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Eliot Schrefer's book, Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality, is designed to be teenager friendly. It's filled with comics and humor and accessible science on the diversity of sexual behavior in the animal world.

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What 'Queer Ducks' can teach teenagers about sexuality in the animal kingdom

5:00am May 29, 2022

The new book, Queer Ducks (and Other Animals), is designed to be teenager friendly. It's filled with comics and humor and accessible science on the diversity of sexual behavior in the animal world.

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'City of Orange' is a post-apocalyptic tale starting with memory loss

7:01am May 28, 2022

by Leland Cheuk

The double threat of climate change and the global pandemic has made post-apocalyptic fiction an undeniably thriving and popular genre. Author David Yoon has one of the latest entrants.

How an expert on online disinformation and harassment became the target of both

2:07pm May 26, 2022

by Terry Gross

Nina Jankowicz was tapped to head the Biden administration's new Disinformation Governance Board but resigned after being deluged with online threats. Her new book is How to Be a Woman Online.

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Author examines the behavioral patterns of people who carried out mass shootings

5:11am May 26, 2022

NPR's Rachel Martin talks with Mark Follman about the behavioral patterns of mass shooters. Follman is the author of: Trigger Points: Inside the Mission to Stop Mass Shootings in America.

Diana Goetsch writes about her later-in-life transition in the memoir, This Body I Wore.

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At 58, poet Diana Goetsch finally feels right in her own skin

1:41pm May 25, 2022

by Terry Gross

Goetsch grew up in a time when she didn't have the language to help her understand what it meant to be trans. She chronicles her later-in-life transition in the memoir is This Body I Wore.

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Animal sexuality may not be as binary as we're led to believe, according to new book

4:27pm May 24, 2022

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Eliot Schrefer, author of Queer Ducks (And Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality. It's about how "natural sex" may not be as binary as some think.

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Elif Batuman's sequel 'Either/Or' follows a young woman's sexual awakening

10:58am May 24, 2022

Either/Or is Batuman's sequel to her bestselling Pulitzer finalist novel The Idiot.

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WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 07: Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke testifies before the Joint Economic Committee on Capitol Hill June 7, 2012 in Washington, DC.

Ben Bernanke's Lessons From 'The Great Inflation'

6:30am May 24, 2022

by Greg Rosalsky

In a new book, Ben Bernanke explains how and why the U.S. Federal Reserve has evolved to play such an important role in the economy.

A burn-proof edition of 'The Handmaid's Tale' goes up for auction

12:51am May 24, 2022

by The Associated Press

Organizers say proceeds from the auction will be donated to PEN, which advocates for free expression around the world.

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Novelist Emma Straub asks life's big questions in 'This Time Tomorrow'

1:59pm May 23, 2022

by Tonya Mosley

Straub's new novel is a time-travel fantasy about a 40-year-old woman who's tending to her ailing father — until, that is, the day she's transported to her childhood home on her 16th birthday.

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