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NPR Bestsellers: Hardcover Fiction, Week Of August 20, 2015

4:03pm August 21, 2015

A rich girl with a congenital heart defect and an underprivileged boy with athletic talents meet periodically over the course of 30 years in Jennifer Weiner's Who Do You Love. It debuts at No. 13.

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NPR Bestsellers: Hardcover Nonfiction, Week Of August 20, 2015

4:03pm August 21, 2015

Rinker Buck's The Oregon Trail recounts the author's old-fashioned journey down the historic route. It appears at No. 9.

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NPR Bestsellers: Paperback Fiction, Week Of August 20, 2015

4:03pm August 21, 2015

In Big Little Lies, Liane Moriarty follows the fallout of a riot at a school trivia night that leaves someone dead. It appears at No. 10.

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NPR Bestsellers: Paperback Nonfiction, Week Of August 20, 2015

4:03pm August 21, 2015

In Black Mass, Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill recount James "Whitey" Bulger's rise to the top of Boston's drug trade while he was also informing for the FBI. It appears at No. 13.

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Gothic Poetry And Grim Necessity In 'Shattered Wings'

12:52pm August 21, 2015

by Tasha Robinson

Aliette de Bodard's new novel is set in a postapocalyptic Paris, devastated by a magical war between factions of fallen angels. It's a gritty mix of high gothic poetry and knotty angelic rivalries.

John Markoff is a science and technology reporter for The New York Times.

How Close Are We Really To A Robot-Run Society?

11:25am August 21, 2015

From self-driving cars to automated warehouses, humans are being pushed out of the equation. Soon, robots will "do a million other things we can't even conceive of," author John Markoff says.

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In 'Not A Game,' The Story Of A Star Player And A Hard Fall

6:06pm August 20, 2015

by Laura Wagner

Sportswriter Kent Babb talks about his new book Not A Game: The Incredible Rise and Unthinkable Fall of Allen Iverson.

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The Heat Is On With These Summer Romance Novels

10:03am August 20, 2015

by Linda Holmes

NPR Books is focusing on romance novels this summer. And our recommendations are not so-called "bodice rippers" or historical romances — they're contemporary.

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BuzzFeed's Saeed Jones Recommends Books Of Transformation For Summer

10:03am August 20, 2015

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Saeed Jones, literary editor at BuzzFeed, about his picks for summer reading. He recommends books where a character goes on some sort of journey.

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Stretch Your Summer Reading List Into Southern Territory

10:03am August 20, 2015

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Kyle Jones of the Bitter Southerner about some highly-anticipated books coming from Southern writers this summer.

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