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The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis' 'The Premonition' Is A Sweeping Indictment Of The CDC

9:05am May 03, 2021

by Rachel Martin

In a new book, author Michael Lewis writes about public health officers who tried to get others to look at the data on COVID-19 and act to make sure the virus didn't spread.

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Alison Bechdel Discusses A Lifelong Affair With Exercise In New Memoir

8:02am May 02, 2021

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Alison Bechdel about her new graphic memoir, The Secret to Superhuman Strength.

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Comics Hero Barry Windsor-Smith Is Back, And He's Brought Something Monstrous

7:00am May 02, 2021

by Etelka Lehoczky

Windsor-Smith is known for his work on Conan the Barbarian and lots of X-Men titles. Now, he's back with a passion project about a man subjected to ghastly secret government experiments.

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Sharon Stone On New Memoir 'The Beauty Of Living Twice'

6:04pm May 01, 2021

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with actress Sharon Stone about her new book — already a New York Times bestseller.

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, still has a Plan for That and much to discuss in her new book.

Elizabeth Warren's 'Persist' Is Generous To Her '20 Democratic Rivals (Except One)

3:52pm May 01, 2021

by Danielle Kurtzleben

Warren fans looking for score-settling won't find it here — her book is not a juicy tell-all. Instead, it reads like a that of a future campaigner or a public servant who wants to continue fighting.

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'Great Circle' Takes Flight Across Decades And Continents

9:08am May 01, 2021

by Scott Simon

The daredevil aviator in Maggie Shipstead's new novel was inspired by Amelia Earhart. Shipstead says she wants to investigate the difference between death and a disappearance like Earhart's.

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Suzanne Simard Explores The The Forest Society Of Trees In Book

8:00am May 01, 2021

NPR's Scott Simon talks with forestry scientist Suzanne Simard about her book, Finding the Mother Tree, and the real lives of trees.

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Murderbot Meets Miss Marple In 'Fugitive Telemetry'

7:00am May 01, 2021

by Jason Sheehan

Martha Wells' new Murderbot novella is a classic locked-room mystery — only the locked room is a docked shuttle at a normally peaceful space station ill-equipped to deal with murder and mayhem.

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Author Anna Sale Encourages Everyone To 'Talk About Hard Things'

6:50am April 30, 2021

NPR's Noel King talks to Anna Sale about her book: Let's Talk About Hard Things. Sale, host of WNYC's podcast Death, Sex and Money, unpacks the things we must confront at some point in our lives

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Rich Jean; his daughter, Abigail Jean; and librarian Hasina Islam at StoryCorps in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 2016.

A Joy Of Reading, Sparked By A Special Librarian Determined To 'Make A Difference'

6:50am April 30, 2021

by Jey Born

Hasina Islam fostered a love of reading and the library in Abigail Jean, who is 12. Abigail was just 3 when they met at a branch of the Brooklyn Public Library.

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