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In June, Make Your Escape With These 3 Hot Reads

10:00am June 16, 2018

by Maya Rodale

Summer's getting hotter, so here are three romances guaranteed to raise your temperature and take you on an adventure, from London's West End to Barcelona to a Harvard University classroom.

A Spy Talks About His Time In Al-Qaida

8:10am June 16, 2018

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with author Aimen Dean about his time with al-Qaida in his new memoir, Nine Lives, My Time as the West's Top Spy Inside al-Qaeda.

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'Old In Art School': An MFA Inspires A Memoir Of Age

7:26am June 16, 2018

by Scott Simon

Upon retiring from Princeton University at age 64, historian Nell Irvin Painter decided to pursue a second career in visual art among students a third of her age.

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In 'Fight No More,' Life Rushes By, But Sometime's There's Beauty

7:00am June 16, 2018

by Lily Meyer

Lydia Millet's latest is a novel about death, disguised as a short story collection about real estate, alternately wrenching and hilarious, and full of joys on every scale.

In Drawn Together a boy and his grandfather paint themselves as heroes. "I wanted to have a book that was both emotionally resonant but also exciting for kids," says author Minh LÃª. (A "very ferocious" dragon appears a few pages later.)

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Struggling For Words, A Boy And His Grandfather Are 'Drawn Together' At Last

6:20am June 16, 2018

by Audie Cornish

Author Minh Lê had a loving relationship with his grandparents, but he also remembers a lot of "awkward silence." His new book explores barriers of language and culture between generations.

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'The Perfect Weapon' Tells The Story Of Growing Cyber War That The U.S. Is Fighting

5:14pm June 14, 2018

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with David Sanger about his new book The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age. It tells the story of the growing cyber war that the U.S. is fighting in secret.

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'Light Of The Stars' Looks To Other Planets To Illuminate Climate Change On Earth

2:09pm June 14, 2018

by Adam Becker

Adam Frank's valuable new book looks at the history of our search for other planets — and uses lessons drawn from outer space to shed light on the effect humans are having on our own planet.

"A Place For Us" by Fatima Farheen Mirza

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'A Place For Us' Is A Skillfully-Drawn Family Saga

7:00am June 14, 2018

by Michael Schaub

Fatima Farheen Mirza's first novel follows an Indian-American Muslim family — at its best, a happy family, but torn by tensions between a father and son who keep missing opportunities to connect.

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An Incredibly Extremely Exceedingly Supremely Remarkably Long Sentence Wins Award

5:16am June 14, 2018

Author Mike McCormack has won an Irish literary prize for the novel Solar Bones, which is 270 pages long and composed of one sentence.

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A.M. Homes: Short Stories Are 'Food For The Soul And For The Mind'

5:57pm June 13, 2018

by Audie Cornish

Her first story collection in 15 years is called Days of Awe, and it covers everything from a chat room for bird lovers, to a summit on genocide, to a superstore where someone's abandoned a baby.