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Need some springtime reading material? Check out 43 new genre titles from Stephen King, Christina Henry, Peter S. Beagle, Suzanne Palmer, and more.

April showers apparently also bring a bouquet of must-read fantasy releases to bookstore shelves everywhere this month.

Before the toromiro disappeared from the island, at least two men grabbed seeds from the last remaining plant and brought them home

Daniel Lewis examines the histories and significance of 12 tree species, including the redwood, longleaf pine, baobab, olive, kapok and West African ebony.

Henry Agard Wallace (1888-1965) left his mark on what he memorably proclaimed the Century of the Common Man—as plant geneticist, entrepreneur, spiritualist, author, magazine editor, transformative secretary of agriculture under Franklin Roosevelt, and Roosevelt's second vice president. To his admirers Wallace was a conviction politician who denounced segregation in front of Southern audiences and criticized Cold War profiteers long before Dwight Eisenhower alerted us to the military-industrial complex. Detractors mocked Wallace as a religious crank, bureaucratic bungler, and apologist f...