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Last Night in Nuuk, by Niviaq Korneliussen.

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Youthful Angst Is Fresh And Compelling In 'Last Night In Nuuk'

7:00am January 17, 2019

by Michael Schaub

Niviaq Korneliussen's new novel follows five people in Greenland's capital Nuuk; it's a heartbreaking yet hopeful look at young, queer life in one of the most isolated places in the world.

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Reyna Grande on Her Latest Memoir, 'A Dream Called Home'

5:01am January 17, 2019

Bestselling author, Reyna Grande, tells Maria Hinojosa about her latest memoir, "A Dream Called Home."

Marianne Power set out to live one year of her life according to the advice of self-help books. She tells the story in her new book Help Me!

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Feel The Fear — And Read It Anyway: 'Help Me!' Documents A Year Of Self-Help Books

5:48pm January 16, 2019

by Mary Louise Kelly

Marianne Power decided to read one self-help book a month, for a year — and follow the advice in each, to the letter. She says it became a much more intense undertaking than she'd anticipated.

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'Joy Enough' Recalls A Daughter's All-Encompassing Love For Her Mother

10:55am January 16, 2019

by Martha Anne Toll

Sarah McColl unstintingly puts her heart on the page as she reflects on caring for her dying mother, with whom she is unimaginably close, as her marriage fails.

Fence, vol. 2 by C.S. Pacat and Johanna the Mad

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'Fence' Shows That In Sports, Sometimes It's Not About Winning

7:00am January 16, 2019

by Etelka Lehoczky

C.S. Pacat's comic about rivalries and relationships in the overheated world of elite high school fencers stars a brash outsider up against a sleek yet surly prodigy at the top of his game.

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Building Walls Are Not A Solution To A Problem, Author Says

6:37am January 16, 2019

NPR's Noel King talks to Marcello Di Cintio, author of Walls: Travels Along the Barricades, about the political and cultural effects of installing barriers between nations.

Episode #1903

1:54pm January 15, 2019

Immortal Technique, Taina and Reyna Grande's New Memoir

Cover detail of Ghost Wall, by Sarah Moss

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'Ghost Wall' Is An Eerie Coming-Of-Age Tale That Begs For A Second Read

1:39pm January 15, 2019

by Maureen Corrigan

Sarah Moss' beautifully written novel is set in the 1970s in the rugged countryside of the far north of England, where a group of campers are reenacting the daily lives of Iron Age Britons.

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'Inheritance' Investigates A Family Secret, With Self-Discovery At The Core

10:20am January 15, 2019

by Heller McAlpin

Dani Shapiro, at age 54, is shocked to learn that the man she thought was her biological father wasn't a blood relative. Her memoir, a quest for the truth, reads like an emotional detective story.

Muhammad: Forty Introductions by Michael Muhammad Knight

'Muhammad: Forty Introductions' Isn't Setting Out To Satisfy

5:01am January 15, 2019

by Lily Meyer

Michael Muhammad Knight's new book on the religious figure is designed to seduce, educate, and irritate its audience into curiosity about Islam and Muhammad — and on all three fronts it succeeds.