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Daven Ralston says the club's name is a talking point in of itself.

From meet-cutes to happy endings, romance readers feel the love as sales heat up

5:01am February 13, 2023

Romance novel sales are surging, even as overall book sales experience their first decline in years. And no, fans are not embarrassed by their love of the genre.

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Grace Lin and Kate Messner on their new children's book 'Once Upon a Book'

8:02am February 12, 2023

by Ayesha Rascoe

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to authors Grace Lin and Kate Messner about their new children's book. "Once Upon a Book" follows a young girl who discovers the joy of reading.

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Gothataone Moeng on her first collection of short stories 'Call and Response'

7:57am February 11, 2023

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Gothataone Moeng about her first collection of short stories, "Call and Response." They involve Botswanan characters caught between tradition and modernity.

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Patrick Bringley on his book 'All the Beauty in the World'

7:57am February 11, 2023

by Scott Simon

Patrick Bringley found solace and healing while working as a guard at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Bringley about his book, "All the Beauty in the World."

Covers of On A Women's Madness, Black Foam and Forbidden Notebook.

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3 books in translation that have received acclaim in their original languages

8:40am February 10, 2023

by Lily Meyer

On a Woman's Madness and Forbidden Notebook have been highly lauded in their original languages for decades but, like the more recent Black Foam, inaccessible to English readers — until now.

Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg waits in Erkelenz, Germany, to take part in a demonstration at a nearby a coal mine on Jan. 14.

Greta Thunberg's 'The Climate Book' urges world to keep climate justice out front

6:28am February 09, 2023

by Barbara J. King

Activist Greta Thunberg was just 15 when she called on the world to take action on the climate crisis. Just as impressively, she has now pulled together essays by 100 scholars on what's needed now.

Stokely Carmichael, shown here in 1967, helped popularize the term "Black Power!" in 1966.

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How Stokely Carmichael and the Black Panthers changed the civil rights movement

1:29pm February 08, 2023

by Terry Gross

Journalist Mark Whitaker says that much of what's happening in American race relations today traces back to 1966, the year the Black Panthers were formed. His new book is Saying It Loud.

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A woman in England has finally returned an overdue library book

5:51am February 08, 2023

Lesley Harrison, 70, of North Tyneside borrowed the German language textbook in the 1960s. Without an amnesty on late fees, she would have had to pay over $2,400.

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Salman Rushdie's 'Victory City' is a triumph, independent of the Chautauqua attack

4:25pm February 07, 2023

by Bilal Qureshi

Rushdie submitted the final edits for his 15th novel before he was stabbed onstage in August 2022. It tells the story of a sorceress and poet who dreams a civilization into existence from magic seeds.

Former prosecutor says Manhattan DA could have charged Trump with multiple crimes

1:43pm February 07, 2023

by Dave Davies

Mark Pomerantz spent a year investigating Trump, from the hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels, to countless financial statements that wildly overstated assets. His book is People Vs. Donald Trump.

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