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1918 Flu Inspired Donoghue's 'Pull Of The Stars' — A Disquieting Pandemic Novel

1:50pm July 20, 2020

by Maureen Corrigan

Set in a Dublin maternity ward in 1918, the novel captures a city devastated by a pandemic. By diving into the terrors of the past, Emma Donoghue presciently anticipates the miseries of our present.

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Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism, by Seyward Darby

'Sisters In Hate' Profiles 3 Women Who Find Bonds In White Nationalist Movement

11:38am July 20, 2020

by Danielle Kurtzleben

Though their stories encourage gawking, at least one throughline sticks after reading Sisters — the ugly deal these women have made with a movement that is ultimately ambivalent toward them.

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Author Josh Malerman Returns To 'Bird Box' Universe In His Sequel, 'Malorie'

8:00am July 19, 2020

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Josh Malerman about his new novel, Malorie — the sequel to Bird Box.

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Take A Dangerous Ride Through 'Blacktop Wasteland'

7:00am July 19, 2020

by Gabino Iglesias

S.A. Cosby's latest is being marketed as a crime novel — but that crime is the least important element in this wrenching story about race, family, and the temptation to take that one last job.

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Author Bruce Feiler On Life-Altering Transitions

5:14pm July 18, 2020

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with bestselling author Bruce Feiler about his new book, Life is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age.

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Author Miles Harvey Tells The Story Of Schemer And False Prophet James Strang

8:01am July 18, 2020

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Miles Harvey about his book The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch.

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For July: 3 Romance Novels Grounded In Reality

7:00am July 18, 2020

by Maya Rodale

Romance novel characters often face outlandish obstacles — pirates, spies, paranormal forces, plots. But this month, we're featuring three down-to-earth stories about balancing love and career.

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'Sex And Lies' Author Leila Slimani: 'Women's Lives Matter'

9:45pm July 16, 2020

by Sarah McCammon

Franco-Moroccan writer Leila Slimani's new book examines the restricted sex lives of women in a country where, she says, the unofficial motto is "Do what you wish, but never talk about it."

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Waiting for an Echo, by Christine Montross

Psychiatrist: America's 'Extremely Punitive' Prisons Make Mental Illness Worse

3:42pm July 16, 2020

by Dave Davies

Dr. Christine Montross says people with serious mental illnesses in the U.S. are far more likely to be incarcerated than to be treated in a psychiatric hospital. Her new book is Waiting for an Echo.

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Morris Koll, grandfather of NPR correspondent Pam Fessler's husband, enlisted in the U.S. Army and was sent to the Philippines in 1902. That's when he contracted leprosy. In 1935, public health authorities took him to the national leprosarium in Carville,

A Family Secret Inspired A New Book About Leprosy

2:23pm July 16, 2020

by Diane Cole

NPR correspondent Pam Fessler, author of Carville's Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice, talks about her research into this once feared disease — and its connection to COVID-19.

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