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'Version Control' Is A Dizzying Elevation Of The Time-Travel Tale

7:00am February 26, 2016

by Jason Heller

Don't call it a time machine! Dexter Palmer's new novel follows a professor who's invented what he calls a "causality violation device" — and his wife, who suspects her world is going strange.

The books to be published by Salaam Reads are intended to appeal to Muslim and non-Muslim readers alike.

Simon & Schuster Launches Imprint For Muslim Children's Books

2:58pm February 25, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

The books published by Salaam Reads will appeal to Muslim and non-Muslim readers alike, executive editor Zareej Jaffery says — and will represent a wide range of cultural traditions within Islam.

Muhammad Ali, world heavyweight boxing champion, stands with Malcolm X (left) outside the Trans-Lux Newsreel Theater in New York in 1964.

Muhammad Ali And Malcolm X: A Broken Friendship, An Enduring Legacy

2:38pm February 25, 2016

by Karen Grigsby Bates

A new book, Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X, explores how faith brought two African-American icons together and eventually tore their relationship apart.

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Social Media And Teenage Girls: Not Your Mother's Adolescence

1:53pm February 25, 2016

In her book American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers, Nancy Jo Sales looks at the pressures on teenage girls socially and sexually. She talks to David Greene about her book.

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Plenty Of Shadows Loom In 'Gathering'

7:00am February 25, 2016

by Tasha Robinson

V.E. Schwab's follow-up to A Darker Shade of Magic picks up with heroes Kell and Delilah adventuring (and sometimes agonizing) in a magical alternate London while danger lurks in the titular shadows.

Then-American Library Association President Carla Hayden holds a pamphlet promoting early literacy as she talks to reporters in 2004.

Obama Nominates Carla Hayden To Lead Library Of Congress

5:30pm February 24, 2016

by Elizabeth Blair

Hayden is a former president of the American Library Association and is currently CEO of the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore.

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'So As I Was Saying': Frank Mankiewicz's Sons On Their Father's Life, Memoir

5:29pm February 24, 2016

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to the sons of the late Frank Mankiewicz, Josh and Ben, about their father's posthumously published memoir, So As I Was Saying: My Somewhat Eventful Life.

The Indecisive Chicken combines the recipes and life stories of eight women from communities across India who now live in Dharavi, a teeming Mumbai slum. Sarita Rai, from a village in the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, contributed a recipe for phara

Cookbook Explores Recipes From India's Most Famous Slum

4:06pm February 24, 2016

by Priti Salian

The Indecisive Chicken combines the recipes and life stories of eight women from communities across India who now make their home in Dharavi, a teeming slum featured in Slumdog Millionaire.

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'Hap And Leonard' Creator Needed To 'Burn Bridges' To Make It As A Writer

1:29pm February 24, 2016

Joe R. Lansdale grew up poor in east Texas and worked as a janitor and in a potato field before finding success as a writer. Honky Tonk Samurai is the latest book in his mystery series.

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A Reference Guide To Reference In 'You Could Look It Up'

8:36am February 24, 2016

by Genevieve Valentine

Encyclopedias, dictionaries and directories take on a life of their own in Jack Lynch's new book — a history of reference systems that becomes an examination of the nature of lexicography itself.