A mix of fiction and nonfiction, present day and past, how-tos and how-not-tos, this week’s new releases will teach you about life, success, respect, and…birding. You know, the four pillars.  

NORWEGIAN BY NIGHT: A Novel by Derek B. Miller. A profoundly moving, deliciously suspenseful novel about an American grandfather and a newly orphaned boy racing across the Norwegian wilderness, fleeing demons both real and imagined. 

THE ASYLUM: A Novel by John Harwood. Georgina Ferrars awakens in a small room in an asylum, with no memory of the past few weeks. Then a doctor tells her that she admitted herself under the a different name the day before…

THE LAST OF THE DOUGHBOYS: The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War by Richard Rubin. For the past decade, Richard Rubin sought every last living American veteran of World War I—and uncovered a forgotten great generation, and their war. 

BRAND NEW HUMAN BEING: A Novel by Emily Jeanne Miller. “A whip-smart first novel that gripped me with its wry humor and wonderfully real characters” (Curtis Sittenfeld, author of American Wife), and the story of a stay-at-home dad who’s holding his life together by a thread.

WHAT THE ROBIN KNOWS: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World by Jon Young.  Go beyond identifying bird calls and listen to their messages: a groundbreaking introduction to avian communication and what it can reveal about the natural world around us.

BROTHERHOOD: Dharma, Destiny, and the American Dream by Deepak Chopra and Sanjiv Chopra. The inspiring story of two brothers who immigrated to America from India and took very different paths to becoming world-renowned healers and teachers.

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BIRDERS! Now available, a groundbreaking introduction to avian communication and what it can reveal about the natural world around us, Jon Young’s WHAT THE ROBIN KNOWS.

Jon Young’s ear- and eye-opening research begins with a simple premise: if you sit quietly, for as long as it takes nearby birds to stop worrying about you, you can begin to hear what they say to one another and understand what it means. 

The techniques in WHAT THE ROBIN KNOWS will help readers to expand their zone of awareness while shrinking their zone of disturbance. Birds are the sentries for other animals: the animals attend to the birds’ warnings—their language and behaviors, such as the hook, the bird plow, and the ditch—so they can hide and protect themselves. Yet if we learn to interpret these warnings, we can observe animals behaving as they do when they’re not feeling threatened by human presence. 

Listen to bird sounds here!