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Navigating Culture And Crushes In 'Frankly In Love'

7:46pm September 21, 2019

by Scott Simon

David Yoon's young adult debut follows Frank Li, a Korean American kid who concocts a plan to keep his strict parents from finding out that he's dating a non-Korean girl — what could go wrong?

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A Stitch In Time Saves A Life In 'A Single Thread'

10:00am September 21, 2019

by Denny S. Bryce

Tracy Chevalier's new novel follows a woman left alone after her fiance and brother died in World War I. She decides to make her mark on the world by joining a guild of embroiderers at a cathedral.

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'Show Won't Go On': Book Compiles Performers Who Died On Stage

7:46am September 21, 2019

NPR's Scott Simon interviews Jeff Abraham and Burt Kearns about their new book: The Show Won't Go On: The Most Shocking, Bizarre, and Historic Deaths of Performers Onstage.

A Cosmology of Monsters, by Shaun Hamill

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'A Cosmology Of Monsters' Blends Freaky Frights And Family Feels

7:00am September 21, 2019

by Jason Heller

Shaun Hamill's new novel uses the lens of horror to examine the ways we interact and fail to interact with each other, and the way a family can be held together by the very things that tear it apart.

They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate, by James Verini

'They Will Have To Die Now' Is A Bare-Knuckles Account Of The Fight Against ISIS

6:07pm September 20, 2019

by Tom Bowman

James Verini's book will stand up with some of the best war reporting, as he takes an unblinking look at the dirtiest kind of battle — urban combat — and the human wreckage it leaves in its wake.

Fifty books made the cut for the 2019 National Book Award longlists. Winners will be announced in November.

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Here Are The Nominees For The 2019 National Book Awards

1:58pm September 20, 2019

by Colin Dwyer

Colson Whitehead and Marlon James headline the longlists of names in contention for the literary prize. Altogether, 50 books across five categories stand a chance at winning in November.

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Take A Dark Ride On The 'Night Boat To Tangier'

10:00am September 20, 2019

by Michael Schaub

In Kevin Barry's grim but compassionate new novel, two weary Irish ex-crooks sit waiting in a run-down Spanish ferry terminal, waiting for one man's estranged daughter who may or may not show up.

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'Heaven, My Home' Is A Complicated Place

7:00am September 20, 2019

by Bethanne Patrick

Attica Locke returns to the world of Highway 59 in Heaven, My Home, which finds Texas Ranger Darren Mathews dealing with the disappearance of the young son of an imprisoned white supremacist leader.

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In 'Obviously,' Comedian Muses About Growing Up In A Small Kentucky Town

4:38pm September 19, 2019

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with comedian Akilah Hughes about a collection of short essays in her new book, Obviously.

Reflecting on his decision to go public with classified information, Edward Snowden says, "The likeliest outcome for me, hands down, was that I'd spend the rest of my life in an orange jumpsuit, but that was a risk that I had to take."

Edward Snowden Speaks Out: 'I Haven't And I Won't' Cooperate With Russia

2:58pm September 19, 2019

by Dave Davies

In 2013, Snowden showed journalists thousands of top-secret documents about U.S. intelligence agencies' surveillance efforts. He's been living in Russia ever since. His new book is Permanent Record.

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