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    'Arrow' Creates Beauty From What Hurts Us Most

    Sep 12, 2020
    Sumita Chakraborty's new poetry collection grapples with the death of the poet's sister; like the arrow of the title, which can be a weapon of Cupid or of war, these poems contain both love and death.
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    <em>On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist,</em> by Clarissa Ward
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    In 'On All Fronts,' CNN's Clarissa Ward Showcases Gravity, Costs Of A Reporting Life

    Sep 11, 2020
    Ward says she didn't know as a journalist she would "have my heart broken in a hundred different ways, that I would lose friends and watch children die and grow to feel like an alien in my own skin."
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    President Trump addresses a campaign rally Tuesday in Winston-Salem, N.C.
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    Trump Consistently Bends Reality, Sells His Narrative In Interviews For Woodward Book

    Sep 09, 2020
    "I still like playing it down, because I don't want to create a panic," Bob Woodward quotes Trump as saying of COVID-19 in his book "Rage." The author concludes: "Trump is the wrong man for the job."
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    'Our Lady Of Perpetual Hunger' Is A Savory Memoir Of Food, Work And Love

    Sep 09, 2020
    Southern pastry chef Lisa Donovan chronicles her messy, decades-long process of coming to own her worth in a smart and vulnerable new memoir.
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    Attachment Brings Joy, And Inevitably, Loss In 'What Are You Going Through'

    Sep 09, 2020
    Sigrid Nunez's new novel follows an unnamed narrator who agrees to keep a dying friend company until the end — but despite encompassing all kinds of sadness, the story is never grim.
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    Getting Lost In A Good Book — Literally — In 'Kind Of A Big Deal'

    Sep 06, 2020
    In Shannon Hale's new novel, a former child actor — who's finding her teen years challenging after a failed audition — discovers that she can physically enter books and become part of their stories.
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    The World Of 'Elatsoe' Mixes Humor And Horror (And Ghost Dogs)

    Sep 05, 2020
    Darcie Little Badger's warm, spooky debut novel is set in a world just slightly off our own, where ghosts and fairies are real, and an Apache girl can pal around with the spirit of her childhood dog.
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    Peter Strzok, then an agent at the FBI, speaks during a joint House Judiciary, Oversight and Government Reform committees hearing in Washington, D.C., in July 2018.
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    Peter Strzok, Notorious Ex-G-Man, Explains Himself And Takes Aim At Trump

    Sep 05, 2020
    Amid the Russia inquiry and citing texts to his girlfriend, critics made him the face of a so-called conspiracy against Trump. No, Strzok writes his memoir Compromised, he did everything by the book.
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    Book: Up from Below

    Sep 03, 2020

    A new book follows people attempting to escape life in LV’s storm drains.

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    Sarah Huckabee Sanders, former White House press secretary, speaks as U.S. President Donald Trump listens during a rally in Des Moines, Iowa, on Jan. 30.
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    In Memoir, Sarah Huckabee Sanders Shows She's All In With Trump

    Sep 02, 2020
    Trump's former press secretary is not about settling scores. Her book is an unabashed homage to the president and a feathering of her nest for a probable run for governor of Arkansas.
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    'Daddy' Dwells In The Moments After Something Awful Happens

    Sep 02, 2020
    Emma Cline's new story collection never digs into the nitty-gritty details of how her characters have gone wrong. Instead, she focuses on what happens after the affair or the addiction or the firing.
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    Sex Is The Most Powerful Force In This 'Lying Life'

    Sep 02, 2020
    Elena Ferrante's latest is as slinky and scowling as a Neapolitan cat, and as promised, it's all about the part of life adults lie about: sex — and the chaos, infidelity and fear that accompany it.
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    <em>Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power,</em> by Bradley Hope and Justin Scheck
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    'Blood And Oil' Traces Mohammed Bin Salman's Rise As A Ruthless Saudi Leader

    Sep 01, 2020
    The Wall Street Journal's Bradley Hope and Justin Scheck chart MBS's evolution from an unfocused, overweight kid with a taste for McDonald's to an increasingly brutish man with an eye on the throne.
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    NPR Books Summer Poll 2020: Kids' Books
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    Welcome To Story Hour: 100 Favorite Books For Young Readers

    Aug 31, 2020
    This year we had kids and caregivers in mind when we chose the genre for our summer poll. So here are 100 favorite kids' books, picked by readers and expert judges, to while away the hours at home.
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    <em>Vesper Flights,</em> by Helen Macdonald
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    'Vesper Flights' Offers Hope To A World In Desperate Need Of It

    Aug 29, 2020
    In her first book since the critically acclaimed H Is for Hawk, Helen Macdonald urges us to reconsider our relationship with the natural world — and fight to preserve it.
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    <em>The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers,</em> by Eric Weiner
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    'The Socrates Express' Takes Readers On A Ride Through Applied Philosophy

    Aug 27, 2020
    Eric Weiner's book is an invitation to experience philosophy, as he explores his relationship to the works of well-known philosophers and shows us how their ideas can help us improve our lives.
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    Bro, This Is Not The 'Beowulf' You Think You Know

    Aug 27, 2020
    This new translation of the ancient epic poem drags it kicking and screaming into the 21st century, giving us tales of blood, guts and glory told as if over beers in a loud sports bar.
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    Consumer advocate and activist Erin Brockovich poses during a photo shoot in Adelaide, South Australia on Oct. 21, 2016.
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    Erin Brockovich Says 'Superman's Not Coming' To Save Our Water Supply

    Aug 26, 2020
    The environmental activist and consumer advocate takes a brutally honest look at how mismanagement, chemical spills, mishandling of toxic waste, and even fake studies have damaged U.S. water systems.
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    Fraught Relationship Between 'Sisters' Lies At The Heart Of Daisy Johnson's Latest

    Aug 26, 2020
    Johnson's chilly, uneasy novel follows two sisters in the wake of an unnamed "something" that happened. Critic Annalisa Quinn says it's slighter than Johnson's previous work, but genuinely surprising.
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    <em>His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope </em>by Jon Meacham
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    New Biography Admires John Lewis' Faith That 'It's All Going To Work Out'

    Aug 25, 2020
    In His Truth Is Marching On, Jon Meacham offers an introduction to one decade in the late congressman's life. The book doesn't quite seek to be more, but this may leave some readers disappointed.
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    Ali Smith Brings Her Seasonal Quartet To A Close With 'Summer'

    Aug 25, 2020
    In Ali Smith's new novel, she reveals the overarching connections between the characters and themes of her previous three. Critic Heller McAlpin says connection is the great theme of these works.
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    <em>Luster</em>, by Raven Leilani
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    'Luster' Shines With Sharp Wit And Dark Humor

    Aug 23, 2020
    Raven Leilani's new novel will make you cringe for all the right reasons. It's an intergenerational, interracial love story with a heart of noir and gallows humor, so honest it will make you squirm.
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    Winning The Game Of Love In 'Loathe At First Sight'

    Aug 22, 2020
    Suzanne Park's debut adult novel is a crackling romance starring a young woman trying to make it in the extremely male-dominated gaming industry — can she find love AND a career? Signs point to yes.
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    For August, 3 Love Interests Who'll Fight By Your Side

    Aug 20, 2020
    This month, our romance columnist Maya Rodale rounds up three historical novels featuring heroines on a mission — and love interests who'll stand up for them, no matter what troubles come.
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    'Black Bottom Saints' Is A Gorgeous Swirl Of Fiction, History And Detroit Motor Oil

    Aug 19, 2020
    Alice Randall's innovative new novel chronicles the history of Black Detroit beyond Motown, and features a cast of real life artists, doctors, sports figures, activists and movers and shakers.

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