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Ruby Bridges on turning her experience of desegregating a school into a kids' book

4:23pm September 05, 2022

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with the activist Ruby Bridges about her new book I Am Ruby Bridges, which tells her story through her six-year-old eyes.

Corlys Velaryon (Steve Tousssaint) has an axe, and teeth, to grind in House of the Dragon.

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'House of the Dragon' episode 3: The king - and the show - go hunting for validation

10:00pm September 04, 2022

by Glen Weldon

In the third episode of HBO's Game of Thrones prequel, Rhaenyra is bored, has to fend off a Lord, then nearly gets gored; meanwhile, a minor threat gets put to the sword.

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Books We Love: Thrillers to get your blood pumping

8:33am September 04, 2022

by Ayesha Rascoe

Need a good mystery to get your blood pumping? We hear NPR staff picks from our Books We Love list: "The Verifiers," "The Paris Apartment," and "The Latinist."

Melissa Clark and NPR's Ayesha Rascoe pose with the cheesy baked pasta.

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When Melissa Clark cooks, it's 'Dinner in One'

8:01am September 04, 2022

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe visits the food writer's home to talk and cook. Clark has a new book of recipes promising minimal fuss (and dirty dishes).

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'They call her Fregona' reflects on life on the U.S.-Mexico border

8:44am September 03, 2022

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon talks with David Bowles about his new novel-in-verse for young people, "They Call Her Fregona." It's the story of eighth-graders who live along the Texas-Mexico border.

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Survivor Tova Friedman's new memoir reflects on life as 'The Daughter of Auschwitz'

8:29am September 03, 2022

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Holocaust survivor Tova Friedman about her memoir, "The Daughter of Auschwitz."

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Goodnight Moon has comforted kids at bedtime for 75 years

5:00am September 03, 2022

by Elizabeth Blair

Since its publication on September 3, 1947, the book has lulled children around the world to sleep with its dreamy ritual of bidding "goodnight" to everything in the "great green room."

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NPR's Nina Totenberg discusses her longterm friendship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg

5:40am September 02, 2022

Steve Inskeep talks with NPR's Nina Totenberg about her upcoming book, "Dinners with Ruth," and her decades-long friendship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg and others in positions of power.

J.K Rowling has said publicly that her new book was not based on her own life, even though some of the events that take place in the story did in fact happen to her as she was writing it.

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J.K. Rowling's new book, about a transphobe who faces wrath online, raises eyebrows

5:24pm August 31, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

In The Ink Black Heart, a popular cartoonist is harassed and killed after her work is criticized as transphobic. Observers say the plot mirrors Rowling's experience, though she calls it a coincidence.

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Encore: 'Peach Blossom Spring' interrogates the meaning of home

4:16pm August 31, 2022

In this encore presentation, NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Melissa Fu about her debut novel Peach Blossom Spring, a multigenerational story of war and migration inspired by her father's life.