These Are The Best Summer Reads For The Romantic At Heart
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with author Jasmine Guillory about the best romance reads of the summer.
Books
In 'Like Other Girls,' You Can Be — And Play — Whatever You Want. Even Football.
Britta Lundin's Like Other Girls follows Mara, a hot-tempered 6'2" high school sports star who's booted from basketball for brawling, but finds a new life and a new way of being on the football field.
Here Are 4 Fabulous Beach Reads — Whether You're On A Beach Or Not
Late summer is the time to lose yourself in novels, so we asked author (and Key West resident) Meg Cabot to share a few of her favorite books to while away the hours on the water.
A Novel That Invokes History — But Can't Quite Define It
In Savage Tongues, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi gives us a protagonist who speaks often of history and how it's affected her — but what, exactly, is "history" to her? Readers will be left wondering.
'Fallout' Tells The Story Of The Journalist Who Exposed The 'Hiroshima Cover-Up'
Lesley M.M. Blume's book tells the story of John Hersey, whose on-the-ground reporting in Hiroshima, Japan, exposed the world to the devastation of nuclear weapons. Originally broadcast Aug. 19, 2020.
Romance Writers Of America Was Doing Better With Race — Until A Recent Award Choice
After a racism controversy, the national trade organization for romance writers had been making progress. Then, they gave a major prize to a book whose hero murdered Native Americans at Wounded Knee.
A Farmer Offers A Stark Time-Lapse Portrait Of His Family's Land Over A Lifetime
James Rebanks' new book Pastoral Song urgently conveys how the drive for cheap, mass-produced food has impoverished both small farmers and the soil, threatening humanity's future.
Having A Conversation With Loss And Grief In 'Waiting For The Waters To Rise'
Maryse Condé's new novel follws a lonely man, an obstetrician who adopts an orphaned baby girl and tries to find her family — it's an examination of loss and grief on a personal and national level.
Osama Bin Laden Biography Goes Inside Al-Qaida Leader's Final Hideout
Journalist Peter Bergen visited bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, before it was demolished. His new book, The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden, draws on materials seized in the raid.
Soccer Star Abby Wambach Recommends 3 Reads On Sports And Leadership
Wambach retired from soccer in 2015, and now, as a professional speaker, she shares three books that helped her learn to be a leader — both on the field and off.