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Jamaica Kincaid and Kara Walker unearth botany’s buried history.

The author of nine suspense books also finds time to foster kittens from a Chicago-area shelter.

In her 60s, she hit the open road on a hulking Harley-Davidson and found a new area of academic research: bikers, and in particular, women bikers.

In “Muse of Fire,” Michael Korda depicts the lives and passions of the soldier poets whose verse provided a view into the carnage of World War I.

“In the Shadow of Liberty,” by the historian Ana Raquel Minian, chronicles America’s often brutal treatment of noncitizens, including locking them up without charge.

Gillian Linden’s slim debut novel, “Negative Space,” explores the being and nothingness of modern motherhood.

More books were removed during the first half of this academic year than in the entire previous one.

“Crooked Seeds,” by Karen Jennings, is set in a drought-stricken South Africa where its fraught history is ever-present.

“The Spoiled Heart,” by Sunjeev Sahota, contrasts race and class struggles in the story of a man’s downfall.

“Knife” is an account of the writer’s brush with death in 2022, and the long recovery that followed.