This week Kim and Alice explore the vast and interesting world of birds and birding with memoirs and illustrated bird guides. Plus, new collections of essays, historical nonfiction, and more!

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Follow Up

Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller by Nadia Wassef

Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala

Nonfiction in the News

Barack Obama May Become A 3-Time Winner (But It’s Not What You Think) by David Moye [HuffPost]

New Nonfiction

We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World, edited by Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura

Dark Tourist: Essays by Hasanthika Sirisena

Sea State: A Memoir by Tabitha Lasley

Deliberate Evil: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Daniel Webster, and the 1830 Murder of a Salem Slave Trader by Edward J. Renehan

Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home by Charlie Warzel and Anne Helen Petersen

Birds!

What It’s Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing – What Birds Are Doing, and Why by David Allen Sibley

The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham

Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder: A Memoir by Julia Zarankin

H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald

Reading Now

This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life by Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods

The Ancient Guide to Modern Life by Natalie Haynes

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