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'Your Heart Is A Muscle' Is A Florid, Ambitious Tale Of Protest

7:00am January 12, 2016

by Michael Schaub

Sunil Yapa's new novel follows a group of characters through the 1999 World Trade Organization protests in Seattle. Critic Michael Schaub praises Yapa's ambition, but says his execution is amateurish.

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'Last Stop On Market Street,' 'Finding Winnie,' Win U.S. Children's Book Prizes

7:44pm January 11, 2016

by Lynn Neary

Matt de la Pena's Last Stop on Market Street won the Newbery Medal for the best children's book of 2015. Finding Winnie, the story behind A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh, has won the Caldecott Medal for the top illustrated book.

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'Last Stop On Market Street' Wins Newbery Medal, 'Finding Winnie' Takes Caldecott

6:31pm January 11, 2016

by Petra Mayer

Matt de la Peña becomes the first Hispanic author to win the Newbery award for children's literature, while the Caldecott picture-book prize went to a book about the real-life Winnie the Pooh.

The Last Interview series features conversations with Ernest Hemingway, Nora Ephron and Philip K. Dick.

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Revisiting The 'Last Interview' Of Ernest Hemingway, Philip K. Dick And Nora Ephron

1:32pm January 11, 2016

by Maureen Corrigan

A series of books published by Melville House gathers together the final interviews conducted with prominent deceased writers and thinkers. Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews the latest in the series.

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How An 1871 Disaster Helped To End America's Whaling Dynasty

5:36am January 11, 2016

David Greene talks to Peter Nichols, author Oil and Ice, a book about a fleet of 33 whaling ships trapped in Arctic ice. Whalers and their families had to escape in tiny rowboats through miles of ice.

X-Ray Audio: The Strange Story of Soviet Music on the Bone explores a curious bootlegging practice that arose in Cold War Russia.

Bones And Grooves: The Weird Secret History Of Soviet X-Ray Music

9:29am January 10, 2016

by NPR Staff

In Cold War Russia, getting your hands on an American rock record was close to impossible. But a few bootleggers found a way to hide their contraband in the last place anyone would think to look.

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Memories Of A Long Life Return In 'Alive, Alive Oh!'

7:00am January 10, 2016

by Annalisa Quinn

British writer Diana Athill is 98 — by her own account, a very old woman. In this slim but lovely volume, she recounts the moments that have lingered: heartbreak, yes, but also hills of bluebells.

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'Your Heart Is A Muscle' Is A Florid, Ambitious Tale Of Protest

'Last Stop On Market Street,' 'Finding Winnie,' Win U.S. Children's Book Prizes

'Last Stop On Market Street' Wins Newbery Medal, 'Finding Winnie' Takes Caldecott

Revisiting The 'Last Interview' Of Ernest Hemingway, Philip K. Dick And Nora Ephron

How An 1871 Disaster Helped To End America's Whaling Dynasty

Bones And Grooves: The Weird Secret History Of Soviet X-Ray Music

'Game Of Thrones': When The TV Show Outpaces The Books

When 'One Breath' Tests Life: Author Explores Extreme Freediving

'Manners And Mayhem': A Darker, Snarkier Side To Domesticity

Memories Of A Long Life Return In 'Alive, Alive Oh!'