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    <em>I Came As a Shadow: An Autobiography</em>, by John Thompson with Jesse Washington
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    In 'I Came As A Shadow,' Georgetown's John Thompson Offers Some Surprising Moments

    Dec 15, 2020
    The Hall of Fame basketball coach, who died in August, leaves us with the private thoughts of a public man, one who both raged against racial injustice and embraced chances to make things better.
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    2020 Book Concierge: The Funniest Books On Our List

    Dec 13, 2020
    Need reading to help beat the winter blues? We have four recommendations from NPR's Book Concierge that could help - all for fun, and funny, books.
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    Micheal Ward and Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn are strangers who connect on the dance floor in <em>Lovers Rock. </em>
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    'Fresh Air' Critic Revisits The TV, Books And Movies That Helped Ease Lockdown

    Dec 08, 2020
    From Lovers Rock to The Good Lord Bird, the titles on John Powers' year-end list didn't simply distract; they also delved into enduring questions of freedom, dignity and survival.
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    'The Blade Between' Walks The Boundary Of Horror And Noir

    Dec 06, 2020
    Sam J. Miller's latest is set in an upstate New York town built on the bones of butchered whales. It's full of broken people, violent ghosts and flying whales, but the real monster is gentrification.
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    'Ordesa' Is A Difficult Read — But Stick With It

    Dec 05, 2020
    Manuel Vilas' quiet, intensely sad new, about a middle-aged man trying to connect with his estranged family while thinking a lot of deep thoughts about death, requires patience, but it's worth it.
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    <a href="https://apps.npr.org/best-books"><strong>NPR's Book Concierge</strong></a><strong> </strong>returns with 380+ new books handpicked by NPR staff and critics — including recommendations from Maureen Corrigan and <em>Fresh Air</em> staffers Seth
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    Maureen Corrigan's 10 Books That Will Connect You In A Socially Distant Year

    Dec 04, 2020
    Sealed into our little Zoom boxes, masked when we're in contact with others, it's easy to feel separated from the world during the pandemic. These 10 books can help break through the solitude.
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    <em>Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America,</em> by Michael Eric Dyson
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    'Long Time Coming' Explores Birth, Uninterrupted History Of Systemic Racism In U.S.

    Dec 03, 2020
    Michael Eric Dyson's call to action is an invitation to reimagine law enforcement, education, workspaces and all other spaces in ways that eliminate racism, abuse, misogyny and xenophobia.
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    'Perestroika In Paris' Is A Cozy, Fairy-Tale Trot Through The City Of Lights

    Dec 02, 2020
    Fans of Jane Smiley's previous books will be pleased to see that talking horses make a return in her latest — plus a dog, a raven and a couple of ducks, all making lives for themselves in Paris.
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    <em>Wild Minds: The Artists and Rivalries That Inspired the Golden Age of Animation,</em> by Reid Mitenbuler
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    'Wild Minds' Traces The Origins Of Animation — From Blackton And McCay To Disney

    Dec 02, 2020
    Author Reid Mitenbuler's real target is a quintessentially American story of daring ambition, personal re-invention, and the eternal tug-of-war of between art and business.
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    For Fall's Dark Days, 3 Three Tales In Translation To Match The Mood

    Nov 29, 2020
    Sometimes, when the days are getting shorter and the world seems like it's getting darker, a melancholy read seems like just the thing — so here are three fittingly dark novels in translation.
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    <em>Ghostways: Two Journeys in Unquiet Places,</em> by Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood (illustrator) and Dan Richards
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    In 'Ghostways,' A Trip To Two Well-Traveled Places Reminds Of Things That Are Lost

    Nov 25, 2020
    Ghostways is an examination of grief as a landscape that moves on without us — and the fragility of the green world we're longing to go back to post-pandemic.
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    Pope Francis waves as he arrives for the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday.
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    In A New Book, Pope Francis Speaks Out On The Coronavirus And Anti-Mask Protests

    Nov 23, 2020
    People who claim that mask mandates deprive them of their personal freedom, Francis says, are "victims only in their own imagination." The book also addresses demonstrations against racial injustice.
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    <em>Nights When Nothing Happened</em>, by Simon Han
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    'Nights When Nothing Happened' Is Quietly Lovely — Maybe A Little Too Quiet

    Nov 22, 2020
    Simon Han's debut novel follows a Chinese immigrant family in Texas, whose fragile peace is shattered after the father is wrongly accused of a crime, and it's up to the kids to restore balance.
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    'These Violent Delights' Transports Romeo And Juliet To 1920s Shanghai

    Nov 21, 2020
    Chloe Gong's new novel has some of the important aspects of Shakespeare's famous tragedy — but more than anything else, it's a rich portrait of a time and place not often seen in literature.
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    "It is said that when those warriors jumped from the cliff tops, Apache women cried, and their tears were transformed into black stones. At the Apache Tear Caves, tourists hunt for these so-called Apache Tears. Some claim the obsidian nuggets possess hea
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    'Oak Flat' Tells The Story Of An Apache Tribe Fighting To Save Its Land From Mining

    Nov 20, 2020
    Artist and writer Lauren Redniss mixes art, design, and rigorous research with a prose style that is at once assertive, journalistic and poetic to create a book like no other.
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    <em>This Is Not My Memoir</em>, by André Gregory and Todd London
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    In 'This Is Not My Memoir' André Gregory Recounts Tales Of Childhood And The Theater

    Nov 18, 2020
    The avant-garde theater director and actor pairs up with writer-director Todd London to present the story of his multi-faceted life, full of dramatic ups and downs — and celebrities.
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    <em>The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War,</em> by Delphine Minoui
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    'The Book Collectors' Opens The Door To A Secret Library Amidst Syria's Civil War

    Nov 17, 2020
    Delphine Minoui's slim new book tells the true story of a group of Syrian resistance fighters who founded a 15,000-volume library in the basement of an abandoned building.
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    <em>Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History,</em> by Paul Farmer
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    In 'Fevers, Feuds And Diamonds,' Paul Farmer Breaks Down Assumptions About Ebola

    Nov 17, 2020
    The anthropologist and physician teaches that the world needs not only medicine, but something more — a rejection of global racial inequalities and serious investment in the care of all people.
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    You Don't Have To Like Astrology To Love 'Written In The Stars'

    Nov 15, 2020
    A free-spirited astrology blogger and a straitlaced insurance actuary agree to fake a relationship — and then really fall for each other in Alexandria Bellefleur's charming queer romance.
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    Light Punctures The Darkness In 'One Night Two Souls Went Walking'

    Nov 14, 2020
    Ellen Cooney's new novel follows an unnamed hospital chaplain on her rounds, as she ministers to patients and grapples with her own internal questions. It's a quiet, inward-looking but hopeful story.
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    <em>A Promised Land</em> by Barack Obama
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    Former President Obama Tells His Story His Way — And Makes His Case For History

    Nov 12, 2020
    Obama's ascent thrilled millions but also stirred a countermovement that is still on the march. His new memoir, A Promised Land, covers his rise through the second year of his presidency.
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    <em>One Life</em>, by Megan Rapinoe
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    Soccer Star Megan Rapinoe's 'One Life' Is Mostly A Call To Action

    Nov 12, 2020
    Rapinoe's book traces her own political awakening in the hopes that other people will follow in her footsteps and understand that they have an imperative to speak out about injustice in the world.
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    <em>Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times,</em> by Katherine May
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    In 'Wintering,' Katherine May Encourages 'The Active Acceptance Of Sadness'

    Nov 10, 2020
    The British author writes beautifully of her own recent bout with a personal winter, a period when she felt low and overwhelmed — and aims to help others to embrace their winters.
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    How A 1969 Murder At Harvard Turned Into A Cold Case And A 'Cautionary Tale'

    Nov 09, 2020
    In We Keep the Dead Close, author Becky Cooper revisits the killing of Harvard graduate student Jane Britton. The 440+ page book is overstuffed with suspects, motives, red herrings and interviews.
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    In 'Particulate Matter,' Climate Change Is Personal — And Painful

    Nov 09, 2020
    Felicia Luna Lemus' memoir chronicles her attempt to make a life in California with her new wife — dealing with casual racism and homophobia, and then, terribly, the impact of the recent wildfires.

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