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A Mystery 'Bullet' Reveals Long-Kept Family Secrets

11:03am March 15, 2015

The hero of Mary Louise Kelly's novel, The Bullet, discovers she has a bullet in her neck but doesn't know how it got there. Kelly tells NPR's Rachel Martin she was inspired by a true story.

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'Windows' That Transform The World: Jane Hirshfield On Poetry

9:23pm March 14, 2015

by NPR Staff

In a "window moment," the poet says, a work shifts and expands: "By glancing for a moment at something else, the field of the poem becomes larger. What's in the room with the poem is bigger."

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Murder City Earns Its Name In 'Blood Runs Green'

5:20pm March 14, 2015

by NPR Staff

Before Beulah Annan or Leopold and Loeb, another murder became a Chicago sensation. Scott Simon speaks with Gillian O'Brien, author of Blood Runs Green: The Murder that Transfixed Gilded Age Chicago.

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'Persona' Is A Dangerous Dance Of Diplomacy And Celebrity

7:03am March 14, 2015

by Amal El-Mohtar

Genevieve Valentine's new novel is set in a world where diplomats are the equivalent of Hollywood stars, glamorous Faces manipulated by behind-the-scenes handlers and stalked by eager paparazzi.

Cinderella and her fairy godmother in the 1950 Disney cartoon.

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A Girl, A Shoe, A Prince: The Endlessly Evolving Cinderella

11:47pm March 13, 2015

by Linda Holmes

We take a stroll through just a little of the cultural history of Cinderella, the shoe-wearing, prince-finding, stepmother-vexing heroine who's been around for hundreds of years — at least.

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NPR Bestsellers: Week Of March 12, 2015

5:03pm March 13, 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 March 12, 2015

5:03pm March 13, 2015

Axl and Beatrice embark on a search for their long lost son in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant. It debuts at No. 3.

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NPR Bestsellers: Hardcover Nonfiction, Week Of March 12, 2015

5:03pm March 13, 2015

In Red Notice, American financier Bill Browder recounts being expelled from Russia and an attempt by Russian officials to claim his company. It appears at No. 14.

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NPR Bestsellers: Paperback Fiction, Week Of March 12, 2015

5:03pm March 13, 2015

Cecilia Fitzpatrick discovers her husband's secret in a letter that was supposed to be opened after his death. Liane Moriarty's The Husband's Secret appears at No. 6.

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NPR Bestsellers: Paperback Nonfiction, Week Of March 12, 2015

5:03pm March 13, 2015

Michio Kaku explores the inner workings of the brain in The Future of the Mind. It appears at No. 11.