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'Glory' nods to Orwell as animals explore survival under a corrupt government

9:33am March 10, 2022

by Ilana Masad

NoViolet Bulawayo's book expresses a people's frustration, terror, resilience, uprising and hope in a way that can be applied to a multitude of nations and political realities around the globe.

Children and their families have taken refuge in bomb shelters like this one at the Central City Library for Children in Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine.

Ukraine's libraries are offering bomb shelters, camouflage classes and, yes, books

3:25pm March 09, 2022

by Bill Chappell

One bundle of homemade camouflage netting was packaged with a note reading, "Death to enemies." The libraries are also sending Ukrainian books out of the country to refugees who have fled.

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'In Love' tells the true story of a writer supporting her husband's euthanasia choice

2:57pm March 09, 2022

by Heller McAlpin

The question overshadowing Amy Bloom's memoir is how far you'd be willing to go for the one you love. Would you agree to help your beloved end his life when he receives a hopeless diagnosis?

Photos of Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre victims sits at a small memorial near the school on Jan. 14, 2013 in Newtown, Conn.

Sandy Hook ushered in new era of conspiracy and lies, author finds

12:19pm March 09, 2022

by Dave Davies

Following the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary school, journalist Elizabeth Williamson says, conspiracy theorists tormented the victims' families by accusing them of being actors.

'The Man Who Tasted Words' forces readers to question their reality

8:29am March 09, 2022

by Gabino Iglesias

Most humans walk around feeling like they know what reality is, but the message at the core of Dr. Guy Leschziner's book is that all sensory information we receive is intrinsically ambiguous.

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How economic strategies helped to determine the victor in America's Civil War

5:02am March 09, 2022

In Roger Lowenstein's new book Ways and Means, he investigates the financial forces that kept the Union and Confederate fighting forces funded during the Civil War.

Amy Bloom and Brian Ameche married in 2007. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2019.

After an Alzheimer's diagnosis, her husband asked for help to die with dignity

1:20pm March 08, 2022

by Terry Gross

Novelist Amy Bloom talks about how, at her husband's insistence, she traveled with him to Zurich so he could legally terminate his life. Her new memoir is In Love.

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Former Attorney General William Barr stands for a portrait at his house in McLean, Virginia, on Wednesday, March 2.

Trump's attorney general sends a letter from No Man's Land

8:48am March 08, 2022

by Ron Elving

In One Damn Thing After Another, Bill Barr alternates between castigating and exonerating. He catalogs Trump's offenses yet casts him as the latest victim of dishonest media and "the radical Left."

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Law professor Kim Wehle's latest book is 'How To Think Like a Lawyer — and Why'

7:42am March 08, 2022

NPR's A Martinez talks to Wehle about her book which offers tips for how you might be able to avoid some big legal bills if you're ever involved in a lawsuit. She lays it out in a five-step process.

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Former Attorney General William Barr argues he wasn't a 'toady' to Trump in memoir

4:11pm March 07, 2022

In a new memoir, former Attorney General William Barr is defending his time in office. He says he refuted Trump's lies about the election, but blames progressives for dividing the country.