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Science, Health and the Environment

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Alien Earths

The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos

by Lisa Kaltenegger

Hardcover: Apr 2024 | Paperback: Dec 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in the quest to discover whether we are alone.

Dispersals

On Plants, Borders, and Belonging

by Jessica J. Lee

Hardcover: Mar 2024 | Paperback: Jun 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A prize-winning memoirist and nature writer turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human world to explore belonging, displacement, identity, and the truths of our shared future

Murderland

Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers

by Caroline Fraser

Hardcover: Jun 2025

Critics' Consensus:

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Prairie Fires comes a terrifying true-crime history of serial killers in the Pacific Northwest and beyond—a gripping investigation of how a new strain of psychopath emerged out of a toxic ...

Move Like Water

My Story of the Sea

by Hannah Stowe

Hardcover: Sep 2023 | Paperback: May 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A book to sweep you away from the shore, into a wild world of water, whale, storm, and starlight— to experience what it's like to sail for weeks at a time with life set to a new rhythm.

The Light Eaters

How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

by Zoë Schlanger

Hardcover: May 2024 | Paperback: May 2025

Critics' Consensus:

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.

The Garden Against Time

In Search of a Common Paradise

by Olivia Laing

Hardcover: Jun 2024 | Paperback: May 2025

Critics' Consensus:

Inspired by the restoration of her own garden, "imaginative and empathetic critic" (NPR) Olivia Laing embarks on an exhilarating investigation of paradise.

So Very Small

How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs--and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease

by Thomas Levenson

Hardcover: Apr 2025

Critics' Consensus:

The centuries-long quest to discover the critical role of germs in disease reveals as much about human reasoning—and the pitfalls of ego—as it does about microbes.

Becoming Earth

How Our Planet Came to Life

by Ferris Jabr

Hardcover: Jun 2024 | Paperback: Apr 2025

Critics' Consensus:

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.

The Coming Wave

Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

by Mustafa Suleyman

Hardcover: Sep 2023 | Paperback: Apr 2025

Critics' Consensus:

An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance—from a co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company ...

The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue

A Story of Climate and Hope on One American Street

by Mike Tidwell

Hardcover: Mar 2025

Critics' Consensus:

A riveting and elegant story of climate change on one city street, full of surprises and true stories of human struggle and dying local trees – all against the national backdrop of 2023's record heat domes and raging wildfires and, ...

Eve

How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

by Cat Bohannon

Hardcover: Oct 2023 | Paperback: Feb 2025

Critics' Consensus:

The real origin of our species: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved, offering a paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is, how it came to be, and how this evolution still shapes all our lives today

Gator Country

Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades

by Rebecca Renner

Hardcover: Nov 2023 | Paperback: Nov 2024

Critics' Consensus:

David Grann meets Susan Orlean in this page-turning true story of an underground operation into the mysterious world of alligator poaching and its larger than life Floridian characters

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