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Best-Selling Book Helps Recast The Historic Battle At The Alamo

8:08am August 09, 2021

by David Martin Davies

The book — Forget the Alamo — challenges common misconceptions surrounding the conflict — including the notion that Davy Crockett was a martyr who fought to the death rather than surrender.

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All Might Not End Too Well In Mona Awad's New Novel

5:00am August 09, 2021

by Kristen Martin

In All's Well, a theater professor in chronic pain, ignored by doctors, believes putting on one of Shakespeare's least popular plays will renew her — and then three mystery men offer her a cure.

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A New David Brooks Article Takes A Look At How The Cultural Elite Broke America

12:02pm August 08, 2021

Who is responsible for society's ills? Writer David Brooks thinks he has the answer. Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with him about his recent column in The Atlantic, How The Bobos Broke America.

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These Are The Best Summer Reads For The Romantic At Heart

7:56am August 08, 2021

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with author Jasmine Guillory about the best romance reads of the summer.

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In 'Like Other Girls,' You Can Be — And Play — Whatever You Want. Even Football.

5:00am August 08, 2021

by Alethea Kontis

Britta Lundin's Like Other Girls follows Mara, a hot-tempered 6'2" high school sports star who's booted from basketball for brawling, but finds a new life and a new way of being on the football field.

A composite of book covers showing: Dream Girl by Laura Lippman, Death of a Showman by Mariah Fredericks, The Deep Blue Good-by by John D. MacDonald, and A Princess in Theory by Alyssa Cole.

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Here Are 4 Fabulous Beach Reads — Whether You're On A Beach Or Not

8:01am August 07, 2021

by Scott Simon

Late summer is the time to lose yourself in novels, so we asked author (and Key West resident) Meg Cabot to share a few of her favorite books to while away the hours on the water.

Savage Tongues, by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

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A Novel That Invokes History — But Can't Quite Define It

5:00am August 07, 2021

by Kamil Ahsan

In Savage Tongues, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi gives us a protagonist who speaks often of history and how it's affected her — but what, exactly, is "history" to her? Readers will be left wondering.

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'Fallout' Tells The Story Of The Journalist Who Exposed The 'Hiroshima Cover-Up'

1:40pm August 06, 2021

by Dave Davies

Lesley M.M. Blume's book tells the story of John Hersey, whose on-the-ground reporting in Hiroshima, Japan, exposed the world to the devastation of nuclear weapons. Originally broadcast Aug. 19, 2020.

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Romance Writers Of America Was Doing Better With Race — Until A Recent Award Choice

5:35pm August 05, 2021

by Karen Grigsby Bates

After a racism controversy, the national trade organization for romance writers had been making progress. Then, they gave a major prize to a book whose hero murdered Native Americans at Wounded Knee.

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A Farmer Offers A Stark Time-Lapse Portrait Of His Family's Land Over A Lifetime

11:25am August 05, 2021

by Heller McAlpin

James Rebanks' new book Pastoral Song urgently conveys how the drive for cheap, mass-produced food has impoverished both small farmers and the soil, threatening humanity's future.