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'The Mamas': Reimagining parenting through a lens of race and class

7:58am August 24, 2022

NPR's Rachel Martin asks author Helena Andrews-Dyer what she has learned from moms who aren't like her. Andrews' book is, The Mamas: What I Learned about Kids, Class, and Race from Moms Not Like Me.

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New book 'Electable' explores why a woman still hasn't won the presidency... yet

4:41pm August 23, 2022

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Ali Vitali, an NBC News Capitol Hill correspondent, about her new book Electable: Why America Hasn't Put a Woman in the White House... Yet.

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An Iranian American writer makes a case against censorship and for Rushdie

5:05am August 23, 2022

Following the attack on author Salman Rushdie, NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Iranian American writer Azar Nafisi about attempts to silence writers. Her latest book is: Read Dangerously.

Florida's Sarasota County School District is not purchasing or accepting donations of new books until at least January as it hires new staff and awaits new guidance to best comply with a statewide education law.

A Florida district declines dictionary donations as it navigates a new book law

1:38pm August 22, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

A local Rotary Club and nonprofit have given dictionaries to Sarasota, Fla., schools for over a decade. The district declined this year amidst amidst a book freeze while it navigates a new state law.

This former GOP hatchet man didn't support Trump — but still enabled him

1:26pm August 22, 2022

by Dave Davies

As a Republican operative, Tim Miller worked with extreme right-wing media outlets and fed the populist outrage that helped radicalize much of the GOP voter base. His new book is Why We Did It.

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The new book 'The Stolen Year' details how the pandemic disrupted children's lives

7:58am August 22, 2022

Extended school closings during the pandemic were a calamity for education. NPR's Anya Kamenetz writes about how COVID changed children's lives in her new book: The Stolen Year.

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"No, I like it. It's a statement piece. Really completes the space." Viserys (Paddy Considine) and Rheanyra (Milly Alcock) in House of the Dragon.

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In the 'House of the Dragon' series premiere, the blood of the dragon runs thick

10:00pm August 21, 2022

by Glen Weldon

We recap the debut episode of the Game of Thrones prequel, in which tragedy strikes the Seven Kingdoms, and a new heir is named for the Iron Throne ... for now, anyway.

Mitch Albom and Morrie Schwartz hold hands on Oct. 3, 1995.

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On the 25th anniversary of 'Tuesdays with Morrie,' the teaching goes on

4:59pm August 21, 2022

by Richard Harris

Publisher after publisher rejected the memoir before Doubleday took a chance in 1997. At its core, the book is about the power of relationship and focusing on others.

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Dr. Anna DeForest draws from her profession to write on sickness, healing and loss

10:23am August 21, 2022

by Ayesha Rascoe

Ayesha Rascoe talks with Anna DeForest about her debut novel, "A History of Present Illness," and how she drew from her experience as a physician to write about sickness, healing, and loss.

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Books We Love: Recommended reading for romance

8:06am August 21, 2022

NPR's Books We Love has reading recommendations from our staff and contributors. Today, we hear about three new romance novels: "An Arrow to the Moon," "Young Mungo" and "Ramon and Julieta."