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'Science Of Mom': Scientist Sorts Through Studies So Parents Don't Have To

3:09pm August 24, 2015

Alice Callahan uses her background in nutritional biology and fetal physiology to help new parents tell fact from fiction in her new book The Science of Mom. She gives tips to NPR's Rachel Martin.

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Librarian S. Kalaivani has worked at the Jaffna Public Library in Sri Lanka for five years. "I love working here," she says. "It's a pleasure to help the people who are continuing to get knowledge."

Up From The Ashes, A Public Library In Sri Lanka Welcomes New Readers

1:45pm August 24, 2015

by Julie McCarthy

The Jaffna library once held irreplaceable, ancient manuscripts, lost when it was torched in 1981. Fully restored, the beloved landmark today is filled with readers.

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Ms. Marvel, which was not on the Sad Puppies slate, took home this year's Hugo for best graphic story.

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Amid A Hubbub At The Hugos, 'Puppies' See Little Success

6:53pm August 23, 2015

by Colin Dwyer

At science fiction's Hugo Awards, voters largely rejected a slate of nominees pushed by a group called the Sad Puppies. In an unusual end to the controversy, a few categories didn't even get a winner.

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'Eileen' Is Dark, Damaged Fun

7:03am August 23, 2015

by Jean Zimmerman

Ottessa Moshfegh's new novel follows a defiantly, triumphantly off-putting young woman who dreams of escaping her grim New England existence. Critic Jean Zimmerman calls it "pleasingly perverse."

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Everyone's Likely To Be Sad At This Year's Hugos

7:03am August 22, 2015

by Tasha Robinson

The Hugo Awards celebrate the best in science fiction and fantasy, but this year they're fraught with controversy after a self-identified conservative coalition organized to dominate the nominations.

For Summer Reading Lists, Some Schools Take A More Modern Approach

6:18pm August 21, 2015

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Kathryn VanArendonk, who teaches developmental reading and writing at Union County College, about how some schools are including contemporary books on summer lists.

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NPR Bestsellers: Week Of August 20, 2015

4:03pm August 21, 2015

The lists are compiled from weekly surveys of close to 500 independent bookstores nationwide.

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NPR Bestsellers: Hardcover Fiction, Week Of August 20, 2015

4:03pm August 21, 2015

A rich girl with a congenital heart defect and an underprivileged boy with athletic talents meet periodically over the course of 30 years in Jennifer Weiner's Who Do You Love. It debuts at No. 13.

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NPR Bestsellers: Hardcover Nonfiction, Week Of August 20, 2015

4:03pm August 21, 2015

Rinker Buck's The Oregon Trail recounts the author's old-fashioned journey down the historic route. It appears at No. 9.

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NPR Bestsellers: Paperback Fiction, Week Of August 20, 2015

4:03pm August 21, 2015

In Big Little Lies, Liane Moriarty follows the fallout of a riot at a school trivia night that leaves someone dead. It appears at No. 10.