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Newly Published, From Press Freedom to the History of Ignorance - The New York Times

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6 TIMES WE ALMOST KISSED (And One Time We Did), by Tess Sharpe. (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99.) In this young adult romance, two teenage girls in a complicated friendship bordering on romance are forced to confront their feelings as they try to help their mothers (who are best friends) through a health crisis.

RETRO, by SofĂ­a Lapuente and Jarrod Shusterman. (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, $19.99.) Can you live without modern technology? Luna Iglesias, the protagonist of this new Y.A. thriller, is taking the “Retro Challenge” to find out, and maybe win a scholarship, but what at first seems like a lifestyle experiment turns out to be more sinister than meets the eye.

PROMISE BOYS, by Nick Brooks. (Holt, $19.99.) Brooks’s new Y.A. novel follows three teenagers of color who become the prime suspects, and must fight to clear their name, when the principal of their prestigious prep school is murdered.

THE BLACK QUEEN, by Jumata Emill. (Delacorte, $18.99.) When the first Black homecoming queen of a Mississippi high school is killed in this debut Y.A. thriller, it opens both a frantic search for the murderer and also an overdue reckoning about race and privilege.

THE REOPENING OF THE WESTERN MIND: The Resurgence of Intellectual Life From the End of Antiquity to the Dawn of the Enlightenment, by Charles Freeman. (Knopf, $50.) A historian traces European thought from the end of the antiquity period in A.D. 500 to the beginning of the Enlightenment in 1700 in this sweeping intellectual history.

IGNORANCE: A Global History, by Peter Burke. (Yale University, $30.) This history explores the ways “obstacles, forgetting, secrecy, denial, uncertainty, prejudice, misunderstanding and credulity” have impacted the course of history, from the redrawing of borders to climate change denial and more.

ACTUAL MALICE: Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in New York Times vs. Sullivan, by Samantha Barbas. (University of California, $29.95.) A law professor puts forth a detailed examination of New York Times v. Sullivan, the landmark 1964 Supreme Court decision that defined libel laws and increased protections for journalists, in the context of the civil rights movement.

WILDERNESS TALES: Forty Stories of the North American Wild, edited by Diana Fuss. (Knopf, $35.) This short story collection coheres around the natural landscape of North America, featuring stories by Frederick Douglass, Ernest Hemingway, Ted Chiang, Tommy Orange and more.

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