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When In Doubt, Pretend To Be Todd Parr

10:16am October 28, 2019

by Juanita Giles

For October, our kids' books columnist Juanita Giles praises picture book author Todd Parr and his insight into the emotional needs of children who are dealing with loss, change — and other children.

Prince Memoir, 'The Beautiful Ones,' Brings To Life A Vision In One's Mind

9:39am October 27, 2019

by Tanya Ballard Brown

You won't get a full picture of Prince from this book, but it does manage to pierce through some of the mystery the renowned artist purposely cultivated around and about himself.

The author of The New York Times' op-ed "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration" has written a new book called A Warning, scheduled to be published Nov. 19.

Anonymous Author of Explosive Trump Administration Insider Op-Ed To Publish Book

5:39pm October 22, 2019

by Rose Friedman

The book will be called A Warning. The author will be identified as A Senior Trump Administration Official. It will be published by Twelve Books on Nov. 19.

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'Last Of Her Name' Urges Readers: Only Connect

7:00am October 22, 2019

by Michael Schaub

Mimi Lok's debut story collection — a perceptive look at the connections we make and fail to make — doesn't read like a debut. Lok writes with the self-assuredness of a literary veteran.

Polish author Olga Tokarczuk (left) won the postponed 2018 Nobel Prize for literature and Austrian novelist and playwright Peter Handke won the 2019 award. The Swedish Academy did not hand out a prize last year due to scandal.

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Nobel Prizes In Literature Go To Olga Tokarczuk And Peter Handke

9:28am October 10, 2019

by Colin Dwyer

The Swedish Academy made the unusual move Thursday of recognizing both Handke, an Austrian writer, and Tokarczuk, who is Polish, after scandal prevented the committee from awarding a prize last year.

Twenty-five books remain in consideration for the five National Book Awards that will be doled out Nov. 20 in New York City. Among the names to be found on the 2019 shortlists: Marlon James, Susan Choi, Jason Reynolds, Carolyn Forche and Laila Lalami, amo

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Here Are The Finalists For The 2019 National Book Awards

10:40am October 08, 2019

by Colin Dwyer

The shortlists this year include Marlon James, Susan Choi, Carolyn Forché, Jason Reynolds and more than two dozen other authors and translators. Winners in five categories will be unveiled next month.

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Lauren Groff Is On A Mission To Remember Nancy Hale With 'Where The Light Falls'

5:29pm October 03, 2019

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with writer Lauren Groff about a collection of short stories she edited by Nancy Hale. Hale died in 1988.

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Renia Spiegel (left) and her younger sister, now known as Elizabeth Bellak, wade in the Dniester River around 1935. The photo can be seen on the cover of the published edition of Renia's Diary.

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Renia Spiegel's Diary Survived The Holocaust. People Are Finally Reading It

10:24am September 30, 2019

by Lynn Neary

Renia's Diary spent decades in a safe deposit box before being published this week in the U.S. It was written by a Jewish teenager in Poland before she was murdered by the Nazis.

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Tracy Chevalier says she learned the needlepoint stitches used by the women in A Single Thread while researching the book.

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Tracy Chevalier Says 'A Single Thread' Can Make All The Difference

8:02am September 29, 2019

by Petra Mayer

Chevalier's new novel follows one of the generation of "surplus women," who lost their men in World War I and had to make new lives for themselves — sometimes outside the bounds of convention.

Bob Iger, CEO and chairman of The Walt Disney Co., and Mickey Mouse rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange in November 2017. Iger's new book is an account of what he has learned running Disney.

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Disney CEO Bob Iger Has Lessons On Fostering Creativity — And Acquiring It

9:11am September 26, 2019

by Elizabeth Blair

The head of The Walt Disney Co. has a new book, The Ride of a Lifetime. It's a memoir of what he has learned in 15 years there — encompassing the purchases of Pixar, Lucasfilm and 21st Century Fox.

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