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From Electrifying Rivers To Dimming The Sun, How Humans Try (And Fail) To Master Nature

1:18pm February 09, 2021

by Dave Davies

New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert talks about the ways humans have harmed the natural world — and the unintended consequences of efforts to reverse the damage. Her new book is Under a White Sky.

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Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted, by Suleika Jaouad

'Between Two Kingdoms' Tells A Story Of Survival — And Of A Journey To Learn To Live

10:32am February 09, 2021

by Heller McAlpin

A new book by Suleika Jaouad, author of the column "Life, Interrupted," encompasses a less familiar tale of what it's like to survive cancer and have to figure out how to live again in its aftermath.

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'Love And Other Poems' Promises That Love Will Find Us

10:00am February 09, 2021

by Jeevika Verma

Alex Dimitrov's new collection — perfect for anyone caught between the moon and New York City — advises readers to be patient: Time is always moving on, bringing us closer and closer to love.

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'We Run The Tides' Pulls You Into The Rough Seas Of Female Adolescence

11:47am February 08, 2021

by Maureen Corrigan

Vendela Vida's novel centers on four 13-year-old girls who are perched on the edge of adulthood — and the recognition that some things they do or say now will change who they become as adults.

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, by Elizabeth Kolbert

'Under A White Sky' Examines What It Might Take For Humans To Continue To Exist

10:34am February 08, 2021

by Adam Frank

Elizabeth Kolbert makes clear how far we already are from a world of undisturbed, balanced nature — and how far we must go to find a new balance for the planet's future, one that still includes us.

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Powerful 'Removed' Walks A Path Between Memory And Mourning

10:00am February 07, 2021

by Marcela Davison Avilés

Brandon Hobson's new novel crosses back and forth between past and present, mourning and memory to tell the story of a Cherokee family grappling with the death of a son at the hands of the police.

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Suleika Jaouad On Moving Forward After A Cancer Diagnosis

7:48am February 07, 2021

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to Suleika Jaouad author of Between Two Kingdoms, her memoir about surviving cancer and learning how to live again.

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Facing Down The Monster Within in 'What Big Teeth'

7:00am February 07, 2021

by Caitlyn Paxson

Rose Szabo has created a monstrous, dysfunctional family far worse than anything Charles Addams ever dreamed up — and young daughter Eleanor may be the worst of them. She just doesn't know why.

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Compelling Queer Romance Eclipses Sci-Fi Stakes in 'Winter's Orbit'

10:00am February 06, 2021

by Natalie Zutter

This charming, trope-laden sci-fi romance started life as an original story posted to a fanfiction site, and it wears its fannish influences proudly. Fake-dating? Hurt/comfort? Sunny/grumpy? Yes!

The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing, by Sonia Faleiro

'The Good Girls' Aims To Uncover The Story Behind The Deaths Of Two Indian Girls

8:01am February 06, 2021

by Scott Simon

Two young, inseparable teenage girls were found hanging side by side from a mango tree in a small village in India in May 2014. Author Sonia Faleiro investigates their deaths in a new book.

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