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    <em>The National Road: Dispatches From a Changing America,</em> by Tom Zoellner
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    'The National Road' Takes Readers On A Trip Through Americana

    Oct 14, 2020
    Teacher and writer Tom Zoellner has logged tens of thousands of miles zigzagging the continent with, a small tent and backpack, investigating American places and themes — metaphors for our country.
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    'Shelter In Place' Is An Ill-Mannered Comedy Of Manners

    Oct 13, 2020
    David Leavitt's new novel Shelter in Place aims for sparkling social comedy — but it's let down by a cast of privileged, shallow characters you wouldn't want to spend your lockdown with.
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    'The Code For Love And Heartbreak' Isn't 'Emma' — But It Is Charming

    Oct 10, 2020
    Jillian Cantor's new YA novel lifts some of the elements of Jane Austen's classic — like character names — wholesale. But you'll enjoy it more if you don't expect the plot to follow exactly.
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    Phil Klay's New 'Missionaries' Is An Ambitious Novel Of Ideas

    Oct 08, 2020
    Klay won acclaim for his debut story collection Redeployment, about the experiences of soldiers. His long awaited novel looks at how America has developed and exported the idea of a war on terror.
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    'Addie LaRue' Is Invisible — But Memorable

    Oct 08, 2020
    Addie LaRue was born in France 400 years ago — but nobody remembers that. She made a supernatural deal for immortality at the cost of permanent anonymity, so she tries to leave a mark however she can.
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    <em>Let My People Vote: My Battle to Restore the Civil Rights of Returning Citizens,</em> by Desmond Meade
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    'Let My People Vote' Tells Of One Man's Journey To Getting 1.4 Million Back A Voice

    Oct 07, 2020
    Desmond Meade rose from addiction, homelessness, and prison to run a campaign to re-enfranchise more than one million Florida voters; it's a tale of hope, persistence, and the power of organizing.
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    An Outsider Is Drawn Into The Quest To Find A Missing Teen In 'The Searcher'

    Oct 06, 2020
    Tana French's crime novel is a slow burn of a suspense story. It lulls readers into basking in the rough beauty of Western Ireland — before unspooling enough secrets and sins to fill an entire bog.
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    Former CIA Director John Brennan testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 23, 2017, before the House Intelligence Committee Russia Investigation Task Force.
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    After Chasing Threats Abroad, Former CIA Chief John Brennan Says The Risk Is At Home

    Oct 05, 2020
    The former spy chief has dealt with almost all of the country's major security challenges over the past two decades. In his memoir Undaunted, he directs his ire at President Trump.
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    It's Not Quite Dark Enough In 'The Midnight Library'

    Oct 03, 2020
    Critic Jason Sheehan says the new novel from Matt Haig — about a mystical library that lets people sample all the ways their lives might have gone — is a little too gentle and straightforward.
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    In 'Jack,' Marilynne Robinson Shows Grace Is For Everyone

    Oct 01, 2020
    Robinson's latest Gilead novel centers on prodigal son Jack, newly released from prison and in love with a Black woman — a crime in 1950s Missouri. But it's not a pat tale of love overcoming racism.
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    <em>Leave the World Behind,</em> by Rumaan Alam
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    'Leave The World Behind' Is A Signature Novel For This Blasted Year

    Sep 29, 2020
    A family on vacation opens the door of their remote Airbnb rental one night to an older couple who claims to be the home's owners. Rumaan Alam's thrilling novel is about race, class and self-delusion.
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    Are You There God? It's Me, Juanita
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    You Can't Send Your Kids To Dance Class Right Now, But You Can Read Them 'Bunheads'

    Sep 27, 2020
    Renowned ballerina Misty Copeland's new kids' book Bunheads draws on her own childhood experiences — if your kids love dance, it's just the thing to keep them going until classes come back.
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    NPR's Favorite New Audiobooks

    Sep 25, 2020
    From romance to nonfiction, here are some of NPR's best audiobook recommendations.
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    Politician and Maryland congressional representative Elijah Cummings at his campaign headquarters, 1988.
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    In 'We're Better Than This,' Rep. Elijah Cummings Offers Some Lasting Thoughts

    Sep 24, 2020
    The former congressman's memoir is an urgent call to action, imploring us to defend our democracy as it is assailed by threats — and a poignant reminder of how much the nation lost with his death.
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    <em>Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America,</em> Laila Lalami
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    Americans Who Can't Enjoy Full Rights Deemed 'Conditional Citizens' In New Book

    Sep 23, 2020
    In her first non-fiction work, Laila Lalami says these Americans want the country to succeed, but can't avoid the gulf between purported values of equality and the realities of systematic oppression.
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    <em>Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation,</em> by Anne Helen Petersen
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    In 'Can't Even,' Burnout Is Seen As A Societal Problem — One We Can't Solve Alone

    Sep 22, 2020
    Burnout, Anne Helen Petersen argues, will end only with sweeping labor-policy changes — meaning it will only end when we "vote en masse to elect politicians who will agitate for [reform] tirelessly."
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    President Trump and H.R. McMaster walk toward Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., on June 16, 2017.
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    Latest Tell-All, By Former National Security Adviser McMaster, Is Not All About Trump

    Sep 21, 2020
    This book may be the master in-depth briefing H.R. McMaster always wanted to give the president. For better or worse, it seems listening to lengthy historical explanations has not been Trump's style.
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    <em>Piranesi,</em> by Susanna Clarke
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    Susanna Clarke Divines Magic In Long-Awaited Novel 'Piranesi'

    Sep 20, 2020
    Clarke fans waited 16 years for this follow-up to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. Here, Clarke limns a magic that is part of the very fabric of the universe.
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    Poirot's The Star, But His Sidekick Shines In 'Kingfisher Hill'

    Sep 19, 2020
    The latest installment in the Hercule Poirot franchise — now being written by Sophie Hannah — is a masterful, multilayered puzzle in which Poirot's assistant Inspector Catchpool plays a key role.
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    'Never Look Back' Updates An Ancient Story Of Love And Loss

    Sep 19, 2020
    Lilliam Rivera's new young adult novel reimagines Orpheus and Eurydice as Afro-Latinx teens in New York, bringing something new to the old tale by giving Eurydice her own baggage and her own story.
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    'Here We Are' Conjures Magic From Ordinary Lives

    Sep 17, 2020
    Graham Smith's new novel seems at first to be a light little story about a seaside love triangle in Brighton, England in the 1950s — but it turns out to be about something far deeper.
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    <em>The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War</em>, by David Nasaw
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    'The Last Million' Sheds Light On Middle East History, Newer Refugee Policy Failures

    Sep 16, 2020
    Historian David Nasaw writes with deep, broad knowledge of the hundreds of thousands of refugees filling Europe's roads after WWII, hoping to return to homes that, in many cases, no longer existed.
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    After Her Husband's Death, A Widow Discovers That It Wasn't 'Monogamy'

    Sep 15, 2020
    As the central character struggles with grief and shock at her late husband's infidelity, author Sue Miller keeps deftly shifting what readers might anticipate to be the ending of this novel.
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    <em>If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future,</em> Jill Lepore
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    Long Before Cambridge Analytica And Facebook, Simulmatics Linked Data And Politics

    Sep 14, 2020
    In If Then, author and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore unearths Simulmatics' story and makes the argument that the company paved the way for our 21st-century obsession with data and prediction.
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    'The Contradictions' Chronicles A Classic College Experience

    Sep 13, 2020
    Sophie Yanow's new graphic novel chronicles her time studying abroad in Paris; it's not suspenseful or eventful, but Yanow's combination of perception and humility makes for an engaging read.

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