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Julia Lee's book cover for Biting the Hand: Growing up Asian in Black and White America.

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'Biting the Hand': Korean American author calls for weaponizing invisibility

7:57am April 19, 2023

by Reena Advani

Korean American author Julia Lee pulls no punches about the experience of being Asian in the U.S. today, in her memoir Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America.

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'The Wager' chronicles shipwreck, mutiny and murder at the tip of South America

2:03pm April 18, 2023

by Sam Briger

Author David Grann tells the story of an 18th-century British warship that wrecked along the coast of Patagonia. The survivors sailed thousands of miles to safety, and later faced charges of mutiny.

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'The Last Animal' is a bright-eyed meditation on what animates us

5:43am April 18, 2023

by Jason Heller

Ramona Ausubel's tale has a very recognizable family nucleus — a mother and her two teenage daughters, bound by blood yet fractured by tragedy. But it soars in its addition of an animal element.

Jon Ward says writing about the evangelical movement released bottled up emotions

5:08am April 18, 2023

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Jon Ward, Yahoo News chief national correspondent, about his memoir: Testimony, which details his upbringing in, and break from, an influential evangelical church.

In 1984, the IRA planted the bomb at the Grand Hotel in the seaside resort of Brighton, England, targeting Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The bomb detonated on Oct. 12, 1984 — the aftermath is shown above.

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In 1984, Margaret Thatcher was nearly assassinated — a new book asks, what if?

4:53pm April 17, 2023

by Maureen Corrigan

The IRA planted the bomb at the Grand Hotel, in the seaside resort of Brighton, targeting the British prime minister. There Will Be Fire, by journalist Rory Carroll, reads like a political thriller.

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David Grann's latest book, "The Wager," delves into the mysteries of an 18th-century maritime disaster that occurred off Cape Horn.

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From cannibalism to cover-up, David Grann sees his new shipwreck mystery as a parable

6:42am April 17, 2023

by Jan Johnson

Steve Inskeep talks to David Grann about his retelling of the dramatic Wager Mutiny of 1741.

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Some runners in the Boston Marathon trained while listening to audiobooks

5:03am April 17, 2023

by Judith Kogan

On the morning of this year's Boston marathon, some of the runners competing reflect upon the specific pleasures of training for the arduous 26-mile course while listening to audiobooks.

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Musician Questlove and crime writer S.A. Cosby on their new children's book

7:48am April 16, 2023

by Ayesha Rascoe

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with the duo behind a new time travel adventure for middle-grade readers: musician Questlove and crime writer S.A. Cosby. The book is called "The Rhythm of Time."

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Traci Sorell and Arigon Starr on their children's book about two Native baseball stars

7:59am April 15, 2023

by Miles Parks

NPR's Miles Parks talks with Traci Sorell and Arigon Starr about their children's book "Contenders: Two Native Baseball Players, One World Series."

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Poet Maggie Smith on her new memoir 'You Could Make This Place Beautiful'

7:59am April 15, 2023

by Miles Parks

Maggie Smith's poem "Good Bones" went viral in 2016. She talks with NPR's Miles Parks about her work and her divorce, both subjects of her new memoir "You Could Make This Place Beautiful."