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In Richard Price's 'The Whites', Haunted Cops And Cases They Couldn't Close

1:49pm March 04, 2016

Price says that in every precinct there's one cop who just can't let go of a case. "They all reminded me of Ahab ... looking for their whales," he says. Originally broadcast Feb. 17, 2015.

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Signs warn not to drink the lead-contaminated water from a water fountain in Flint, Mich.

America's 'Lead Wars' Go Beyond Flint, Mich.: 'It's Now Really Everywhere'

5:39pm March 03, 2016

David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz chronicle America's poisonous relationship with lead in Lead Wars. "We've created a terribly toxic environment in all sorts of ways," Rosner says.

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Memory Of Potato Famine Burdens 'Immortal Irishman'

6:44am March 03, 2016

Civil War buffs and the Irish-American community have probably heard of Thomas Francis Meagher. Renee Montagne talks to New York Times columnist Timothy Egan about his book The Immortal Irishman.

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Let's Stop Requiring Advanced Math, A New Book Argues

9:09am March 02, 2016

by Anya Kamenetz

Algebra, trigonometry and calculus keep millions of people from graduating. And they're unnecessary, argues author and professor Andrew Hacker.

According to the U.S. Census, single adult women now outnumber married adult women in America.

Single By Choice: Why Fewer American Women Are Married Than Ever Before

3:59pm March 01, 2016

Rebecca Traister, author of All the Single Ladies, says the declining marriage rates among adult women are less about the institution of marriage and more about the choices available to women today.

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Sentenced To Death For Murder, A Woman Tells Her Story From 'Memory'

2:11pm March 01, 2016

by NPR Staff

In Petina Gappah's new novel, an albino Zimbabwean woman named Memory is charged with murdering her adoptive father. She narrates the tale from inside a maximum security prison in Harare.

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Adam Grant is a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Originals.

Originals: How To Spot One, How To Be One

12:01am March 01, 2016

by NPR Staff

Adam Grant, author of Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World, tells us what makes an original, how parents can nurture originality in their children, and its potential downside.

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Nancy Jo Sales interviewed more than 200 teenage girls about their social media and Internet habits while researching her book American Girls.

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Teen Girls And Social Media: A Story Of 'Secret Lives' And Misogyny

7:43pm February 29, 2016

Author Nancy Jo Sales says the Internet fosters a kind of sexism that is harmful to teen girls. Her new book is American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers.

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'The Ballad Of Black Tom' Offers A Tribute And Critique Of Lovecraft

1:55pm February 29, 2016

Growing up, Victor LaValle loved reading the horror stories of H.P. Lovecraft. It wasn't until later that LaValle recognized the racism in Lovecraft's work and felt the need to respond.

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'The Martian' Started As A Self-Published Book

4:24pm February 28, 2016

by Lynn Neary

The movie that was nominated for several Oscars began as a self-published book by Andy Weir. NPR's Lynn Neary looks at how an unknown author's book became a hit audio book and major motion picture.

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