read MoreFind Me Where It Ends
A woman becomes attached to the dog-shaped psychopomp that presages her death in the allegorical, ultimately life-affirming fantasy novella Find Me Where It Ends by Cassandra Khaw (The Library at Hellebore).
Read MoreThe Sea-King and the Sorceress: Life and Death in the Viking Age
The Sea-King and the Sorceress provides a corrective, essential understanding of the Viking Age, serving as both a primary resource for history students and a gripping read for a general audience.
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