Two Novelists, Avi and Brian Farrey, Use Fiction to Show Kids Why Facts Matter

“Loyalty” and “The Counterclockwise Heart” — set in 1774 Boston and a fairy-tale kingdom divided against itself — explore how misinformation stokes fear and incites violence.

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The French Naturalist Who Loved To Paint Mushrooms

Jean-Henri Fabre, known for his popular books on insects, was a man of many hobbies.

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Four New Crime Novels

Stephen Hunter’s new novel, “Targeted,” features the retired Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger — who’s still a crack shot — in his 12th adventure.

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From Blood and Phlegm to Alcohol and Defenestration, Novels of Heartache

Fiction by Mina Seçkin, Lisa Harding, Neel Patel and Renée Branum tells of transnational family and loss.

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New in Paperback: ‘Harlem Shadows’ and ‘The Black Church’

Six new paperbacks to check out this week.

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Seeking Enlightenment, He Disappeared Into a Hiker’s Bermuda Triangle

In “Lost in the Valley of Death,” Harley Rustad follows the long and winding road that led Justin Alexander Shetler to India’s Parvati Valley.

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Heroic Outcasts Who Reshaped America

James R. Gaines’s “The Fifties” describes a decade when opposition to a stifling national consensus was costly and courageous.

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11 New Books We Recommend This Week

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

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Michael Schur’s Unending Quest to Be Perfect

The comedy writer, known for shows like “Parks and Recreation” and “The Good Place,” has a surprising new project: a book about moral philosophy that explores how to be a good person.

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Tom McCarthy Thinks the Wrong Kurt Vonnegut Book Is Famous

“I was really disappointed when I read ‘Slaughterhouse-Five,’” says the author of “The Making of Incarnation” and other novels. “But then I read his ‘Mother Night,’ and thought it was brilliant.”

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