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Sunshine, secrets, and swoon-worthy stories—June's featured reads are your perfect summer escape.

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He doesn�t need a woman in his life; she knows he can�t live without her.


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He�s her only protection. She�s carrying his child. Together, they must outwit a killer before time runs out.


Land by Simon Winchester

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Also by Simon Winchester:

Land, January 2022
Paperback / e-Book
The Men Who United The States, October 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Atlantic, November 2010
Hardcover
The Man Who Loved China, May 2009
Paperback
The Man Who Loved China, May 2008
Hardcover
A Crack in the Edge of the World, October 2005
Hardcover
Krakatoa: The Day The World Exploded: August 27, 1883, July 2005
Paperback (reprint)

Land
Simon Winchester

Harper Perennial
January 2022
On Sale: January 18, 2022
464 pages
ISBN: 0062938347
EAN: 9780062938343
Kindle: B087CKTXJK
Paperback / e-Book
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“In many ways, Land combines bits and pieces of many of Winchester’s previous books into a satisfying, globe-trotting whole. . . . Winchester is, once again, a consummate guide.”—Boston Globe

The author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and The Perfectionists explores the notion of property—bought, earned, or received; in Europe, Africa, North America, or the South Pacific—through human history, how it has shaped us and what it will mean for our future.

Land—whether meadow or mountainside, desert or peat bog, parkland or pasture, suburb or city—is central to our existence. It quite literally underlies and underpins everything. Employing the keen intellect, insatiable curiosity, and narrative verve that are the foundations of his previous bestselling works, Simon Winchester examines what we human beings are doing—and have done—with the billions of acres that together make up the solid surface of our planet.

Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World examines in depth how we acquire land, how we steward it, how and why we fight over it, and finally, how we can, and on occasion do, come to share it. Ultimately, Winchester confronts the essential question: who actually owns the world’s land—and why does it matter?

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