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| | W.S. Merwin's poem "Thanks" often springs to mind when I stop at the end of a day and look at the sky. "Listen," he begins, "with the night falling we are saying thank you." Before long, he's pitted gratitude against muggings, war, "forests falling faster than the minutes" and "cities growing over us." Upon first reading, it warmed my soul, this humane expression defying so much destruction. Lately, though, it strikes me with a more biting tone: civility, but at what cost?
One price of our growing cities is light pollution, a subject explored in two thoughtful new releases, one for adults and one for kids. Nightfaring by Megan Eaves-Egenes charts the former Lonely Planet editor's journey into increasingly rare regions where sundown still reveals a full slate of stars. Meanwhile, Who Hid the Stars? by Valentina Gottardi, Maciej Michno, and Danio Miserocchi illustrates for younger readers the environmental impact and potential solutions. Useful as it is, light can cut both ways--just like a poem.
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 | | Son of Nobody | | | Yann Martel |
| | | Profound, heartrending, and endlessly absorbing, this novel of ancient Greek myth and modern family upheaval will transport any reader.
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| | The Fountain | | | Casey Scieszka |
| | | Set in the past and present-day Catskill Mountains, Casey Scieszka's harrowing, entrancing debut novel, The Fountain, wrestles with how one might live an endless life.
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| | Nightfaring: In Search of the Disappearing Darkness | | | Megan Eaves-Egenes |
| | | Nightfaring provides a moving argument for navigating the way back to the majesty and intimacy of the shadows, showing that profound discoveries are often made in the dark.
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| | Who Hid the Stars?: How Light Pollution Changes Our World | | | Danio Miserocchi and Maciej Michno, trans. by Sylvia Notini, illus. by Valentina Gottardi |
| | | A trio of Italian authors brilliantly illuminates the negative effects of artificial light on nature in a picture book for middle-grade readers.
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| | | | | | Author Mizuki Tsujimura and translator Yuki Tejima reunite to complete a comforting J-healing duology that links the living with the dead they most want to meet.
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| | | | Maria Adelmann's frank, sometimes darkly funny novel is a revealing depiction of the professional and personal challenges facing a young adjunct English professor.
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| | | | This artfully written dark satire is set in contemporary Boston and follows one of modern literature's most audacious narcissists in her quest to find love at any cost.
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| | | | This captivating historical novel parallels the stories of Hatshepsut, one of only a few female Egyptian pharaohs, and a determined 20th-century archeologist seeking to uncover her mysteries.
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| | | | A not-really-wicked witch must save her kingdom by (gently) deposing her own son in this witty and sweet comedic fairy tale.
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| | | | A female fossil hunter tries to protect a baby pterodactyl while navigating tricky academic and magical politics in Jennifer Mandula's entertaining debut historical fantasy.
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| | | | A lexicographer's rousing account of the mission to define colors for Webster's Third New International Dictionary also examines the fascinating psychology of color in everyday life.
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| | | | This fascinating history describes the lives of seven sisters--all archduchesses of the Habsburg Empire--from 1764 to 1814.
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| | | | In seven challenging essays, psychoanalyst Adam Phillips contrasts Freudian psychoanalysis and Rortyan pragmatism in describing the formation of human identity.
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| | | | An Egyptian American homecoming queen must work with the cranky school loner to break a curse in this deeply unsettling YA horror tale.
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| | | | The playful and imaginative picture book Fabulous Creatures introduces young readers to 19 legendary beings.
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| | | | A teen bent on avenging her former crew seeks to kill the sentient spaceship responsible for their deaths in this thrilling YA sci-fi inspired by Moby-Dick.
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| | |  In True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color--From Azure to Zinc Pink, lexicographer Kory Stamper demonstrates a marvelous instinct for storytelling as she uncovers the curious history behind the entrancing color definitions in the dictionary. She explains in today's feature how her coffee-break activity of reading these colorful entries transformed into a yearslong quest to learn more about the people who wrote them. (continued)
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| | | |  Tracy Kidder, "a wide-ranging journalist and author whose deep reporting and novelistic prose illuminated worlds as diverse as home construction, disease prevention and--as portrayed in his prizewinning 1981 breakthrough book, The Soul of a New Machine--the computer industry," died March 24, the New York Times reported. Kidder "highlighted people who had mastered their realms, placing them as characters in accounts that rang true because they were based on staggering amounts of research."... (continued)
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