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Mike is a hedgehog living in the town of Happy Rivers. He delivers items all over town, but sometimes gets mixed up! Early readers will be delighted by the funny results of Mike’s mistakes that he is always sure to fix.

During a lonely and difficult year, author Jason Schwartzman began allowing regular, everyday interactions with strangers to escalate. In this book, Schwartzman compiles dozens of these encounters and deftly reveals the kinship he finds there, ultimately reconsidering what it means to know someone.

An exploration of how plant behavior and adaptation offer valuable insights for human thriving.

In Teaching for Lifelong Learning, teachers discover how to shape students into curious and independent thinkers.

“Our Team” by Luke Epplin is the story of four men whose improbable union on the Cleveland Indians in the late 1940s would shape the immediate postwar era of Major League Baseball and beyond.

In hybrid narrative prose poems, “In the Antarctic Circle” follows two characters as they weave a life among the frigid, white landscape of the southern continent.

Katja Perat’s novel is a serio-comical fictional romp through the Habsburg Empire of the fin de siècle, beginning in 1874 Lemberg (present day Lviv/Lvov in Ukraine), continuing to Vienna, and ending in the Habsburg Adriatic seaport of Trieste in 1912.

Sam Fox School of Visual Arts alumna Julia Kuo, BFA ’07, illustrates this heartfelt book about the love between a granddaughter and her grandmother.

Baba Badji is a Senegalese-American poet, translator, researcher, and PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. He came to America when he was eleven years old. He currently lives in St. Louis, but his permanent home is Senegal, where his extended family remains, and New York City.

Dan Blumenthal, AB ’94, examines the US’s thorny relationship with China, particularly in light of COVID-19, in this new book.