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A Mystery Novel Is The Mystery At The Heart Of 'Blockbuster!'

7:00am June 26, 2016

by Genevieve Valentine

Lucy Sussex's new book is a history of 1886's runaway bestseller: The Mystery of a Hansom Cab. Why was it such a hit? Who was involved with it? And why was author Fergus Hume left without a dime?

Book Review: 'Ninefox Gambit,' By Yoon Ha Lee

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Beautifully Alien 'Ninefox Gambit' Mixes Math And Magic

7:00am June 25, 2016

by Jason Sheehan

Yoon Ha Lee's new novel is hard to sum up — in an alien world so dissimilar to ours its technology seems like magic, reality is a consensus that requires intense, rigid belief to function.

Michael Herr, Whose Vietnam War Reporting Became Iconic, Dies At 76

4:53pm June 24, 2016

by Rose Friedman

Herr's book Dispatches redefined the genre of war reporting. "I was there to watch," he wrote. "I went to cover the war and the war covered me; an old story, unless of course you've never heard it."

Book Review: 'As Good As Gone' By Larry Watson

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'Good As Gone' Doesn't Quite Get To Greatness

7:00am June 23, 2016

by Michael Schaub

Larry Watson sticks to what he knows and loves in his latest novel: The cinematic badlands of Montana, and a tough, taciturn Western hero. But none of his characters truly rise above ciphers.

David Hepworth's new book, Never A Dull Moment, is out now from Henry Holt & Co.

The Case For 1971 As Rock's Greatest Year

7:07pm June 22, 2016

by NPR Staff

That year, music journalist David Hepworth argues, offered an explosion of talent from David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Al Green, John Lennon and more. He discusses his new book, Never a Dull Moment.

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Dissapearance At Devil's RockBy Paul Tremblay

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'Devil's Rock' Is An Atmospheric, Gut-Twisting Descent

7:00am June 22, 2016

by Jason Heller

Things are not what they seem in Paul Tremblay's new novel; a simple search for a missing child becomes a dizzying emotional vortex as ominous new details and old tragedies surface.

Book Review: 'Hot Dog Taste Test,' by Lisa Hanawalt.

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Hot Dogs Against Conformity In 'Taste Test'

2:48pm June 21, 2016

by Etelka Lehoczky

If you're the kind of person who'd wear a hot dog costume to a princess party, you'll love Lisa Hanawalt's lushly illustrated, off-the-wall diary/food meditation/travelogue Hot Dog Taste Test.

Forgotten History: How The New England Colonists Embraced The Slave Trade

1:20pm June 21, 2016

American slavery predates the founding of the United States. Wendy Warren, author of New England Bound, says the early colonists imported African slaves and enslaved and exported Native Americans.

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Terry McMillan accepts the award for outstanding literary work, fiction, for "Getting to Happy" at the 42nd NAACP Image Awards on Friday, March 4, 2011, in Los Angeles.

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Terry McMillan's Latest: Revisiting Past Loves, Rediscovering Yourself

12:01pm June 21, 2016

by Karen Grigsby Bates

In her new novel, I Almost Forgot About You, McMillan's heroine confronts midlife malaise by reconnecting with men from her past.

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Fizzy 'Vinegar Girl' Tames Shrewishness To Sparkle

7:00am June 21, 2016

by Heller McAlpin

Anne Tyler's latest is part of a series of Shakespeare plays-turned-novels; she's turned The Taming of the Shrew into a modern screwball comedy about an absent-minded scientist and his daughters.