Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Waterman of Vanishing Tangier Island by Earl Swift: A brilliant, soulful, and timely portrait of a two-hundred-year-old crabbing community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay as it faces extinction.
In Dark Towers by David Enrich: In Dark Towers, David Enrich tells the story of how one of the world’s mightiest banks careened off the rails, threatening everything from our financial system to our democracy through its reckless entanglement with Donald Trump. Darkly fascinating and yet all too real, it’s a tale that will keep you up at night. It is also the story of a man who was consumed by fear of what he’d seen at the bank and his son’s obsessive search for the secrets he kept.
The Great Influenza by John M. Barry: In the winter of 1918, at the height of World War I, history’s most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. Ultimately a tale of triumph amid tragedy, this crisis provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics looming on our own horizon.
Apeirogon by Colum McCann: An epic novel rooted in the unlikely real-life friendship between two fathers and their stories that begin another—one that crosses centuries and continents, stitching together time, art, history, nature, and politics in a tale both heartbreaking and hopeful. The result is an ambitious novel, crafted out of a universe of fictional and nonfictional material, with these fathers’ moving story at its heart.
Food Fix by Mark Hyman: Pairing the latest developments in nutritional and environmental science with an unflinching look at the dark realities of the global food system and the policies that make it possible, Food Fix is a hard-hitting manifesto that will change the way you think about — and eat — food forever, and will provide solutions for citizens, businesses, and policy makers to create a healthier world, society, and planet.
Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn: This groundbreaking debut novel folds the legends of Hawai’ian gods into an engrossing family saga. When seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific, a shiver of sharks appears and everyone fears the worst. But instead, Noa is gingerly delivered to his mother in the jaws of a shark, marking his story as the stuff of legends. Many years later, when supernatural events revisit the Flores family in Hawai’i, they are all forced to reckon with the bonds of family, the meaning of heritage, and the cost of survival.
Land of Wolves by Craig Johnson: Attempting to recover from his harrowing experiences in Mexico, Walt Longmire is neck deep in the investigation of what could or could not be the suicidal hanging of a shepherd. With unsettling connections to a Basque family with a reputation for removing the legs of Absaroka County sheriffs, matters become even more complicated with the appearance of an oversize wolf in the Big Horn Mountains to which Walt finds himself feeling more and more empathetic.
Long Range by C.J. Box: When the wife of a prominent local judge is wounded on Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett’s turf, all signs point to the shot having been taken from an impossible distance. Just as he’s adjusting to the arrival of his first child–Joe’s best friend is suspected of being the assassin. All this happens while Joe is attempting to decipher a startling grizzly attack. Beset by threats both man-made and natural, the two men must go to great lengths to keep their loved ones safe.
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