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★ Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry Austin Frerick. Island, ISBN 978-1-64283-269-3, Mar.

Diplomats at War: Friendship and Betrayal on the Brink of the Vietnam Conflict Charles Trueheart. Univ. of Virginia, ISBN 978-0813-95128-7, Mar.

Exurbia Now: The Battleground of American Democracy David Masciotra. Melville House, ISBN 978-1-685-89089-6, Mar.

Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin Andre Dubus III. Norton, ISBN 978-1-324-00044-0, Mar.

A Good Bad Boy: Luke Perry and How a Generation Grew Up Margaret Wappler. Simon & Schuster, ISBN 978-1-66800-626-9, Mar.

★The Great Abolitionist: Charles Sumner and the Fight for a More Perfect Union Stephen Puleo. St. Martin’s, ISBN 978-1-25027627-8, Apr.

Houston and the Permanence of Segregation: An Afropessimist Approach to Urban History David Ponton. Univ. of Texas, ISBN 9781-477-32847-7, Feb.

Kingdom of Play: What Ball-Bouncing Octopuses, Belly-Flopping Monkeys, and Mud-Sliding Elephants Reveal About Life Itself David Toomey. Scribner, ISBN 978-1982154-46-2, Mar.

Origin Uncertain: Unraveling the Mysteries of Etymology Anatoly Liberman. Oxford Univ., ISBN 978-0-197-66491-9, Apr.

Profiles in Mental Health Courage Patrick J. Kennedy and Stephen Fried. Dutton, ISBN 978-0-593-47176-0, Apr.

The Right to Learn: Resisting the RightWing Attack on Academic Freedom, edited by Valerie C. Johnson et al. Beacon, ISBN 978-0807-04515-2, Apr.

Sound and Silence: My Experience with China and Literature Yan Lianke, trans. by Carlos Rojas. Duke Univ., ISBN 978-1-4780-3039-3, Apr.