Today, we’re chatting about seven trees that are intertwined with Black history and culture; a woman who tests out a vintage typewriter and finds that it can grant wishes and bend fate; and a young bookbinder on a hunt for the truth of a story of forbidden love, a lost fortune, and murder.
WHEN TREES TESTIFY: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy by Beronda L. Montgomery | 9781250335166 | 1/20/26
THE UNWRITTEN RULES OF MAGIC by Harper Ross | 9781250394552 | 1/27/26
THE BOOKBINDER’S SECRET by A. D. Bell | 9781250412645 | 1/13/26
Additional titles we mentioned:
THE GREAT SHADOW: A History of How Sickness Shapes What We Do, Think, Believe, and Buy by Susan Wise Bauer | 9781250272911 | 1/27/26
THE BLOOD COUNTESS: Murder, Betrayal, and the Making of a Monster by Shelley Puhak | 9781639732159 | 2/17/26
AIN’T NOBODY’S FOOL: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton by Martha Ackmann | 9781250286857 | 12/30/25
A THOUSAND WAYS TO DIE: The True Cost of Violence on Black Life in America by Trymaine Lee | 9781250098016 | 9/9/25
THE BLACK SHIELD: An American Memoir of Family and Power by Wilbert L. Cooper | 9780374613525 | 8/11/26
A DREAM DEFERRED: Jesse Jackson and the Fight for Black Political Power by Abby Phillip | 9781250806314 | 10/28/25
THE RENOVATION by Kenan Orhan | 9780374609429 | 2/10/26
THE FOREST BECOMES HER by Julie Carrick Dalton | 9781250889751 | 7/14/26
GHOST-EYE by Amitav Ghosh | 9780374298395 | 6/16/26
SUPERFAN by Jenny Tinghui Zhang | 9781250369666 | 2/3/26
THE POET EMPRESS by Shen Tao | 9781250406811 | 1/20/26
SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER by Vincent Yu | 9781250410122 | 5/5/26
CROSS YOUR HEART AND HOPE HE DIES by Jenny Elder Moke | 9781250354990 | 1/20/26
THIS KINGDOM WILL NOT KILL ME by Ilona Andrews | 9781250377265 | 3/31/26
THE ODDS OF YOU by Kate Dramis | 9781250393678 | 1/6/26
SAOIRSE by Charleen Hurtubise | 9781250400642 | 2/24/26
DAUGHTER OF EGYPT by Marie Benedict | 9781250280732 | 3/24/26
HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER by Rebecca Philipson | 9781250409430 | 2/24/26
NOTES ON INFINITY by Austin Taylor | 9781250376107 | 6/3/25
THE WAYFINDER by Adam Johnson | 9780374619572 | 10/14/25
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