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‘American Rambler’ Traces the Path, and Truth-Squads the Tale, of Johnny Appleseed

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15 Books NPR Critics Can’t Wait for This Summer

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John of John, by Douglas Stuart; One Leg on Earth, by ‘Pemi Aguda; Backtalker: An American Memoir, by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw; Offseason, by Avigayl Sharp; The Calamity Club, by Kathryn Stockett; Radiant Star, by Ann Leckie; Glyph, by Ali Smith; Canon, by Paige Lewis; Palaces of the Crow, by Ray Nayler; All Them Dogs, by Djamel White; The Land and Its People: Essays, by David Sedaris; The Midnight Train, by Matt Haig

It’s Blockbuster Book Season: Here are 12 New Titles Coming in May

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What Draws People Into Cults? A New Book Tracks Two Followers

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Step Inside Someone Else’s World With These 11 New Books for April

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‘London Falling’: A Teen Imposter, an Aging Gangster and a Body in the River

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‘Stay Alive,’ About Life in Nazi Berlin, Shows How Easy it Is to Just Go Along

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Book covers of: Now I Surrender, by Alvaro Enrigue, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer; Days of Love and Rage, by Anand Gopal; A Far-flung Life, by M.L. Stedman; You with the Sad Eyes: A Memoir, by Christina Applegate; In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man, by Tom Junod; Hooked: A Novel of Obsession, by Asako Yuzuki, translated from the Japanese by Polly Barton; Under Water, by Tara Menon; Python’s Kiss: Stories, by Louise Erdrich; Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories, by Amal El-Mohtar; Son of Nobody, by Yann Martel

10 New Books in March Offer Mental Vacations

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Book covers of: Autobiography of Cotton, by Cristina Rivera Garza, translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney; Biography of a Dangerous Idea: A New History of Race, from Louis XIV to Thomas Jefferson, by Andrew S. Curran; A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness, by Michael Pollan; I Give You My Silence, by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West; Kin, by Tayari Jones; Brawler, by Lauren Groff.

February May Be Short on Days — But It Boasts a Long List of New Books

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