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Helen Jukes’ beautiful debut memoir covers the year she spent quelling her anxiety by learning to keep bees.

Helen Jukes’ beautiful debut memoir covers the year she spent quelling her anxiety by learning to keep bees.

Alderton makes for a delightful narrator despite, as she mentions, hating her posh, British boarding school accent. Her wit shines through.

Alderton makes for a delightful narrator despite, as she mentions, hating her posh, British boarding school accent. Her wit shines through.

I Don’t Want to Die Poor is a candid, humorous study of the hydra-like power of student loan debt and, as a result, the rising cost of freedom.

I Don’t Want to Die Poor is a candid, humorous study of the hydra-like power of student loan debt and, as a result, the rising cost of freedom.

In this fascinating history, Augustine Sedgewick explores the little-known saga of James Hill, an Englishman who founded a coffee dynasty in El Salvador.

In this fascinating history, Augustine Sedgewick explores the little-known saga of James Hill, an Englishman who founded a coffee dynasty in El Salvador.

Olga Khazan explores what it means to be weird and how being different can be both a hindrance and a superpower.

Olga Khazan explores what it means to be weird and how being different can be both a hindrance and a superpower.

Adrienne Raphel takes readers on a deep lexical dive into the history and beloved culture surrounding crossword puzzles in Thinking Inside the Box.

Adrienne Raphel takes readers on a deep lexical dive into the history and beloved culture surrounding crossword puzzles in Thinking Inside the Box.

The Shadow System is Sylvia A. Harvey’s unflinching investigation of the vast collateral damage falling on the prisoners’ families.

The Shadow System is Sylvia A. Harvey’s unflinching investigation of the vast collateral damage falling on the prisoners’ families.

Ingredients begins with a bit of common knowledge—eating processed food is bad—and subjects it to scrutiny. How bad, exactly? And why?

Ingredients begins with a bit of common knowledge—eating processed food is bad—and subjects it to scrutiny. How bad, exactly? And why?

Carl Safina studies how sperm whales, scarlet macaws and chimpanzees aim to live the best way possible in their individual environments and cultures.

Carl Safina studies how sperm whales, scarlet macaws and chimpanzees aim to live the best way possible in their individual environments and cultures.

Jennifer Finney Boylan knows that to write about dogs is to write about the very nature of love.

Jennifer Finney Boylan knows that to write about dogs is to write about the very nature of love.

Lee C. Camp’s Scandalous Witness offers a brilliant summary and exposition of the ways that Christianity is a politic, not a religion.

Lee C. Camp’s Scandalous Witness offers a brilliant summary and exposition of the ways that Christianity is a politic, not a religion.

Erin Gardner’s Procrastibaking is full of delicious-sounding recipes that be turned out in under 50 minutes.

Erin Gardner’s Procrastibaking is full of delicious-sounding recipes that be turned out in under 50 minutes.

How to Be an Artist combines color reproductions of famous works with inspiring directives and reflections on art-making and sustainable creative practice.

How to Be an Artist combines color reproductions of famous works with inspiring directives and reflections on art-making and sustainable creative practice.

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