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Volume 58 is the latest in the Saga series that has been running for a decade now.

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Radical pacifism and violence collide in one family's epic sci-fi 'Saga'

5:00am April 27, 2022

by Mallory Yu

There's a frog playing drums, an alien on guitar and a humanoid with a TV for a head on vocals. If the cover of the Saga comic seems a bit confusing, you have some catching up to do.

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'Nettle & Bone' creates a once-upon-a-time that is familiar, yet original

5:00am April 27, 2022

by Caitlyn Paxson

T. Kingfisher treats source material like a buffet; the result feels like a cozy but still perilous D&D adventure, full of found-family, second chances, and winks to the folklore that inspired it.

Danica Roem's new book shares her journey from 'closet-case trans girl' to legislator

4:58pm April 26, 2022

by Juana Summers

Danica Roem is a trailblazing figure as the first openly trans person elected to a state legislature in the U.S. Her new "memoir-meets-manifesto" explores her personal and political journey.

Among the books banned in Llano County, Texas, public libraries were: Robie H. Harris's It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health; Isabel Wilkerson's Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents; and Maurice Sendak's In the Night

In a lawsuit, a group of Texas library patrons says a book ban amounts to censorship

4:11pm April 26, 2022

by Joe Hernandez

Llano County officials said they wanted to remove "pornographic" material from libraries but actually censored books based on political and religious grounds, the library patrons' lawsuit says.

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CNN anchor Zain Asher looks back on the tragedy that helped drive her success

1:27pm April 26, 2022

by Dave Davies

Asher's father died in a car crash in Nigeria when she was 5. Afterward, her mom raised four children on her own in a crime-ridden London neighborhood. Asher's memoir is Where the Children Take Us.

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'Slaves for Peanuts' weaves a complex story crossing time and oceans

11:16am April 25, 2022

by Martha Anne Toll

Jori Lewis tells eye-opening stories of individuals despite scant historical record. At the outset she asks: "How do we tell the stories of people that history forgets and the present avoids?"

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What qualities make an audiobook good?

9:39am April 24, 2022

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Book Riot contributing editor Kendra Winchester what makes a good audiobook good, and what memoirs are great to listen to.

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The pandemic inspired a cartoonist to explore their Wuhanese roots and queer identity

8:41am April 24, 2022

by Malaka Gharib

In the funny and heartfelt coming-of-age graphic memoir 'Messy Roots,' artist Laura Gao unpacks their relationship with their Asianness, queerness and their ever-changing home city of Wuhan.

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In the 100th year of 'The Velveteen Rabbit,' readers ask what it means to be real

11:28am April 23, 2022

On the 100th anniversary of 'The Velveteen Rabbit,' we look at the book's influence on writers and filmmakers, and the timeless question at the heart of the story: What does it mean to be real?

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In the new novel 'Search,' a church searches for a new minister

10:41am April 23, 2022

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Michelle Huneven about her new novel, "Search," and the characters, recipes, and humor involved in a Unitarian Universalist church's search for a new minister.

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