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'Ghosts' Is An Eerie, Edgy Tale Of Perception And Possession

11:22am June 02, 2015

by Jason Heller

Paul Tremblay's new novel is, on the surface, a story about a book about a reality show about a real-life event, but reviewer Jason Heller says it becomes an "unsettling conversation about the truth."

Author Mark Ribowsky describes Otis Redding as "bigger than the music he sang, because of how he sang and interpreted it during the most traumatic, metamorphic decade in history."

'Like An Avalanche': Otis Redding's Unstoppable Crossover

6:07pm May 30, 2015

by NPR Staff

"He had an underground kind of appeal that built on itself," says author Mark Ribowsky, whose book Dreams to Remember traces Redding's unlikely pivot into national stardom.

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Brahma Kumaris fill Will Hodgkinson's suburban living room on a Saturday in 1982.

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How Bad Risotto Led To A House 'Full Of Yogis': A Critic's Childhood Story

11:14am May 30, 2015

by NPR Staff

When Will Hodgkinson was a kid, his father, a journalist, was hit with a bad case of food poisoning. Over the long recovery period, he rethought his life — and decided to join the Brahma Kumaris.

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Bringing Tales Of WWII To American Radios And Bookshelves

11:14am May 30, 2015

Bill Shirer brought stories of war in Europe into American homes. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Ken Cuthbertson about his new book, A Complex Fate: William L. Shirer and the American Century.

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NPR Bestsellers: Week Of May 28, 2015

4:03pm May 29, 2015

The lists are compiled from weekly surveys of close to 500 independent bookstores nationwide.

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NPR Bestsellers: Hardcover Fiction, Week Of May 28, 2015

4:03pm May 29, 2015

In Seveneves, Neal Stephenson tells a story of nations banding together when a catastrophic event turns Earth into a ticking time bomb. It debuts at No. 3.

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NPR Bestsellers: Hardcover Nonfiction, Week Of May 28, 2015

4:03pm May 29, 2015

Joseph J. Ellis' The Quartet explores the period between the American Revolution and the formation of the federal government. It debuts at No. 14.

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NPR Bestsellers: Paperback Fiction, Week Of May 28, 2015

4:03pm May 29, 2015

In Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng explores the fallout of the drowning death of a Chinese-American family's favorite daughter. It appears at No. 5.

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NPR Bestsellers: Paperback Nonfiction, Week Of May 28, 2015

4:03pm May 29, 2015

At No. 15, Ben Macintyre's A Spy Among Friends tells the story of a British Cold War counterintelligence agent who was secretly working for the enemy.

In 2014, BookCon responded to the We Need Diverse Books campaign by inviting it to form its own panel. Pictured here (from left): I.W. Gregorio, Mike Jung, Matt de la Pena, Grace Lin and Jacqueline Woodson.

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A Year Later, #WeNeedDiverseBooks Has Left Its Mark On BookCon

3:10pm May 29, 2015

by Lynn Neary

The Twitter campaign was born out of the controversy around the lack of diverse voices in the event's panels. This year, one organizer says, the first panel they booked was with that campaign.

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