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unCommon Authors, an Author Video Series: CITIZENSHIP by Daisy Hernández

Citizenship is a provocative, personal, blazingly intelligent examination of one of the most vexing questions facing the United States today: Who is, and should be, a citizen?

Click here to watch Daisy Hernández discuss Citizenship as part of the unCommon Authors Series.

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Healing the Land Teaches Us Who We Are

How Indigenous Cultural Resistance Can Restore the Earth, Recover Community, and Create Sustainable Futures

By Maceo Carrillo Martinet, PhD

North Atlantic Books | Trade Paperback | 06/09/2026
979-88-89843-55-9 | 288 pages | $21.95

Rooted in Indigenous wisdom and a four-element framework, this book invites readers to rediscover and re-embody the truth that caring for ourselves and caring for the living Earth are one and the same.

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The Dream Hotel: A Read with Jenna Pick

A Novel

By Laila Lalami

Vintage | Trade Paperback | 06/30/2026
978-0-593-46980-4 | 336 pages | $20.00

From Laila Lalami—the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist and a “maestra of literary fiction” (NPR)—comes a riveting and utterly original novel about one woman’s fight for freedom, set in a near future where even dreams are under surveillance.

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Birds of America

Poems

By Chera Hammons

The Dial Press | Trade Paperback Original | 06/09/2026
978-0-593-98003-3 | 176 pages | $20.00

With graceful lyricism, award-winning poet Chera Hammons translates seemingly mundane scenes from the natural world—two eagles locked together in a tandem dive, the fresh sweetness of wild onions—into exquisite revelations of human feeling, inviting us to glimpse the hidden magic of the everyday.

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A Different Mirror for Young People

A History of Multicultural America

By Ronald Takaki

Triangle Square | Trade Paperback Original | 06/30/2026
978-1-64421-596-8 | 512 pages | $25.95

The groundbreaking multicultural history of America, adapted for younger readers, now in a revised and updated edition with 100 pages of new material.

Educator Guide

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Mind Drama

The Science of Rumination and How to Outwit Your Inner Defeatist

By Donna Jackson Nakazawa

Harmony | Hardcover | 05/19/2026
978-0-593-98019-4 | 288 pages | $28.00

An acclaimed science writer explains why we so often become lost in our most self-defeating thoughts and how to transform this brooding energy into something empowering and productive.

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Leave the Lights On

How Joyful Decisions Can Save Our Species

By Elizabeth Dunn and Jiaying Zhao

Avery | Hardcover | 06/16/2026
978-0-593-85327-6 | 288 pages | $31.00

Leave the Lights On is a bold invitation to reimagine climate action not as a burden, but as an opportunity to build a brighter future—without guilt, without gloom, and without giving up the things that make life worth living.

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I Eat the Stars

How to Live Fully and Beautifully in a Collapsing World

By Sarah Wilson

Penguin Life | Hardcover | 06/16/2026
978-0-593-99499-3 | 336 pages | $32.00

I Eat the Stars empowers readers to move beyond panic, doom, and despair. With her warm, incisively intelligent, wise, and down-to-earth voice, Sarah Wilson creates a space for readers to confront their fears and anxieties about an uncertain future, guiding them toward one rooted in truth, hope, justice, creativity, community, and to step up as “warriors” and meet the moment.

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How to Be a (Happy) Skeptic

The Power of Doubt in a Meaningful Life--Lessons from Cicero's Philosophy

By Massimo Pigliucci

Tarcher | Hardcover | 06/16/2026
979-82-17-17967-1 | 352 pages | $32.00

Celebrated CUNY philosopher Massimo Pigliucci investigates the practical applications of Cicero’s skepticism, weaving together ancient wisdom, personal narrative, and practical insights to help readers find meaning through doubt.