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A vendor adjusts heart-shaped pillows hanging from a tree in Jalandhar, India, on Feb. 9.

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Poem For Your Thoughts: Your Memories Of Love, Captured In Poetry

5:12am February 12, 2018

You shared stories of being smitten, stories of betrayal and even a love letter to a dog. Here, author Kwame Alexander selects poems that get to the heart of those experiences.

Text Me When You Get Home, by Kayleen Schaefer

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'Text Me When You Get Home' Celebrates The Complexities Of Female Friendship

10:00am February 11, 2018

by Rhaina Cohen

Women in the Middle Ages were excluded from many realms: the law, universities, and surprisingly, from friendship. Clearly, that's changed — and Kayleen Schaefer's new book examines how and why.

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'Text Me When You Get Home'

8:02am February 11, 2018

It's a common call as women bid goodbye to each other: "Text me when you get home." And that's the title of Kayleen Schaefer's book about modern female friendship. She talks with Lulu Garcia-Navarro.

'Heart Berries,' by Terese Marie Mailhot

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In 'Heart Berries,' An Indigenous Woman's Chaotic Coming-Of-Age

7:33am February 11, 2018

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

Terese Marie Mailhot's new memoir is an effort to draw art from mental illness, lost love and her family history on an Indian reservation in British Columbia.

A Mouth Is Always Muzzled by Natalie Hopkinson

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'A Mouth Is Always Muzzled' Is A Sprawling Look At Art And Resistance

7:00am February 11, 2018

by Ericka Taylor

Natalie Hopkinson's new book takes her ancestral land of Guyana as a jumping-off point for a wide-ranging look at art and the role of the artist in shaping politics, culture and the future itself.

The History Of Chicago's Public Housing In 'High-Risers'

8:02am February 10, 2018

Cabrini-Green was a symbol for public housing in the late 20th century until it was torn down in 2011. Ben Austen talks with Scott Simon about that history and his new book, High-Risers.

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In 'Catnip,' Love And Loss Sketched Out In Cat Cartoons

8:02am February 10, 2018

by Scott Simon

Michael Korda's new book Catnip: A Love Story collects the doodles that he created based on his wife's cats in order to comfort her during her battle with a malignant brain tumor.

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'Winterfolk' Cloaks Harsh Reality In Fairy Tale Mist

7:00am February 10, 2018

by Caitlyn Paxson

Janel Kolby's novel about a fairy-tale-loving young girl living in a homeless encampment outside of Seattle is a brutally realist tale, told as if it happened once-upon-a-time.

The World Only Spins Forward, by Isaac Butler and Dan Kois

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New Oral History Captures The Magic Of 'Angels In America'

5:19pm February 09, 2018

by Bob Mondello

Authors Isaac Butler and Dan Kois celebrate Angels in a new book, The World Only Spins Forward, that collects the memories of everyone from playwright Tony Kushner to Congressman Barney Frank.

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A Debut Author Imagines Herself Into Other Lives In 'Asymmetry'

4:34pm February 08, 2018

by Lynn Neary

Lisa Halliday's new novel is made of stories that seem to have little to do with each other — partly autobiographical, and partly about lives and cultures that are far from her own.