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| | Spring paperback releases transform some of yesteryear's most-talked-about titles into prime selections for summer vacationing, whether you're reading them on an airplane, at the beach, in the park, or poolside! Percival Everett's multi-prize-winning novel James (Vintage) is the brilliant retelling of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that challenges Twain's original. Sarah Damoff's The Bright Years (Simon & Schuster) is a dazzling debut about the limits and possibilities of a troubled family's hope and love. Meanwhile, On Muscle (Algonquin) is Bonnie Tsui's energizing scientific journey into the world of muscles and those who use them. And On the Hippie Trail (Rick Steves) delves into the formative adventures that shaped one of the world's most noteworthy travel writers, a memoir that just might inspire your next vacation!
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 | | Honey in the Wound | | | Jiyoung Han |
| | | Jiyoung Han's extraordinary debut novel transforms almost a century of Korean history into spectacular multigenerational storytelling.
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| | The Secret War Against Hate: American Resistance to Antisemitism and White Supremacy | | | Steven J. Ross |
| | | The Secret War Against Hate provides an essential narrative that shows how unending the struggle against extremism must be to safeguard democracy.
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| | Erase Genesis | | | Rebecca Gayle Howell |
| | | This stunning book-length poem transfixes as it transforms the opening chapters of the book of Genesis and its readers.
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| | Everything Is Music | | | Miran Park, trans. by Paige Aniyah Morris |
| | | A reflective and imaginative invitation to listen more closely, Everything Is Music offers a picture book experience that resonates long after the final page.
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| | | | | | This ravishing Regency drama centers on a doomed affair between Lord Byron and the young writer who leaves her mark on some of his most consequential works.
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| | | | Alexandra Oliva's thought-provoking third novel examines the complex bond between a mother and her children against the backdrop of communication with a distant planet.
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| | | | Erin Van Der Meer's smart, sharp satire of tabloid journalism is a provocative look at how easily ethics can be swayed in the service of clicks.
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| | | | This short, powerful novel examines the role of individual conscience and complacency in a tragedy inspired by real events.
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| | | | Ed Lin's deliciously disturbing fifth mystery in the Taipei Night Market series follows food stall owner Jing-nan undercover to solve the murder of a young Filipino migrant worker.
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| | | | A celestial dancer must choose a side in a divine war in this epic and adventurous conclusion to Kritika H. Rao's Divine Dancers fantasy duology.
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| | | | In an extended letter to her late psychiatrist, a novelist and playwright gives a warm, candid blow-by-blow of how mental illness has affected her family life.
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| | | | Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jayne Anne Phillips turns to nonfiction for the first time with an impressive collection of personal essays, literary criticism, and journalism.
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| | | | Three teenagers must survive the monster-infested magical Labyrinth of Greek myth in this exhilarating and bloody YA dark fantasy.
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| | | | This irresistible picture book celebrates sisterhood and the fabulous fun in making inspired fashion statements.
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| | | | In this thrilling, humor-infused middle-grade adventure, three seventh graders attempt to return a fabulous jewel to its home in a museum's iconic sword.
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| | | | Two sisters accept their inner freaks--and their bond--in this hilarious and action-packed middle-grade graphic novel about fitting in, sibling love, and an alien invasion.
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| | |  Stuart Gibbs, author of popular middle-grade series Spy School, FunJungle, Moon Base Alpha, Charlie Thorne, and Once Upon a Tim, as well as the new nonfiction series Spy School Secret Files, has six books coming out in 2026. Here, Gibbs talks about his (obvious) love of writing and how his first nonfiction title, Totally True Tales from World War II, was only made possible by a personal invite to CIA headquarters. (continued)
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| | | |  Desmond Morris, an English zoologist "who used observation, logic and insight to contend in his immensely popular 1967 book, The Naked Ape, that humanity, stripped of civilized veneer, is just another species of ape," died April 19 at age 98. In addition to writing more than four dozen books and 50 scientific papers, Morris presented 700 TV episodes, using "observational powers that he had honed as a zookeeper to study the ways of humans as well as those of animals."... (continued)
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